Instrumentally, "Needed Me" features "heavy bass triggers", a "pulpy, throbbing beat" and a "buzzing, grinding bassline." It starts with Mustard's signature line "Mustard on the beat", before transforming into a "swirling, airy, atmospheric production" with "distorted, high-pitched vocal sample." Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph described the track as a downtempo song with synthetic sounds, elements of electro, and a loose, casual vocal. Her vocals throughout the verses consist of tuplets. Rihanna's vocals span from F 3 to C 5 in the song. The song is written in the key of G minor with a tempo of 111 beats per minute. "Needed Me" is a "mellowish" dubstep-flavored electro- R&B song with "trippy, trappy production", and a length of three minutes and five seconds. ![]() ![]() Problems playing this file? See media help. On May 31, 2016, Rihanna released five official dance remixes for the song: R3hab remix, Salva remix, W&W remix, Attlas remix and Cosmic Dawn Club Mix. Initially served to urban stations, following the single's success, Rihanna's former label, Def Jam (with whom she parted ways in 2014), confirmed they would be pushing "Needed Me" as an official single at pop radio. She also revealed the artwork for both singles, with "Needed Me" having Rihanna wearing a giant pair of jeans and "Kiss It Better" having a close-up of Rihanna's face. On March 29, via her official Twitter account the singer confirmed that "Needed Me" alongside "Kiss It Better" would be released as follow up singles and impacted radios on March 30, 2016. The song was mastered by Chris Gehringer at the Sterling Sound Studios in New York City. "Needed Me" was mixed by Manny Marroquin at Larrabee Studios in Universal City, California and was assisted by Chris Galland & Ike Schultz. The vocal recording and production was done by producer Kuk Harrell while Blake Mares served as a recording and production assistant. "Needed Me" was recorded at the Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles. It was produced by DJ Mustard with co-production done by Twice as Nice & Frank Dukes. "Needed Me" was written by Dijon McFarlane, Rihanna, Nick Audino, Lewis Hughes, Khaled Rohaim, Te Whiti Warbrick, Adam Feeney, Brittany " Starrah" Hazzard, Charles Hinshaw and Derrus Rachel. ![]() It was great that I had a team (Twice as Nice) that could take me and actually get it done because if it wasn't for them I probably wouldn't have went. Speaking about the writing and production process Mustard stated "I was at the studio and I was like "I don’t want to go, I don’t feel like going, I’ve done so many songs, she's not going to like it’. On September 15, 2014, American producer DJ Mustard confirmed that he and Rihanna had collaborated on a song for the singer's eighth studio album, Anti: "We haven't got our club record just yet but we have a ballad that I really like and that she likes too." DJ Mustard worked on fifty songs in an attempt for them to be included on Anti, "Needed Me" was one of the last songs that he worked on. The song received a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Performance at the 59th ceremony. Rihanna performed "Needed Me" during the Anti World Tour. The video is set in Miami and depicts Rihanna with a gun, riding on a motor bike, before attending a strip club where she kills a man. The song's accompanying music video was directed by film producer Harmony Korine and premiered on April 20, 2016, in celebration of 420. In the United States, the song peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming Rihanna's 29th top 10 single on the chart, spending sixteen weeks in the top ten and later becoming the singer's longest-charting hit. The song's lyrics discuss romantic rejection. "Needed Me" is a "mellow" dubstep-flavored electro- R&B song, that contains a downtempo and loose production with synthetic sounds and hard heavy trap beats. Afterwards, Def Jam released "Needed Me" to mainstream radio. ![]() The song was serviced to urban radio stations on March 30, 2016, together with " Kiss It Better". It was written by Rihanna, Brittany Hazard, Charles Hinshaw and Derrus Rachel together with its producer DJ Mustard and its co-producers Twice as Nice and Frank Dukes. " Needed Me" is a song by Barbadian singer and songwriter Rihanna from her eighth studio album, Anti (2016).
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