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Rihanna 777 Tour: Day 0 Los Angeles

Matt Schichter’s on Rihanna’s 7-7-7 Tour. Guest appearances from Skylar Grey and Priyanka Chopra.

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Episode #424 · Rihanna 777 Tour: Day 0 Los AngelesNovember 2012 · 00:03:31

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0:06I'm right like a diamond. I'm right like a diamond. Loving that tune. Diamonds new from Rihanna. Look at that on the surface. You see the surface at the beginning of the video? It's the brand new Microsoft service. It's amazing. I love this thing. They let me play with so many cool toys this week. It's awesome. We're on tour with Rihanna. It's the 7, 7, 7 tour, meaning seven countries, seven shows, seven days. We're in Los Angeles to kick things off. Now you might say, well, Los Angeles isn't on the list that I saw. I thought it was like Berlin, Paris, Rome, Toronto, Stockholm, New York, LA. It's not there while you're there. Well, we're meeting the tour plane. The tour plane. Yes, we're meeting the tour plane here in Los Angeles

0:52before we head off to Mexico City today. But we had an amazing day yesterday in Los Angeles, mainly in Santa Monica, where the good folks at Universal Music took us to meet some really cool people, Priyanka Chopra. And one of my favorite new artists, her name is Skyla Gray. You might know her because she sings the hook on Dr. Dre's, I need a doctor. And more importantly, and more fitting for this, she also wrote, Love the Way You Lie. You know that tune, the Eminem one? Just gonna stand. That's all right. Because I like just gonna go through it. When I wrote Love the Way You Lie, I didn't really exactly know what it was for. I knew it was going to be given to Eminem, but I didn't know he was going to use it. And then when he did, of course, I was extremely excited.

1:39And then when I found out they were putting Rihanna on the song, that just brought it to a whole other level, because those are two of the biggest artists in the world, singing a song that I wrote. Totally unbelievable. I mean, she didn't really change much about it. No. As singer, as single the songs, that they have a lot of times, they start adding different inflections, but on the record itself, it's pretty much the way I had it on the demo. It's gonna stand there, watch me burn. I was like, we're down to the third street prom and out in Santa Monica. It's one of my favorite places in the entire world. There's high fashion, Rihanna loves her fashion. I am the other hand still learning how to dress myself, as you can see from the plain white t-shirt. But hopefully this week,

2:25we get a little bit of fashion advice from her. In fact, I don't think you can actually get away from Rihanna music anywhere. Isn't this the Calvin Harris tune? It's a music. Wasn't that crazy, walking down the prom and out in Santa Monica, and we just see a band playing a Rihanna song? She is the biggest superstar in the world. Of course they were gonna play a Rihanna song. Everyone knows her music, everyone loves her music, and she's got a whole bunch of shows coming up

3:10around the world. The only way to find out where these shows are, even though we have the city's list, we're talking venues, is to follow Rihanna on Twitter. And as soon as she posts it, believe you me, I will post it back. I'll put it on the big maps. We've got these daily video updates coming. We'll show you all the behind the scenes stuff going on in Rihanna's seven, seven tour. We'll catch you in Mexico.

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This interview is part of the Matt Schichter Interviews archive: more than 700 conversations with musicians, actors and filmmakers recorded between 2003 and 2014, beginning with The BackStage Pass. The archive also became Matt's short documentary Lennon or McCartney. Matt Schichter is now a Glasgow-based film producer and director. His films → · More about Matt →

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