Today, From The Vault journeys back to a time when Rihanna was only beginning to embrace her “bad gyal” persona. This week’s pick is her joint single with Maroon 5 ‘If I Never See Your Face Again.’
Originally sung solely by M5’s frontman Adam Levine and included on the band’s second LP ‘It Won’t Be Soon Before Long,’ ‘Face’ received quite the facelift when chart Queen RiRi was added to the mix.
The collaborative remix was dually serviced as a single from the re-release of Levine and co’s album as well as from Ms. Fenty’s ‘Good Girl Gone Bad.’
Produced by Tricky Stewart and Mike Elizondo, it was first intended as a duet with Janet Jackson which couldn’t materialize because of label issues.
A moderate hit for its headlining acts, it cracked the US Top 40 during Summer 2008 and climbed to number 28 in the UK; still, it managed to peak at #11 and #12 in Australia and Canada respectively.
RiRi’s frequent collaborator Anthony Mandler directed the song’s visual which focused heavily on editorial shots of sexy Rihanna, dapper Adam, and their titillating (yet understated) teasing.
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Some, at the time, christened this collaboration random, yet it still “worked.”
Evidence, ladies and gents, of how Team Rih have successfully managed to broaden her brand and secure her place as the resident crossover crusader.
We wish more artists would follow that route and mix and match up for diversity. The results, as highlighted here, can be bliss.
Another one i’d bottom for. So that’s
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1)Chris Brown
2)Trey Songs
3)Justin Bieber
4)Oli Sykes
5)Adam Levine
no one want ur ugly ass
even ur kpop flops ….
U wish…. No one wants ur s******* infected butthole
This song is trash like the song she did with Shakira
Who do you stan for?
omg so much substance
I used to love watching the music video for thus track. The way Rih walked across that table all the way to him like a true seductress sealed the deal for me that she was never gonna be that good girl anymore. I think the song flopped because of all the singles she had out at the time, though.
THAT SONG FLOPPED HARDER THAN PERFECT ILLUSION.
I DON’T EVEN REMEMBER IT .. flophanna
Do you stan for floptina? Don’t come for Gaga.
Goathanna is a mess
still releasing 1014 songs a year smdh
desperate.
M*****-hanna is tired AF. just sayin’
forehead-hanna keep realesing songs and albums nonstop hoping for a career longer than her forehead. smdh
The song flopped but hell yeah she took a risk.. Every artist floo at one point ya know..
Sorry but this “Remix” was horrible
In the GGGB era alone she scored 4 number 1 song (umbrella,take a bow and disturbia, live your life) 3 top ten hit (shut up and drive,rehab, don’t stop the music and hate that i love you [i hate this song])
GGGB sold at the end of the era 7 or 8 million World Wide and was certified 2× platinum in the us at this time, it was 3× plat in the us by 2013 if i dont mistaken.
It’s the biggest album sold by Rihanna if i am right
And you are here calling her a flop because of one single ?
Calling Rih, Queen Bey, Bruno Mars, Katy perry a flop won’t help the sales of Gaga nor saving her from flopping hard heifers
Navy always over exaggerating. Shut up
Lol keep creating fake twitter accounts to save gaga’s career she needs you in this hard times…don’t waste your time here you have some serious jobs to do on twitter.
Girl double platinum (or triple platinum years later) is the absolute peak of her commercial success and you are bragging about that? How is taht anything special? Especially with the support of all those hits you mentioned (as usual)? Around that time any other big name would have sold 5-6 million albums in the USA with so many songs on radio. Just move on, Rihanna´s success has never been huge. She´s definitely not a flop, but don´t exaggerate. Rihanna has never been album to do Artpop first week numbers in her entire career 🙂
Hate that i love you is one of my favs from her, although its a irreplaceable copy.
This song was trash though.
Like Gagas Career?
This Song suffered the same fate as You Da One… the single before it was doing so good that it never gave it a chance to take off as the previous single was still dominanting.
Nice song and music video even tho it is old
They were both s*** af in this video.
I had never heard about this song in my life. Rihanna rivals some rappers for the title of queen of features.
Are you mad her voice and style is versatile allowing her to work with different artists of every genre? Lol Gaga could never
LOL Keep dreamming. You mean Rihanna has to cling to every producer songwriter out tehre cause she is only a nocalist? Gaga not versatile but Rihanna is? Leave the buble you live in Rihanna can only sing pop (barely). Gaga has released a PURE Jazz album with real acclaim, apart from pop , she can also sing rock and musicals like when she left people with a jaw-dropping moment at the oscars a couple of years ago. She has real acclaim. Leave teh buble. Rihanna can only sing easy pop songs. Absolutely nothing else.