Rihanna (Re)Mixes Things Up for Maroon 5

Maroon 5 and Rihanna have taken the art of remixing and collaborating one step further.  According to a recent post on Maroon 5's Web site, the band's single "If I Never See Your Face Again" has been remixed, with Rih-Rih lending her vocals. The reworked track is set to appear this summer on re-releases of Maroon 5's and Rihanna's recent albums — Good Girl Gone Bad and It Won't Be Soon Before Long, respectively — and a video has already been shot.

 

Rihanna revealed to MTV News: "We're both re-releasing our albums — mine's out July 17. This is the only collaboration on my re-release, because I always wanted to work with Maroon 5. They're one of my favorite bands. When they called me to do this record with them, I was so honored."

Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine also spoke to MTV News about the remix: "The song was basically done, but we wanted to try something different, so we had her come in and do bits and pieces — it came together so quick. The only other collaboration I had done before was with Kanye [West], and it was the same way. It sounds cheesy, but if the magic is there, if the chemistry is there, you don't even have to think about it."

The video, which is being directed by Anthony Mandler (Spice Girls, Snoop Dogg), was shot in Los Angeles on Friday. Levine recently described the clip to MTV News, saying, "It's this kind of ultra-glamorous, photography-based, late-'70s/early-'80s situation. It's really stylish and really beautiful. It's the most choreographed thing I've ever done, because usually I just get up there and screw around. But with Rihanna, it's completely different and so cool."

Are you excited for the Rihanna/Maroon 5 remix of "If I Never See Your Face Again"? Whose music are you a bigger fan of? Discuss below!

- Leah Cevoli

231 jennyinla Published 4/29/08   Message Add to Friends