Rihanna, Diamonds

Robyn Rihanna Fenty is better known as Rihanna and she is a young 24-year-old girl from Barbados, who's is not only a singer but also a songwriter and occasionally actress.

She is known for big hits like the earliest Pon De Replay, Umbrella, Disturbia or the most recent Man Down, California King Bed or We Found Love from Calvin Harris.

Since the beginning of her career around 2005, she released a new record almost every year: Music of the Sun in 2005, A Girl like Me in 2006, Good Girl Gone Bad in 2007, Rated R in 2009, Loud in 2010, Talk That Talk in 2011 and Unapologetic in 2012, besides two compilations and two remixed albums.

Unapologetic is set to be released tomorrow, on November 19th, through Def Jam Recordings.
In terms of sound and instruments, this record can be described as something between pop, dance and occasional R&B influenced by such different genres like hip-hop, electro house and dubstep.

On November 14, and to promote her seventh record, Rihanna prepared a seven-date promotional tour named 777 Tour - where she is going to play seven shows, in seven different cities in Europe and North America for seven days, counting with 150 journalists from 82 countries traveling in a Boeing 777.

Diamonds is the lead single of Unapologetic, released on September 26 and it was written by Sia Furler in collaboration with Benny Blanco, Mikkel S. Eriksen and Tor Erik Hermansen.

The song is clearly different from the last Rihanna upbeat and fast singles. Diamonds is a pop ballad with a few touches of soul and even electronic music. This song also resembles a few moments of Rihanna's life with the "unhealthy relationships" topic or at least some unsolved part of her life, where you can capture some despair in her voice and this lyrics.

The video was directed by Anthony Mandler and showing off a Rihanna in very dreamy and extraordinaire scenes, in four different environments representing the four elements - earth, air, water and fire. The video received positive critics for being so unique, romantic and with a big element of dream.

After all, we all get caught up in between because this song is not only so different, so outside her usual but at the same time it gets so personal, so deep.

"Find light in the beautiful sea 
I choose to be happy
You and I, you and I
We're like diamonds in the sky"

Special Post - Jessie J's Brithday

Today is the birthday of one of my favorite singers, Jessie J.

Happy Birthday

I wanted to write something about her but didn’t want to waste time re-writing what is on Wikipedia- it’s really a waste of time, because everyone has access to that.
I wanted to do something different maybe because I have some free time but maybe it’s just that I like her so so much, that I feel like you guys deserve to know her, the way I do. And I know that sometimes we don’t know how incredible some artists are because the credit given isn’t as much as it should be.



But let’s say in a few lines how she got where she is now… She graduated in the class of 2006 along with singers Adele and Leona Lewis. Since that time she has been in the music industry mainly writing songs for other artists. She began recording her debut studio album in 2006 and it was completed on 19 January 2011

If you have been following what I like the most on an artist you have noticed that I give a lot of credit to what artists can do on stage. I love searching for live performances of my favorite singers/bands. I love even more when they are capable of performing live as good as on studio and when they are good enough to innovate and be able to surprise their fans with their vocal abilities. And Jessie does that. She sings in a way that it seems that singing is actually easy. I usually say that she plays with her own voice, mostly live when she improvise.



Jessie J Who You Are - The X Factor Live

Why is it so emotional?
Because when you start writing songs as an artist, and all this – point at the stage and public - doesn't exist in your world and you are sitting in a studio and you really don't know what your journey is going to do, it's scary. ‘Cuz I wasn't in a great place when i wrote that song and if i haven't been in that bad place, I wouldn't be able to sing it to people to make them feel better. I feel good.


Notice that in this video she gives the idea that she sings for her fans too. Because she has been in “that place” and if she hasn’t she wasn’t able to sing it for other people. At the same time she is doing what she loves, but she is helping others. And trust me, this song is an hell of cheer up.

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars
Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing
It's okay not to be okay
Sometimes it's hard to follow your heart
Tears don't mean you're losing
Everybody's bruising
Just be true to who you are


Jessie J - We Found Love (Rihanna's cover)

Awesome comment on Youtube: Did Rihanna just get owned in her own song?

I wasn’t the author of that comment but I totally agree with what he is trying to say. No one has ever made me like a song with a cover when I didn’t like the original. It’s nothing against Rihanna – she may have some talent, I don’t know – but Jessie J makes her song a TOP one. This is an incredible performance and an incredible interpretation of the original song.

The Voice

Along with will.i.am (of The Black Eyed Peas), Tom Jones and Danny O'Donoghue (of The Script), Jessie J will be on the coaching panel Each coach chooses their team acoording to The Blind Auditions and have the goal to make them winners while giving them advices based on their own careers. I'm sure that the people that will be on Jessie’s team will have a lot of luck because they will find an enthusiastic, young and dreamer coach.

By now you must have already understood how incredible and inspiring she can be, as an artist and as a person.

I look forward to hear her new album and who knows a show here in Portugal.

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In Portugal there is this web fan-base: http://www.facebook.com/JessicaCornishPortugal - Here you can find every single news about Jessie the minute it goes out. I appreciate it very much!