Wednesday (July 1) was an eventful day for Rihanna. Not everyone can outshine him.Rihanna Drops Super NSFW Video For 'Bitch Better Have My Money' Dre advises on the new Kendrick album: “ But remember, anybody can get it / The hard part is keeping it, motherfucker.” Rihanna wants to keep it. The rich don’t stay rich by being rich: they stay rich because they’re smart.Īs Dr. Rihanna does not last for ‘FourFive Seconds.’ Rihanna is eternal. You cannot work with Rihanna and play her. And yet Paul is there: Rihanna invokes his presence as a warning. Paul is not there because Paul cannot be there if he was, as during his brief show a-whistlin’ in the second half of Kanye’s recent single ‘All Day,’ he would completely defuse the flame-thrower wielding spirit of the song. The tension you can, you must, turn up to ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ presents all tension at the front. The tension you can, you must, turn up to. Kanye and Rihanna control the music, the moment, the barely-there tension the music video reveals. Paul moves through ‘FourFive Seconds’ almost as a sideman. “ Paul, will you pay my bail?” Paul McCartney: you better have my money. “ If I go to jail tonight,” Kanye improvised during the performance of ‘FourFive Seconds’ at the Grammys. Weirdly, Rihanna’s admonishment to the listener that they “better have her money” creates a space where the listener just wants to give Rihanna money, reminding the listener of her single ‘Pour It Up.’īut back to the person in question who should hand over Rihanna’s royalties: Paul McCartney. I paid $1.29 for this song on iTunes but I would easily pay more. But, let’s be clear, you want to have Rihanna’s money for her when she drives by the club and they’re playing Rihanna. It’s the only thing the whole club can turn up to.Īnd yet, while they’re “playin” her, they cannot “play” her in the other sense of “playing,” because, as she warns again and again, “ Bitch better have my money.” Rihanna never lays out the consequence for the person in question if they don’t have Rihanna’s money. Her music is the only thing the club plays. Rihanna is the only person who could sing: “ Turn up to Rihanna while the whole club fuckin’ wasted / Every time I drive by I’m the only thing you playin.’” Rihanna can summon these spirits because she is, in fact, Rihanna. Anyone could have sung ‘FourFive Seconds.’ Katy Perry could have sung ‘FourFive Seconds.’ Even Miley Cyrus could have sung ‘FourFive Seconds.’ In fact, Miley’s SNL performance of ‘We Can’t Stop’ sounds almost exactly like ‘FourFive Seconds.’īut ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ is a song only Rihanna could sing. On the contrary, ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ knocks from the start. ‘FourFive Seconds’ has more in common with the white folk tradition embodied by, say, Mumford and Sons than anything resembling Rick Ross No offense to Olive Garden, but let’s be real: the woman who gave us ‘Pour It Up’ and ‘Umbrella’ and the man who gave us ‘New Slaves’ and ‘Jesus Walks’ ideally aim for a different audience. ‘FourFive Seconds’ could soundtrack an Olive Garden commercial. While the song pulls together Rihanna and Kanye, ‘FourFive Seconds’ has more in common with the white folk tradition embodied by, say, Mumford and Sons than anything resembling Rick Ross. Nothing against moms: without moms, none of us would walk the earth.īut ‘FourFive Seconds’ is an inoffensive tune: and it is a “tune” and practically a jingle. John Lennon, the other half of that most famous songwriting duo, once accused Paul of writing “granny music.” So this isn’t even about Paul as an old-timer: he’s always composed mom music. And said moms probably jam out to ‘FourFive Seconds’ because “that cute old man” from The Beatles is on it. ‘FourFive Seconds,’ by Kanye West and Rihanna, featuring Paul McCartney on acoustic guitar, may accurately be described as a song for moms. Let’s compare the new Rihanna single, “Bitch Better Have My Money,” to the previous one. “Sir Paul,” who has hopped on every new single by Rihanna and Kanye West, is conspicuously absent from this one. Make no bones about it: Rihanna’s ‘ Bitch Better Have My Money’ is about Paul McCartney.
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