She has attained fourteen Billboard Hot 100 number ones thus far and is the second Barbadian artist to win a Grammy Award. She is also a cultural ambassador for Barbados. In 2021 Rihanna was named a "National Hero" in her home country, earning her the title "The Right Excellent."
Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados to Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor, and Monica Fenty, an accountant. Her mother, a native of Guyana, is Afro-Guyanese and her father is Bajan and Irish. She is the oldest of three siblings; two younger brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty. She began singing at around the age of seven. Her childhood was deeply affected by her father's addiction to crack cocaine and parent's rocky marriage, which ended when she was fourteen years old. Rihanna attended Charles F. Broome Memorial School, a primary school in Barbados, and then the Combermere School, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates at the age of fifteen. In 2004 she won the Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant. She was an army cadet in a sub-military programme that trained with the military of Barbados and Shontelle was her drill sergeant.
At the age of 15, she formed a girl group with two of her classmates. In 2003, friends introduced Rihanna and her two bandmates to record producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados with his wife. The group auditioned for Rogers, who said that "the minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn't exist." While auditioning for Rogers, Rihanna sang Destiny's Child's cover of "Emotion". Over the next year, Rihanna and her mom shuttled back and forth to Rogers home in Stamford, Connecticut. Then, shortly after turning 16, she relocated in the United States and moved in with Rogers and his wife. Carl Sturken helped Rihanna record a four-song demo, which included the ballad "The Last Time," a cover of Whitney Houston’s hit "For the Love of You" and what would become her first hit, "Pon de Replay" to send to various recording companies. It took a year to record the demos, because she was going to school and would only record during summer and Christmas school breaks. Rihanna's demo made its way to Def Jam, which invited her to audition for the label's then-president, Jay-Z, who quickly signed her.
Rihanna broke into the recording industry in 2005 with the release of her debut album Music of the Sun, which features the number 2 hit single "Pon de Replay". Less than a year later, Rihanna released album artist=Rihanna]A Girl Like Me and earned her first number-one single, "SOS, which sampled the popular 80s track "Tainted Love". "Unfaithful" was also released and was fairly successful.
Rihanna released her third album Good Girl Gone Bad in June 2007. Prior to the release of the album, she spent the week of the Grammys writing songs for the album with Ne-Yo. She adopted a more sexual image while recording the album, eventually dying her hair black and cutting it short. Rihanna worked with Timbaland and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, as well as previous musical collaborators such as Stargate, Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers to re-imagine her album compositions with uptempo dance tracks. Rihanna commented, "I want to keep people dancing but still be soulful at the same time. You feel different every album, and [at] this stage I feel like I want to do a lot of uptempo [songs]."
The album topped the charts in countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Russia and Ireland, and peaked at number two in the United States and Australia. Unlike previous work, the album featured a more dance-pop sound instead of the dancehall, reggae and ballad styles. The album received positive reviews by critics, becoming her most critically acclaimed album at that time compared to her previous efforts.
It yielded eight hit singles - "Umbrella" "Shut Up and Drive", "Don't Stop The Music" "Hate That I Love You" "Rehab" "Disturbia" "Take A Bow" "If I Never See Your Face Again" - all singles reaching the top twenty on the Billboard Hot 100 — including the worldwide number-one hit "Umbrella," featuring Jay-Z.
In addition to reaching number one in various countries, "Umbrella" was the number one single in the United Kingdom for ten consecutive weeks, making it the longest-running number-one single since Wet Wet Wet's single "Love Is All Around" spent fifteen weeks at the top in 1994. The song is listed number three on the 100 Best Songs of 2007 published by Rolling Stone magazine. In 2008, "Umbrella" earned Rihanna and Jay-Z a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in addition to receiving nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. It managed to stay at number one in the United Kingdom for 10 weeks, the longest time spent by a female and in the 21st century, on this chart.
"Umbrella" has also been recognised in various forms of accolades by the music press. The song is listed number three on the 100 Best Songs of 2007, published by the music magazine Rolling Stone. Time magazine also listed the song number three on their Top 10 Songs of 2007. The song is listed number one on Entertainment Weekly magazine's list of the 10 Best Singles of 2007, while topping the magazine's poll for the best single of 2007. Blender magazine awarded the song Song of the Year in their Readers' Poll 2007. The music press has considered "Umbrella" as 2007's Song of the Summer, while The New York Times writer Kelefa Sanneh regarded it as "arguably 2007's signature slow jam".
In August 2009, Rihanna collaborated with Jay-Z and Kanye West on "Run This Town." The song peaked at number two on Billboard Hot 100 and also reached the top ten in five other countries. She appeared on the cover of Vogue Italia for the September 2009 Issue. The shoot was influenced by Rihanna's hair, which she had cut for the shoot into a mohawk-like style. The style of the shoot was Extreme Couture and very dark, and in one shot she appeared semi-nude. Rihanna performed "Run This Town" along with Jay-Z and West for the "Answer the Call" concert at Madison Square Garden in September 2009, making it her first musical performance since the altercation with Brown. The trio also performed "Run This Town," on the premiere of The Jay Leno Show on September 14, 2009.
