LAST WEEKEND, a group of us rented a Zipcar and drove down to Charlottesville to explore the town and help a good friend get excited about going to UVA next year for law school. It worked - Charlottesville is gorgeous, the school is gorgeous (so many hallways!), tons of tasty restaurants, great little community. The only downside? The scores of white chicks wearing identically cut Lilly Pulitzer dresses.
On the way down we heard this song for the first time and became instantly obsessed. We walked all around Charlottesville singing, "Under my um-ber-ella/hey, hey, hey" - the only words we could remember. The entire ride home we set the XM radio to the Top 20 station in the hopes of hearing it again, and when it finally came on we rolled down the windows and sang along, shimmying in our seats.
Rihanna is an R&B artist, but this song, off of her forthcoming album, Good Girl Gone Bad, is an irresistible little slice of weirdly dark synth-pop. Plus, Rihanna takes a distinctly unsexy word ("umbrella") and sells it like a fucking pro!
Last word: this video is also a sort of ad for some new Covergirl lip gloss, so ignore those parts at the beginning and the end and focus on how banging she is, and how the song swells at the 3:08 mark (at which point she starts dancing amidst a shower of sparks - DOPE).
Rihanna - "Umbrella"
"Um-ber-ella"
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