Rihanna‘s stay guitarist Nuno Bettencourt has shot down a long-standing hearsay that the singer needed to make a heavy metallic album.
Again in 2009, The Every day Star reported as an unique that “closet rock chick” Rihanna was “determined to go all heavy metallic”, however her report label “had a seizure” over her hopes for a change in musical route.
They quoted Bettencourt saying: “Once I spoke to Rihanna she was completely into reworking herself right into a heavy rock chick. She was listening to Led Zeppelin and new acts like Paramore and mentioned that was the route she needed to go, so I mentioned sure.”
Nevertheless, in a brand new interview with Traditional Rock, Bettencourt denied that he’d made any of the feedback within the 2009 article.
“That’s full lies,” he mentioned “that’s fabricated. It’s so incorrect. I promise you on the lifetime of my kids that these phrases by no means got here out of my mouth. It’s an excellent story, which is why it bought written I suppose, however it’s completely not true.” [via LouderSound]
“What occurred was that they bought in contact with me as a result of they mentioned they needed a guitar participant, and needed to rock out the present, and so they had seen a few of my stuff on-line. I mentioned, Why would you need me, there’s no guitar on lots of the songs? And I used to be instructed, that they simply needed me to be me, and do it on ‘Umbrella’ and the whole lot, with heavy chords and riffs. I used to be like, ‘Wow, that sounds fucking thrilling for a man like me who loves all genres of music. That’s most likely how that story began.’ However she didn’t wish to do a heavy metallic report.”
Elsewhere, Rihanna acquired a standing ovation for her efficiency of Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually tune ‘Carry Me Up’ on the Oscars 2023 final week.
Her efficiency was launched by Wakanda Perpetually star Danai Gurira, who used the second to pay tribute to late Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman.
