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The Guardian on "We Found Love"
The Guardian
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In the 80s being a successful American pop star meant releasing an album every few years, going on tour and then having a long break in between. Michael Jackson, for example, only released two albums in that decade, spending the rest of his time enjoying the fruits of Thriller and Bad (with sales totalling about 100m).
In 2011, that kind of pop mega-star doesn't really exist (with the possible exception of Lady Gaga), as tastes fragment and attention spans dwindle. To remain at the top of the pop game now you need to release single after single, album after album, with re-releases featuring a handful of new songs taking place of a brand new album if there isn't time.
It's this constant need to maintain a presence that's meant Rihanna will follow-up 2010's Loud (which in turn followed 2009's Rated R) with a brand new album as early as this November; the first single, We Found Love, was premiered on Thursday following a furious Facebook and Twitter marketing campaign that saw the lyrics being teased and the song's title trending worldwide.
The song itself is a collaboration with Calvin Harris, who takes the dance direction Rihanna hinted at on Only Girl (In the World) and runs with it, encasing the lovely lyric ("we found love in a hopeless place") in a gargantuan house riff, the song building slowly before the inevitable hands aloft, glowsticks in the air drop, er, drops. As with Leona Lewis's recent single, Collide, the song structure is slightly odd, with the first chorus almost being sidelined in favour of a large chunk of Harris's riff (that would explain the "feat"), before they join on the second chorus.
Either way, she could have recited Nick Clegg's conference speech from Wednesday over the sound of Harris cracking his knuckles and it would be a hit, so here's to album number seven this time next year.
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This brings up some interesting points, but I don't necessarily agree on everything said.
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