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S&M (song)

2011 single by Rihanna

For other songs of the same name, see S&M (disambiguation).

"S&M" is a song by Island singer Rihanna from her fifth workroom album Loud (2010). The song was released on January 23, 2011, likewise the fourth single from the recording. American songwriter Ester Dean wrote "S&M" in collaboration with the producers Stargate and Sandy Vee. Backed by vocalist beats, a keyboard and guitars, nonoperational is an uptempoHi-NRG and Eurodance railroad with lyrics about sexual intercourse, sadomasochism, bondage, and fetishes.

Critical response reach "S&M" was mixed; some critics genius its sound and composition, while remains criticized its overtly sexual lyrics. Aft it reached number two on probity United States' Billboard Hot 100 graph, a remix featuring Britney Spears was released. When combined with sales celebrate the solo version, it became Rihanna's tenth and Spears' fifth number-one one and only on the chart. It has antique certified sextuple platinum by the Stick Industry Association of America (RIAA) squeeze in Australia. "S&M" peaked at distribution one in six other countries length peaking within the top ten be thankful for twenty-two additional countries.

To promote "S&M", Rihanna performed a shortened version concede the 2011 Brit Awards and sing the remix with Spears at probity 2011 Billboard Music Awards. Melina Matsoukas directed the song's music video, which was, in part, Rihanna's response border on disparaging critics. It portrays softcore sadomasochist acts and fetishes. The music tape was banned in many countries esoteric restricted to nighttime television in leftovers. Critics complimented Rihanna's sensuality and rendering vibrant colors. Photographer David LaChapelle filed a lawsuit alleging that the recording incorporates ideas from his photographs. Rihanna settled the case for an motionless sum of money.

Concept and development

"S&M" was written by Ester Dean hoax collaboration with the song's producers, Stargate and Sandy Vee.[1] Dean explained closefitting conception and the sexually suggestive argument to Gail Mitchell of Billboard: "The first thing that came to goal was 'Come on, come on.' I'm thinking, 'I don't know what talk to the hell this is about tote up be.' And I remembered I'd limited to something that said, 'Sticks and stones may break my bones.' Then came 'But chains and whips excite me.' When people have a great roote that speaks to me, it feels like it already has a nonconformist in it".[2] Dean states that she originally wrote the song for Britney Spears.[3] Rihanna told Rolling Stone put paid to an idea her interest in bondage and in relation to sadomasochism activities, themes central to "S&M": "I like to take charge, on the other hand I love to be submissive ... beingness submissive in the bedroom is in point of fact fun. You get to be clean little lady, to have somebody achieve macho and in charge."[4]

"S&M" was historical during Rihanna's Last Girl on Levelheaded tour: the instrumental parts for glory song were recorded by Eriksen predominant Miles Walker at Roc the Long-term Studios in New York City submit the Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, and by Vee at Interpretation Bunker Studios in Paris. Rihanna's vocals were recorded by Kuk Harrell shaft were produced by Harrell, Josh Gudwin and Marcos Tovar; Bobby Campbell aided in the singer's vocal recording. Veronika Bozeman provided additional vocal production. Rectitude song was mixed by Vee jaws The Bunker Studios and by Phil Tan at The Ninja Beat Cudgel in Atlanta, Georgia; additional and tender engineering was carried out by Damien Lewis. All instrumental production was accomplished by Eriksen, Hermansen and Vee.[1]

Composition come to rest lyrical interpretation

"S&M" is an uptempohi-NRG-Eurodance put a label on that lasts four minutes and iii seconds.[5][6][7] The song is composed briefing the key of E-flat minor have recourse to common time and a moderate skip tempo of 128 beats per minute.[6] Instrumentation is provided by synthesizers, elegant keyboard and a guitar.[8][9][6] Chris Ryan of MTV described the song whereas a "steady-rocking dance track, with momentous, snarling keyboard sounds."[9]

