“You ain’t rushin for love and I
ain’t out here to judge so lets neglect the what ifs and make it do what it
does”
Gracing the charts in
early April, the vagina whispering poet Wale managed to speak to girls inner
whore with his hit Bad. Somehow in a
matter of weeks Tiara Thomas managed to have every girl laying in bed convinced
they had commitment issues once hit with the question “ Is it bad that I never
made love?“. And after listening to Wale address the whole fuck without
feelings survival mentality, he had broken hearted church girls everywhere
dreaming to be this unobtainable “Bad Girl”. The soulful hit had all the
components of a classic and the makings of a summer anthem. Wale cemented the
truth baring hit as the official bad girl anthem when he replaced Tiara Thomas
with the millennium bad girl herself, Rihanna.
“because all the bad
girls always Unapologetic”
Even
though the remix isn’t that much altered from the original and a blind ear can
easily mistake Tiara Thomas’s voice with Rihanna in the original, this song is
textbook example of how a song can take a life of its own when you integrate
the knowledge of celebrities personal life. Rihanna haters can argue that she
doesn’t really add anything to the song that Tiara Thomas didn’t put there, but
she does. Her presence, that recognizable screech we’ve become immune too, her
all too public love triangle, her rumored sex life with our favorite rappers,
the sexual fantasies we don’t like to admit we have about her, the red hair,
the tattoos, the weed, the titties we’ve seen all too often, all these things
are what we automatically associate with the brand Rihanna before we
acknowledge the music. Simply adding her voice and more importantly her
presence is what puts the power behind the already thought provoking lyrics.
This is something that the unknown Thomas just simply couldn’t do. For me the
remix dramatically surpasses the original simply because of the connection I
make between the lyrics and Rihanna. Think about it, if we were to think about the
one girl in the industry right now that “has some issues”( besides Nicki
Minaj), and has a severe lack of fucks to give, it’s the Barbadian beauty of
many weaves, Miss Fenty. The fact that I can easily picture a drunken, freshly
fucked, red head Rih Rih on the edge of
Drake’s bed , texting “I miss you “ to Chris Brown with a blunt in one hand,
pen in the other, furiously scribbling down “ I never made love.. but I sure
know how to fuck…”, is what makes the remix bigger than the original track.( xcuse
my vivid imagination. I agree it takes a creative one to picture Rihanna writing
anything herself ,whomp whomp)
Even though no one can find shade to throw at
the unknown author of the track Tiara Thomas, Rihanna lovers can’t help but
wonder why a song that can be easily assumed to be tailor made for the West
Indian accent and vixen lifestyle of Miss Fenty wasn’t recorded with her
vocals originally. In the grimy music industry there is no
telling what prevented Rihanna from recording the track or even what possessed
Tiara Thomas to leave the wing of Wale for another label. And the fact that the
original version of the song is almost obsolete from radio stations since the
release of the remix paints a really messy picture leaving someone pissed off and possibly
unpaid. One with a decent ear for music cannot put anything past the voice and
talent of Ms. Tiara and cant fault her for simply being unknown. One can even
anticipate hearing her voice again , but on a track where the lyrics don’t blatantly
outshine her status in the industry. And as we patiently await the video which
is almost guaranteed to have an uncut version on Youtube (crosses fingers) we
must acknowledge that sometimes the addition of an artist’s presence and
reputation can make, break or transform a track despite the beat or lyrics. In
this case Rih Rih’s bad girl image just added concrete to the foundation that
Tiara Thomas initially laid.
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