Rihanna’s Got Soul! Watch Her Cover Mary J. Blige’s “Not Gon’ Cry” At Karaoke!
Was this her celebrating "ANTI" is already platinum?
Rihanna spent last Saturday night singing karaoke songs at Miguel’s WildHeart Motel – yeah, the R&B crooner has a motel named after his Grammy-nominated latest album. This is located in Los Angeles, and if you want to know more about it, here’s what Miguel had to say around opening time: “Every room here is intended to give people something to talk about,” Miguel told Instagram Music. “I just wanted to create a space that gave people a moment - to just forget all of the reality-based walls that we built for ourselves and just have a good time.”
The Barbados-born “Work” singer booked a room at the motel over the weekend to spend a night of fun with her closest friends. One of the activities of the night was singing karaoke songs. One of Rihanna’s “performances” was caught on video for our viewing pleasure. Watch RiRi serving life and soul with her karaoke performance of Mary J. Blige’s 1996 classic “Not Gon' Cry” below.
.@rihanna performing at @Miguel's #wildheartmotel party, @MaryJBlige's Not Goin' Cry karaoke with @BAHjournalist pic.twitter.com/loqfXWZYcP
— WE FOUND NEW MUSIC (@wfnm) January 30, 2016
Soulful queen! I badly want to see the full performance of this. Hopefully someone that was in the room will upload it soon.
Grrr, why couldn’t Rihanna have thought of this before and had included a cover of “Not Gon' Cry” on “ANTI”. It would’ve slayed. Oh well, it’d have to be for R9.
Should RiRi record more soul songs?
Update: New video added.
.@Rihanna slayed @MaryJBlige's "Not Gon' Cry" in the karaoke room during @Miguel's #WildheartMotel art installation pic.twitter.com/UFyQlqdhPk
— Brian A. Hernandez (@BAHjournalist) January 30, 2016