Repeater Song: 2009-12-04
12:30 AM: Well, I just spent the past hour listening to today’s repeater song, which is Marie Digby’s adult contemporary version of the smash hit from 2007, Umbrella. Made the most popular by pop star Rihanna, this song is just one of perhaps thousands, since the rock and roll era began, where someone attempts to assure a beloved of her undying devotion, dedication, and eternal love. But though its message is common, I enjoyed this light-hearted expression of a very profound idea. In this song, the person tries to convince her lover of her love by offering the opportunity to stand underneath her umbrella, any time the driving rains of discontent, sadness, loss, disagreement, or any other disruptive influence darkens their happy and succcessful world together. In short: She’ll stick around no matter how tough times become.
They played around thirty seconds of Digby’s version (my favorite) on The Young and the Restless sometime in early 2007 ([Emmy], correct me if I’m wrong), just one time so far as I know, and it was only used as very quiet background music, in just one single scene. But it grabbed me within ten seconds of hearing Digby’s gently soothing singing, and I marveled at how eloquently she had turned Rihanna’s rather rough-sounding single with loud rap and driving drums, into an intimate-sounding, soft invitation to trust openly, in love.
This version is more acoustic than Rihanna’s; indeed, if not for its faint-sounding Hammond B3-like organ, it would be considered a purely unplugged rendition in my opinon, and to me, as with my other repeater songs, it never grows tiresome to listen to. So do check it out. Perhaps you’ll enjoy it as much as I.