It’s here!
Rihanna has unleashed the new single ‘Sledgehammer.’
As reported, the song (which is soaked in all sorts of grandeur) is lifted from the soundtrack for the ‘Star Trek: Beyond’ movie.
It forms part of a unique strategy that has seen the Bajan sensation release a slew of new songs not featured on her polarizing ‘ANTI’ album. The most recent, before this, being Calvin Harris cut ‘This Is What You Came For.’
Is RiRi about to swing her way into the top of the singles charts again? Take a listen to the Sia penned ‘Sledgehammer’ below and let us know!
It is absolutely amazing. She better be ready to collect another #1. I hope she performs this at the Oscars.
LOL Boy your low standards are absolutely disheartening 🙂
And the fact that you think I have a f*** to give about what you have to say is disheartening.
Your so salty all the time ????!!!! This is solid!!!
Do you think she´ll be able to do something like this on a stage like the oscars one?:
Do you think I care about your opinion?
You goons said the same about Love on the Brain & she slayed it! It is the most watched performance from the BBMA w/over 9 million views. Not only will she sing it she will slay it. Stay pressed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MispVmfMp40
https://open.spotify.com/album/1ieb2SouU3imMuStgx14L1
Look, even though I like Rihanna, I’ll be the first to point out her not always tapping into her pull potential. However, your comments always come across as condescending towards artists not named but are not limited to Whitney, Mariah and Celine. If Rihanna fans wanna enjoy their fav’s vocal growth (which she has shown in recent times), then LET THEM! I rarely feel second-hand embarrassment for others – especially for folks online but you going hard in the paint trying to convince Rihanna’s FANS as to why they shouldn’t like her or why your taste is somehow superior because you like Lady Gaga (very talented woman btw) is petty and to be honest, pathetic.
Lol Lady Gaga’s pop music career is dead. It’s funny how much you try to convince the Navy that this Flop b**** who couldn’t stay relevant past 4 albums is something special. Have a seat please.
YA’LL LAMES ALWAYS WANNA LOOK DOWN ON ALL THE OTHER SINGERS, WHEN MARIAH IS HIT OR MISS THESE DAYS. YA’LL HAVE TO PLAY UP MARIAH’S SUCCESS AS A SONG-WRITER TO OFFSET HER AWFUL LIVE ENTERTAINING. SHE LACKS THE SKILL TO INTEREST PEOPLE WHEN SHE’S ON STAGE. EVERY PERFORMANCE SHE DID FROM THE S***** ELUSIVE CHANTEUSE ALBUM, FROM THE GMA’S TO THE BET AWARDS WAS TERRIBLE. RIHANNA MAY NOT BE THIS SENSATIONAL SINGER, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO PERFORMING SHE CAN BE MORE ENTHRALLING THAN MARIAH, WHO IS LIKE WATCHING PAINT DRY 9 OUT OF 10 TIMES. IN MOST CASES ALOT OF THESE ARTISTS TGJ POST ARTICLES ON HAVE SOMETHING TO CONTRIBUTE, EVEN IF THEY AREN’T SO GREAT AT DOING OTHER THINGS. MARIAH’S A GOOD “ARTIST” BCUZ OF HER ABILITY TO WRITE SOME GREAT SONGS, BUT SHE LACKS A LOT AS A PERFORMER. WHEN IT COMES TO THAT SHE’S NOT EVEN IN THE TOP 20. SO U NEED TO REALIZE THAT EVERYONE IS ABLE JUDGE.
Coolness
It´s hilarious to see how much you are focusing on me lately, when I visit a Rihanna post like just once a week? And Lord knows you have at least 2 articles with Rihanna every day here LOL So it´s not that much, is it? Why don´t you focus on the trolls in this site who refuse to support talent? Maybe you should do that. Me visiting a post and saying some truths is hardly embarrasing. Now bye.
Oh you obviously give a f*** since you are replying. I know for a fact nobody is so deluded in life meaning I know it hurts you deep inside knowing the facts people say about Rihanna´s lack of talent or selling power are true.
Blah blah blah, song is amazing and Rihanna sang it well, that is all that matters. Take you irrelevant as$ somewhere else and off my reply section.
