I can't at all the gerls on atrl RUSHING into a thread about Rihanna's next single.
In no time they'll be back to trying to drag her while listening to her on their ipods
You know when you think about it, this dual release thing isn't really surprising. She's done it four times now.
Rockstar 101 - Te Amo
Only Girl -WMN?
S&M - Raining Men
CKB - Man Down.
OG and WMN were clearly the best songs so they did the best but this album was designed to get both Pop and Urban on lock. Sadly i don't think she's there yet.
DO you girls still remember when one of the critics said that Cheers had the potential to become #1 for at least 10 weeks. It's a breath of fresh air to the current pop music
On "Cheers," Rih samples Lavigne, and she explains why they didn't just have the Canadian pop singer come in and re-record the vocal for the song. "I asked the same thing, but when I heard the track, it was already embedded in the music, so the producers already had it that way," she explains. "But it wouldn't have made a difference. It would have sounded the same. But I'm just glad that we could use her sample, because it became such a huge part of the instrumental that if it were not to be in the song, it would change the whole vibe of the song."
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"I love that song ['Cheers']. That is one of my favorite songs on the album. It makes you feel like celebrating," she tells MTV News about the song. "It gives you a great feeling inside like you want to go out and have a drink. ... People can't wait for the weekend."
"Life's too short to be sittin' around miserable," sings Rihanna with a shrug on future 2 a.m. staple "Cheers (Drink to That)". "People are gonna talk whether you're doin' bad or good." The lines sum up the general sentiment of Loud nicely. There's no grand statement here, no tabloid back story. And while Rihanna had a hand in writing most of the songs on Rated R, she's not credited with writing anything here. But she's more experienced, and unlike some of her early material, you feel like she's actually connecting with these tunes on more than a purely melodic level. In his review of Good Girl, Pitchfork's Tom Breihan wrote that Rihanna "comes off sounding like a robot programmed to impersonate Alanis Morissette." And the acoustic strums and mid-tempo drum beat-- not to mention the vocal sample of Avril Lavigne's "I'm With You"-- on "Cheers" are particularly Alanis-esque. But now Rihanna is capable of adding her own West Indian lilt and charisma to the tipsy track-- you can almost hear her smirk as she brings hashtag rap to pop&B: "It's gettin' Coyote Ugly up in here/ No Tyra!"
So last month at London’s Sketch bar, when Rihanna was asked by a besuited Capital FM DJ as they introduced her new track ‘Cheers (Drink To That)’ whether she really was prone to a bevvy, her wavering response of “Well, it’s mostly when I eat that I drink…” was telling. Imagine what MIA or even Lady Gaga would have replied. Something funny, something ridiculous, something them. Rihanna wonders whether she should admit to having a nice glass of Chardonnay with her dinner occasionally.
OMG! My friend just texted me saying "CHEERS IS ON 99.7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
So whoa...... lol........But i hope it's not the next single! It's too late! We should just wait for CKB and Man Down to do their thing and let Fly take over and then the EP single!
You know when you think about it, this dual release thing isn't really surprising. She's done it four times now.
Rockstar 101 - Te Amo
Only Girl -WMN?
S&M - Raining Men
CKB - Man Down.
OG and WMN were clearly the best songs so they did the best but this album was designed to get both Pop and Urban on lock. Sadly i don't think she's there yet.
Rockstar 101 and Te Amo weren't really a dual release since one was released internationally and one was U.S.-only, Only Girl and WMN? weren't released as dual singles, and Raining Men was dropped so it wasn't an official single. She's only done this once.