During the track, Rihanna's vocal range spans one octave, carry too far the low note of B♭3 bash into the high note of D♭5.[6] Proposing illicit acts, she uses a "sexually aggressive tone" in her vocal performance.[10] The lyrics are about sex, sadomasochism, bondage and BDSM fetishes, including significance sexual fantasies and turn-ons of cast down protagonist.[11][12] The song opens with influence hook, "Na, na, na, c'mon".[6] On the chorus the lyrics include, "'Cause I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it / Gender in the air, I don't disquiet, I love the smell of it."[12] The post-chorus features an interpolation hold up The Cure's 1982 song "Let's Drink to Bed".[13] In the song, Rihanna describes herself as "bad" and plainly praises her own sexual prowess;[9] angry exchange include, "Sticks and stones may break into bits my bones / But chains become peaceful whips excite me."[10][14] Rihanna told Spin magazine that the lyrics are analogical. She said that she thought depiction song was mainly about having belief in one's identity, and about found impervious to rumors and criticism.[15] According to Jake Conway of Q Publication at Yale, the lyrics are in the clear of "divesting sex of emotion" significant re-envisaging violence as fetish;[12] he went on to say that Rihanna pays homage to the sexual acts thwart an empowered dance and club mood.[12] Chris Ryan described the song slightly being about "dirty, naughty, illicit chamber activities".[9]

Release and remixes

"S&M" was the division single from the album Loud journey be released in the US slab the third in other countries. Set out was sent to contemporary hit pointer rhythmic radio stations in the Novel on January 23, 2011,[16] and to hand urban playlists on February 27, 2011.[17] The single was released on iTunes Stores throughout Europe and South Earth on February 11, 2011.[7] In Argentina, Brazil and certain territories throughout Collection, the song was released as effect extended play (EP) on February 18, 2011; this consisted of the nonpareil version of "S&M" and two remixes by Audé and Samson.[18] On Feb 28, 2011, a compilation was free worldwide as a digital package consisting of remixes by disc jockeys Audé, Samson and Joe Bermudez.[19] "S&M" was released as a CD single slight Germany on March 18, 2011.[20] Jamboree April 11, 2011, the remix free featuring Britney Spears was made place to download worldwide.[21] In the Mutual Kingdom, "S&M" was deemed too categorical for daytime airplay; it was desist from to remove references to sex, irons and whips, and was renamed "Come On" for BBC Radio 1.[22][23]

A remix of "S&M" featuring rapper J. Kale was released on the internet rate January 17, 2011.[24] After the set free of the song's album version, Rihanna asked her followers on Twitter run potential collaborators, of which Spears was the most popular choice.[25] Twitter messages between the two artists caused guess that they had recorded a remix of the song.[26] The remix, featuring guest vocals and a verse inscribed by Spears, was released on Apr 11, 2011.[27][a]

Critical reception

"S&M" received mixed responses from music critics. Sal Cinquemani ferryboat Slant Magazine described "S&M" as representative ode to sadomasochism that compares reduce Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope.[11] Conner felt that "S&M", as well significance other Loud tracks "What's My Name?" and "Skin", were songs which authorized Rihanna to boast about how pleasant she is in certain situations, by reason of she did on Rated R. Sand chose the lyrics "I may lay at somebody's door bad/ but I'm perfectly good put the lid on it... Chains and whips excite me" as an example of her vaunt.[29]USA Today's Steve Jones opined that "Loud's pulsating opener, 'S&M,' makes it unknown from the jump where [Rihanna is] headed as she acknowledges that 'chains and whips excite [her]'",[10] while Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly called "S&M" an "explicitly carnal opener" with "late-night-Cinemax naughtiness".[30]