Baby, the Oscars are ran by thespians, rich, educated old white people. They love them some talent. Rihanna at the Oscars?
I’ll always think of Peter Gabriel when I see the song title Sledgehammer, but I like this…get dem hits Miss RiRi
Me too!!! LOL
She served vocals and range, I am living for the growth this era. Absolutely amazing.
Growth? Wasn´t that what her team tried last year but flopped hard and had to cancel the whole project and record new easier songs once again to at least have a quick #1 single like Work, which is her only saving grace? 🙂 Yeah growth! LOL Look nobody takes Rihanna seriously enough as to want to listen more mature material from her. She´ sjust not that type of artists. Sorry to break it to you.
Blah blah blah, ain’t nobody got time for that novel. The song is amazing whether you like it or not and Rihanna sings it extremely well. End of.
That comment is a novel for you? LOL No wonder why you are attracted to basic entertainment and nothing else. Please get a brain.
Where is LG5? Worry about that.
It´s hilarious teh only thing someone like a Rihanna basic fan can stick to is some type of retarded argument not related to what is discussed. Lady Gaga is 20 times the artist Rihanna is. But that´s not the topic. The topic is Rihanna is quite talentless. And you have zero arguments to deny that, or to deny her absolutely basic album sales from the beginning of her career to this day. I´m not focused on L% or however you call it. When it comes I´m sure I´ll be able to enjoy it, since she has talent. My focus is more on Mariah Carey slaying vocally every night this year for example. That is one of my true favorites. Try again with another non-argument hun 🙂
Still waiting for LG5s release date, at least Rihanna has got music out, where is Gags?
Again? How is that an argument? We are discussing Rihanna´s talent (lack of) and her constant desperate attempts at single releases. Not Gaga. Now that you mention it Lady gaga´s lowest first week sales are higher than Rihanna´s best first week sales in her whole career 🙂 🙂 🙂 It´s not like it matters, since she posesses talent in abundance and can slay and have a career out of commercial releases like she has been proving. Rihanna on the other hand will have to keep sticking to her constant singles prepared for radio and stremaing releases cause she doesn´t have a career out of that. As proved epically last year when she had to cancel her attempt at a better album 🙂
That entire novel and yet nothing mentioned about LG5s release date, did Interscope shelve it? Doesn’t she have an Apple music exclusive or something, priority is Drake I see.
Can´t you understand that´s not any type of argument? Can you explain to us why Rihanna has no talent? Why does she have to stick to generic releases if she doesn´t want to end her commercial run cause she wouldn´t survive otherwise like someone like Lady Gaga can? Rihanna´s run on music business will be remembered as basic as it gets, sales wise (can you explain to us why Rihanna has barely sold more albums than Lady Gaga with like 8 relases while Gaga has 4 or so?) and well, talent wise… 🙂 🙂 🙂
Once again like I said: No, I don´t have any update on LG5 release date. Not taht i care about when it comes. I just enjoy music when it´s released, and especially enjoy talent. Somthing one cannot do with Rihanna that´s for sure. But I see you are interested so I think I heard Gaga will release a second Jazz album with real vocals and understanding of music on it 🙂
Oh god you’re still writing these novels when you know I’m not going to read them.
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Just enjoy the music or write that rubbish for someone who cares to read it.
Mate. We know you read it 🙂
Sounds like a Sia song…
Sia wrote it.
Yes it sounds like Sia song, except for Sia´s amazing vocals being replaced by goat-ish noises 🙂
*screams*.. ??..
Amazing love that she dosnt stick to just one genre …queen of Versatility
I see a john Vidal being mad cause this is yet another rihanna song this year that’ll reachable peak beyonce can’t reach ever again in her career.
It’s absolutely ok to be mad. I would be too if I stanned beyonce
LOL I don´t like Beyonce. Still haven´t listened to any song from Lemonade so far 🙂 How does it feel like being so inside the fanboy buble that you think everybody who states a fact about Rihanna is a Beyonce fan?
Rihanna cannot stp releasing singles cause she knows that´s her only strenght (not that this is going to be a hit or anything). Meanwhile her selling power or respect from the industry and audiences in general are nowhere to be seen.
