Stephen was pimping both of them. Jason was a playa himself… him and that silly Jessica. Jessica had low self-esteem. LC and Jason was a weird couple. He still has to grow up some more before he can be any good for my girl, LC.

Wow, now think how the song would have done worldwide with a superstar BRITNEY! whoa, it would have gotten on my nerves for sure. I’m glad they settled with regular ol’ star Rihanna- phew!

rihanna sounds much better. what makes me laugh is noone wanted that song before rihanna made it a hit.

I like how some of yall who agree with this whole white - black music thing is like “yea, so i heard this while watching the hills (the show being targeted towards whites since their no black person in the down town!lol) and i was like blah blah blah”

Lets get serious please. Lets move forward!

BTW, I read on another blog that The Hills is scripted. I hope its not because I am a fan. Lastly, how pathetic was Spencer’s proposal to that horse face Heidi? (I dont even wanna start talking about Andrienna’s new boyfriend)

I’ve heard this song live sung by riri and it wasnt that great. Shes not a talents artist just a studio artist like most out these days. so no matter who sang it I think it wouldve been a hit.

I don’t know why it has to be a black white thing, the Rhianna one is the one that people love and Mandy’s version would be nothing without it’s success but it’s a nice cross over. Artists do it all the time, ride on someone else’s wave. Beyonce did it to 50, it’s just a cover and I actually quite like it, Rhianna’s one is a classic but the best form of flattery is to imitate or cover, no need to make it a black or white thing.

Maybe it was done to coincide with the anniversary of Elvis’ death . After all, he ripped off more blacks in the entertainment industry than anyone else, before or since… well, excluding P Diddy, that is.

Um Mandy Moore’s hair isn’t Blonde so your stereo-type/racist p.o.v is ridiculous…
Also just like most of the people in this field she probably had little to do with picking this song at all.
There are many cultures of white people some mentalities of some white people suck and some black people are just as close minded and prejudice as them.
Rhianna sang a song somebody else wrote and put her face on it. So did Mandy Moore hence it is only fair to call both of them hacks.
The producer sold that song to white people so thats really his bad.
He could have hung onto it and did a self release if he wanted to keep his work.
There are many white people that you don’t see and do you know why?
Because the media/gov’t/the “MAN” controls everything we see.
So basically you see more or less things that most white people don’t agree with/ like either.
That is why black people with grillz have taken precedence over people with skills who are artistic….Think about it. You have all been duped so unless you are listening to independent artists you have basically bought into to the societal decline.
Those people all pay for their awards as well as their airtime. Talent and intelligence take a back seat. So before you go talkin that smack about white people following and black people this and that realize they signed the paper so really what we have is a multicultural issue.
Slavery has not been isolated to black people just as more than jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust. (I believe that the number was 12 million died 6 million of which were jewish)
Every culture has issues and unfortunately in our country there is a small percentage of people that get to speak….Remember when you look at the tv and think why are they making black people look like this there is a white person thinking the same thing.
Both versions of the song umbrella are poor and the vocals are really more annoying on the Rhianna version.

Oh and by the way get off Elvis he did alot of good shit for black people and also never said he wasn’t inspired by black music…. SO before you go calling Elvis a thief recognize stealing is when people take something and the person that it was taken from don’t know about it….

I never thought I would say it, but I am going to go with Rihanna on this one. I nearly fell asleep on the mandy version.

Brian’s point is right. But artists cover music all the time, and being ORIGINAL is not a prereq for getting a record deal. And I seriously doubt Mandy’s version will get as much play, if any. Plus, it’s not like Ri Ri wrote the song. The only reason people are getting into a tizzy about this is because the post description put race to the forefront of the issue. Other posts comparing one track by two artists haven’t received such attention. I guess the popularity of the song and the coverage of anniversary of Elvis’ death got Black people heated.

Both versions can kick rocks.

Rihanna bcause Mandy’s version lacks passion. To me it’s flat. Mandy used to sing a lot better. Maybe if it was real country and not a country alike song it would have been better ?

