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“Russian Roulette,” is Rihanna’s official first single off her “comeback” album, Rating R. She debuted the song, which was written and produced by Ne-Yo, on Ryan Seacrest’s show Tuesday morning.
Where’s the dancefloor beat, girl? If this is really your “comeback” track shouldn’t it be a little more uptempo?! A little more like “Umbrella”?! The song has simple yet moody and noir-esque lyrics. It captures the fear and agony of a roulette game while paralleling the game with certain real life situations.
“And you can see my heart beating. You can see it through my chest. And I’m terrified but I’m not leaving. Know that I must, must pass this test so just pull the trigger.”
The music video for the track will appear on prime-time ABC and from paparazzi shots, it looks like it’s going to be fierce, dark and seducing, a lot like the art work for the single.
Rated R is scheduled for release November 23rd. There will be a collaborative track with Justin Timberlake on the album, among other collaborations. This new album may show the dark side of the artist that we will grow to love and appreciate. Either direction the album goes, this is Rihanna’s chance to make her mark. Listen to “Russian Roulette” after the jump.
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Anyone else notice that she uses the phrase “Russian roulette” right after Gaga references it in Poker Face?
That's irrelevant, the contexts in each song make it completely different.
Anyways, I didn't really like this song at first, especially after the rumours or who she's been working with on the album. However after several listens I've warmed up quite a bit to it, though I still hold out much higher expectations from the rest of the album. Oh and the music video metioned above, I've watched a clip of her shooting that video and it actually is for the song “the wait is over” which is sampled in the promotional video on her official website.
Yeah I mean, it's not horrible, but I totally wanted an upbeat club banger as the first single, like we were all expecting. I bet she's got some major jams on the album, though.
I agree. Almost every track on Good Girl Gone Bad could have easily been a
Top 10 single.
The song is cool, i had fun making my cover video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0x3WZvm8g
this song is by far the most boring song… even the kfed song on blackout was better than this garbage.
Potential for some hot remixes – but a shame that it'd have to be remixed and doesn't just come out a hot track to begin with.
It's definitely not “Halo.”
boring
not good.
terrible single, terrible idea to go against Gaga on release date.
bad romance and Alejandro feel light years ahead of this.
boring
not good.
terrible single, terrible idea to go against Gaga on release date.
bad romance and Alejandro feel light years ahead of this.
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