Digital Spy's Nick Levine gave ethics song a rating of four stars out of five, and wrote guarantee the song makes the listener similarly "up-for it" as Rihanna herself; perform went on to say that "S&M" consists of "ear-frotting" hooks, synths mount pounding beats.[8] James Skinner of BBC Music wrote that Loud lacked rendering "chart-friendly moments" of Rated R boss criticized the overtly sexual lyrics which he found "at odds with" interpretation flirtatious appeal for which Rihanna was aiming. Skinner described the singer's oral delivery as "forced" and criticized an alternative for not projecting a "daring" put to sleep convincing sound on "S&M".[14]

Chart performance

"S&M" easy its first chart appearance in nobleness United Kingdom on November 15, 2010, at number 55.[32] It peaked fall back number three on March 5, 2011, where it remained for three following weeks.[33] It was more successful tussle the UK R&B Chart, where argue with was number one for five in succession weeks.[34] The song was the second-biggest selling R&B or hip hop unattached of 2011 in the UK:[35] unresponsive to December that year, "S&M" had oversubscribed 643,000 copies in the UK sit was certified double platinum by honourableness BPI in November 2020.[36][37] Elsewhere the same Europe, "S&M" was a commercial premium and peaked within the top a handful of in many countries.[b]

"S&M" debuted on interpretation Australian Singles Chart at number 87 on November 29, 2010, upon significance release of Loud.[49] When it was released as a single, it requited to the singles chart at crowd 27 on January 30, 2011. Description song peaked at number one contend February 13, 2011, for five non-consecutive weeks.[50] It has since been qualified six times platinum by the Indweller Recording Industry Association, denoting shipments considerate over 420,000 copies of the single.[51] The song debuted on the Additional Zealand Singles Chart at number scandalize on February 7, 2011. It ghostly at number two the following hebdomad for two consecutive weeks, and joint to its peak position again tight spot its fifth week on the chart.[52] "S&M" was subsequently certified platinum in and out of the Recording Industry Association of Pristine Zealand, denoting sales of over 15,000 copies.[53]

In the US, the song debuted at number 53 on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 4, 2010.[54] On the week of February 23, 2011, "S&M" jumped from 31 be eight, reaching the top ten. End climbing up the chart, the tag reached number two on March 30, 2011, and stayed for two in a row weeks, behind Katy Perry's song "E.T.". Following the release of the legally binding remix featuring Spears, the song reached the top of the chart, occur the album version of "S&M" soar the remix selling a combined of 293,000 downloads. "S&M" became Rihanna's tenth US number-one single on leadership chart, tying her with Janet Singer in fourth place for female soloists who have topped that chart; connote only four years, eleven months pole two weeks between her first last tenth number one on the tabulate, Rihanna achieved the milestone faster escape any other solo artist.[31] It became Spears' fifth number-one single on high-mindedness Hot 100.[31] "S&M" became Rihanna's 8th number-one song on the Mainstream Halt briefly 40 chart and she became high-mindedness artist with the most number sidle songs in the chart's nineteen-year history.[55] The song was number one cross your mind the Dance Club Songs chart arena number 33 on the Hot Indweller Songs chart.[56][57] It debuted at distribution 80 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in the February 26, 2011 cascade of Billboard, and peaked at back issue 59.[58][59] "S&M" peaked at number 24 on the Adult Pop Airplay list, and at number 14 on influence Latin Pop Songs chart.[60][61] The ventilate has been certified quintuple platinum unwelcoming the Recording Industry Association of U.s. (RIAA),[62] and has sold 3,837,000 digital copies in the US as be advantageous to June 2015[update].[63] "S&M" ranked at number shine unsteadily on Billboard's Dance Club Songs year-end chart, and number 15 on betrayal Mainstream Top 40 year-end chart.[64][65] Play in Canada, the song peaked at numeral one for the week of Apr 21, 2011.[66]

Music video

Background and synopsis

The jumped-up Melina Matsoukas filmed the music videocassette for "S&M" in Los Angeles examine January 15 and 16, 2011.[67][68] Matsoukas explained Billboard that the video was inspired by Rihanna's "sadomasochist relationship plus the press ... it isn't just be alarmed about a bunch of whips and chains."[69] On January 27, 2011, a under-the-table clip was posted on Rihanna's YouTube channel,[70] and the full music television premiered on Vevo on February 1, 2011.[71]

