NEW MUSIC: WILLING WOMEN - RIHANNA & NICOLE SCHERZINGER

Last week, I reported that Rihanna and Nicole Scherzinger came together in Boston to record a new single for Secret deodorant entitled 'Willing Women'. You can hear the single right here. I would describe the song as electronica R&B, and it's definetely a song that I'm currently digging! It's feel-good dance music. The song was produced by Sean Garrett:

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Rihanna has also been taking voice lessons off her Unfaithful collaborator Ne-yo for her new album which is set to be released this summer: "He is such a genius," the Barbados-born beauty said recently. "I've never had vocal training, so when I'm in the studio, he'll tell me how to breathe and stuff. And I'm like, 'What?' Like he'll call out these big fancy words: 'OK, I want you to do staccato.' And I'm like, 'OK, I don't know what that is.' " After working together on A Girl Like Me, Rihanna spent the week of the Grammys writing songs for the follow-up with Ne-Yo. "I read through the lyrics, and I'm like, 'What are you thinking? What is going through your head?' " Rihanna recalled. "I just have to stop sometimes and be like, 'Ne-Yo, OK, tell me why you wrote this song.' Because I don't understand how he comes up with certain concepts and he just blows me away sometimes. He's just insane." Rihanna has also worked with Stargate (Beyoncé) and Evan and Carl (Kelly Clarkson), who first discovered her, as well as hitmaker Sean Garrett. "He is crazy with the melodies," Rihanna said. "I can't keep up sometimes. He will fit five words into one second and you're supposed to get it all pronounced. And I'm like, 'OK Sean, we can't do that.' He's crazy." Rihanna also has studio time booked with Timbaland and Will.I.Am and is hoping to reel in Polow Da Don (Pussycat Dolls) and Andre 3000. "His style is so amazing to me," she said of the latter. So far, the new music is going in a different direction for Rihanna. "Not on purpose," she said, "but I just want to hear something fresh." Fresh and mostly uptempo. "I think that's where I want to go on this one," she said. "You feel different every album, and [at] this stage I feel like I want to do a lot of uptempo [songs]." I want to keep people dancing but still be soulful at the same time." Rihanna is recording most of the album in Los Angeles, where she is also taking acting classes. "Movies is definitely something that I'd love to do," she said. "I love movies like 'The Matrix' and 'Underworld.' I'm a crazy person." I actually respect her for taking voice lessons because when you listen to her sing, you know she's not that great a singer but what makes a good musician is that they acknowledge their flaws and they go the extra mile to improve themselves, so good for her and I look forwards to the upcoming new music.