single Rihanna - "Lift Me Up"

[Itz_Dani!]

This song tho 

 

not a bad song but it isn’t good either. And it isn’t what people would expect from a Rihanna comeback, and yes it is a soundtrack song but the GP doesn’t know the difference between a single from her upcoming album and a soundtrack. They’re just going to think this is part of her album, and they’re going to be turned off. All the hype the GP had is gone why did she decide to do this omg. 

[CaptainMusic]

2 minutes ago, ATWK said:

NOBODY was expecting a bop from a tribute, I don't know where this argument is coming from but it's just not true

 

What was expected was a ballad on the level of Diamonds, LOTB or Russian Roulette, something grand like most tribute songs are. That's the problem with this song: it doesn't go anywhere.

 

The fact that the best defense y'all can muster is "you white gays only want bops!1!1!1" and "it's different1!111!" tells you everything you need to know about this song.

 

Still, it's just a soundtrack single and, at this point, a good one of those is a rarity, not the norm. Hold My Hand, Spirit or whatever song Taylor released for Cats were mid too and their careers were hardly affected.

 

Plus, we still have another song to look forward to and I have hope The-Dream will pull through.

I agree with this, I was hoping for another Russian Roulette or Diamonds. 

 

Her ballads are usually great, even Four Five Seconds is better and has more of a hook. Add the fact that it’s her first song in 6 years and of course people will be disappointed. 
 

This is why I was saying people who were predicting it to do 20M on Spotify first day should’ve kept their expectations low, at this point a Top 10 would be a win and then she needs to come hard with her actual era.

[badgirlriri]

58 minutes ago, nathanspears said:

I agree, it’s up there with the worst excuses

Not at all, you generally shouldn't expect anything from soundtrack songs. And mind you, Rihanna has done four of them before now - none of them did anything. A few become massive acclaimed classics, but it's very night and day between ones that do and don't and only a few do.

 

43 minutes ago, TruGemini said:

It's kind of like Never Ending Part Two. 
 

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And I think Never Ending is her worst song so 

I kind of expected this song to be this though. It's a debut soundtrack song for a film centered around a tragic passing and is like super sad, what did people expect? A bop?

Wait drag Never Ending  I was thinking while listening for the first time it kinda gave me an upgraded Never Ending

[CaptainMusic]

2 minutes ago, Itz_Dani! said:

This song tho 

 

not a bad song but it isn’t good either. And it isn’t what people would expect from a Rihanna comeback, and yes it is a soundtrack song but the GP doesn’t know the difference between a single from her upcoming album and a soundtrack. They’re just going to think this is part of her album, and they’re going to be turned off. All the hype the GP had is gone why did she decide to do this omg. 

This isn’t true at all, people know the difference between soundtracks and lead singles to albums.

 

Look at how Beyoncé, Gaga and Taylor’s soundtrack songs have performed compared to their actual leads. 

[ninasayers]

She sounds better than ever and the final minute of the song is really nice. I was hoping it would grow on me more but i've listened to it 20 times by now and it's still not quite hitting but oh well. The people on this thread pretending this is atrocious need to chill though. 

[despy]

this song honestly made me laugh  i'm gonna need the new album to be good in order for me to re-activate my stan card and so far, this ain't doing it

 

[istan4badgalriri]

1 minute ago, ATWK said:

NOBODY was expecting a bop from a tribute, I don't know where this argument is coming from but it's just not true

 

What was expected was a ballad on the level of Diamonds, LOTB or Russian Roulette, something grand like most tribute songs are. That's the problem with this song: it doesn't go anywhere.

 

The fact that the best defense y'all can muster is "you white gays only want bops!1!1!1" and "it's different1!111!" tells you everything you need to know about this song.

 

Still, it's just a soundtrack single and, at this point, a good one of those is a rarity, not the norm. Hold My Hand, Spirit or whatever song Taylor released for Cats were mid too and their careers were hardly affected.

