March 25, 20169 yr Well her second singles are never really her best.. Excuse me some of her 2nd singles include = 'Unfaithful', 'Shut Up & Drive', 'Rude Boy'(UK) or 'Hard' (USA), 'What's My Name', 'Stay' All these are fantastic, and okay I do agree to some extent with choices such as 'If It's Lovin' That You Want' & 'You Da One', those 2 were just lacklustre. But most of the time she does deliver an awesome follow up. As for 'Needed Me', I kinda saw this coming due to it climbing the American charts, and while it wouldn't have been my personal choice, I do find this really good and find it as something that grows on you more with each listen. A surprising choice yes, but an interesting one and think that when it fully impacts with music video and promo & etc, it could turn out to be a surprising hit. But really hope that future releases will include 'Kiss It Better' & 'Desparado ' sometime in the future. Especially the former and hopefully that will be the 3rd single at least.
March 26, 20169 yr 'Shut Up and Drive' will always be her worst single. it's a toss up between that and 'you da one' really isn't it? tbh i'm surprised they are even attempting to send anything else from this record to pop radio (actually i'm not after 'american hydrogen' was sent for pop adds) i don't really see anything being any sort of hit with purpose
March 29, 20169 yr According to her Twitter both Kiss It Better and Needed Me are being sent to radio tomorrow.
March 30, 20169 yr http://49.media.tumblr.com/31c758afc912894eb5b9031465a9ba8d/tumblr_nzicbrxd3a1s3dtato1_250.gif
April 20, 20169 yr Urghhhhh... Can someone please call Don't Stop The Music Rihanna and request that she returns ASAP.
April 21, 20169 yr It was OK. But ultimately it's pretty much a non-event. It's literally just her walking through a club... Visually stunning though.
April 21, 20169 yr Visually it is obviously top notch due to the money spent on it. Despite that though there is nothing else to say about it. It could have been a great video but ended up being shit due the lack of a concept. It is like they sat down and were like "how can we create a typical Rihanna bad ass video?" and just drafted in a gun, a killing scene, a club scene and made sure she wasn't wearing a bra and thought that all basis were covered by using that as a check list. Her visuals recently have either been really dull or really predictable which is a shame given the quality of the music.
April 21, 20169 yr So much better than the 'Kiss It Better' video and the song just continues to grow and grow.
June 2, 20169 yr #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week! :o So glad it's doing well. 'Kiss It Better' has so far only peaked at #62... Neither seem to be doing anything in the UK though of course, ugh.
June 3, 20169 yr If it wasn't age-restricted on YT I think it would've done even better than that. She's also #10 this week with 'Work' and #11 with 'This Is What You Came For' :lol:
