Rihanna Cheers Song
Lyrics to Cheers (Drink To That) by Rihanna Cheers to the freakin weekend I drink to that, yeah yeah Oh let the jameson sink in I drink to that, yeah yeah Don't let the bastards get ya down Turn it around with another round There's a party at the bar everybody putcha glasses up and I drink to that I drink to thaaaaaaaat.
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Imagine that moment when you are a songwriter and you’re about to go into a session to write a song for Rihanna, but you wake up with a laryngitis, feeling absolutely terrible, and you can’t sing a thing. So you just grab your phone and call your super-talented friend, LP, to come to the session with you. She happily agrees, and you end up writing a hit song together, a single for Rihanna which will go to #7 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and which will appear on her fifth studio album. Not bad at all. Said songwriter, she who called LP that day, was Stacy Barthe.
It was an unexpected and exciting invitation, and in fact, a moment which would become The session was part of a writing camp set up by Rihanna’s label, Island Def Jam as run by LA Reid, to write songs for Rihanna’s album, Loud (2010). LP and Stacy teamed up that day with Corey “Chorus” Gibson and with a duo called The Runners, consisting of Andrew “Dru Brett” Harr and Jermaine “Mayne Zayne” Jackson (it’s another Jermaine, not Michael’s big brother).
The fruit of their writing was the song “Cheers (Drink To That)” and it was made ready in just a few hours. That session turned out to be really something else, starting as a low-profile and usual sit-down-to-write-a-song thing, but wrapped up as a 60-person party which was actually recorded and ended up on Rihanna’s album. LP was surprised as well. During her performance for Bing Lounge in 2012, she said that when they were writing “Cheers,” her songwriting partners kind of felt like they had just written a really good song. But she hadn’t realized it just yet, and so when her co-writers started inviting their friends down, being like, “Yo, come down man, right now,” she was like, “Why are you guys inviting people?” The next thing she knew, they were all singing along in the studio and only then did it dawn on her that something big had probably just happened and that they might have written a hit song. Here are the memories of one of the writers, Chorus, as shared with The Sound Killers magazine: We ended up working with The Runners, a young lady by the name of LP, Stacy Barthe, and myself.
Stacy had been playing an Avril Lavigne song. LP said, “Yo, Imma do something to that.” Mayne, from The Runners, ended up making the beat on the spot. To be honest, it just really happened. If you listen to the beginning of the song, we’re just in the studio taking shots.
We literally had 60 people in the booth. We just had a good time. People pulled out liquor and we were just going H.A.M. We had this guy names Scott Market, Karen Kwak’s assistant at the time [Karen Kwak was A&R Senior Vice President of Rihanna’s label, Island Def Jam – editor’s note].
He stopped by the session and said, “Oh my gosh, this is crazy. I wanna play this tomorrow.” He went to play it. So we said, take these red cups and Hennessey.
LA Reid had a cabana at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Game ppsspp format pbp high compress. We set up speakers because that’s how he listens to music. He gave all of the record executives a cup with some henney in it and told everyone to take a shot. They played it, and the rest of it is history. And so, for “Cheers” they sampled Avril Lavigne’s vocal hook from “I’m With You,” written by Avril and The Matrix for her debut album, Let Go (2002).
When they finished the writing process, LP sang the demo. She thought Rihanna would change it a lot for the album version, but much to her surprise, it was essentially the same song, with only a couple of Rihanna’s trademark vocal twists added. But the writing camp for Rihanna was a significant moment for LP also due to one more reason – it was the very first time she brought her ukulele to a session. She started playing it shortly before, in the fall of 2009, and soon she and this tiny instrument became inseparable. There are subtleties to LP’s relationship with her ukulele, confusing to some, but important to her.