Whether you guys like it or not it usually always is a Black and white thing-that is the world we live in.THEY make everyhting a Black /white thing. Just when you think they are looking at you like a human being, they go and offer you some chicken or something. AND stealing from blacks to make more money is not a thing of the past people ! It is ongoing-nothing is without politics i.e. racial, sexual, etc. It wasn’t just Elvis, it continues until this day, look at Eminem and Justin, and they even admit that they steal and mimic Blacks because they know they will profit from “blackfacing’. I guess it makes some people feel good to think that race is a non issue in most things—READ about the Jena 6 and then wake the heck up!

@142

Thank You!

Brian is such a reject for bringing up the whole “white people are stealing our music” nonsense. Nobody in the industry is doin that shit no more, I know Brian loves his copy of Dreamgirls but sorry boo boo, white people are doing their own thang with that pop music.

It’s just a dayum COVER SONG! Artists do that all the time, it’s never released as actual singles. For example: Nelly Furtado did an acoustic cover of Gnarl’s Barkley’s “Crazy” last year. Another example is: JoJo doing a cover of Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls.” They aren’t going to profit off the song with these covers because if they tried that their asses will get sued for millions, Beyonce learned that the hard way when she stole Des’ree’s song.

And one last thing…The song is straight trash anyway. Nobody bought the song for the lyrics or Rihanna’s terrible voice, they bought it for C. Tricky Stewart’s beat. Rihanna had absolutely no input on this album which would make her an “industry puppet” and she sure as hell had no input on this song. Jay-Z just handed it to her and told her “to sing the lyrics.”

im sorry but i luv mandy ’s version was so much better than rhianna’s!!! mandy’s was more emotional than foreheads was !!!!!!!!!!

@ 154

Heidi and Spence are the worst! I mean LC can be a little clingy…but did Heidi not see last season’s episodes where dude was playing her so bad. Why she joking about being brainwashed, it’s really not funny because she looks crazy. And Im still confused about that ring he gave her. Was that even a diamond???

mandy suga… u are wonderful at doin wat u do but this song ain’t for you

DON’T NOBODY WANNA COME UNDER YO UMBRELLA SOUNDING LIKE THAT

go rihanna!

wow! some of you guys are soooo iggie. who cares if a song is “black” or “white”. back in the day, yes it was an issue as we all are aware of, but it’s 2007 for goodness sake. when beyonce sang in spanish were you guys saying she was stealing from the latinos? when puffy did a cover of sting’s “every move you make” was he trying to be white? the double standard racism is sooooo wack! grow up people! brian you really dissapointed me with that comment.

p.s. i like mandy’s version.

I agree with #21 and Brian.

Just to make it clear: I agree with Brian’s overall point. I disagree with the Elvis part, however.

It hasn’t been a race issue for sometime its an economic issue……..
There are just as many poor struggling ass white people than black I will however agree and say that most of the money (I think it’s 14 % of the population has 85% of the money) is old money….Unless you count Oprah who has done what? Talked shit for billions of dollars…Oprah by herself could fix africa Look in yo own back yard and quit saying it’s about race thats a cop out its ecconomic

oh c’mon now. it’s not an issue of black and white. everybody’s been doing a cover of this song. it’s not like she’s releasing it to radio or anything. like everyone else, mandy liked the lyrics and melody and decided to sing it.

before you make comments about music history know your shit…..

more than half these comments about white singers immediately duplicating something that a black musician recently did are wrong. and you need a music history lesson.

and i feel black musician and people have a right to be upset because of what has happen in the past with our greats…..

and it’s obvious shit has not changed…..and you young folks need to recognize and be conscious of whats really going down and think about the out come of it all and not except everything.

yes whitney did a remake of that country hit…..but think> how many years between the remake….she just remade a classic thats all.

to me these current remakes are rude and insulting and i hope jay-z and RI are getting their royalties from this…..Note: which black music in the past had trouble with.

do we still need to wake up????

People always cover each other songs hell Joe did Carrie Underwood’s “Before he cheats”..thats why its called a cover song. Dag why does it have to be black and white?

