Rihanna Bullied Will.i.am for Song
28 November 2009
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Rihanna once refused to leave Will.I.AM's house until the rapper surrendered a song he wrote for the Black Eyed Peas - because the track perfectlycaptured how she felt after her split from Chris Brown.
The Umbrella hitmaker was hours away from finishing her Rated R album when Will.i.am invited her to his home to listen to a handful of his compositions.
Rihanna immediately fell in love with Photographs, a track the star hadpenned for his own band - because it brought back memories of her break-up earlier this year (09).
She tells Fuse.TV, "I was in the studio 'cause it was the last night before we had to hand the album in and I was recording. (I) went back (to Will.i.am's house) and he didn't really want to play it (Photographs) at first. He was like, 'Ok, Rihanna's here now. You come to strong arm me?'
She adds, It was like three hours long, we listened to the song over and over again and we just kind of stared each other down
But when I heard it, the story is so, so real and I was like, 'This is my story - why do you guys want this song? This is not (Black Eyed Peas' album) The Energy Never Dies, this is deep s**t!' Everybody knows that feeling that after a break-up, you just feel empty, like I just spent the last how many years in a relationship building this foundation and all I have left to show for it is some photographs, some memories. It was so personal and I felt it and I wasn't leaving the studio without it".
And the 21 year old stayed put until Will.i.am gave in and let her record the track.
She adds, "It was like three hours long, we listened to the song over and over again and we just kind of stared each other down. And finally he said, 'OK, but you have to come on tour with us.' When something is really important to me, I'll go to the end of the earth for it and that can be for anything but of course music is my first love so I'm very passionate about stuff like that and if I believe in a record enough, then I'll do anything. We didn't leave his house until 4am but it was worth it because now it's my favourite song on the album".
In other news the singers new album is truly a multicultural work of art - she jetted allover the globe to find inspiration for Rated R.
The Barbados-born singer was determined to make her fourth studio albumher best yet - and the finished product combines rock, pop and dub-step influences which she discovered while travelling the world to find talented collaborators.
She tells Fuse.TV, "We did (recorded in) New York, L.A., London, Paris.I'm a musician and a musician first. The fame and all that stuff comes with it but nothing is worth it without the music being great. I didn't care where I had to go - I knew the musicians I wanted to work with, the producers and the writers. Wherever my creative energy was at that moment I went.
"London - most of my creative energy comes from there. Every time I'm there, I get really inspired, really creative. It's crazy because I just get a really good vibe when I'm there.
"Paris - we were shooting my album cover shoot and doing Fashion Week. We were in Paris so we had to (find time to record). New York - I spent most of the summer here so again we recorded here. L.A. - I live there and a lot of producers and songwriters live there too. It was just a matter of timing and the people I wanted to work with".
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