The Real #R8: The Rate Is Ova

70 pages, 64 voters and one month later...we have our FIRST SONG OUT!





















Meh.























110. Crazy Little Thing Called Love


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Overall Score: 3.71
Highest Score: 9 x 1 (@Blayke)
Lowest Score: 0 x 2 (@GhettoPrincess, @TheAlmightyAloud)
Voters: 33

See? Told you it wasn't funny. I think the most hilarious part of this is that I actually found a fanmade cover for this song of which I have absolutely no memory (I gave it a 2). This is off A Girl Like Me and is officially Rihanna's lowest rated track! WHOOOOO! Zzzzzzz.

This is one of three (!!!) songs by Rihanna featuring pop icon(s) J-Status, who are referred to once as a "Jamaican rapper" and once as a "music group." He/they do not have their own Wiki page so I guess things aren't going too well if you are or were a member of J-Status. Every pop geauxrl worth her salt needs her own Don Philip, and it seems that this is Rih's...although God knows she's collaborated with plenty of cannon fodder throughout the years. Also, this is certainly no I Will Still Love You.

Our own sweet innocent mess @Blayke will start us off, because he gave this a 9?!?! "Hello again J-Status! Good to see Jay-Z and co. brought you back for album two. This song reminds me of nights out in the Pacific Island of Tonga. Love it. I feel so ignorant for not having this song for 9 years of my life." Mmmkay well I've never been to Tonga but maybe someday. And I guess A Girl Like Me is, somehow, platinum, meaning a million people own this song. Think about that. This is sitting in a million American houses.

Speaking of messes, @TheAlmightyAloud sobered up enough to send me some dish. "J-Status returns to influence yet another goose egg for the Rihanna rate. Somebody should’ve told Leandra to ditch J-Status over this made up man in this song. This song got me catching zzzs instead of feelings." Leandra was a hot topic with our few commenters. "The two is for the ICONIC second verse. Just listen y'all," educates @Bobbyrae. I will post them here for all of you to peruse:

My best friends tell me "Rihanna
What's got into you?"
I say "LeAndra I can't explain
These feelings I'm going through"
They tell me "Girl it's not like you to fall this way"
I try my best to wear a disguise
But it's written on my face

Amazing. The plural "best friends" and "they" when only mentioning one person. Investigate reporter @iheartpoptarts did further looking into the matter: "This Leandra in the second verse is totally Rihanna’s 'best friend Lesley' moment, isn’t it? I’m so glad I Googled her. http://www.mtv.com/news/2203749/video-rihanna-yells-at-drunk-friend/" Thank you for this.

The always-passionate @citoig (you'll see what I mean later) says, "I kinda like the (feat. J-Status) tag. It’s kinda like a trigger warning for fuckery." TW: FUCKERIH. See you on Tumblr. "Crazy Little Thing Called No," titters @that boy is a monster. You proud of that one? @sexercise contributes another SIQBURN: "Music of the Sun called and it wants its song back." Yas FRY them in that Bajan heat.

Not @Remorque revealing himself as the TRUE Booben. "God, these kinda reggae-lite songs are starting to get on my tits… NOT. FOR. ME. (Next!)"

Next indeed.


And in case you're not Blayke and morbidly curious...

 
109. Now I Know

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Overall Score: 3.73
Highest Score: 9 x 1 (@Blayke)
Lowest Score: 0 x 4 (@ohdenny, @Rihanna UK, @ankh, @Number)
Voters: 32

Now I know that Rihanna's eyes are two different sizes on that cover and it's all I can fucking look at.

Also this cut is not funny or surprising either and for that I am v. sorry. It's not my fault y'all fucked up the fun!

Music of the Sun loses its first track, the closer from that album. It is one of four tracks off the debut that has a cowriting credit for our Rih. Get the coin$. The official YouTube audio has been streamed 4,600 times, enjoy your $1.43 (which has yet to be split with the other writers!)

I asked @Remorque to let me know if there is any standard ballad fare lurking, and he came through. "Standard ballad fare here. It doesn’t have any redeeming features for me, other than that she sounds pretty good on it. It’s way too sugary and sweet and goes on for way too fucking long." Five goddamn minutes, to be precise. Rihanna was dropping five minute ballads on her FIRST album. Ballsy. Foolish and ballsy.

It looks like @Blayke has a fellow stan in @that boy is a monster! "Yas! Beyoncé who? Listen what? This vocal powerhouse! She's incredible!" Don't be fooled by the Regina Georges in sheep's clothing, little ones, our Gaga-monikered friend actually dropped a 1 on this. Sorry Blaeke. I'll let him have the next word. "WHAT?! This song is all kinds of soundtrack movie ballad. I really like this. I would think to say 'this song deserved a better singer' but Rihanna sounds lovely on this. What a nice little album closer. The only thing I’m not a fan of in this song is how she Shakira’d the 'learrrrrn' moment before the 2nd chorus." And wait! Why is everyone mentioning soundtracks?! "A well-executed basic r&b ballad. Perfect for the soundtrack of the third act of a romantic movie," says @Epic Chocolat, who gave it a sturdy 6 as he watched Love and Basketball or something, I dunno. Even @Bobbyrae got in on it. "What kind of Disney slayage?" (He gave it a 2.)

I hope you own a shepherd's crook with some secure fencing, @sexercise, cause you're about to get some Lambs all riled up. "This sounds like a Mariah album track. Someone link the video of her singing Hero." Do you mean Mariah singing it, or Rih? Not yet. Can't blow our collective wads at #109. Not that @TheAlmightyAloud wouldn't mind: "Oh no. A piano ballad. Please tell me this won’t be like that time when she covered Hero…"

"No more like this, please," begged @iheartpoptarts, and we all know how that would go.



Oh, fine.



THE NEXT CUT IS THE FUNNY ONE OKAY, STAY TUNED.
 

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