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out there that guys cheat and finally someone put it in perspective: Girls cheat too.’
    ‘Unfaithful’ reached No. 6 in the US on July 22 and got to No. 2 in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Austria, Germany and Norway.
    The video for ‘Unfaithful’ was directed by Anthony Mandler and was set in a restaurant and on a stage. A movie of the same name featuring Richard Gere and Diane Lane is said to have been a source of inspiration for the video concept.
    In the video Rihanna is sitting in a restaurant when she is passed a note, written by her lover, while her boyfriend is away from the table. Later, she texts her lover and goes out to meet him while her boyfriend sleeps. There are scenes of Rihanna singing next to a pianist on a stage and he is revealed to be her lover. After finishing their ‘performance’, Rihanna leaves and her boyfriend meets her. She can’t help but cry as she hugs him.
    The same month that ‘Unfaithful’ was released, Rihanna hit the road and performed her first proper concert tour. It was called the ‘Rihanna: Live in Concert Tour’ and altogether she played over 30 dates in the US and Canada, with one very special concert in Jamaica as part of the Red Stripe Reggae Sumfest. On selected dates she was joinedby Sean Paul, Ciara, J-Status, Trey Songz, Yung Joc, Field Mob and Jeannie Ortega; they either performed beforehand as her supporting act or joined her onstage for her collaboration tracks.
    Performing on stage every night gave Rihanna such a buzz that she couldn’t wait to do another tour!
    ‘We Ride’ was the third single to be released from the album, but it failed to make the Top 100 in the US charts when released in August 2006. It charted at No. 4 in Finland, No. 7 in Germany, No. 17 in the UK and Ireland, and No. 24 in Australia.
    Rihanna had been optimistic and thought it would do well, because fans had seemed to love the song; before its release it had been her third most downloaded track on iTunes. She told MTV: ‘“We Ride” is about this guy saying over and over again, “When we ride, we ride, we’re gonna be together until the day that we die” – promising all these things and then it turns out he broke all of his promises, which is sad – but it’s summer and I don’t care if you wanna do that and be ugly and unfaithful, then I can just do my thing, chill with my girls and have fun.
    ‘That’s what summers are all about. And every summer you remember a certain relationship and there’s always a song to connect to that. So “We Ride” is just one of those songs.’
    ‘Break It Off ’ was released in December 2006 but it didn’t have a video. It was the final release from the album, A Girl Like Me. The song was written by Sean Paul, Rihanna, Donovan Bennett and Kirk Ford. Sean Paul sangthe majority of the single with Rihanna singing other parts of the track.
    When Rihanna performed the song live she generally did so as part of a medley, because her bit of the track lasts less than two minutes.
    ‘Break It Off ’ reached No. 9 in the US charts and No. 19 in the Canada charts – a fantastic achievement, considering there was no accompanying video. Fans were disappointed by Def Jam and Atlantic Records’ decision not to film one, but Rihanna was too busy planning her next album.

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    R ihanna began 2007 by collaborating with the Jamaican band J-Status on their track, ‘Roll It’. This was an updated version of ‘Roll It Gal’, which was written by Shontelle Layne and Sheldon Benjamin for the singer Alison Hinds. Layne and Benjamin changed the lyrics especially for J-Status and Rihanna (Shontelle helped with the vocals, too).
    J-Status and Shontelle were acts signed to SRP, Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken’s label. J-Status stands for ‘people of Jamaican Status’. The band first worked with Rihanna on her Music of the Sun album, providing the male vocals for ‘Here I Go Again’. ‘Roll It’ was the first single from their debut album,