Only Girl (In the World)

Only Girl (In the World)
Rihanna
publication	September 10, 2010
length	3:55
Genre (s)	Europop , dance pop
Author (s)	Crystal Johnson, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Sandy Wilhelm
album	Loud

Only Girl (In the World) is the first single release from the fifth studio album Loud the Barbadian R & B - singer Rihanna . The song was written by Crystal Johnson and produced by Stargate with Sandy Vee. The single was released on September 10, 2010 in the United States . She brought Rihanna a Grammy Award in 2011 .

composition

Only Girl is an up-tempo dance pop song that contains elements of Eurodance and Hip-Hop . The song contains a “heavy, aggressive hip-hop beat ” that was generated with a synthesizer , while the chorus of the song contains a “danceable club beat”. Rihanna's singing during the song has been described as "erective", "sexual", "erotic" and as a "stronger, more sexual, more successful version" of her 2007 hit Don't Stop the Music .

Rihanna sang the song mostly herself, but a lot of it was reworked with auto-tune .

Music video

Rihanna sings Only Girl on her “ Last Girl on Earth Tour ” in Sydney, Australia in March 2011.

The music video for Only Girl (In the World) was directed by Anthony Mandler . The music video premiered on October 13, 2010 on the Internet. In an interview, Rihanna explained how the music video was made and what it's about: “It was a really, really beautiful shot in those crazy, crazy, crazy places. We shot in landscapes a few hours away from Los Angeles . The music video looks unreal. It looks like a fake, like a picture on a postcard where you can see the beautiful hills ... We had a lot of sunshine these days, so this made the video look even better. But really, the music video shows this great landscape and I am the only person there. "

The music video borrows a lot from the content of the song, which says that Rihanna is the "only girl in the world". Just as the content of the song suggests, Rihanna is the only person featured in the music video, singing and dancing in different environments. Most of the music video shows Rihanna dancing in white beach clothes (a shorter floral mini skirt, brassiere) in front of the red hills of the desert landscape. Other scenes in the music video show Rihanna playing and dancing with brightly colored oversized balloons. Other scenes show Rihanna lolling erotically in the flower floor, as well as scenes in which Rihanna performs sexual dances on a fence.

Tanner Stransky from The Music Mix magazine praised the music video, especially the simple theme and content, it seems “as if Rihanna is speaking directly to you, to the viewer and she is the one and only one who sings and sings in this beautiful landscape dances. This is an effect in which one only focuses on Riri and neglects the surroundings, this effect is reinforced by her erotic and sexual outfits and her fiery red hair. "Joyce Lee of CBS wrote:" Rihanna has finally left her rated R and found a new image with her upbeat and her feminine style. ”Brittany Talarico from OK! praised the change in Rihanna's image “from Rated R , which contains dark themes, to Loud , where she says 'Bye leather, hello flowers!', and Rihanna looks like a red beauty in her music video for the upbeat hit Only Girl (In the World ) off. She left her dominatrix side, took a softer side and left her burning hair down! "Seth Sommerfield from Spin Magazine also praised Rihanna's change of image and explained:" She moved far away from the open sexual rated R- side, to a new one 'Whimsical [and] beautiful' page. "

Live performances

Rihanna sings "Only Girl (In the World)" on her Loud Tour in Minneapolis , Minnesota on June 16, 2011

Rihanna first sang Only Girl on Saturday Night Live on October 30, 2010. Her performance consisted of a medley of What's My Name? and Only Girl (In the World) . What's my name? (excluding Drake ) was also performed for the first time on the same day. The following day, Rihanna sang Only Girl on The X-Factor in the UK, wearing a pink flower dress and on stage was a large table where Rihanna was performing sexual dances with a group of dancers. She also sang the song at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2010 in Madrid on November 7, 2010, where she was surrounded by flowers that resembled a fairy tale. Further appearances followed at the X Factor in Italy on November 9, 2010, where Rihanna wore a bikini dress and a plait wig with flowers and performed the song with erotic dances. On November 10th, Rihanna sang the song at Le Grand Journal in France . A day later on November 11, 2010, Rihanna appeared on The Graham Norton Show in the UK, where she gave an interview and sang Only Girl .

