![]() ![]() Life's too short to be sittin' round miserable People gon' talk whether you doing bad or good, yeah Got a drink on my mind and my mind on my money, yeah Looking so bomb, gonna find me a honey Got my Ray-Bans on and I'm feelin' hella cool tonight, yeah Everybody's vibin' so don't nobody start a fight, yeah-ah-ah-ah Cheers to the freakin' weekend I drink to that, yeah yeah Oh, let the Jameson sink in I drink to that, yeah yeah Don't let the bastards get ya down Turn it around with another round There's a party at the bar everybody put your glasses up and I drink to that I drink to that. E D A Cheers to the freakin' weekend I drink to that, yeah yeah Oh let the Jameson sink in I drink to that, yeah yeah Don't let the bastards get ya down Turn it around with another round There's a party at the bar everybody put your glasses up and I drink to that I drink to that. It sounds better for the ukulele if you have one. Jay-Z, Kanye West and Cee Lo Green also make cameo appearances as all three performed on certain dates during Rihanna's tour.The same chords the whole way through. It features footage from Rihanna's Loud Tour concert in Kensington Oval, Barbados, on Augand Avril Lavigne is seen raising her glass to the camera before being pushed into a swimming pool on a skateboard. The song's music video was directed by SRP Records founder Evan Rogers, and Ciara Pardo. Bastards on the internet," she complained. "There are always haters saying I'm too this and that. Rihanna told Q magazine the "don't let the bastards get you down" refrain of this song is a riposte to, you guessed it, bastards. But I'm just glad that we could use her sample, because it became such a huge part of the instrumental that if it were not to be in the song, it would change the whole vibe of the song." "I asked the same thing, but when I heard the track, it was already embedded in the music, so the producers already had it that way," she explained. Rihanna told MTV News why the decision was made to sample Lavigne, rather than getting the Canadian pop singer to come in and re-record the vocal for the song. You want to get excited about the weekend, you want to go out and have a drink with your girls, who have the weekend off." It's just something that became a habit, so you get that feeling Friday night it doesn't matter what time you have to wake up on Saturday. I still get excited about it being Friday, even though I'm not getting the weekend off," she explained. "I work all weekend, but I still can't wait. Rihanna added that though her busy schedule doesn't really warrant her having the weekend off, she still loves them. It gives you a great feeling inside like you want to go out and have a drink. That is one of my favorite songs on the album. Rihanna told MTV News about this tune: "I love that song. It's really cool how they combined with her vocals." And the way the producers sampled Avril – it's like she's an instrument. It's really grungy and melodic and catchy. Rihanna told Spin magazine: "It's a song you would hear in a bar but I think you could also hear it all over pop radio. Another Lavigne connection, another song on the album is called "Complicated," the same title of Avril's first hit. The song had a working title of "Drink It Up."īet you didn't think Avril Lavigne would be sampled anytime soon, but this track samples Lavigne's 2002 ballad "I'm With You." As credit is given to the writers of the sampled song, "Cheers" was officially written by Stacey Barthe, Corey Gibson, Andrew Harr, Jermaine Jackson, Avril Lavigne and the record production team The Matrix, and the Runners produced the cut. General CommentThis grungy party anthem dedicated to a night on the town is a track from Barbadian recording artist Rihanna's fifth studio album, Loud. It's only up from here, no downward spiralĮverybody putcha glasses up and I drink to that (yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah)Įverybody putcha glasses up and I drink to that It's getting coyote ugly up in here, no Tyra I drink to that (yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah) Got my Ray Bans on and I'm feelin' hella cool tonight, yeahĮverybody's vibin' so don't nobody start a fight, yeah Got a drink on my mind and my mind on my money, yeah yeah Life's too short to be sittin' round miserableĪnd people gon' talk whether you doing bad or good, yeah 1, 2 We're taking shots in here, you want one?Įverybody putcha glasses up and I drink to that (yeah yeah yeah) ![]()
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