Under their umbrellas? So I thought that this was pretty funny that Mandy Moore decided to cover Rihanna’s huge crossover smash, “Umbrella.” I first heard this song on MTV’s popular “reality” series, The Hills. I’m not really a fan of the show, but I just happened to be at a friend’s house and there she was singing “Umbrella.” [Apparently, the version that was on 'The Hill's' wasn't Mandy Moore, it was Marie Digby. View her version here.] In all honesty, this just proves the crossover appeal of this song. I’ve heard country version of this song, and here’s a soft-rock ballad version and it actually is listenable. I can’t even hate, this version has something likable about it. Of course, they serve two different purposes. Rihanna’s “Umbrella” (written and produced by The Dream) goes hard in the club and in the car, and Mandy’s version is for those kick back nights with your boo.
Rihanna – Umbrella (full) – listen / alternate
Mandy Moore – Umbrella (full) – listen / alternate
[However, I will say this. This just goes to show you that white folks will forever take something that black people have done before, throw some blonde hair on it and their people will go up for it. We can never have some stuff to ourselves.] Some people may have forgot that this is a blog, which means we are entitled to our opinions. Even if you don’t agree with what Brian said, you can at least speak on it maturely. Thanx for your time. -Angel
preach
why does it always have to be a white black thing??
shit won’t load
I heard that version of Mandy Moore on the show “The Hills like last night….i like Mandy Moore’s version better.
I hate both of the songs! Mandy voice irks me, I had to turn it off. If I had to choose I would say Rihanna.
Mandy Moore sounds nice singing this song in her version. And Rhianna sounds nice singing it in her version. I just can’t enough of this song point blank!
I heard this on the Hills also. I was like who singin this song and sound worse than Rihanna (people say she can’t sing). Anyway Rihanna did it way better cause it fits her voice and Mandy voice is not that great. White people eat up non talent in their culture Mandy, Brittney, Jessica.
RIHANNAS VERSION IS BETTER
BUT I ALSO LIKE MANDYS…
# 4………….. I agree with you.
I don’t understand why it has to be a black white thing either…….good music is good music. Alot of black artist sample off of old school white song beats….especially Diddy….so i don’t see the problem.
Yeah totally listen able in a weird way…..I heard it was for Mary J. Blige first I wonder how she would have sounded singing it….
yea i agree i dont think this had anything to do with white or black…sheesh
but i like both they both serve different purposes and styles…and rhianna and mandy have completely diff voices
we use some of white ppl things too. so we can’t even hate and mandy moore is one of the good ones, cut her some slack.
I like the song from Mandy “Extraordinary” …..I really like that song for some reason…the editing they did on her voice is amazing….
ok….whatever….rihanna’s version still does it for me……
mandy’s make’s me wanna run outside with a summer dress on and twirl around in the rain on a cool summers night…with a daisy pinned up in my hair, holding my boo’s pick…..”hold me sweet jesus”
#9, I wasn’t making it a black/white issue. I just think that people should recognize that for a long time, white people have taken what black people have done and made it their own. rock ‘n roll is a prime example of that.
that’s why people were so enamored with people like elvis – he was a white man that sounded and moved like a black man, so it was acceptable for them to like that.
Like Ri’s version better but I don’t mind Mandy’s. I’ve always liked her.
RIHANNA…..
Rhianna because she made the lyrics adhere to her background besides that we all Umbrella Ay Ayed out.
OH MY GOSH!!! I HATE Mandy’s version! My goodness! Hers sounds like trash compared to Rihanna’s. (I never though I’d say that.)
Maybe if she sang better or something but this is garbage to me.
And what exactly do they mean by: Come in to me? Sounds kinda freaky… lol
Does anyone remember when she came out…”I missin you like Candaaayayeeeaaa!” LOL…I can’t lie…I used to hum that song in my head like every other hour…
i heard mandy moore’s version on the hills. i like her version and all other versions i’ve heard, but i don’t like the fact the rihanna had this smash hit and can’t get her shine alone. now everybody wants a piece of the pie.
Here we ago and how many times has Beyonce copied off of White artists???
EXACTLY so stop making everything into a Black White thing.
There are Plenty of Black artists that sample off of White ones.
Did You know ” I will always love you” was originall y sung by Dolly Parton and she wrote it too.
Anyway Mandy Moore and Jessica simpeson FLOPS ALL THE TIME. so I don’t know whast White people are eating up , but it is not them.
I like Mandy’s version better.
Don’t like the song no matter who sings it.
Brian, it’s a shame you have to defend YOUR own opinion. Geesh.
I too heard this version on the Hills and I was like who is this girl copying Rihanna’s song and to find out it’s Mandy Moore.Clearly,Mandy is the better singer and I really like this version.It’s really sweet.Mandy did sing it better but I still like Rihanna’s hard rock version over the soft rock version but very good Mandy.
the version on the hills isnt mandy moore its actually a girl off youtube if i can find the link ill post it.
24…i agree with ya…terrible…
AND U R SO RIGHT BRIAN, JIMI HENDRIX IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THAT!
#15 I understand what you are saying Brian, but in this instance Mandy is just covering a song and I doubt it will be popular.
A lot of Black folks do NOT like when other Black sing ROck music. But Black people created ROck N Roll
@BRIAN
A black man wrote all his songs but they killed the man before his fans found out…only a few people from the old school know….like my dad….lol…
CO SIGN BRIAN! JIMI HENDRIX IS A PRIME EXAMPLE……
I dont like Mandy Moore’s version. It sounds awful. And I’m not closed minded either, I have music tastes all across the spectrum but I do NOT like that version.
So this is the culprit that sung that song on ‘The Hills’- which I love by the way!
