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

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

surm you seem to just be coming back to the song's essential simplicity and clarity, so let me rephrase the question. in the opening post you say the song is meditative. what do you think it's meditative about?

i think it is meditative about a difficult time, and reflective about finally finding something hopeful and natural to balance the darkness with light.

a meditative song wouldn't just say "we found love," it would muse "now that we found love what are we gonna do with it?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNEgUPKxk7A

I consider Haddaway's "What Is Love" to be quite meditative in this sense as well. It's structured a bit like a legal claim:

1. What is love?

2. (Further and in the alternative) baby don't hurt me

PARTICULARS
a) Don't hurt me no more.

The singer recognises that it might be ambitious to expect his audience to answer his opening question, so he offers a more straightforward injunction which he assumes (I think correctly) any reasonable person would consider it appropriate to comply with. This kind of staged, strategic compartmentalisation of positions indicates a thoughtful and flexible approach to what can be a thorny problem.

the repetition also contributes to this effect.

Tim, love you dude, but that post made my head spin.

For the sake of pop music everywhere I hope this bombs. The idea of Calvin Harris becoming the go-to producer for massive American pop acts (as opposed to faintly desperate British ones) is too horrible to contemplate.

I find this line of argument compelling.

http://i.imgur.com/mOiYi.gif

MDC otm

Sounds like a happy hardcore record on 33.

http://www.metro.co.uk/music/876712-smoking-rihanna-falls-foul-of-farmer-while-filming-video-in-northern-ireland

This video controversy for the song made the local tv news this morning.

I wonder if her smoking is affecting her voice?

they should make that pic the single cover

http://paimages.s3.amazonaws.com/categories/entertainment/480x385/11713608.jpg

if it wasnt already this i mean

word

that skirt looks like its made of upside down fat man jeans

it totally is

ha, u rite

#16 on the hot 100

nice to see rihanna finally having some chart success

i would "like" that comment if i could

yes. http://www.whosay.com/rihanna/videos/81494

a video about rihanna smoking. and trippin. with a hot andro dude.

song's in the top 10.

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