Rihanna - "Close To You"

[Glove Slap]

Closing track on the standard edition of ANTI.

This is one of the big surprises for me. I never liked Stay, but this works well imo. I get Stevie Nicks vibes all throughout.

[Live Your Life]

Beautiful song, but I don't like where it's placed on the album.

Credits:

“Close To You”

(B. Seals, J. Fauntleroy, R. Fenty)

PRODUCED BY: Brian Kennedy for Team BK, LLC

PUBLISHED BY: Kennedy Klassiks Music (ASCAP), administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP)// Almo Music Corp./ Fauntleroy Music (ASCAP)// Monica Fenty Music Publishing /Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI); All rights administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp

RECORDED BY: Vocals Recorded by Marcos Tovar for allfadersup and Kuk Harrell

Recorded at Westlake Beverly Recording Studios in Los Angeles, CA

ASSISTED BY: Ray C. Brown Jr.

VOCAL PRODUCTION BY: Kuk Harrell for Suga Wuga Music, Inc.

KEYS PLAYED BY: Brian Seals

MIXED BY: Manny Marroquin at Larrabee Studios (Universal City, CA)

MIX ASSISTANT: Chris Galland & Ike Schultz at Larabee Studios North Hollywood, CA

MASTERED BY: Chris Gehringer at Sterling Sound, NYC

[Dreams]

This is another keeper for me. Her voice sounds so tender and soothing.

[Ling-Ling]

Very similar to "Never Ending." Pretty song and her vocal is on point, but it just kind of coasts to the end without ever going anywhere.

[Live Your Life]

[Live Your Life]

Lyrics:

nothing but a tear, that’s all for breakfast
watching you pretend you’re unaffected
you're pulling our connections

expecting me to let you go, but i won’t

i know you don’t need my protection

but i’m in love, can’t blame me for checking
i love in your direction

hoping that the message goes somewhere close

to you

close to you

like, so close 
if they hurt you, you wouldn’t find out
just say now i’m coming right now
very close to you

said you let it go, you kept it
working hard to perfect it

but now your fear is reckless and it’s out of your control
well just let it go

i know you don’t need my protection

but i’m in love can’t blame me for checking
i love in your direction

hoping that the message goes somewhere close

to you

close to you

like, so close
 if they hurt you, you wouldn’t find out
if you let me i’d be there by now
close to you