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David Guetta Ft. Rihanna
Why we feature this artist Rihanna's timing inside Who's That Chick? Who's That Chick? makes a quick, clipped pop performance work inside a busy electronic arrangement. Rihanna's delivery gives David Guetta's 2010 single a recognisable character even when a ph…
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- France, Barbados
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- Dance-pop, house, pop
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Why we feature this artist
Rihanna's timing inside Who's That Chick?
Who's That Chick? makes a quick, clipped pop performance work inside a busy electronic arrangement. Rihanna's delivery gives David Guetta's 2010 single a recognisable character even when a phrase has very little space in which to make its impression.
The One More Love period
The original recording belongs to the expanded One More Love campaign. Its credits place Giorgio Tuinfort and Frédéric Riesterer within the wider writing and production setting alongside Guetta, with Rihanna supplying the featured vocal. That studio framework supports a single built from concise, strongly defined parts.
The small spaces between phrases
A short vocal entrance can act as both a melodic idea and a rhythmic event. Rihanna's tone helps it remain identifiable while the production moves quickly around it. The pauses matter too: leaving a little air after a phrase allows the next electronic detail to register before the singer returns. The record's restless quality comes from that succession of small events. It is pop arranged with a DJ's awareness of repetition, but the character of the vocal keeps the repeated material from becoming anonymous.
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Who's That Chick?
The Rihanna collaboration gives Guetta's expanded album campaign a sharply defined electronic-pop single.