Rihanna - 'Umbrella'
The best, most uplifting Oasis song in years. Stop! Come back! That's not quite as ridiculous as it sounds. Rihanna may be a stunning Barbados-born beauty with Jay-Z on call and the Gallaghers may be, well, the Gallaghers, but there's a simple earthy generosity to this song which matches the Burnage boys in their early days. Like Liam, Rihanna understands that silliness in pop music is a much underrated virtue. Witness the sheer carefree verve with which she attacks this chorus - "You can stand under my umberella, ella, ella, aii, aii, aii" - and then remember the vowel-mangling of "Supersonic" or "Cigarettes And Alcohol".
And there's the generosity of spirit in this simple promise of love and support that reminds you of how those early Oasis songs were often about the solid and profound joys of friendship, so neglected in pop music in favour of its more glamorous and superficial cousin, sex. "When the sun shines, we'll shine together", Rihanna vows, but she could be addressing a sister, a mother, a brother or a best friend just as much as someone she happens to be f*cking. And then listen to Oasis' "we'll see things they'll never see" and hear how it chimes in just the same moving, joyous way. Fantastic stuff.
Score= 9/10
wtf wit the Oasis stuff??