Just say u are blind. Everybody showers her with praises. And she’s definitely one of of not the most memorable female singer of this decade and even the 21st century.
But u can stay seething
B**** stop crying
Youre just upset that Rihanna is catching up to Mariahs no.1s
Rihanna praise???? LMAO
Beyoncé’s doing just fine without the number one hits. Why even bring her up? The hive start talking about tours and talent you’d think they were doing you wrong.
Its AMAZING! It’s atmospheric and lively and Rihanna’s tone is really good.
This song is so good. She can literally sing any genre of music and make it sound good. I think Anti has become my favorite album from her
I´ll definitely go see this 3rd Star Trek film. Enjoyed the previous two a lot and I love the whole cast they managed to put together for this reboot.
Rihanna also owns the master rights to her music so she got hella paid for this song. Film studios pay the record label for an artist to record a song, but not Rihanna. All the money goes to her unlike your label s**** lessor faves.
And it’s a huge movie too.
Yes. Because Rihanna owns the master rights to her music, she’s gonna get royalties from the single too LOL. A true boss bish.
It’s not gonna be just one single check unlike an artist who gets paid by the label.
Let’s not bring up checks and money when Bey is worth 4x your fave.
AMAZING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwEm4EmlLTY
Woah. That JohnDival person is really Embarrasing themselves by desperately trying to pick a fight. It’s so early in the morning too! I don’t really comment but reading that up there ^^ really has me worried about some of you guys mental health. Just enjoy the music guys! Screw sales! Yall not seeing any of that money anyway.
Agreed, people are loons
These Rihanna fans over here acting like she hitting some Mariah Carey/Celine Dion notes lol! She sounds good ( I’m the studio) however live is another story. Far as this song going #1 I doubt it!
First sane comment after the ones I left 🙂 They are pathetic level of delusional.
Tell her biitch bye, BYE
When an artist gets a demo they’re supposed to make the songs sound like their own.
It sounds like she practically layered her vocals on top of Sia’s.
The phrasing,technique everything is her to the point where it sounds more like an imitation than her song.
She kinda did the same thing with Same Ol Mistakes.
I want her to be more creative in the studio when she gets these song instead of recording them exactly as they are.
As usual. What did you expect? You have to posses some musicianship to do that. She has none.
AND PEOPLE HAS THE NERVE TO SAY SHE’S A VOCALIST!
SHE DID THAT! You trolls are funny. Can’t we appreciate when everyone does a great job!
She’s gonna bank from this song!
What does banking have to do with talent (lack of). More and more non-arguments lOL
5 more Rihanna fans mad at real arguments 🙂
Good for them for deciding to include her via soundtrack instead of the film itself
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It’d be great to hear this playing in the background if there is a goat slaughtering scene
LOL
@Centurion
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In addition to the song being released on her label and her owning the masters, she is also listed as a composer and lyricist alongside Sia Furler and Jesse Shatkin.
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She’ll make serious bank if this song does very well.
So now you are praising the same tactics you detest in Beyonce? You really think she wrote any part of this song or something? Or you are just proud of some money you are not going to get? Basicness at its best.
There is a difference between Rihanna and Beyonce with regards to writing credits, Beyonce’s writing credits are accompanied with lawsuits, Rihanna’s aren’t.
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That said, you can f*** off my reply box now. Thanks.
This movie is one of my NOT ANTicipated movie
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It has/had opportunity since one of its actor’s passed away
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But since it’s releasing same week as Ice Age and followed by s****** squad the following week, I just don’t see it for it
Yall constantly try to shade rihanna like that s*** is cute and really it’s just obnoxious at this point
Death, I just realized Samantha deleted David’s article and put his flop struggle article he tried to post earlier. You’re pathetic.
Her desperation is real… releasing a song from 2014’s vault… her time is up! ANTI=FLOP
Work ft. drake=headache inducing noise
TIWYCF=FLOP!
NEDEED ME= DEAD ON ARRIVAL FLOP!
KISS IT BETTER = do I need to say it?.. DOA FLOOOOP!
… and now this song… attached to a “big” movie in order to achieve some form of success,but watch it sink on arrival! hahahaha ?? ?
