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

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.

gosh, it's already Rihanna's 15th most successful single to date! very exciting!

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/bwo0091l.jpg

I was surprised by how intense the video is! Makes the hopelessness of the place seem the point of the song, rather than the finding of love. Ah I see r|t|c in fact predicted this upthread.

Isn't Britney doing a video like this too? Is UK housing estate chic suddenly a big thing this year?

Think I like this song now. It does need a big vocal climax though.

One thing the video does quite well is to give some thematic purpose to the cheapness of Harris' synths, like: even the euphoria is borrowed, precarious, a facsimile of euphoria.

That's generous

totally agree about the video meshing with the synths more than it does with the finding love theme, tim

That is a really super British video.

Yeah, so her man in that video looks like Chris Brown.

http://cdn.idolator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Rihanna-Talk-That-Talk-album-cover-regular.jpg

http://cdn.idolator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Rihanna-Talk-That-Talk-Deluxe-album-cover.jpg

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the video is just rihanna-does-skins, complete with shitty music

One thing the video does quite well is to give some thematic purpose to the cheapness of Harris' synths, like: even the euphoria is borrowed, precarious, a facsimile of euphoria.

lol nice try but no

how is rihanna-doing-skins NOT akin to those synths?

Surm, lex's world of pop Is one of absolutes. The evil of Harris is beyond redemption.

I don't know why but I think "Talk That Talk" is a brilliant name for a Rihanna album in 2011.

tim...calvin harris is a dreadful producer. his style and his sound hasn't changed so why on earth would my opinion of him change?

i agree talk that talk is a great album title though, and she's been recording with terius so i have hope that this song will be calvin harris's only presence on it

I wasn't really saying you were wrong Lex.

One thing the video does quite well is to give some thematic purpose to the cheapness of Harris' synths, like: even the euphoria is borrowed, precarious, a facsimile of euphoria.

― Tim F, Friday, 21 October 2011 22:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark

quality stuff imo

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