When I heard it on the show I was like that can’t be Rihanna. It was so watered down, I just knew it was a white girl. A white girl named Mandy. It had no soul at all.
@ # 24
most of us on here have to defend our own opinions when we post OUR opinions on here.
So what the hell are you talking about?
he posted his opinion , and i posted mine.
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Yeah Jimi was a prime example of the first Rock…then white people snatched and ran with it adding the “Roll” and “Acid Rock” “Metal” “Punk” all that bull is just variations of the same thing…I don’t like all that extraness either….I swear they just be like:”YOOOOOEEEEAARARRARAARAPOPOPOPOASSSSFFFFUFUUUCCKCKK”…basically nothing….crazy…
Wait damn did yall just change that pic or are my eyes decieving me?
I’ve heard Mandy Moore version out here in L.A on the radio also.
Someone needs to take Mandy Moore to the 18th Floor of a building and drop her butt off the roof. She sounds horrible………..she can’t touch Rihanna.
Did anyone see DreamGirls… I hate when White People take Black People Music.. Do you remeber when the Dreamgirls made the amazing song, and the radio would not play it.. Then the white boys (surfer dudes) took the song and made it a huge hit on American Bandstand! Duh! Elvis and others took our music…
Let Mandy Moore find her own music.
I hate that with a passion!
36 i thought the same thing….
Actually the version on the hills was sung by marie digby NOT mandy moore, but the songs has mass appeal so no point in hating on any race
LOL @ your blood pressure getting all high for nothing. Take a deep breath… it’s gonna be okay.
Smiles, Everyone
#35 ACTUALLY CHUCK BERRY WAS KNOW YOUR BLACK HISTORY. HE WAS THE FATHER OF ROCK N ROLL.
MARLON BRANDO SAID IT BEST.
“It seems to me hilarious that our government put the face of Elvis Presley on a postage stamp after he died from an overdose of drugs. His fans don’t mention that because they don’t want to give up their myths. They ignore the fact that he was a drug addict and claim he invented rock ‘n’ roll when in fact he took it from black culture; they had been singing that way for years before he came along, copied them and became a star.”
# 42 you sound dumb.
Kill ya self.
Rihanna just got Owned,
that 5head girl Rihanna cant sing,
#30 and Whitney Houston should have left “I will always love you” to Dolly Parton???
the song itself makes me wretch violently so I am medically prohibited from listening to it at all.
I find it sad that we as Black people don’t know that Chuck Berry and NOT Jimi Hendrix was the FATHER of ROCK N ROLL.
It seems to me hilarious that our government put the face of Elvis Presley on a postage stamp after he died from an overdose of drugs. His fans don’t mention that because they don’t want to give up their myths. They ignore the fact that he was a drug addict and claim he invented rock ‘n’ roll when in fact he took it from black culture; they had been singing that way for years before he came along, copied them and became a star.”
I”ve always like Marlon Brando.
But I can’t play the race card on everything Black artists use White artists samples and Like someone else said Dolly was the ORIGINAL singer of I will always love you.
Please!!! Mandy rendition is HORRIBLE!
SHYT…. WE CAN PARTY LIKE A ROCKSTAR FOR REAL THEN SINCE WE STARTED THE SHYT, LOL
Its funny because its Elvis week in Memphis right now and white people come as far as Australlia to praise that man. And Its been 30 years. How many black artists do we praise like that? 0. And its a shame.
Charles Edward Anderson “Chuck” Berry (born October 18, 1926 in Overland, Missouri) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.
Chuck Berry is an immensely influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock & roll music. Cub Koda wrote, “Of all the early breakthrough rock & roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.”[1] John Lennon was more succinct: “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.”[2]
Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986. He received Kennedy Center Honors in 2000 in a “class” with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Plácido Domingo, Angela Lansbury, and Clint Eastwood. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Chuck Berry[3]#5 on their list of The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[4] He was also ranked 6th on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
I guess Im not the only one tuning in to The Hills, lol. When I heard the song being sung by someone else I was completely confused, like what’s going on. Thanks for clearing it up.
Mandy’s version sounded better.
i like both versions but there is something comforting to my ears with mandys…but i think the white black take over shit is old and crap..why does it gotta be base on some race..its a catchy song that alot of people like…thats it..
Marie Digby http://youtube.com/watch?...231783322987&index=44
actually singer from the Hills version
yeah we know that back in the days whites would take the black people’s music but when they did it they tried to take it has their own..like Whitney in “i will always love you” she credited Dolly numerous times for being the original singer as many Moore did in the pepsi Smash “Umbrella” rendition
I like Marie Digby’s rendtion instead of mandy moore..but Rihanna is better def not bc of her voice but bc of the beats and instruments
You are not the only 1 #53! I love the Hills. Hiedi Montag could have done a better job than Mandy!
Its not that bad but I perfer Rihanna’s version better because Its like the song was meant for her voice. But then again, the song needs to just go away. I’m sick of it already! I don’t give a damn if Patti Labelle covers it!!!
I dont think it has anything to do with BLACK or WHITE.. good music is good music, and Mandy Moore credited Rihanna for it being a good song.
Personally, I like Mandy’s better because it is very eclectic and chill.. Rihanna’s version gets me hype when I am in that mood.
People sample and cover other people’s music all the time and I dont think that the “RACE CARD” needs to be played so often.
Chuck Berry
http://www.youtube.com/re...k+Berry&search=Search
Chuck Berry was THE SHIT on a guitar.
It’s a shame Black don’t do Rock anymore I love Rock music.
Well #56. Marie needs to sit her cornball ass down because her version is so watered down. I take back what I said about Mandy! that was for Marie. Thanks for clearing that up #56 because I thought it was Mandy and I didn’t even bother listening to it.