Rihanna's Umbrella revisited

[inbetween]

See the light show, hear the lyrics. Could this be about the rapture?

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[billiefan2000]

See the light show, hear the lyrics. Could this be about the rapture?

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I dont know.



that would be cool if it is.

I know some people think the song Hero by Chad Kroeger of Nickelback is a "rapture song"

cause it has a "rapture" like references in it (great song BTW)






BTW, anyone heard the Mandy Moore version of the song Umbrella

it is a cool cover, plus Mandy IMO is a great singer :cool


Mandy Moore doing a cover of Rihanna's Umbrella

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[BlessedbyHim]

BTW, anyone heard the Mandy Moore version of the song Umbrella

I haven't heard hers.. But I have heard Marie Digby's version.. Its very pretty :)

[hilhill]

See the light show, hear the lyrics. Could this be about the rapture?

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Honestly, I'm not sure how you got the rapture out of that video or that song... but, ok....

[The Red Aaron]

that song annoys the heck out of me. And Chad's song Hero is on the Spiderman soundtrack, so it's not about the rapture.

[katt]

just a quick question..who is this girl from Brazell..coming up out of nowhere and becoming a star to beat most singers out there?..who is her producer and how was she discovered?..I love her music..but as far as I can tell her only talent is her voice..she plays no instruments..many people out there have beautiful voices and they live from paychect to paycheck w/no chance at all of ever being discovered..so..again..where out of the nowhere of the this world did she come from?..

[Biblenuggetlady]

I don't know how you get the rapture out of this either. It's a secular song, not a Christian one. :idunno

Some background:

"Umbrella" was not originally written for Rihanna. Christopher "Tricky" Stewart composed the song in 2007, with American pop singer Britney Spears in mind. Her label rejected the song, claiming to have a suitable amount of songs to work with for her future album Blackout, while also Spears having professional difficulties at the time.[7]

Concurrent to the event was the Grammy season of 2007. Stewart and Terius "The Dream" Nash decided to pass the song onto Mary J. Blige, and also L.A. Reid, the then-CEO of Island Def Jam, Rihanna's label.[7] Blige however, was unable to hear the song in full due to her obligations to the Grammys at the time. [8][7] Def Jam representatives remained eager to secure the song for Rihanna, the writers themselves still awaiting a response from Blige.[7] Reid and his team incessantly called them in the entire Grammy weekend to the extent they finally gave them the record.[7]

When she recorded the 'ellas,' you knew it was about to be the jump-off and your life was about to change if you had anything to do with that record.
—Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Billboard[7]
Stewart confessed he was still reluctant as to whether Rihanna was the right artist to record the song, but following the addition of the "ella, ella" refrain into the track, he felt they were onto "something". [7]

Following Rihanna's recording, Def Jam CEO-rapper Jay-Z added his rap, and then a different verse. Before Stewart and Nash settled on the original rap composed by Jay-Z, he changed it without informing the songwriters. Stewart, however, noted that "from a songwriter's standpoint, he just really made it more about the song, with the metaphors about umbrellas and about the weather versus what he had before."[7]

The drumbeat is an Apple loop (vintage funk kit 03) from GarageBand.

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The song's reign at number-one in the United Kingdom and Ireland occurred as the region was hit by extreme rainfall and flooding, which led some people to jokingly suggest the two events were related, the media referring to it as the "Rihanna Curse". Interestingly, the precise day the song was knocked from the #1 position by Timbaland, the weather seemed to improve. A similar situation occurred in New Zealand, where the song hit #1 in the early winter of 2007 as the country was experiencing some of the worst storms in its history.[33] In Greece, "Umbrella" was released at a time when people were suffering through a summer of several major heatwaves topping 47C/117F, and the worst forest fires of modern history, killing 60 people. When the song peaked at #4 in the Greek singles chart in October 2007, the country experienced significant rainfall. Spain also experienced one of its wettest summers in decades, and the coldest August since the beginning of the 20th century during "Umbrella"'s chart run.

Closing this as this is clearly not the rapture.