Idolator
Look, we completely agree with the fact that Rihanna has put out two fantastic summer singles in the past three months alone, but let's not let her pop-music Midas touch get to her head, shall we? This cover of "Is This Love" pretty much defines the term "ill-advised": it's not well matched to her vocal strengths, and her semi-robotic persona combined with her not-very-on-pitch voice flourishes makes us wonder if what she's actually "feeling" instead of love is a circuit-board malfunction.
Rihanna - Is This Love (Bob Marley's Cover) @ STRIPPED 2007
[Pop Music Kingdom, via Blender Blog]
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Oh, thank you... I was thinking of Whitesnake for a minute.
The words describe Rihanna perfectly: She Can't Sing
Rihanna doesn't bother me as much as those backup singers, who are definitely not the I-Threes.
She does violate the first rule of covers -- if you can't do the song better do it different. Oh and whoever arranged it completely missed one of the chord changes in the original.
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