WTF???!!!! I aint neva liked the song to begin wit, it was always a big ass joke to me but how the hell iz Mandy Moore’s country ass gon try to take that away from Rihanna??? I think Rhianna iz a big of a deal that everyone makes her out to be but at the same time I like her old shit and she did sing Umbrella betta.

This shit got me hot white folks been stealing for years and I wonder when the hell it’z gon stop cuz its sum straight up bull shit

i am so tired of hearing about the white and black thing on this blog. wtf. it really just pisses me off and offends me. good music is good music. yes, in the past some messed up shit went down with the example of elvis being one but if people keep making comments like that then the problem is never gonna go away. Why can’t artists just be artists…people just be people? I just feel as though I’m not “allowed” to be on this blog, loving and listening to the seem damn music ‘cuz i’m white. It’s not fair. I just wanna read about new music and read blind items…some comments on here just make it hard for me to keep reading this thing.

Yahoo got a whoooooooole section that each artist does another artist songs…its very interesting actually. You people are getting of da hook for no reason..Dayum!!:-(

RHIANNA’S IS WAAAAY BETTER. MANDY’S VERSION IS BORING..I ALMOST FELL ASLEEP.

Ok its true that black folks have sampled white music epsecially Diddy, but this iz more than jus a sample Mandy Moore sung the whole song but jus n a slower beat n I’m damn near biracial my damn self but I still feel like Mandy iz a theif shit at least wait till the song gets old. Motha fuckas iz still bumpin this shit. I aint got nuthin against her but she shoulda went bout this differently

Sorry Brian you’re an idiot! Of course white people steal from blacks and try to make certain things their own when its really not but in this particular case, you got it all wrong! Its a damn cover song for goodness sake! People do it all the time - sing their own version of hit songs. No big deal. And lets stop acting like Umbrella was meant for a black person anyway. On top of that, it’s not even a hip-hop song - it’s a pop song! Just cuz a rapper is on the track don’t neccesarily mean it’s a hip-hop song. Even so of course white people are gonna like the song and sing their own version of it. Bringing up race is just so stupid. And I will repeat its a fuckin cover song!!!! You think Rihanna was like “I hope white people don’t like this song because its meant for black people and if a white person sings it then I will be pissed.” Its a pop song so if white singers wanna cover it who the fuck cares. Whites stealing from blacks is not an issue on this particular case. Duh!!

Mandy Moore straight Pat Boone’d this song -_-……made it boring as hell.

@160, THAT’S FUNNY, YOU ALMOST FELL ASLEEP TOO?! LOL.

Shay wth you mean?! In this case it is…………..she straight white’d this song out…………..she killed it and not in a good way….she took w/e bounce and bass and umph the song had and added some boring ass guitars I mean it sucks.

lmao then sue the whole world because the whole world cover songs. sigh so pathetic

Brian is right I mean the issue don’t need to be made any deeper…..any comments he’s made are right……..I’ve said for a lot time black people can’t have sh-t…..don’t be delusional.

its NOT Mandy,its THIS chick singing!
http://www.youtube.com/user/MarieDigby

AND FOR THE LAST TIME, CUZ PEOPLE HAVE MENTIONED IT A LOT ALREADY: THE UMBRELLA VERSION THAT WAS HEARD ON THE HILLS WAS NOT SUNG BY MANDY MOORE, IT WAS SUNG BY MARIE DIGBY!!

I mean damn, the mandy moore version and the one heard on The Hills sound 50 times different. Not all white people sound the same. And Marie’s version sound better cuz she can actually sing!

You people are so freaking racist. Calling white people racist all the time for any little thing they say, but sure, YOU can say anything you want, and its ok, right? Grow up. Its that kind of attitude that perpetuates racism. You’re giving us a reason to hate all of you–because you refuse to let go of your own anger and hate at people who did things that have nothign to do with us each as an individual. I wasnt racist, till I started reading stupid websites like CL and Mediatakeout.

Get the fucking chip off your shoulder. Grow up. Stop blaming white people for everything thats wrong in your life and for everything that sucks. In the time you spend whining about it, you could have got something done. Look in the mirror and start changing the lousy things about your ugly self before you hate on white people, hypocrites.

