No, we didn’t expect to engage in so much midnight Brit blogging, either. But after teasing the award show’s most headscratchingest song-meld (“Umbrella” + “Golden Skans“), we knew this, at least, would be something worth a post. The reigning Mercury Prize winners sported outfits by pill-poppers, for pill-poppers and merged their tune’s backbeat and “oooh”s and “oh”s (down a key or two) with Ri’s Song That Refuses To Die. The results? Better than her mesh with the muthafuckin Time, if only for that crazy laser prism pyramid stage set. Also, Rihanna is taller than you.

We like that she did something weird by performing with Klaxons. But she really needs to retire that song now.

Comments (12)
  1. Gabby  |   Posted on Feb 21st, 2008

    Hey! Do you know if theres anywhere to get an mp3 version of rihanna with the klaxons? The Klaxons did an amazing job with the song!

  2. sunil  |   Posted on Feb 21st, 2008

    found the mp3 @
    http://www.bibabidi.com/

    just not the same without the lasers sadly.

  3. madonna  |   Posted on Feb 21st, 2008

    another shit artist ripping off Daft Punk’s setup

  4. i kinda still like this song.

  5. whatlofi  |   Posted on Feb 21st, 2008

    so it turns out that Klaxons can do a decent live show after all — they just need to make sure they’ve got Daft Punk’s set and Rhianna on vox in future.

  6. exactly my thoughts whatlofi
    that was a good performance – surprised the fuck outta me!

  7. fuck this song, fuck this band.

  8. oystersrockefeller  |   Posted on Feb 21st, 2008

    stop saying mdmazing.
    its kinda dumb.

  9. Lucas  |   Posted on Feb 21st, 2008

    seconded. no one with a bit of ear and brains gives a fuck about the Klaxons.

  10. Johnnyboy  |   Posted on Feb 22nd, 2008

    After the Manic Street Preachers debacle, I never wanted to hear this song again, but this wasn’t bad.

  11. All they did was ripoff the M83 / Rhianna mash-up… very, very badly. Truly, one of the shittiest bands in the Milky Way.

  12. Ripping off Daft Punk? Oh yeah that’s right, they invented lasers back in 1998. You hipsters are going to shit your pants if you ever discover Pink Floyd.

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