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"It was kind of crazy 'cause ... when I originally worked on 'We Can't Stop,' we had did it for Rihanna," Mike WiLL Made-Ittold MTV News. "The idea was more towards Rihanna."
The producer added that after Rihanna heard her "Unapologetic" track "Pour It Up," she pivoted to working on that "right away. And she didn't even hear 'We Can't Stop.'"
However, Cyrus "nailed the record, and she did it with her swag," he said. "So it sounds totally different from what we originally tried to come up with."
Rihanna turned down a collaboration on the electropop duo's song, but they were OK with it,according to a 2016 Rolling Stone interview.
Instead, the pair welcomed "Hide Away" singer Daya aboard the project. With her assistance, the song made its way into the top three of theBillboard Hot 100 chartin July 2016.
Songwriter Ross Golantold CBS Newsin 2017 that he initially wanted Carrie Underwood to take on the song. But after they finished it, they thought it'd work for Keys or Rihanna before Grande came along.
"There aren't a lot of artists that are appreciative of the songwriters, but the ones you want to work with are people like Ariana, who came in the room and said, 'Please let me try this song and if I do, I promise I'll treat it well,'" he said.
"Drake heard Rihanna's version and was like, 'I really want to use this record,' and I was like, 'Man, ask her!'" record producer No I.D. said in a2011 interview with Complex.
"So he ended up with the beat and then when he recorded it he was singing, and I was like 'Word? Singing. You're really rolling with this, huh?' Drake took it and made his own magic record," the producer explained.
"I sent it to probably Rihanna's people and Beyoncé's people. Rihanna put it on hold and she had it on hold for eight months, but her management forgot to secure it by paying for the track," Siatold ABC Newsin July 2014.
“所以发生了什么是,碧昂丝陷入home base and threw the money down and it was a really awkward situation," she added.
"'Chandelier,' I did try to pitch it to Rihanna, and I was surprised she didn't take it 'cause I thought it was the greatest song in the world at the time," Siasaid in an interview with Good Morning Americain June 2020.
While discussing Rihanna's rejection ofNo. 1 pop hit"Cheap Thrills,"Sia told Rolling Stone, "Her manager said, 'We need soul. We want some music that has feeling.'"
She then went off and made "Cheap Thrills" for Rihanna but "realized just as soon as I was cutting it that it sounded a little bit too Brit-pop for her."
"We did actually send it to her, but they passed on it," she said.
Songwriter Ester Dean had originally made "Come & Get It" for Rihanna's sixth studio album, "Talk That Talk,"according to Oprah Magazine.
However, the Barbadian singer passed on the song, leaving it available forthe former Disney Channel star.
During a Tumblr Q&A in 2016, Charli XCX, who cowrote the song, said she thought "at one point Rihanna was gonna sing it or something, but then I think the direction of her record changed and it wasn't right for her anymore."
"Then I think Selena heard it and was into it and she sang it and it just suited her voice and her story so well. The song felt so emotional and real coming from her. I was really happy she cut it, it felt very powerful," the songwriter added.
In December 2013,Pitbullrevealed in a 2013 interview on "Kid Kraddick in the Morning" that Rihanna was supposed to be singing the hook of his "Global Warming: Meltdown" track, not Kesha.
"The person we were looking at first to work on that record was actually Rihanna and Rihanna had something she had to do with Shakira, so she wasn't able to work on our record," he said,according to Just Jared.
Both Rihanna andNicki Minajturned downDiplo'soffer to record the club hit, the DJ revealed in a2015 Time interview.
But he ultimately decided that MØ, who ultimately provided the vocals for the song, "sounds better than anybody was going to sound on that record," he said.
The 2010 track was one of 200 songs that were written for but never made it onto Rihanna's fifth studio album, "Loud,"according to MTV.
However, the track ended up onUsher'ssixth studio album, "Raymond v. Raymond," and from there, made its way to No. 4 on theBillboard Hot 100.