In November of 2009, Rated R was released in the wake of a physical altercation with romantic interest Chris Brown, who pled guilty to felony assault. The album's lead single, "Russian Roulette" -- written with Ne-Yo - was one of the year's most controversial singles. The album also includes collaborations with Tricky, The-Dream, Stargate, and SRP.
One year later, Rihanna released her fifth studio album called Loud. It's lead single, "Only Girl (In the World)", reached number one in more than ten countries. The song also won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.
Talk That Talk was released one year after Loud. With the song "We Found Love", Rihanna became the fastest solo artist in the chart's history to achieve twenty Hot 100 top-ten singles, breaking the previous record set by Madonna. The song later became her eleventh number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. "You Da One" became the second single from the album but was not as successful as "We Found Love". The third single from the album, "Talk That Talk" featuring Jay-Z, was announced on Rihanna's Twitter. The fourth single, "Where Have You Been", peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100.
On February 20, 2012, Rihanna and Chris Brown released 2 remixes, one featuring the "Talk That Talk" album track "Birthday Cake" and the other featuring Chris Brown's "Turn Up The Music"
In April 2012, the singer appeared in the movie "Battleship", which is based on the game of the same name.
Rihanna's seventh album Unapologetic was released on November 19, 2012; it was preceded by the lead single Diamonds, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming Rihanna's twelfth number one single on the chart and tying her with Madonna and The Supremes for the fourth-most number ones in the chart's history.
On January 28, 2016, Rihanna released her eighth studio album ANTI exclusively through streaming service Tidal. The album peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200, becoming Rihanna's second number one and eighth top ten album on the chart. The album was supported by the release of four singles including the lead single "Work" featuring Drake, which topped the Billboard Hot 100. Further platinum singles "Needed Me" and "Love on the Brain" both peaked inside the top ten of the Hot 100. In 2016, Rihanna was featured on several singles. The first collaboration was Calvin Harris' "This Is What You Came For," which reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two in the United Kingdom. Rihanna was also featured on Drake's "Too Good" from his album Views and Mike Will Made It's single, "Nothing Is Promised". On June 27, 2016, Rihanna released "Sledgehammer", the lead single from the Star Trek Beyond soundtrack. On August 28, Rihanna was honored with the MTV Video Vanguard Award at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. Rihanna was elected artist of the decade of 2010 by Pitchfork, Insider, Lofficiel among other major music magazines.
In October 2022, Rihanna released "Lift Me Up" from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, marking her first solo single since 2016's "Love On The Brain". It reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #3 in the UK. The song was nominated for a Golden Globe and Academy Award, making it Rihanna's first nomination in both awards. On February 12, 2023, she performed at the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show, marking her first performance since the 2018 Grammy Awards. Her Halftime show became the second most watched Halftime show of all time with 118.7 million viewers, just after Lady Gaga’s (117.5 million), but behind Katy Perry’s (121 million).
Who's That Chick
Rihanna Lyrics
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It's an addiction, such an eruption
Sound is my remedy, feeding me energy
Music is all I need
Baby, I just wanna dance
I don't really care
I just wanna dance
She's been a crazy Dita, disco diva and you wonder
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Too cold for you to keep her, too hot for you to leave her
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Back on the dance floor, bad enough to take me home
Bass kicking so hard, blazing through my beating heart
French kissin' on the floor, party's getting hardcore
Everybody's getting little tipsy off the crazy Goose
This will end up on the news
Baby, I just wanna dance
I don't really care
I just wanna dance
I don't really care, care, care (you can feel it in the air, yeah)
She's been a crazy Dita, disco diva and you wonder
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Too cold for you to keep her, too hot for you to leave her
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Ultra sexual, the night has got me love sprung
I won't stop until the sun is up, oh yeah
My heart is a dancer, beating like a disco drum
Oh, oh, oh, ooh-whoa, oh, oh
Ultra sexual, the night has got me love sprung
I won't stop until the sun is up, oh yeah
My heart is a dancer, beating like a disco drum
Beating like a disco drum
Beating like a disco drum
Beating like a disco drum
She's been a crazy Dita, disco diva and you wonder
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Too cold for you to keep her, too hot for you to leave her
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
The song "Who's That Chick" by Rihanna and David Guetta is an upbeat dance track that revolves around the theme of partying, dancing, and having a good time. The lyrics describe the feeling of adrenaline rushing through the body, fueled by the energy of the music. Rihanna sings that she just wants to dance and doesn't really care about anything else, highlighting the liberating and carefree nature of the dance floor.
The song features a repeated chorus that keeps the party going, with the lyrics about a mysterious woman who's too hot to handle and too cold to keep. The lyrics suggest she's a wild and carefree party-girl, who's caught everyone's attention with her bold personality.
Line by Line Meaning
Feel the adrenaline moving under my skin
I feel a rush of excitement that's so intense it feels like the adrenaline in my body is physically moving.
