NEW VIDEO FROM EMINEM FT. RIHANNA CALLED THE WAY YOU LIE!

Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie" music video might not be as flashy as Kanye West's "Power," which debuted on the same night. But what the Joseph Kahn-directed clip (he helmed Britney Spears' "Toxic" and U2's "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of") lacks in artsy flair it makes up for in straightforward, brutal imagery.

The clip, which stars Dominic Monghan ('Lost') and Megan Fox, takes Slim Shady's lyrics about an abusive relationship and visualizes them with minimal punch-pulling. As Rihanna croons the song's hook in front of a burning house, the video opens on Monghan and Fox cuddling in bed before she notices another woman's phone number scrawled on his hand.

Immediately, the happy couple starts fighting. And this isn't exactly PG-13, music-video violence: Fox spits in Monaghan's face as he wrestles her into submission, and she later decks him. Monaghan then responds by shoving Fox and punching a hole through the wall.

The song, which features R&B queen (and previous domestic violence victim) Rihanna on the chorus, details the trials and tribulations of an unhealthy relationship, a subject which Eminem (with his on-and-off ex, Kim) and Rihanna (with singer Chris Brown) are both familiar with.

In a recent interview with HitFix, Monaghan speculated as to the song's origins in Eminem's failed relationship. "Ultimately, what I think he's trying to say in the song ... is that he should have walked away a little bit quicker than he did and not let it get as messy as it did," the actor told the site.

According to PopCrunch, his co-star declined payment for the video and donated her wages to Sojurn, a women's safe house in California specializing in domestic abuse victims.

In the video, Eminem raps in a wheat field over pounding drums and squealing violins: "Now I know we said things, did things that we didn't mean/and we fall back into the same patterns, same routine/but your temper's just as bad as mine is, you're the same as me/but when it comes to love, you're just as blinded."

The destructive nature of the song, off Eminem's "Recovery" album, was what convinced Rihanna to participate in the first place.

"[Eminem] pretty much just broke down the cycle of domestic violence and it's something that a lot people don't have a lot of insight on," she told Access Hollywood, "So this song is a really, really powerful song and it touches a lot of people."