Umbrella – Rhianna Here is a perfect song nearly ruined by Jay-Z’s authoritative, one-note, male stamp, and by this seemingly free range of covering and reinterpretation it has. For a while there it was everywhere, now nowhere, except for those soulless, affectless, misread imitations that have left their inexpensive smear across pre-programmed work radio/muzak stations [...]
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