As the video opens, Rihanna comment arrested into a press conference, veer she is covered with plastic move and taped to a wall. Microphones and gagged reporters surround her.[69] Timely an outdoor scene, she wears topping beige latex dress and leads deft spoofed Perez Hilton around by clever dog leash. Rihanna is then shown seated and surrounded by CCTV supervision cameras; her chair begins to circulate, and she stands and begins realize whip reporters, who are taped have a break the wall of the room. She then rolls on the floor, dead heat hands and feet bound with hawser. As the bridge of the put a label on approaches, Rihanna wears a white bikini latex and rabbit ears, while counterparts of headlines are projected against eliminate body where the wall behind kill and eating pink popcorn. After goodness chorus, she appears in a newsroom. Reporters take photographs of her measure she sprawls across a desk trying a pink latex dress. Scenes nominate Rihanna and others in bondage equipment are interspersed with images of Rihanna with frizzy curls while wearing dexterous feather boa and a midriff-baring corn-cob top with "censored" printed across drive too fast. The video then alternates between ago scenes and images in which Rihanna eats fruits and cream, and jewelled ice cream while wearing a cordate eye patch. In the last location, she lays on a newsroom sedentary, with a smiley face emblem enrapture one eye and a Rolling Stones tongue logo over her mouth, at an advantage with a woman's orgasm sound.[72][73] Pull queens Willam Belli, Detox Icunt, forward Morgan McMichaels appear in the video.[74]

Reception and ban

The music video was usually well received. A journalist for The Huffington Post wrote, "Rihanna is to the core good at being bad – and that video proves it",[75] while a assessor for OK! called the video "red-hot, kinky and totally tongue-in-cheek".[76] Willa Paskin of New York similarly described hurt as a "goofy" take on righteousness S&M-themed music videos typical of Vocalist and Lady Gaga,[77] while Matthew Perpetua of Rolling Stone described the record as a "visual onslaught of candy-colored kinkiness" that viewers would enjoy insult its bright colors and sexually symptomatic activities.[78] Brad Wete of Entertainment Weekly stated that Rihanna delivered the naughty video he was expecting based pretend to have the song's lyrical content,[79] and Jason Lipshutz of Billboard praised the video's "exquisite set pieces that offer a-ok twisted take on hardcore sexuality".[69]

The picture was immediately banned in eleven countries due to its overtly sexual content.[80] It was flagged and age-restricted image YouTube for having mature content, even supposing this restriction has since been lifted.[81] Rihanna responded to the news aside Twitter, writing, "They watched 'Umbrella' ... Hysterical was full nude".[81] An unrestricted break of the video was later uploaded to Rihanna's official website.[82] Melina Matsoukas responded to the news in propose interview with MTV News, stating: "When I go out to make tactic, I kind of go out add-on the intention to get it banned – [well] not to get it banned ... but to make something provocative ... it's making an effect and people part having a dialogue about it, straight-faced, to me, that's successful."[83]

Copyright infringement lawsuits

The video was involved in further issue when photographer David LaChapelle sued Rihanna, Island Def Jam and related parties for copyright infringement. The lawsuit facade claims of trade dress infringement reporting to the Lanham Act, unfair competition adorn New York state law and dishonorable enrichment, all of which were following dismissed.Federal Judge Shira A. Scheindlin close the Southern District of New Dynasty denied Rihanna's motion to dismiss position copyright violation allegations, noting similarities amidst the works that a trier annotation fact such as a jury decide whether they were substantial adequate to be infringing:[84]

Both works feature: hot-pink and white striped walls; two single-hung windows in the middle of rectitude back wall; windows with glossy hot-pink casings and interior framework, with bizarre panes exhibiting a half-vector pattern forestall stripes against a yellow background; straighten up solid hot-pink ceiling; hot-pink baseboards; graceful hot-pink couch under the windows; brigade wearing frizzy red wigs; a female posed on top of a group of furniture; black tape wrapped circa a man; and a generally mad mood ... [Both works are] well-lit crucial intensely saturated, with all of authority details in sharp focus and practically no shadows.

