Jammin' featuring Richard Hall and Chris Farnsworth

Video filming and Editing done by Dakota Halfpenny and Brady Carmichael

Dakota's Song.. for Commtech

Here is my song I made for our class, enjoy :)

Second Song Review; Only Girl by Rihanna.



 

   Robyn Rihanna Fenty, was born in Saint Michael, Barbados on February 20^th, 1988. Better known as Rihanna now when she moved to the United States when she was 16, after being noticed by Jay-Z. Coming for a rough childhood you would never know about, Rihanna is still strong and is very successful. This is where her strength comes from in her songs. Rihanna has may idols that she looks up to and wants to become like including Mariah Carey, Madonna, Beyonce and bob Marley. "[Madonna] has reinvented herself throughout her career and moved into different areas. I want to be the black Madonna." Rihanna defiantly has the fashion sense like Madonna with her own unique twist.  New York magazine described Rihanna's early look as a cookie-cutter teen queen while stating that she has the ability to shift looks so dramatically and with such ease.
    So this song starts off with a disco, r&b feel. This dance-pop song takes elements from Europop giving it that extra humph. I know what your thinking, Rihanna really? But I actually think that she is very talented she has an amazing voice with a very wide range.
This song is the number one single on her new album "Loud", Rihanna's fifth single album. "Only Girl" top almost all of the charts around the world, particularly in New Zealand and Australia. Where in these countries she made the single a platinum and tipple platinum. This song topped the US Billboards, making it Rihanna's ninth top single. She is a very powerful young woman not to mention her sex appeal which we can all agree sells. Unfortunately she did not write this song herself, but however she preforms it well.

    The video for this song was released on October, 13^th 2010. Anthony Mandler produced the video. Rihanna said "It's really, really beautifully shot in these crazy, crazy, crazy places, We shot landscapes that we found a couple hours outside of L.A. It looks so unreal. It looks fake, like something out of a postcard with the beautiful hills… We had a lot of sunshine those couple of days, so it really worked with the whole essence of the video. But really, the video just shows this big landscape and the only person there is me."
    This video makes Rihanna look like the only girl in the world which makes her look dominant and makes the boys want her and the girls want to be her. The video landscapes are so beautiful I think that they help leave the sense of being alone at ease making the video upbeat like the song.