Rihanna - We Found Love
Rihanna performed We Found Love live for the first time on November 14, 2011 on one of her concerts from the Loud Tour (2011) in London. Rihanna performed the song as last on the set-list, right after her hit single "Umbrella".
On November 17, 2011 Rihanna sang the song on the first season of The X Factor USA. The performance featured Rihanna wearing torn jeans and a bomber jacket with neon signs also present on the stage.
Cover version by Coldplay
British alternative rock band Coldplay covered the song on October 27, 2011, during a performance at BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.
Jocelyn Vena of MTV News called the performance "flawless", writing "Lead singer Chris Martin's haunting vocals and the band's acoustic rendition, using drums, piano and guitar, play up the sadness of the track."
Jason Lipshutz of Billboard magazine also noted that the band used "piano flourishes, a kick drum and a simple guitar lick to convey the song's romantic declaration", while making a ballad which was "reminiscent of Bruno Mars's emotional reworking of Katy Perry's 'California Gurls'".
Matthew Perpetua of Rolling Stone wrote: "It may surprise that their rendition is actually pretty good. Whereas Rihanna's version is a thumping rave anthem, Chris Martin and company transform it into a lovely piano ballad nearly indistinguishable from many of their own songs."
Live performance
The music video
The music video was shot in late September 2011, in County Down, Northern Ireland.
The video was directed by Melina Matsoukas, who had previously directed the videos for "Rude Boy" (2010) and "Rockstar 101" (2010).
The video begins with a monologue about love and heartbreak by an unseen narrator, fashion model Agyness Deyn. Multiple scenes of Rihanna and her lover are intercut throughout the narration, depicting them in different love and hate situations with each other. The two are shown as completely enamored with each other while engaging in fun activities together, including going on rides in a fairground and eating in fast food restaurants.
During the chorus, images of drugs, various pills and dilated pupils are shown, while brief scenes of Rihanna and her boyfriend preparing to engage in sexual intercourse and their various stages of undress are shown. The chorus continues and the video abruptly cuts to Rihanna and other people at an outdoor rave, dancing to music. Calvin Harris features as the DJ during this scene.
In the second chorus, Rihanna and her boyfriend are seen happily running amok in a supermarket, pushing each other in a shopping cart and spraying canned drinks at each other.
This scene is interrupted when Rihanna and her boyfriend begin arguing with each other in a car; the video then progressively shows the couple experiencing mounting difficulties in their relationship.
They eventually begin physically abusing one another.
During the final chorus Rihanna can be seen vomiting what looks to be streamers; she is also seen passed out on the street while her boyfriend tries to revive her.
Eventually, Rihanna decides to leave her boyfriend after finding him passed out on the floor of his apartment.
The video ends with Rihanna curled up in the corner of a room, crying.
We Found Love by Rihanna
We Found Love is a song by Rihanna, from her 6th studio album Talk That Talk which is released in 2011.
The song features Scottish singer-songwriter Calvin Harris.
We Found Love was released as the lead single from the album and premiered on September 22, 2011, in the United Kingdom on the Capital FM radio station.
It was made available to download on the same day.
The song is a mid-tempo electro house and dance-pop song. It is written in the key of G- major with a beat of of 120 beats per minute. Rihanna's vocal range in the song spans one Octave.
Performance on the charts
We Found Love reached number 1 in its 6th week on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Rihanna the record for a solo artist to have amassed twenty Top 10 singles in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 in the shortest amount of time and Calvin Harris his first number 1 single. With the song becoming Rihanna's 11th number 1 single, she has become only the 7th artist in the history of the chart to amass at least 11 number 1 singles, as well as tying her with Whitney Houston in 3th place for females with the most number 1 singles, behind only Madonna and Mariah Carey.
The song has peaked at 1 and 3 on the US Hot Dance Club Songs and Pop Songs charts, respectively. It also peaked at number one in Canada, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France,Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and it has attained top 5 positions in Australia, Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and South Korea.
Cover of Rihanna's album Talk That Talk
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