Ewww. This is awful. I never thought Mandy could sing, she was always just…… the other blonde!

I like the soft-rock version better than this…but I don’t know who sings it.

Even though I hate to say it, Rihanna sings it best!

Oh BTW The Hills is scripted, and that girl Heidi has a song on the radio w/ her boyfirend rapping on it!!!

That last paragraph was the dumbest thing i’ve read… I don’t get why it always has to be about race. SMH at brian

anyways, i agree with Nik / #58. I like Mandy’s cover!

When it comes to music, I’m color blind..Shawty can be green, and if the song is bumpin, I’m gonna play it in my truck.. Also, I think you are going to see more and more rappers do a “rock” album (i.e. Jay-z/Linkin Park Collabo).. I truly hope the Roots take that step.

First off, I don’t like the Umbrella song, and I do believe Rihanna is vocally challenged. Secondly, I do believe Mandy is a better singer but as far as the production, I would definitely give it up to Ri Ri’s Song.

Now, I just listened to Marie’s Youtube/The Hills version and personally I think it’s better than Ri’s and Mandy’s rendition.

Rihanna

Yea, since some people seem confused, this is all part of a thing they do on Yahoo called “Cover Art” where artists cover some of their favorite songs out right now. Mandy’s not jacking it, she just did her only little rendition. Dang some of y’all are mad as if the girl was releasing it on her album or something! Yikes. Anyway, I kind of find Mandy Moore’s voice soothing. It gives a different vibe to the song, which is cool. Makes me wonder why on earth Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears always got more attention (Christina, I understand, but not those two!)

Ok both sound stupid!

ok both versions suck ass fo real I just don’t like neither no matter what color u are, they both can sing but the song was not made for them

yo mama sang it best bitches

never liked umbrella to begin with

It’s not really about Black and White here.

Rihanna can’t sing as well as Mandy.

Umbrella and SOS were her best songs. Unfaithful is like her 3rd “best” song. But it suffered from the fact that the song is one big meandering mess that lacks a sufficient bridge and it doesn’t build up to a big ballad worthy note. It just stayed there, flat. U want and expect more and Rihanna’s voice is just incapable of delivering that.

BTW, everyone covers hot songs as an homage to the original. Mandy isn’t trying to take her shine and release this song as a single. She is currently working the 2nd single off her surprise folk rock hit “Wild Hope” and is doing mad promo for the song at all of the easy listening and lite fm type stations.

This song was a one off. Nothing more. It was all for fun in the studio.

Its really not that serious. She cant just take a song and sing it all willy nilly because she feels like it. She didnt wake up and decide she wanted to sing her own rendition of umbrella. There is all kinds of legal things and paperwork and permission they had to get for her to sing this song which I am pretty sure is strictly for the Hills soundtrack and not for the purpose of a single. Like seriously this got blown way out of proportion.

Times have changed and people NOW cant just steal music without risking legak suit against them…AND NO ONE WANTS THAT

****legal

i dont know why but mandy’s version makes me feel sucidal lol

Okay I’m a closet “The Hills” watcher………and I heard the slower version and I actually listed to the words without any of the extra Rihanna’s version had (not saying I didnt like her version) but it actually allowed me gain a new appreciation for the song.

i heard it on the hills and liked it but this sounds totally different. this is terrible, just bad..no wonder she always flops. i bought mandy moore’s album “coverage” a few years ago but could only get into one song called “i feel the earth move”. is she only doing cover songs now??

just curious but how come no one got this mad when chris brown wrote his own verse and chorus for this song?

now he even admits that was him on his own messing around in the studio

OOOHH! the one on the hills was marie digby, thank you for the link people! i love marie’s version, love it love it

I wasn’t jumping up and down when I first heard” Umbrella” (Rihanna’s version) but now- I like the song! As far as, Mandy Moore’s version- well….it’s not bad but it’s nothing I would want to hear a lot.

man, I use to hate this song……until I heard Mandy Moore sing it….she did a great job….and she CAN sing much better…..not that Ri. can’t (okay I kind of think that she can’t)….but Ri.’s voice urks the crap out of me….but that is not her fault (I guess)…her voice is more likely a product of where she is from….oh yeah Ri. reminds me of Sharika (their voices both annoy me, but at least you can understand what Ri. is saying)

@holly

when whites stop being racist then blacks can stop blaming them.

anyways back to the song. Mandys version is CRAP. Rihannas is 10X better.

