Rihanna fading karaoke
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If she wanted to set this one apart from the "Give Me Everything"s and "Die Young"s of the world, David Guetta was not the man to enlist to do it.ġ16. It's been mandated that all high-profile pop releases in the 2010s contain at least one hi-NRG dance song declaring the urgency of partying right now now NOW NOW because apparently the world is gonna end tomorrow (or we're just all going to be old by then, which is even worse), and this is Rihanna's off Unapologetic. You could argue that the sentiment presages the "I choose to be happy" themes of recent single "Diamonds," though. Nice soulful guitar lick in this one, but the chorus of "Just as long as it makes you happy, if it makes you happy / Just be happy" is a little too flimsy to really stick.
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lyrical lift or two might've helped make this one a little more memorable, but Ri was still more reggae than hip-hop with her references back in those days.)
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"I been a bad girl Daddy / Won't you come get me?" Not the first time Rihanna has made such a point or request, but usually she does it with a little more panache than the phoned-in-sounding "Roc." Big-sounding synths can only take you so far.įound On: Music of the Sun (Japanese Bonus Tracks)Ī lightweight bonus jam from Ri's first, notably only for its subtle Eastern influence. (As with our Taylor Swift list, in the case of a song recorded in multiple versions, we just took the one we liked best, unless they were specifically listed as multi-part songs). Well, maybe "countless" isn't the right word, because in fact, we've counted them all, and we've come up with a ranked list of the 125 commercially released songs that Rihanna has appeared on over the course of her seven-year career in music. And what's more-she never stops, not going a year without a new album since 2008, and filling around her LPs with countless re-issue bonus tracks, non-album releases and featured appearances (In the States anyway, we have no idea what the Hertz policy is in Barbados.) 11 number one singles, five platinum albums, six Grammys, two Video of the Year VMAs, and most importantly, a catalog of pop classics to rival (and arguably better) the production of any other Top 40 fixture of the last ten years. There are times when you have to step back and just marvel at what Rihanna has accomplished in popular music, before even reaching car-rental age.