Rihanna 777 Tour: Day 7 New York

0:00Why don't you tell us what you're doing Scott? We just, you know, people are very worried about this right now. We're trying to find our shoes. You know, it's been six days. You're about to have more of a love than I've ever had. Which is. And I've got some rubabatta. The rubabatta is just being the last flight that, you know, at least I hope all of you guys will just like pass out the second week. Get up here. No! You could like get a real shot and stuff and it, you're getting beers already. Yeah. It's sponsored by Buckle. We're starting the party. Waiting for him. Yeah. You might have something. You know, I can write a few more. I'm sensing, I'm sensing is something in the air. I don't know if it's going to be exactly what everybody is. There's love in the air. There's got to be some rub. You're definitely going to be listening.

0:46I think it's being the last flight. We should all make it special. Make it special. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to today's concert in front to my name is G.J. B. Flex and I would like to introduce the world's famous Harvard D ladies and gentlemen. Yeah! We wrote this. Hey! Hey! This guy!

1:43Before we take our seats, we just want to tell you that I know this should probably start a bit different

4:33than everybody expected. But on behalf of the girl that's up front, I just want to say that I know you guys have a blast in making these wires and these clothes through something. But I just want you to know that her intention, we know this, all the conversations that we heard and what you're talking about this, we were not a part of actually planning this. But when we actually heard her talk about this stuff, she could not wait. The most exciting part was to share this trip with all of you. I know that you might find it hard to leave at this point because I hear a lot of banter on it. But trust me when I tell you, she started this with good intent and she wanted to share that. She wanted to surprise with you. She wanted to have to make this an experience with you. And I hope regardless of what access you think you have it don't have it. It's about her, the artist's, that's why you guys came here.

5:19It wasn't to be her best friend with good stuff, it's about covering who she is. She's been doing this for quite a while now. And I know we're here because we all think she's amazing. Regardless of the book. Thank you! This is Stephanie. This is me.

6:13That's the question you got. We got to sit. Very easy. So there you have it. Rihanna comes out with two minutes left in the flight to at least make an appearance and say hi. I don't know if we can barely hear it but that's the best I can clean up the audio. So my apologies on that. But at least she showed up finally. So that's us leaving the bus for the final time. It's gonna be weird not being on the bus or a plane anymore but it's finally time to get some sleep. The 777 tour is over. Webster Hall, New York City. Jay-Z was in attendance. Didn't show up on stage. But he was there. We heard Eminem might have been there too. And we'll close it out with Evan Rogers, the man who discovered Rihanna talking about the new record and maybe a little drop in little hint on what the next single might be.

7:05There's no question that she's got the making of it to be a writer and at least a collaborator just because her instincts are so good. But I still think that her best, at least to this point, quality is this ability to recognize greatness in a song or in a record. Or in a record or a beat or whatever. And recognize what's gonna work for her and what's gonna be. She's always looking, you know, it sounds like a cliché but she really is looking for that next thing. She never wants to repeat herself too much. And she, just when you think, you know, like with this album, when Diamonds, you know, when I first heard it, I was expecting, you know, this was gonna be some big club banger or whatever. And the fact that it was this very international melodic kind of mid-tempo song, it was a great move because again, it made her less predictable than what, you know, anybody would probably expect coming.

8:00And now we have to figure out what the next single is gonna be. We're dying to see there's so many, so many different choices right now being tossed around. What are some of the frontrunners? I mean, there's nothing been decided, so there's really nothing, no harm. And just, you know, she did stay at SNL, which is not necessarily the next single, but again, it would be a very different route for her. And sometimes a ballad can be really big album, you know, sales drivers. When we really connect, I remember on Faithful was one of the single, so it sold more albums for her than almost any of the other if she had had at that point. And, you know, I think that could, that could be a contender.

8:49Obviously the Chris Brown duet, everybody, you know, radio is already jumping on it. And, you know, there's no question that that's a, you know, a possible one. But there's, then there's the whole urban versus pop thing with her where she's managed to cultivate this kind of dual, you know, which a lot of artists, you know, Chris Brown, you got your one song for urban radio and one song for pop. And then a few that work on both. But I think, I think the song she did with Future is everything everybody feels like that's a big urban record for her. But, you know, it's just hard. There's so many right now being being talked about it's very difficult. I think the good thing, unlike the last album is that the timing allows the public to speak, you know, over the next month or so before a decision really has to be made.

9:41You know, whereas on the last album, you do one with sort of ordained and the second single before the album had come out really. And as it turns out, it wasn't, it wasn't probably the best choice. But this time, I think, you know, the people of the jury, you know, ultimately the album gets out there and I think we'll know pretty quickly.