Check out a video preview of Rihanna's latest single "Hard" featuring Young Jeezy". The full video will premiere on Friday, the 18th. Looks awesome!!!
In other Rihanna news, OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder has confirmed that Rihanna has been summoned back into the studio to record some new songs for her "Rated R" re-release which will hit stores sometime next year I'm sure before she starts on her world tour!!
Says Ryan Tedder: "She’s in a darker musical place right now… she’s got enough of those songs on Rated R to last for a while.
“I can do stuff dark musically, haunting kind of thing, but I want to have her do something vocally that she’s never done before."
While I do like the musical maturity Rihanna, I knew this album wouldn't fare well with the masses because "Rated R" lacked the hits that plagued much of her last cd, "Good Girl Gone Bad." I've always said if you are going to be a mainstream artist, and you have many corporations backing oyu, sometimes you have to eat crow and have at least four or five bangers ready for radio rotation. Then you can record six songs that get into the personal that won't vnecessarily be that song that will make listeners want to turn off the radio after hearing it four times in one hour. I still applaud RiRi for taking a risk and following her heart with the music she wanted to do.
My bitch is that I have no idea why sometimes I can be so naive to think that when after three weeks of an artist's cd being in stores, the record label decides to send said artist back into the studio to record extra songs because their recent record is underperforming on the charts. It's really annoying when they release the same CD twice with extra songs. It would be nice if they would just put out the original vision and let it marinate a bit into the minds of fans. I guess the record companies still think all of Rihanna's fans are immature 18-year-olds.
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