Girl a lamb talking about desperation? ?? The muthafuckin IRONY!!
says the lil Kim downgrade.. https://mobile.twitter.com/YouNeededMolly/status/724374981170204672/photo/1.. Ki Smh?
Molly
I´d be desperate too if a woman almost 50-years old who doesn´t even take real care of her voice nowadays could outperform me like this and sing me under the earth´s crust when I´m in my 20s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWr5_1BJMS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BE79JS4eCs
Anti has flopped really hard. Only saving grace sustaining her career are streams for her cheap digital singles. Nothing else. The sad thing is that her career doesn´t have a plan B. She only can do that: release singles. It will come sooner or later. She definitely won´t be having success elsewhere once generic singles stop coming.
John DESPERATE FOR ATTENTION, this girl is posting moo-moo videos I’m done. Let’s be real Mariah lost it she sounds like a dying cat. Peep her all I want for xmas mic feed video
Can´t you f u c k i n g hear Mariah carey outsings Rihanna to death in those videos depite being 20 years older? She sounds like what? LMAO
Yeap… this is a tune. I think it should go to number 1. Sia shouldn’t of given this song away. Rihanna killed it, so Sia defo would have set the record a light with her vocals.
Ice Age and S****** Squad are dropping around the same time. With better sound tracks im sure
True this^^^^
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Lil wayne and Twenty one pilots and friends are slaying the iTunes chart with listenable music
Star trek movies always slay at the box office..so hoping it tanks because Rhi is somehow associated with it is a complete waste of time.
Those films don´t slay the box office. They do ok. But I really enjoy them (for the easy blockbuster type of enetertainment they are that is). Better than Marvel flicks to me. Rihanna being or not being there won´t change anything box office wise. It is absolutely irrelevant.
Ok so now 4 retarded Rihanna fans thumbing down a comment about some box office FACTS regarding some films. What´s next? So pathetic. Give it up guys! Just admit you enjoy mediocrity. That it is a guilty pleasure you have and move on. Everybody has a guilty pleasure 🙂
all it really shows is how bitter some of you are…Didn’t Bey do well at the BET awards lastnight?..shouldn’t ya’ll be happy about that instead of being so bitter and hateful less than 12hrs later.
This must be the song that sia said she wrote for herself but Rihanna’s manager forced her to give up.
give us the link to the article where Sia said that…some of ya’ll just be talking out your asses.
The song is cute.. Although it has nothing on TOWARDS THE SUN>>
The senior citizen “JohnVidal” is so bothered. Are you mad that rihanna is still relevant 11 years into her career and Gags become a massive hasbeen 5 years into hers?
If Lady gaga becomes a has been commercially wise I don´t give a f*** cause I´ll still be able to enjoy her talent. But once again, she´s not even a priority of mine, so once again, invalid argument! LOL These Rihanna fans are always so threatened by obvious truths regarding rihanna´s lack of talent and tactics to survive in the industry as long as she can by keeping it generic.
And Ciara? wen last was she relevant again?? Ki
Kii@Molly
Grandpa John is mad Rih outlasted Gaga the gimmick queen.
Right she ran out of meat dresses and human egg gimmicks no one is checking for lady gargoyle anymore except tony Bennett
I thought the song was horrible with the comments above, but it’s cool. I’m sure it’ll work great for the movie.
It´s not a horrible song at all. Sia wrote it 🙂
LOL Rihanna fans mad at saying a song she is singing is not horrible? 🙂 🙂 🙂 You know they have zero arguments when they thumb down comments just for the sake of it.
Lol John Vidal is dragging.
I haven’t heard the song yet so I won’t pass any judgments as if I already listened to it like some people above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BE79JS4eCs
A gift from a talented musician and singer for you! 🙂 She is slaying.
Riri trying to sang y’all! She’s letting y’all know! …To be honest, I’m not a big fan of the song itself. It sounds like some outdated song written by Sia four years ago. I’m a much bigger fan of ANTI and I see how it didn’t make the album.
I think it would fit well on a different album. I feel Rihanna recorded so much material that she could have released two new albums. Anti, the current, and another featuring Nothing promised, FourFiveSeconds, American Oxygen, TIWYCF, and Sledgehammer of course, a more pop album.
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I would have like it, but not better than Anti of course, either way.
