14 DAY TRIAL // Rihanna is finally addressing the controversy she and Chris Brown created when they decided to release not one but two records together. It was all about the music, she tells Ryan Seacrest.
The pop star spoke to Ryan on the phone for a radio interview the other day and, among other things, she also talked about her decision to work again with her ex-boyfriend, the one who, 3 years ago, put her in the hospital in a fit of rage.
Even though many voices urged her not to do that, Rihanna never addressed the issue when the tracks came out.
She is doing so now.
The two records in question are the remix for Rihanna's “Birthday Cake” and the remix for Chris' “Turn Up the Music.”
Asked what made her put all differences aside, the singer says she never thought about the collaboration in those terms: business is business.
“The first song that came about was ‘Birthday Cake.’ I mean we ended up recording them at the same time and executing them together, but I reached out to him about doing ‘Birthday Cake’ because that’s the only person that really–it made sense to do the record,” Rihanna says.
The decision was strictly business: she could not have thought of a better man for the job, for the simple reason that Chris is the hottest presence on the scene right now.
“Just as a musician, despite everything else, that was going to be the person. You know I thought about rappers, and I’ve done that so many times, and the hottest R&B artist out right now is Chris Brown,” she says.
“So I wanted him on the track, and then in turn he was like ‘Why don’t you do the remix to my track?’ and it was a trade-off,” Rihanna explains.
Business aside, the decision was also about the fans. Both Rihanna and Chris wanted to do something for them, something that would bring them together again.
“We did two records. One for my fans. One for his fans, and that way our fans can come together. There shouldn’t be a divide. You know? It’s music, and it’s innocent,” she says.
Below is the interview.
