Original studio track sucks, but live with Nuno and the band it sounds like a cross between Toto and a metal ballad with a great R & B lead vocal performance (a style I generally don't care to listen to), and it's kind of surprising how well it all works together seamlessly.
Background video reminds me of a cross between 90's and 70's technology, new transparency with an older feel, parts of it reminded me of the backgrounds in those first Black Sabbath live videos, mixed with a little of the I Just Want You video from Ozzy, the Neverending Story, and a few hits of acid.
Rihanna didn't write the song, of course, so no credit there, but yeah, that performance on both her part and the band - credit where it's due.
(By my count, lead guitar, lead vocal, piano, and drums are live, with backing vocals, rhythm guitars, and strings on the DAT.)
Makes a person wonder what would happen if instead of that crap outsourcing of all the songwriting to people outside the band like most of the garbage on pop radio, if she and her own band just tried writing their songs.
What's funny to me is that their interpretation of this song has a more of a metal influence than those two shit awful folk rock ballads that Nuno's own metal band will forever be associated with, which had none.