Rihanna sang a medley of Only Girl (In the World) , Love the Way You Lie (Part II) and What's My Name? At the American Music Awards 2010 on November 21, 2010 . . She opened the gig with an a cappella version of Love the Way You Lie (Part II) . She sat on a swing that hung from a tree, on the ground there was a grassy landscape. Stars shimmered on a canvas in the background. Rihanna wore a sheet as a dress. After singing the first excerpts of the song, Rihanna jumped to the floor of the stage. Then fog surrounded the stage and Rihanna quickly changed her clothes and now wore a black and white bra and started What's My Name? to sing. The stage was lit up and various colorful patterns could now be seen on the screen. During the performance, background dancers came on stage and performed erotic-sexual suggestive dances with Rihanna. Then Rihanna sang Only Girl (In the World) , where Rihanna danced again in the foreground and men drummed in the background. At the end of the medley, fire rose at the end, after which Rihanna disappeared backstage.

On February 15, 2011, Rihanna sang a medley of Only Girl , S&M and What's My Name? At the 2011 BRIT Awards . She was obliged to sing the full version of S&M to promote the song for its single release, however Rihanna was informed by the bosses not to make her performance and dances too sexual, so she sang between Only Girl (In The World) and What's My Name? just a verse and the chorus . This was enforced by the BRIT Awards Corporation to prevent appearances like the season 7 finale of The X Factor on December 11, 2010, where Rihanna wore a provocative outfit and performed sexual dances almost half-naked.

Rihanna sang the song in Australia on her Last Girl on Earth Tour in February and March 2011 and will sing the song at every concert on her Loud Tour .

The song was also often performed live by other artists, the American singer and Rihanna's friend Katy Perry covered the song together with Whip My Hair and other songs on their California Dreams Tour in 2011. The British band One Direction covered the song Ende 2010 also live.

Cover versions

In late 2010, British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding covered the song on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, and her cover version appeared on the B-side of her hit Lights in 2011 . On February 20, 2011, the American pop singer Katy Perry covered the song at the first concert of her “California Dreams Tour” in Lisbon , Portugal . The Irish group Westlife also covered the song on their "Gravity Tour". The actress Ariana Grande also covered the song as a studio version, she often sings this song live at concerts. On August 12, 2011, a cover version of the song by Frida Gold was released for the sampler Better Than the Original .

Commercial win

Rihanna sings "Only Girl (In the World)" in Oakland , California on June 30, 2011

In the United States , Only Girl (In the World) made its debut on September 25, 2010 at number 75 on the US Billboard Hot 100 . The following week, the song jumped straight to number 3 on the Hot 100, making Only Girl Rihanna's 16th top ten hit and her 4th in 2010. Rihanna also landed at number thanks to the top ten success 6 of the women with the most top ten hits in the history of the US charts. In its eleventh week of charting on December 4, 2011, the song peaked at # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Rihanna's ninth number one hit in the United States and fourth in a year (after Rude Boy , Love the Way You Lie, and What's My Name? ), Usher last achieved this in 2004. She is the artist with the most number one hits in this millennium and the first female artist to ever have four number one hits in the USA a year to land. It also happened for the first time in the history of the US charts that the first single on an album only reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 after the second single, because two weeks earlier the second single on the album What's My Name? Rihanna's eighth number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The song debuted at number 1 on the US download charts in its first week with 249,000 digital units sold. It became Rihanna's sixth single, which debuted directly at number 1 on the US download charts and their eighth number one hit in the US download charts. The song also peaked at number 1 on the US pop charts, where it became Rihanna's seventh number one hit, making her the most number one hit in the history of those charts at the time. By March 2011, the song had legally sold over 2 million paid download copies in the United States alone, making the song double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) .

