Love On The Brain

"Love on the Brain" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her eighth studio album, Anti (2016). It was written and produced by Fred Ball, with additional writing by Joseph Angel and Rihanna, and Kuk Harrell serving as the vocal producer. The song was provided to rhythmic contemporary and urban contemporary radio stations on September 27, 2016, as the album's fourth single. "Love on the Brain" is a doo-wop and soul ballad inspired by 1950s and 1960s music. Its instrumentation consists of a guitar arpeggio, swirling organ, a simple chord progression, syncopated strings, and orchestra. Lyrically, the song has themes of swinging back and forth between the highs and lows of a toxic love. Rihanna's vocals were noted for being versatile, having lower and higher notes throughout the track, and were compared to those of Amy Winehouse and a range of soul artists. Commercially, the song reached the top of the Polish chart, as well as the top-twenty in France and New Zealand, and top-forty in Austria, Canada and Germany. In the United States, the song reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her 22nd top-five single breaking her tie with Elvis Presley as the artist with the 5th most top-five singles, and it was also her 30th top-ten single tying her with Madonna and The Beatles as the only acts in history to appear at least thirty times in the top-ten of the Hot 100. Rihanna performed the track during her Anti World Tour, as well as at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards and as a part of a medley at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards.

[Verse 1] And you got me like, "Oh, what you want from me?" (What you want from me?) And I tried to buy your pretty heart, but the price too high Baby, you got me like "Oh" You love when I fall apart (fall apart) So you can put me together and throw me against the wall [Pre-Chorus] Baby you got me like i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-hiii, woo i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-hiii Don't you stop loving me (loving me) Don't quit loving me (loving me) Just start loving me (loving me) Owwwwww [Chorus] And babe I’m fist-fighting with fire Just to get close to you Can we burn something babe And I run for miles just to get a taste Must be love on the brain That’s got me feeling this way It beats me black and blue but it fucks me so good And I can’t get enough Must be love on the brain yeah And it keeps cursing my name No matter what I do I’m no good without you And I can’t get enough Must be love on the..... brain [Verse 2] Baby keep loving me Just love me Yeah, just love me All you need to do is love me, yeah Got me like, ah-ha-ha-owww I’m tired of being played like a violin What do I gotta do to get in your motherfuckin’ heart? Baby like i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-hiii, woo i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-hiii [Pre-Chorus] Baby you got me like i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-hiii, woo i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-hiii Don't you stop loving me (loving me) Don't quit loving me (loving me) Just start loving me (loving me) Ooooooohhh [Chorus] And babe I’m fist-fighting with fire Just to get close to you Can we burn something babe And I run for miles just to get a taste Must be love on the brain That’s got me feeling this way It beats me black and blue but it fucks me so good And I can’t get enough Must be love on the brain yeah And it keeps cursing my name No matter what I do I’m no good without you And I can’t get enough Must be love on the.... brain [Click here to learn more about the making of "Love on the Brain"]