 

Plus, we still have another song to look forward to and I have hope The-Dream will pull through.

Whoever said dat made points though, up til I logged in on ATRL today all the reactions I've seen on Tik Tok / Youtube / Twitter are folks praising the song and being moved to tears. ATRL is kinda like a bubble nn

[HeavyMetalAura]

Why are people getting defensive  it’s okay that some people don’t like the song. Y’all’s arguments are terrible - soundtrack songs can be great, ballads can be great, white gays make up a significant amount of online pop culture discourse and therefore their opinions matter (and most of them I know love Rih). 
 

Some people don’t like the song. It’s okay! You can still like it. It’ll be alright. Go outside. 

Edited October 28, 2022 by HeavyMetalAura

[Starkboy]

The overreactions here this will pull a SPIRIT and that's not going to anything to her career just like Spirit didnt. 

[PrettyHurts]

the overreactions  this is a cute lil ballad. maybe born again will be upbeat, any tea about it? 

[Harry]

1 minute ago, PrettyHurts said:

the overreactions  this is a cute lil ballad. maybe born again will be upbeat, any tea about it? 

it’s confirmed to be another ballad so i can definitely relate with their anger tbh. the fact this was chosen as lead must mean the other one is even worse  

[Saint]

her voice is the best part of this. i don’t think i’ve ever heard it be so rich and layered like this. i know this will sound even better when she performs it at the oscars 

[HeavyMetalAura]

Also her vocal mixing sounds terrible on this, it distracted me the whole time. Serving Lotus by Xtina. Hopefully whoever mixed this doesn’t mix R9

[UnusualBoy]

I like the song and wow really missed her vocals.

[Bey Admired]

7 minutes ago, Saint said:

her voice is the best part of this. i don’t think i’ve ever heard it be so rich and layered like this. i know this will sound even better when she performs it at the oscars 

I think her voice is the worst I’ve ever heard it and that is just me being honest. I’ve always said Rihanna has a good voice for radio but I didn’t like her vocal performance here. 

[The Slayer]

it sounds nice but it is very BLAH.

 

I'm disappointed 

[Bey Admired]

16 minutes ago, CaptainMusic said:

This isn’t true at all, people know the difference between soundtracks and lead singles to albums.

 

Look at how Beyoncé, Gaga and Taylor’s soundtrack songs have performed compared to their actual leads. 

[salmi93]

well if Taylor had sung it most of yall would be all over it. 

 

 

[badgirlriri]

13 minutes ago, HeavyMetalAura said:

Why are people getting defensive  it’s okay that some people don’t like the song. Y’all’s arguments are terrible - soundtrack songs can be great, ballads can be great, white gays make up a significant amount of online pop culture discourse and therefore their opinions matter (and most of them I know love Rih, they don’t have a vendetta against her for being black like y’all are insinuating). 

Hmm, idk how closely you've followed Rihanna but they do this basically every release of hers is why people get the impression they do. 

 

10 minutes ago, Harry said:

it’s confirmed to be another ballad so i can definitely relate with their anger tbh. the fact this was chosen as lead must mean the other one is even worse  

It just means they want attention specifically on this one for Oscars please-

Spirit was made the lead of The Gift for similar reasons, even though practically every other song is much stronger.

[Badgalbriel]

4 minutes ago, salmi93 said:

well if Taylor had sung it most of yall would be all over it. 

 

 

No, no one would be all over it. Taylor has countless soundtrack bombs. 

 

[X~MoviePoP]

Love on the brain/diamonds vocals where needed for this. I would of loved it more if it had a leona lewis i see you high note or a my heart will go on high note.

 

The song had POTENTIAL 

[rihsus]

1 hour ago, inmymendes said:

Lift Me Up

 

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is this good or?

[Pilgs]

This is beautiful

[SpaceOddity]

Yeah, this sucks. 

[X~MoviePoP]

Is there a music video coming??