Rihanna -- We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris) and subsequent 2011 album

The lead single for Rihanna's next record has dropped. We Found Love manages to sound poppy yet meditative, and simple yet masterful. Rihanna's voice cleans up nice on the track, which serves as a pristine response to LOUD: somewhat less loud than Only Girl, but with all the energy and focus. The album is due out late November.

I can't wait for this song to blow up.

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Haven't heard this yet, so I might end up thinking it's awesome, and I have liked Ri in the past, but 2011 sure has made me sick of her.

Yeah I love it. Have no idea who Calvin Harris is so I don't have a kneejerk "eew cooties" reaction to his presence here. Definitely prefer this to "Only Girl" as far as RiRi lead singles go.

this fits her voice much better

idk who calvin harris is either really, this whole us pop trend of "producers get featuring credits now BUT ONLY IF THEY'RE EUROPEAN" is just still annoying me

it's better than "Only Girl" but that's not saying much, at the end of the day i'd be happy to forget all 6 of Loud's singles

i thought one of calvin's singles was really good, though as far as i'm aware his discography is generally a steaming turd.

i forgot how this new song goes already. but then again i didn't like "only girl" at first either. i think what eventually won me over about "only girl" was how the flowers started vibrating in the music video during the whooshy part of the first chorus. HOPEFULLY this song's video will have something as wonderful as that.

lol it's true that the producers getting ft. credit thing is kind of annoying, i guess they're just trying to build something resembling name recognition so they can sell some of the producers' own "lead singles" later (like the afrojack song with eva simons which is slowly climbing the charts right now). i hope this song's existence does not mean that calvin harris will try to "break" america

I disliked "Only Girl" at first but grew to love it, which makes me wary of judging this straightaway. Have no in-principle objection to Calvin Harris (at least not since his first album)- but I'm glad he doesn't sing on this.

i think i'd quite like the big chorus in a different context but calvin harris is just such an awful producer - he and his rinky-dink plinky-plonk toy keyboard both need to be burned at the stake, it's unlistenable.

rihanna's choice of producer is on such a downward slope but i can't imagine who could be worse than harris

official youtube here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F6YqOFsBnM

If Calvin Harris had never sang on any of his own records I would have such a better reaction to hearing his name.

This sounds exactly what I thought it would sound like, I'm not sure if that's a bad thing or not.

Yeah it's his voice that really gets to me too. It doesn't matter what he does I will always hear him singing "I get all the girls I get all the girls" or his annoying face in the Dizzee Rascal Dance With Me video. Okay it's his voice and face that I hate.

I really like We Found Love, probably more than anything on Loud at the moment.

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― some dude, Saturday, 24 September 2011 03:39 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

He just oozes that affectation and sliminess in his vocal performances. "Feel So Close" makes me think the girl he's chatting to is blissed out on drugs while he's just slightly tipsy and saying the right things to get her into bed.

can't help but feel like maybe this reading of his vocal performance goes psychologically 'too far'

yeah her voice sounds great on this but the production is.....tedious

can r&b stop being so shitty-european? especially when it could be awesome-germans-european?

can people stop listening to rihanna and expecting r&b?

i like the production on this. euro-rihanna is a nice pairing.

please dont stop the music>>>>>>>>this

totally

well sure

the only thing idg is why there arent vocals after the build up, just waiting for her to sing, feels interminable. but ya she sounds amazing & makes the song

i will always rep for pls don't stop the music, but i appreciate how this does not hit me over the head with a melody

j0rdan whats the one calvin harris jam that is a jam?

i'm not alone

can't wait for the remixes of this track tho, good vocal as mentioned above

wow it sounds even more boring the 2nd time around

the only thing idg is why there arent vocals after the build up, just waiting for her to sing, feels interminable. but ya she sounds amazing & makes the song

― flopson, Saturday, September 24, 2011 11:38 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, it really feels like it should slam into the verse there.

song is effortlessly stunning

imo best thing about a new album cycle is that presumably she'll have a new look and ditch the stupid-looking red hair

the red hair is the only thing i really liked about the loud aesthetic

the only thing idg is why there arent vocals after the build up, just waiting for her to sing, feels interminable. but ya she sounds amazing & makes the song

― flopson, Saturday, September 24, 2011 11:38 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, it really feels like it should slam into the verse there.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 24 September 2011 20:52 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya this has kinda become the sole point of intrigue for me with this song; it doesnt quite suggest a void but maybe a sort of disquieting plainness, idk. like you're left thinking more about the hopeless place than the finding love, and then whether that's a thing to embrace rather than overcome

will probably have a decent life as a lonely xmas jam i imagine

this has kinda become the sole point of intrigue for me with this song

I know, right?

the build up is so lazy btw. maybe it's just the youtube but the calvin harris portion of this sounds so skeletal and underproduced.

i don't mind how plain and pronounced the lead-in is. makes you wait for it.

the whole thing is plain

i find it unfettered as opposed to plain

ilm has been wrong about rihanna for the past year

hey, I liked "only girl", "what's my name", and "man down"

yeah... he did.

what is it that's not fettered?

i dunno if ilm has enough consensus about rihanna over the past year to be right or wrong per se

agreed.

xp, to my ears, the tune and the vocals, and the sound in general.

i love surm's grandmotherly belief in her disappointing progeny

haha yeah that's totally what his "oh lindsay still looks fine" posts are like

thx guys. to be fair, i am not nearly as passionate about what lindsay is doing these days as i am about rihanna.

yeah... he did.

