Rihanna -- Pon de Replay [formerly: r&b/dancehall song i.d. request]

but it could be a new track from them, i guess?

(i dunno swoopy synth, sparseness and clonk drum cd well be reggaeton innit)

(applause riddim comes to mind too but i cant think of any version like yrs, check it tho)

thx!

Rihanna -- Pon de Replay

This is now the thread to talk about how much this track is awesome. Or maybe I'll start another.

She's from barbados, apparently.

she's got a hook on a song on memph bleek's boring album too

'sokay. mainly interesting coz she doesn't seem to cop any islander accent on it at all!

http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=220K0NJ0QS1ZS254WKUIAKDXBR

verse:
it goes 1 by 1 even 2 by 2
everybody on the floor let me show you how we do
lets go dip it low then you bring it up slow
wine it up 1 time wine it back once more

run, run, run, run
everybody move run
let me see you move and
rock it til the grooves done
shake it til the moon becomes the sun (sun)
everybody in the club give me a run (run)
if you ready to move say it (yeah yeah)
one time for your mind say it (yeah yeah)
well i'm ready for ya
come let me show ya
you want to groove im'a show you how to move
come come

hook x2

b hook x2
hey mister
please mister dj
tell me if you hear me
turn the music up

verse
it goes 1 by 1 even 2 by 2
everybody in the club gon be rockin when i'm through
let the bass from the speakers run through ya sneakers
move both ya feet and run to the beat

run, run, run, run
everybody move run
let me see you move and
rock it til the grooves done
shake it til the moon becomes the sun (sun)
everybody in the club give me a run (run)
if you ready to move say it (yeah yeah)
one time for your mind say it (yeah yeah)
well i'm ready for ya
come let me show ya
you want to groove im'a show you how to move
come come

pon de replay:
"give 'em a run like the cops comin' that way/signal the plane like you're tryin'a get [captured?]

fire fire:
"give 'im a run, run at his own game/signal the plane and i land it on the runway"

"But Rihanna, with her ragga-tinged faux-Beyonce swoon working (unpaid) overtime, lets the beat ride her as she conjures strikingly inane G-rated nursery rhymes better suited to an especially lame Bar Mitzvah reception than your local sweat-spot. If anything, her strained melodies and American Idol runner-up histrionics (a far cry from Wonder's sweet vocal layering) somehow take away from the inherently danceable groove. The would-be Caribbean diva can only hitch onto this indestructible beat for so long before the temperatures dip and she's chilling with Lumidee, reminiscing about their whirlwind Diwali moments. [Ryan Dombal]"

Ugh.

"The surefire summertime smash employs the syncopated Diwali riddim, which has been a star-making catalyst for Sean Paul ("Get Busy"), Wayne Wonder (the immaculate "No Letting Go"), and one of the most obvious one-hitters in recent memory, Lumidee ("Never Leave You")"

Next week, new Death Cab For Cutie single uses "Float On" riddim.

I like right before that, when there's kind of a call-and-response thing between her and...her, I guess. "Run run run run," that part.

It's kind of like this year's 'Move Ya Body'.

Is the Pitchfork reviewer saying "Pon de Replay" is on the Diwali riddim? 'Cos, like, it's ever so obviously not. I can't be bothered checking the actual review though to confirm.

(the headline, which is fab, is pure xhucx)

its on a mixtape i got from a local jamaican restaurant, comes right before TOK's "Hey Ladies" (although the notes call it "In the Air") and it is really that fire.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/rihanna-pon-de-replay-oral-history.html

The first time I saw the music video for Pon de Replay, I assumed Rihanna was Canadian, due to the presence of Kardinal Offishall in the video.