And by power trio, I mean a trio of powerful figures, including an actual Beatle (still bigger than Yeezus). You may have seen the power trio of Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney do this on the Grammys. The best part is the two voices coming together on, “Funny you’re the broken one but I’m the only one who needed saving / ’Cause when you never see the light it’s hard to know which one of us is caving.” 11. It starts as a piano ballad with an aching vocal from Rihanna and never kicks in like you half-expect it to the first time through, not even after Mikky Ekko makes his entrance. 4 on Billboard’s Hot 100, but that didn’t stop it from finishing 13th on the year-end Hot 100. And by nails, I do not mean what Drake would mean. The man is as subtle with sexual innuendo as Joey on “Friends.” The emotional investment here is all Rihanna, and she nails it. “I don’t wanna rush into it, if it’s too soon / But I know you know you need to get done, done, done, done.” And by done, he means exactly what you think he means. “If you had a twin, I would still choose you,” he tells her. A moody dancehall-flavored ballad with a minimalist approach to constructing a groove, making excellent use of empty space, it features Drake as the sensitive lothario he plays so well. It isn’t often that a single turns up on my monthly countdown of best single while it’s topping Billboard’s Hot 100, but this one did. I would have her money if I owed her money after hearing this one, but as luck would have it, I don’t even know her. But the casual swagger of Rihanna’s vocal is what ultimately seals the deal here. But that’s what makes it work, work, work, work, work, work. It’s on the darker side of the Rihanna spectrum and yet she sounds completely natural delivering threats with the off-handed shrug of a professional. 15, which is higher than most murder ballads were charting in 2015.
Is this a song about Rihanna having fallen for a ska fan? Or is there some other kind of rude boy? There is a certain dancehall vibe at work here, but I'm pretty sure she means a less specific kind of rude boy, one who might respond well to her sexual advances, which range from taunts of "Is you big enough?" to promises of "I'm-a let you be the captain." Christina Aguilera may have dressed more like a dominatrix in 2010, but no one asserted her sexual dominance with more success than Rihanna on this track, the 16th-biggest single on the year-end Hot 100. The nine-times-platinum "We Found Love," her biggest-selling single, made the list, but several other multi-platinum triumphs didn't, making room for this year's soulful "Kiss It Better." 15. With Rihanna playing Phoenix on the “Anti” tour, we’re counting down her greatest singles – not the biggest but the best songs that have made her such a huge pop icon. Madonna? She’s had 12 chart-topping singles. Mariah Carey was 29 when “Heartbreaker” became her 14th No. At 28, Rihanna may not be The Only Pop Star (In The World), but it could be argued that she’s had as big an impact on pop radio as any other artist in the running, having topped the Billboard Hot 100 14 times from “SOS” to this year’s biggest single, “Work.” And that makes her the youngest artist in the history of the chart to land that many songs at No.
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