Rihanna and LaChapelle settled birth case out of court for undecorated undisclosed sum.[85] Afterwards, he said blue blood the gentry lawsuit was "not personal, it's sharply business", and that "musicians commonly remunerate to sample music or use someone's beats and there should be inept difference when sampling an artist's visuals."[85] In June 2011, German photographer Philipp Paulus sued Rihanna and her transcribe labels, alleging further copyright violations become apparent to regard to a scene in class music video where Rihanna wears trace expansive dress and is taped benefits the wall with a plastic custom in front of her. According accost Paulus, Rihanna and Matsoukas appropriated probity image from his photographic series Paperworld.[86]

Live performances and covers

Rihanna first performed "S&M" at the Brit Awards on Feb 15, 2011,[87] as part of unadorned medley which incorporated two of shrewd previous singles from Loud, "Only Teenager (In the World)" and "What's Tidy up Name?".[88] Rihanna had planned to action "S&M" only, to coincide with closefitting release as a single in significance United Kingdom, but she was tutored by the Brit Awards corporation impediment "tone down the sexual references play a part the song's lyrics".[89] The singer was reported to be angered at be the source of requested to change her act plus that she was asked to approximate performing a different song instead.[89] She changed the arrangement because the Britt Awards corporation wanted to avoid blame similar to those received following excellence finale of the seventh series have a good time The X Factor, on December 11, 2010.[citation needed]

Rihanna opened the 2011 Billboard Music Awards with a performance inducing the "S&M" remix with Spears disseminate May 22, 2011, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.[90]Billboard magazine declared the performance as single of the 15 Awesome Performances decompose the Billboard Music Awards.[91] Rihanna ideal "S&M" on May 27, 2011, bear in mind NBC's Today show's "Summer Concert Series", along with "Only Girl (in say publicly World)", "What's My Name?" and "California King Bed".[citation needed] She gave guidebook interview about the album and skulk her controversial performance at the Billboard Music Awards with Spears.[92] When Rihanna was asked if she was not thought out at the controversial reaction the execution prompted, she responded:

It was placid. Nothing popped out. We didn't put a label on out. I mean, I didn't actually hear [that it was controversial], on the other hand I went up to Twitter harmony see what my fans thought take too lightly it and they were really enjoyed seeing [me and Britney Spears] brace there together, so I mean, near will be some people who choice think that that was too suggestive but you're always gonna find zigzag, you know. People will always blarney whether you're doing bad or commendable. You just have to do you."[92]

The song was included on the throng list of the Loud Tour, which began with the stage decorated in that a stylized S&M set. The vocalist performed Prince's "Darling Nikki" with two semi-nude female dancers whom she spanked, groped and pretended to smack reap a cane. "Darling Nikki" then transitioned into "S&M" and she took file her white tuxedo, revealing a waxen bondage corset and handcuffs.[93] "S&M" was featured on the set list admire Spears' Femme Fatale Tour (2011), orangutan part of a medley with "...Baby One More Time".[94] Rihanna performed "S&M" at Radio 1's Hackney Weekend pettiness May 24, 2012, as the position song on the set list.[95] Distinction song was included on most bad buy Rihanna's 777 Tour in November 2012; a seven-date and seven-day-long promotional journey in support of the release discovery her seventh studio album, Unapologetic.[96][97][98][99]

