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Originally posted by iBeyoncé.
But these articles always do too much. Rihanna never gets the credit she deserves and it's sad. Half of the songs she's featured on are hits because of her and Rihanna ALWAYS bring her own swag to all of her music We Found Jesus aside. |
The article points out that this is false, listening to the demos of Umbrella there is little difference in the vocals between them and the final version.
As Slant puts it:
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What Rihanna brings to “Umbrella” is ineffable. Listen to the original demo, sung by Nash, and you see how closely she sticks to his script. There is a pained catch in her voice when she sings the word “magazines” that always struck me as a winning little flourish; it is there, as is every other last tic, in Nash’s guide track. Rihanna leans into the vocal harder on the finished song, but none of her choices are what you’d call surprising. Listen, on the other hand, to Nash’s demo for the song “1+1,” which he sold to Beyoncé, and then listen to Beyoncé’s rendition: It’s the difference between thinking about a skyscraper and standing on top of one. Beyoncé’s vocal shimmers, quavers, growls, slides deftly off beat, subtly teases the melody. (If it’s unfair to compare pretty much anyone to Beyoncé, one can consult “Saxon,” the demented demo that Nicki Minaj, who isn’t even primarily a singer, made for anever-recorded Rihanna song—it’s impossible to imagine how Rihanna could have improved upon it.)
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