I agree with # 2, why does this have to be a black/white thing? Anywayz, even though i like RiRi’s version better, i also like Mandy’s version, after all, she CAN sing.

no one wanted it, but now that it’s a hit everyone wants it. too late folks

riri song is better

RIHANNA`S .

I like Mandy’s more.
Her voice is kind of… comforting to me.

Spencer’s proposal on The Hills sucked.
And I’m mad that Heidi said yes.
And she screwed over Lauren.
Boooo.

i don’t like the song at all, but i can tolerate the mandy moore version. i’m sorry, y’all. rihanna just don’t do it for me……

(agrees w #2)
and why does it have to be a black/white thing?!?! really?

For my people that watch The Hills, does anyone know the rumor that Heidi started about LC???

like #2 says, why does is always have to be a black & white thing? I’m sure The Dream is stoked that he’ll be making oodles more money on publishing/song writing credits. Money doesn’t see color. why should we? A good song is a good song.

Some of you are pathetic for jumping on Brian for bringing up the black/white issue. If u dont think there’s an issue with it then good for you. But I’ve been saying forever, white or latina females are slowly replacing black FEMALES in the music industry as rnb/soul singers. And its going to happen slowly but surely. And it wont matter to the black people anyway b/c a lotta black people are quick as hell to big up something a white person does that a black person would do they’d hate on.

*that if a black person were to do

TO HOLLY, THE WHITE SITES ARE MORE RACIST THAN ANY BLACK SITE ON THE INTERNET!! I ACCIDENTALLY LOGGED ON TO ONE OF THEM AND READ TONS OF DEMEANING COMMENTS IN REFERENCE TO MINORITIES. SOME WHITE PEOPLE KILL ME ACTING LIKE THEY ARE SOOO INNOCENT WHEN ANYBODY WITH GOOD SENSE KNOWS IT’S NOT TRUE!

This is from Yahoo! Pepsi Smash Cover Art, where they get artists of one genre to cover a song from another genre…. They had Joe do Carrie Underwood’s “before he cheats, MH do “You’re Beautiful” by James Blunt… Rihanna herself did Bob Marley’s Redemption Song…..They did a rock version of Crazy In Love, weird to hear a bunch of rockers going Uhhh Oh Uhhh Oh….actually TRAGIC, But I dig it when other ARTIST covers other song especially when it’s raw music!!!!

RHI RHI IS VERY REMINISCENT OF A MODERN DAY WHITNEY HOUSTON. YOU CANNOT TELL ME THIS GIRL CANNOT SING. I GET CHILLS HEARING HER ANGELIC VOICE. I’VE WITNESS TEARS BEING BROUGHT TO FOLKS EYES BECAUSE HER VOICE IS THAT POWERFUL. SHE HAS THE BEST SINGING VOICE IN THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY PERIOD! SHE DID NOT GET SIGNED FOR LOOKS SHE GOT SIGNED BECAUSE SHE CAN BLOW ANY SINGER AWAY, EVEN ON HER WORST DAY! RHIANA WILL GO FAR AND HER VOICE WILL PROVE IT. SHE CAN OUTSING BEYONCE, J-HUD, ALICIA KEYS, JILL SCOTT AND THA LIST GOES ON….

I DARE ONE OF YOU TO CHALLENGE THIS FACT!

I prefer Rihanna’s version, the song just doesn’t sound right slowed down like that under Mandy.

rihanna sounds better, the other one is too slow and boring i would fall asleep

lol @ 222 this person is hilarious…when she sings live she wants me to cover my ears..you guys need to be a bit mature 4 real how you going to call the guy an idiot…you guys seem to 4get we all have different minds no 1 thinks alike in every single subject..if thats not the case he should be calling you idiots for not agreeing with him…i dont see why the black white thing was rise but I aint going to calling the dude idiot..PEOPLE SMH