ANTI is a work of art and I love how it’s curated, so I like the way of how Rihanna is releasing these pop songs as singles. It’s like she keeping these pop broads in check while becoming bigger than pop music itself. It’s quite genius of her
As I’m in LOVE with her vocals on this song, I keep rewinding the song and I must admit that it’s already growing on me fast.
She did a fantastic job
Well I have entertained the senior citizen long enough, time for me to concentrate on other things whilst I enjoy this new Rihanna song.
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So glad my fav gives her fans new music.
This b**** can’t write who’s she trying to fool? she probably changed one or two words. The song is basic too
bîtch go worry about why your apes are protesting and burning things
Biitch gtfoh with your molly level racist asz
Girl bye! It’s a known fact that all you black South Africans know how to do is burn things like schools and clinics especially when you know that you need them lol f*** you dirty African a**
ooops did i hit a nerve? just stating facts rihanna can’t write s***. And if im an a** then why are you stanning for a black artist? because im more lite skin than rihanna
Girl please
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we’re talking about SOUTH fuucking AFRICA not Nigeria or Zimbabwe
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South Africa is an unique country which is why some refer to it as the United States of Africa
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I’m not black BTW, no one is burning anything in here
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The only thing mainly negative and being burnt are Africans from nearby countries( xenophobia in one word)
Where did I state that I Stan for Rihanna? I can’t with you African apes making assumptions
NIGERIA > SOUTH AFRICA
nigeria is the top economy in AFRICA so spare my that SA is better than South Africa mess. Not when your country is ran by power hungry blacks that build Town sized mansions let their people starve.
I just read that 19 schools were burnt down yet you wanna say nobody is burning anything lol I can’t with your delusion
but aren’t you mad i said rihanna can’t write s***, you probably thought i was ghetto black. im biracial my mom is black and dad white. Iam not impoverished honey my dad is taking good care of me and my siblings.
She doesn´t fool anyone. I don´t think her fans believe any of the things they say either. Nobody can be THAT delusional.
*looks at your avi* says no the drugs
Yes definitely. Say no to drugs. Doesn´t take anything away from teh fact Whitney Houston could at her very worst at death´s door around 2003 or so still outsing this Rihanna in her 20s. Tragic! LOL
SLEDGEHAMMER by FIFTH HARMONY, NOW PLAYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love Rihanna but this is pure trash. This will flop like John Vidal’s penis
Are you the real Mark? Your avi looks real, but I just can’t believe it!
That’s not Mark. I’m sure you know how pathetic the no-life-having-āss-høe-hive are. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=333bcl0&s=9#.V3E1YMhBswg
I agree with the 4 words
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THIS IS PURE TRASH
Yes I’m the real Mark gay and all ?
Ask Stephon she can confirm
LOL..WOW, THE FACT THAT U ARE A NAZI AND ADMIT THAT THE SONG IS TRASH IS FUNNY AS HELL.
This biitch and her sledgehammer/ slay hive forehead shape needs to take a long break, longer than Skeri hilson’s ‘haitus’
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Maybe by then she’ll have better music and maybe just MAYBE it might be ‘timeless ‘
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AT THE MOMENT SHE’S JUST A:
Ciara
@ ciara
pure comedy…
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in this case pure joke
Maybe if Taylor stuck to dating one guy for at least two years she wouldn’t be competing with Rihanna for the industry whôre title.
Maybe if Taylor closed her legs for one man she wouldn’t have loose drippy walls that sag down to the floor.
Maybe if Taylor stuck to having one man shouldn’t wouldn’t have seen more shafts than a miner.
Uggh, MODERATION
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Bye ugly racist Molly inspired ho3 with good hair ….. good lick not with not looking 50 in your 30s
This song is a grower. She sounds good tho. Rihanna is very consistent. Always giving her fans something new & fresh. I like that. Honestly, I can’t stand “Star Wars”, “Star Trek”, “Star Planet” or whatever… But, I’ll support this single.
You should give them a chance, especially Star wars, absolutely a masterpiece.
