Rihanna -- Rehab...

http://www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=318453

i know it sounds way too much like that JT song, i know. but i'm addicted. i can't describe the feeling that comes over me when i hear this. and the video.

what do you think?

also i find it funny that she does not wear pants

in the whole video.

really like this song

the first time i heard it they played the video right before THE HILLS. it just suddenly came on. it was amazing.

i dismissed it as approximately the 7th rewrite of the same song by timbaland when GGGB came out but it's definitely grown on me

whew

another song called Rehab?

that's what i thought too. i kind of sighed. and then i listened to the song.

...

lol

Surm, you really started a thread for the eighth single from this album then?

Well, it is a great song.

i didn't know it was off the same album as the others. i don't really know rihanna albums. just songs.

favourite moments - the smoky "damn!" that kicks off the second verse, the lyric "the only problem is that you was using me/in a different way that i was using you".

it's kind of crazy that there are still GGGB tracks left that would be great singles ('lemme get that' especially) (BUNS IS WHAT I GOT). and also that the only really great new song on the various reissues, 'haunted', was a japan-only bonus track.

though the most underrated might be the title track. so much conflict and ambivalence - one of ne-yo's peaks as a songwriter.

the very first mention of riri on ilm! http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=41634

favorite element: the choir during the chorus

the lyric "the only problem is that you was using me/in a different way that i was using you".

yah i like

and really can someone talk about her clothes in this? o_O

(in the good way obviously)

i've decided my favorite line is "you're the reason why i'm thinkin

i don't wanna smoke all these cigarettes no moooore"

i mean damn

that doesn't really make any sense

she wants to give up smoking for him i guess

just the delivery is so GOOD

she's going to rehab for smoking?

yeah, I hadn't really thought about how dumb this song was before, because who cares about this mediocrity, but now that you spell it out, it is pretty damn dumb

Surprising that it's Timba, it reminds me of some British r'n'b-influenced late 90's pop single.

? like so many pop songs today are so much more "intelligent"

i love all the guitar, and strings. sumptuous.

it's not that weird to want to give up smoking/whatever unhealthy behavior because of an experience with someone. that happens all the time.

It's not dumb (here's Rihanna on the subject: "'Rehab' is a metaphorical song. Rehab really just means we have to get over the guy. So we talk about checking ourselves into rehab, meaning we have to get over him. And we compare the guy to a disease or an addiction. We're just saying, ''We don't wanna smoke any cigarettes no more,' meaning we don't wanna deal with this BS anymore").

This is on my top ten list. The background vocals on the chorus, Rihanna's performance, the percussion (handclaps included!), those fucking strings, the dramatic lyrics, A+++++++

it's definitely not dumb by riri's standards. lest we forget this is the woman who sung "Y-O-U-R making this hard". and when a friend of mine interviewed her, she thought jetlag was a contagious disease. dumb-dumb-de-dumb, dumb-dumb-de-dumb-dumb.

"y-o-u are making this hard"

I still contend this song is kinda dumb and very mediocre

it's funny, i totally forgot about this song - in the context of the album, anyway, cos like Lex says there's a bunch of other things I'd want her to release and "lemme get that" is probably top of the list. But having caught the video I can barely get the song out of my head, like hearing it outside the context of the album has suddenly made me realse how good it is.

i find the 'featuring justin timberlake'-ness of the video ridiculous, though: what does he do in the song, say 'now gimme that' in a mock-timbaland way and uh that's it? That and provide eye-candy. And make you think 'gosh this is 'what goes around' part three isn't it'.

Also, yeah, the total absence of trousers and skirts in rihanna's life is starting to worry me? It's like, love, we know you have nice legs, you don't need to keep parading around in your nethers. I like the way her style is v different from everyone else's but sometimes I wish it involved leaving a little more to the imagination.

well, i mean, he wrote it?

the man has a point

I wish this thread was about 'sell me candy'.

Well, I wish it was about Breakin' Dishes. EIGHT singles, and not one is the second best song? Every time some other song is released, it's wronger and wronger.

This is a pretty-sounding song that I will probably be in full-on hate mode over by the time New Year's rolls around.

and i never gave it to another

the way i gave it to youu

i don't know who i am more tired of, rihanna or justin timberlake

the fake pink flamingo might steal the video

This is a pretty-sounding song that I will probably be in full-on hate mode over by the time New Year's rolls around.

Why?

yeah, why!?

i love the wind and motorcycle noises at the beginning of the video

vocals on "next time you wanna go on and leave

i guess i should let you go on and do it"

are wow

i gotta check into rehab
cuz baby you're my disease

Great song.

http://www.mp3waxx.com/archives/2167

The source added, “Doctors are worried she’s overdoing it. She needs to take some time off. Otherwise she’ll be vulnerable to more illness.”