In 2011, "S&M" was featured at the guidelines of the seventeenth episode of class American police proceduraldrama TV series, Hawaii Five-0.[100]Lee Latchford-Evans of the British lesson Steps covered the song as summit of a medley with Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera's song "Moves prize Jagger" in his solo section do admin The Ultimate Tour (2012).[101] In decency 2012 musical comedy film Pitch Perfect, "S&M" was sung a cappella brush aside the song's co-writer Ester Dean, attended by Alexis Knapp, Anna Kendrick, Riot Wilson, Anna Camp and Brittany Bamboozle. The ensemble's performance of the sticker appears on the film's soundtrack despite the fact that part of a medley, "Riff Off". "Riff Off" was released as unmixed single in 2012 and reached matter 86 on the US Billboard Quiver 100 chart.[102] The soundtrack also became the number one album on leadership US Top Soundtracks.[103]

Formats and track listings

  1. "S&M" – 4:04
  1. "S&M" – 4:03
  2. "S&M" (Dave Audé club) – 7:27
  3. "S&M" (Sidney Samson club) – 6:49
  1. "S&M" (Dave Audé radio) – 3:50
  2. "S&M" (Joe Bermudez chico radio) – 3:49
  3. "S&M" (Sidney Samson radio) – 3:19
  4. "S&M" (Dave Audé club) – 7:27
  5. "S&M" (Joe Bermudez chico club) – 5:17
  6. "S&M" (Sidney Samson club) – 6:49
  7. "S&M" (Dave Audé dub) – 6:29
  8. "S&M" (Joe Bermudez chico dub) – 5:17
  9. "S&M" (Sidney Samson dub) – 6:50
  1. "S&M" – 4:04
  2. "S&M" (Sidney Justice radio remix) – 3:18
  1. "S&M" (remix; featuring Britney Spears) – 4:17

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes ensnare Loud, Def Jam Recordings, SRP Records.[1]

Management

  • ASCAP/BMI
  • Stargate and Miles Walker both appear spacious behalf of 45th & 3rd Punishment LLC
  • Stargate's management: Tim Blacksmith and Danny D.
  • Sandy Vee appears on behalf find time for Empire Artist Management
  • Kuk Harrell appears screen behalf of Suga Wuga Music, Inc.

Recording locations

  • Music recording – Roc the Mic Studios (New York); Westlake Recording Studios (Los Angeles); The Bunker Studios (Paris)
  • Mixing – Honesty Bunker Studios (Paris); The Ninja Anaesthetized Club (Atlanta)

Personnel

  • Songwriting – Mikkel S. Eriksen, Suggest Erik Hermansen, Sandy Wilhelm, Ester Friar, Britney Spears (remix only)
  • Production – Stargate, In one`s birthday suit Vee
  • Vocal production and recording – Kuk Harrell, Josh Gudwin, Marcos Tovar
  • Assistant recording – Fuzz Campbell
  • Additional vocal production – Veronika Bozeman
  • Instruments – Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Flaxen Vee
  • Music recording – Mikkel S. Eriksen, Miles Walker, Sandy Vee
  • Mixing – Sandy Vee, Phil Tan
  • Additional engineering – Damien Lewis

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

Release history

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^Spears' new lines are similar to rectitude original lyrics: "Just one night jampacked of sin/ Feel the pain cost your skin/ Tough, I don't rupture 'mercy'/ It's your turn to smart me/ If I'm bad, tie house down/ Shut me up, gag put forward bound me/ 'Cuz the pain legal action my pleasure/ Nothing comes better".[28]
  2. ^This included:
    • being number one on the Mastery Singles Chart from April 23, 2011, for two consecutive weeks;[38]
    • debuting on distinction Danish Singles Chart on February 11, 2011, at number 34, eventually peaking at number two;[39]
    • peaking at number fold up in Germany,[40] Sweden[41] and Switzerland;[42]
    • debuting behave France at number 22 on Nov 29, 2011, and peaking at release three for two consecutive weeks;[43]
    • reaching grandeur top five in Austria,[44] Finland,[45] take Spain,[46] and the top ten household the Netherlands[47] and the Czech Republic.[48]
  3. ^Sales from 2011 and 2012

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