Oh honey, I know all about it. My uncles & grandmother stuffed that nerdy s*** down my throat since I was a child. Star Wars & Trek are brilliant. Legendary & timeless tbh… But, it bores me outta my mind. I can’t watch that stuff anymore …
LB I hope with masterpice you are not refering to the last Star Wars film, Force Awakens. Formulaic and easy entertainment at best. Just like any Marvel with Disney´s touch behind type of movie.
It’s nice vocally but the song itself is a dud.
I actually like it but I wish Sia had kept it I kept hearing her voice in my head especially at the “I hit a wall, I hit them all” part. It’s a great song maybe a video that doesn’t consist of glamour shots and camera stares will take it over the top
HAHAHA I hear the shade towards the TIWYCF video and I’m not even mad
@John Vidal Why are you always solely attacking Rihanna? You pretend to act like some crusader of talent and true music yet you unveil yourself to be a bitter, lonely size queen. You will talk so much trash about Rihanna, but why don’t you talk about the other industry poptarts. Why don’t you ever say anything about Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Ellie Goulding, Selena Gomez, or Megan Trainor, yet NONE of those aforementioned broads can sing this song they way Ri did. NONE of those aforementioned broads show the richness in the texture of their tone or the vocal growth Rih has. NONE of those aforementioned broads are able to transcend the genre of pop, yet again you just focus on some hyperbolized negatives about Rihanna. At this point, Rih is going in the historih books whether you like it or not, so save your energy and go find a man…
I would feel sorry for the guy who would be unfortunate enough to saddle themselves with such a talkative negative bitter queen.
Whoever it is may have to be tortured to listen to hours of ArtFlop
THE MOTHERFUXCKINGG IRONY
Hes pretentious like his favs
What the F.U.C.K? LMAO I cannot expect anything different from basic people who support someone like Rihanna and all her basicness. But tell when exactly have I not talked trash about terrible artists like Katy Perry or Mylie Cyrus or Taylor Swift???? LMAO I always have.
The absolutely hilarious part of your comment is exactly that sentence where you admit Rihanna belongs to that group of talentless pop tarts. Priceless! LOL Rihanna fans…
NO, I simply mentioned the most popular artists that came to mind. You damn well know the difference in the texture and strength in her voice compared to them poptart broads. There’s a specific disdain you have for Rihanna which is ok. It’s your right to like whomever you do. However, you lose credibility, and reduce your voice to that of a sewer dwelling, hating 16yr HIVe member when you continue to lash out to make hyperbolized comments. You talk about Rihanna negatively because she doesn’t fit into your Mariah-Whitney box. Fvck yo box! Rihanna is in a lane completely hers where her greatness far supersedes anything you have to say.
Not John acting like Mariah performs. She’s a stand still herself even back in the day. You act like she on Beyoncé stage level or something
What’s the point?! This is a SIA song. The sound, the delivery, the lyrics, everything about a Sia written song says Sia. Rihanna sang it the way Sia would, so what’s the point? Sia should have kept her song.
Preach!
Her best song this era tbh
I honestly wasn’t ready. WOW Rihanna. EPIC slayage!!!
Can this JohnDuval person kill them self already…..sound like another bitter botTom and we don’t need that we already have Sam and rash ad in here
Mad at truths? 🙂
@JOHNVIDAL you said lady gagas lowest week is higher than Rihanna’s highest. Lady gagas the fame debuted at 17 with 24k…
She was unknown then LOL Do you really want to compare The Fame sales to any Rihanna album? 🙂 🙂 🙂
Doesn’t matter. You stated that her lowest was higher than Rihanna’s highest. Incorrect.
Lol omg these comments . This really must be eating Rihanna haters up . I don’t think I have ever seen folks just start random arguments an extend the argument for a long period of time when no one acknowledged them to begin with. Anyway I just bought the song on iTunes.
Honestly this is a pretty good song, but it would be better if someone else sang it maybe. Rihject just doesn’t really have the power or vocals for a bigger song like this imo.
LOVE IT! She haven’t dropped a bad song at this era. Can’t wait to hear it LIVE. Never doubt Rihanna, I made that mistake with Love On The Brain. Oscar?
This is what she been up to the past 3 years. Making hits, great music and planning an epic 2016.
Beyoncè is such a living legend.
Rihanna deliver that dragoat u are keeping in your stomach. Sceam it out for once and all
Oh my…