![]() ![]() In unpacking the many strange charms of "Umbrella," it's worth noting that Jay-Z literally (and perhaps figuratively) begins the track. ![]() ![]() She gives it a go anyway.īy May, it would be the summer jam of the year. "Umbrella" reads at first as ineffably strange, metaphorically obvious, darkly futuristic if her problem heretofore was unclassifiability, here it was in song form. Rihanna's unlikely ticket out arrived in early 2007, when a hastily assembled demo fell into her lap. As a teenager of obvious talent, Rihanna seemed to be throwing known formulas against the wall to see if they would stick the fact that many of them did only complicated her identity crisis. There was her debut hit "Pon De Replay," a dancehall-inspired number which marketed her Caribbean roots "SOS," a radio-friendly electro-pop confection and "Unfaithful," a tactful if mostly conventional, piano- and string-soaked ballad. The summer jam of 2007 can be summarized in seven syllables: "ella, ella, ay, ay, ay."Ĭonsider, for a moment, the early singles of Rihanna. ![]()
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