― surm, Monday, September 26, 2011 6:03 PM Bookmark

still do, even

"Do Ya Thang" is pretty pleasant for a Terius throwaway

"cockiness" and "do ya thang" are def the two OMFG 10/10 tracks

can somebody email me pls thx

like, just to talk?

lol no

u kno i'm not good with finding stuff online

altho i would love to talk to you anytime jordan

cockiness is kind of awkward and annoying imo

"watch n learn" is the definite 10/10 standout here

I also like "where have you been" and "you da one"

ya watch and learn is tops for sure

i was into cockiness

"watch n learn" isn't annoying but she's done so many better songs like it in the past

"cockiness" and "do ya thing" are the only keepers for me, maybe "roc me out" has enough physical force that i might cave if it's ever a single? "drunk on love" is a massive missed opportunity, i actually love what they've done to the xx beat but i can't take foghorn fenty being so relentless over it - her vocals are often the weak link on this album.

i like this album a lot, and when it's good, it's really good. but i liked LOUD better. and there are 3 songs on this that i think are pretty much crap.

1) We All Want Love. please.

2) Roc Me Out. just sounds v derivative of her older stuff, and i'm sorry but i just don't know anybody who says things like "roc me out" or "roc me in" or "rock u" it's a weird title trend that i just am not feeling.

3) Farewell. is this supposed to be the new California King Bed? not as good.

this album is all about "Cockiness"

been hearing a lot of songs from this on the radio, "Birthday Cake" and "Talk That Talk" are dope and "Cockiness" is total garbage

these racist tweets from last week are so not a good look. this girl just keeps making me sigh these days

http://allhiphop.com/2012/03/09/non-hip-hop-rumors-were-rihannas-recent-rice-cake-tweets-racist/

not gon lie, i like this album a lot and all, but i definitely not have not felt the pull to listen to as i did the last one

i've grown to really love this song... easily my fav single of hers since the 'good girl gone bad' stuff

altho i'm sure now that i've typed that out loud imma obsess. also i listened to where have u been the other night and it sounded gr8

and yea i haven't even heard the full cake - the album snippit was off the hook

note to bloggers, if you have to ask if something is racist, its probably racist

given the "rice cake" line in the "Birthday Cake" remix it really wouldn't've occurred to me that it was anything other than a reference to the song tbh

then again according to that link "rice cake" is a well known racial epithet, so maybe i should've been hearing the lyric as something other than a stupid rihanna attempt at a clever line?

are rice cakes even sweet?

no idea -- i imagined maybe they were a caribbean thing but i guess they aren't at all

they aren't sweet no. It's like eating polystyrene

The cheddar ones are pretty great tbh.

finally hearing cake remix. like this v much.

i heard the birthday cake remix on the radio. i had to shut it off.

wahhht

I heard the tail end of it and it reminded me that I despise Chris Brown

yeah he's not the best

everything Rihanna does makes me intensely embarrassed FOR her somehow, her dancing, her videos, her singing, her choice of producers

nah she's totally cool

haven't seen the where have u been video yet but the song has def grown on me quite a bit

oh is that a single now? that has always been my secret fave off the album

except for the time when 'you da one' was revealing itself as an awesome xmas song

haha the tribal group dancing bit in this video is endearingly shit

thoroughly reminiscent of rakim 'guess who's back'

the tribal dance part is terrible and also she looks like a white lady in it. she's not a very good dancer.

shame cause the rest of the visuals are pretty cool. the bird's nest!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDgGz2nBTMw

otm

uh nevermind

OK i surrender

^^ love in a hopeless trace

wait what is that gif first posted above some dude? WHAT DOES IT MEAN

i am listening to cake

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you mean the first response at the top of the thread? it's a picture of Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes peeing on a picture of Calvin Harris

what were you feeling when you posted it

annoyance at the song partly, but mostly annoyance at producers only getting featured billing on US pop hits if they're Euro dance guys, which this song kinda was the beginning of becoming a common phenomenon

very chagrined to re-read this thread where i'm taunting surm about "We Found Love" being only Rihanna's 15th most successful song on the charts now that it's her biggest

http://www.billboard.com/articles/list/513463/rihannas-20-biggest-billboard-hits?page=0%2C1

:P love ya