“S&M” is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her fifth studio album, Loud. The song was released on January 21, 2011, as the fourth single from the album. It has been certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and sextuple platinum in Australia. The lyrics are about sex, sadomasochism, bondage and BDSMishes, including the sexual fantasies of its protagonist.
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\”S&M\” is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her fifth studio album, Loud. The song was released on January 21, 2011, as the fourth single from the album. After it reached number two on the United States’ Billboard Hot 100 chart, a remix that features Britney Spears was released. Rihanna performed a shortened version at the 31st Brit Awards and sang the remix with Spears at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards. It has been certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and sextuple platinum in Australia. The music video was banned in many countries and restricted to nighttime television in others. Some critics praised its sound and composition while others criticized its overtly sexual lyrics. The lyrics are about sex, sadomasochism, bondage and BDSMishes, including the sexual fantasies of its protagonist and turn-on-and-turn-on protagonist. The track is an uptempo hi-NRG-Eurodance song that lasts four minutes and three seconds. It peaked at number one in ten countries in addition to the U.S. while peaking within the top five in France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, and the UK. During the chorus, the lyrics include: ‘Cause I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it. Sex in the air, I don’t care, I love the smell of the air’ The song opens with the hook, ‘Na, na, na na, I’m c’mon c’ during the chorus of the song, which is sung by Rihanna in a high-pitched falsetto.
The video was, in part, Rihanna’s response to disparaging critics. Photographer David LaChapelle filed a lawsuit alleging that the video incorporates ideas from his photographs, but the case was settled for an undisclosed sum of money. The singer and Lachapelle settled the case for an unknown sum ofMoney. The single was released as a single in January 2011, and has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. It is the only single from Loud to reach the top ten on the Billboard Top 100 chart. It was written by Ester Dean in collaboration with the song’s producers, Stargate and Sandy Vee. The American songwriter wrote the song with the help of the producers Stargate and Sandy Vee, and it is backed by bass beats, a keyboard and guitars, and is composed in the key of E-flat minor using common time and a moderate dance tempo of 128 beats per minute. The vocals were recorded by Kuk Harrell and were produced by Josh Gudwin and Marcos Tovar; Bobby Campbell assisted in the singer’s vocal recording. All instrumental production was completed by Eriksen, Hermansen and Vee in Los Angeles, and by Vee at The Bunker Studios in Paris. Rihanna told Rolling Stone about her interest in bondage and other sadomasoperism activities, themes central to \”S&m\”: being submissive in the bedroom is really fun.
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