It's an addiction, such an eruption
This feeling is addictive and produces such an intense response that it's like a volcanic eruption.
Sound is my remedy, feeding me energy
Music is the cure for what ails me and it feeds me the energy I need to keep going.
Music is all I need
I don't need anything else except music to keep me going and feeling alive.
Baby, I just wanna dance
All I want to do is dance.
I don't really care
I don't care about anything else except dancing and feeling the music.
care, care, care (you can feel it in the air, yeah)
I really don't care about anything else and you can feel the excitement in the air around me.
She's been a crazy Dita, disco diva and you wonder
She's been wild and rebellious and you can't help but wonder who she is.
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
I'm wondering who this mysterious woman is.
Too cold for you to keep her, too hot for you to leave her
She's both too tempting to let go of and too unpredictable to hold on to.
Back on the dance floor, bad enough to take me home
I'm back on the dance floor, and it's so amazing that it's making me want to take someone home.
Bass kicking so hard, blazing through my beating heart
The music is so loud and intense that it feels like it's shaking my heart with every beat.
French kissin' on the floor, party's getting hardcore
People are making out on the dance floor and the party is getting wilder and more intense.
Everybody's getting little tipsy off the crazy Goose
Everyone is getting a little drunk off of the Goose, which is making things even crazier.
This will end up on the news
This party is going to be so wild that it will probably make the news.
Ultra sexual, the night has got me love sprung
The night is so charged with sexual energy that I'm completely caught up in it.
I won't stop until the sun is up, oh yeah
I'm not going to stop dancing until the sun comes up.
My heart is a dancer, beating like a disco drum
My heart is so alive and full of rhythm that it feels like it's beating like a disco drum.
Beating like a disco drum
My heart is alive and full of rhythm, like a disco drum.
She's been a crazy Dita, disco diva and you wonder
She's been wild and rebellious and you can't help but wonder who she is.
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
I'm wondering who this mysterious woman is.
Too cold for you to keep her, too hot for you to leave her
She's both too tempting to let go of and too unpredictable to hold on to.
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
I'm wondering who this mysterious woman is.
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
I'm wondering who this mysterious woman is.
Lyrics © OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT LP, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: David Pierre Guetta, Frederic Riesterer, Giorgio Tuinfort, Kinda Vivianne Hamid, Madonna L Ciccone, Patrick Raymond Leonard
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[Verse 1: Rihanna]
Feel the adrenaline moving under my skin
It's an addiction, such an eruption
Sound is my remedy, feeding me energy
Music is all I need
[Pre-Chorus: Rihanna]
Baby, I just wanna dance
I don't really care
I just wanna dance
I don't really care, care, care
(You can feel it in the air, yeah)
[Chorus: Rihanna]
She's been a crazy Dita
Disco diva and you wonder
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Too cold for you to keep her
Too hot for you to leave her
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
[Verse 2: Rihanna]
Back on the dance floor, bad enough to take me home
Bass kicking so hard, blazing through my beating heart
French kissing on the floor, heart is beating hardcore
Heard everybody is getting a little sexy off the Crazy Juice
This will end up on the news
[Pre-Chorus: Rihanna]
Baby, I just wanna dance
I don't really care
I just wanna dance
I don't really care, care, care
(You can feel it in the air, yeah)
[Chorus: Rihanna]
She's been a crazy Dita
Disco diva and you wonder
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Too cold for you to keep her
Too hot for you to leave her
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
[Bridge: Rihanna]
Ultra sexual
The night has got me love sprung
I won't stop until the sun is up, oh yeah
My heart is a dancer, beating like a disco drum
(Oh-oh-oh-ooh-oh-oh-oh)
Ultra sexual
The night has got me love sprung
I won't stop until the sun is up, oh yeah
My heart is a dancer, beating like a disco drum
Beating like a disco drum
(Beating like a disco drum)
Beating like a disco drum
[Chorus: Rihanna]
She's been a crazy Dita
Disco diva and you wonder
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Too cold for you to keep her
Too hot for you to leave her
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
Who's that chick? Who's that chick?
@Audioandlyrics
Looks like a Dorito chip in the beginning logo.
@shoaballo641
That's what I thought too lmao
@rosemarykathryn4532
It’s bc the song was used for a Dorito advertising campaign
@Audioandlyrics
@@rosemarykathryn4532 oh ok thanks
@thinkingspace3438
WHO'S THAT CHIP
@JaseekaRawr
@@thinkingspace3438hahahah nice 😆🔺
@ilovemyself12233
STILL SO GOOD AFTER 10+ YEARS!! STAN RIHANNA
@Antonio-ru9kv
This song played randomly on the radio on work today and I got hit with such a strong nostalgia feeling... Instantly remembered words and felt like kid again listening songs while playing football with friends in the park. Simple and beautiful times and brilliant song that still sounds fresh today.
@MimMdance
The ammount of hits by Rihanna is astonishing. Biggest star of the 2000s.
@JaseekaRawr
Seriously, I was obsessed! You either wanted to date her or BE her 😆😍🥰