In Canada , Only Girl debuted at # 65 on the Canadian Hot 100 on September 25, 2010 . The following week, the song jumped straight to number 1 on the Canadian charts, where it stayed for a week. After several weeks in which the song stayed in the top 3, the song jumped back to number 1 on the Canadian charts in the week of November 6, 2010, for three more weeks. So all in all, the song spent four weeks at # 1 in Canada. Only Girl was ranked 7th in Canada for "Best Selling Singles of 2010," with 231,000 units sold.

Only Girl debuted in Australia in the week of October 3, 2010, at number 1 on the Australian charts . The song stayed at number 1 for the first three weeks until it was superseded by Pinks Raise Your Glass . In the week of November 7, 2010, Only Girl reached number 1 on the Australian charts for a fourth week. In Australia, the song was awarded five platinum records for over 350,000 units of the song sold.

In New Zealand , the song debuted at number 1 on the charts and stayed there for a week. The song was later awarded a platinum record in New Zealand.

In the UK , the song debuted at number 2 on the UK charts in the week ending October 31, 2010, with over 126,000 units sold in the first week, behind Cheryl Cole's Promise This , which debuted at number 1 with over 157,210 units of her single sold . Week one sales put Rihanna at # 2 best-selling song for week one of 2010 (behind Cole's Promise This ). With the top 2 debut, the song also became Rihanna's fourteenth top ten hit in the UK. The next week, Rihanna replaced Cheryl Coles Promise This from the top and hit # 1 on the UK charts. Overall, the song stayed at # 1 for two consecutive weeks. In the UK, the song was awarded a platinum record on January 7, 2011 for over 600,000 units sold. On January 2, 2011, Only Girl was listed as # 15 of the "Most Downloaded Songs of All Time in the UK". According to the Official Charts Company , Only Girl is among the top 100 best-selling singles of all time in the UK with a total of 1,080,000 units sold.

In the German single charts , the song rose to number two and was awarded platinum in February 2011 for over 300,000 units sold. It became Rihanna's third single, which went platinum in Germany (after Umbrella and Love The Way You Lie with Eminem ) and her first single, which went platinum there, even though it did not reach number 1 on the charts.

In the Austrian charts the piece rose to number 1 in the second week , so that Rihanna took off herself from the top; her predecessor was the duet Love the Way You Lie with the rapper Eminem . Nobody in Austria had succeeded in doing this before.

Chart placements country Top position  Germany 2  Austria 1  Switzerland 2  United Kingdom 1  United States 1

Annual charts Charts (2010) position  Germany 18th  Austria 18th  Switzerland 11  United Kingdom 4th  United States 47

criticism

Bill Lamb praised the "strong, adventurous refrain" and the "club beat" . "It would be no surprise if the song brings Rihanna back to the top of the Hot 100 and the worldwide charts in a few weeks, so for me the probability is very high that Only Girl (In the World) will be Rihanna's third number in a few weeks. One hit in the US in 2010 (after Rude Boy and Love The Way You Lie ) and her eighth overall in the Hot 100. "

Gerrick D. Kennedy of the Los Angeles Times said, “... So it looks very good for (Only Girl) to be her next front runner. …. "

Awards

At the 2011 Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 13, 2011, Rihanna won the Grammy for Best Dance Recording with Only Girl (In the World) . Rihanna was nominated in this category with Goldfrapps Rocket , La Rouxs In for the Kill , Lady Gagas Dance in the Dark and Robyns Dancing on My Own , among others . It is the first time that Rihanna has won a Grammy in this category, having previously been nominated in this category for Don't Stop the Music in 2008 and Disturbia in 2009. By winning these Grammys, Rihanna has now won a total of 4 Grammys. At the MuchMusic Video Awards in Canada on June 19, 2011, the song was nominated for "MuchMusic.com Most Watched Video of the Year" but lost to Taio Cruz ' Dynamite . Only Girl is also nominated for two MTV Video Music Awards in Japan .

Web links

• Official music video on YouTube

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