Love on the Brain
| "Love on the Brain" | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Fred Ball, Joseph Angel, Robyn Fenty (Rihanna) |
| Original artist | Rihanna |
| Original genre | doo-wop / soul[1] |
| Originally released | 2016-09-27 |
| Research the song | |
| Wikipedia | song↗, artist↗ |
| song↗, lyrics↗, artist↗ | |
| YouTube | song↗, lyrics↗, song + Rihanna↗, song + AJ↗ |
"Love on the Brain" is a song written by producer Fred Ball, "with additional writing by"[1] Joseph Angel and Robyn Fenty (Rihanna). It was first released by Rihanna on her 2016 album, Anti. Angelina has covered it several times, including in live concerts in 2022 and on Germany's Next Top Model in 2023.
Original recording
Performances by other artists
Performances by Angelina
Angelina's public performances of this song feature some of the highest notes that we have heard her sing.
Short Instagram clip
Angelina Jordan - Love On The Brain Rehearsal (short clip from Insta) 2020↗ was uploaded to YouTube on 2020-01-13 by Rusty Shackleford, the same day Angelina uploaded it to Instagram.[2] The video is 41 seconds long and shows her recording (mostly) the pre-chorus and chorus parts of the song in a studio setting. There are no super-high notes in this performance.
At the piano
Angelina Jordan (13) - Love On The Brain (Rihanna) - Full song (with lyrics) (practice session)↗ was uploaded to YouTube on 2021-04-02 by Rusty Shackleford. According to him, it was "originally posted" in January 2021 (where is uncertain), but was "[l]ikely recorded" in 2019 in "her music corner" (presumably in her home).[3] The tempo of this cover is slightly faster than the previous one posted to Instagram. She sings the full song (except for the explicit parts), getting up to perhaps a G♯5 very briefly in a "woo".
Although she appears to be playing the piano as she sings, she is actually singing over a piano karaoke track — specifically, Love On The Brain (Piano Karaoke Instrumental) Rihanna↗, posted to the Sing2Piano YouTube channel on 2017-02-03. It is not known why she appears to be mimicking the physicality of playing the piano in the video, even though she is not actually playing it. She did the same thing with Adele's "When We Were Young", in two short clips posted to Instagram at around the same time;[4][5][6] in that case she also used a Sing2Piano karaoke track.[7]
At a public piano
- Public piano in park (2021 - recording)
- [1]↗(fragment)
Live at Kurbadhagen 2022-07-01
In this performance at Kurbadhagen, her first live concert after the COVID pandemic, she gets up to around an A5.
- Angelina Jordan Love On The Brain Kurbadhagen 1 July 2022↗ (some sound problems)
Live at Kurbadhagen 2022-07-10
In this performance in her second full-length live concert after the COVID pandemic, also at Kurbadhagen, she gets up to around B5–C6 (perhaps closer to B5) in a run near the end of the song.
- Angelina Jordan - Love on the Brain (Rihanna) Kurbadhagen, July 10, 2022↗ — vertical video; starts midway through first line; post-song "takk"
- Angelina Jordan - "Love on the brain", Live at Kurbadhagen,Sandefjord July 10th 2022.↗ — left-channel audio only; some pre- and post-song banter
- Angelina Jordan (16 yrs) “Love on the brain” live at Kurbadhagen July 10, 2022↗ — full song introduction
- Angelina Jordan (16) "Love on the Brain" live at Kurbadhagen 10th of July 2022↗ — nice audio quality but relatively poor video quality; full intro and post-song banter
- Angelina Jordan (16) - Love on the Brain [4K UHD Live at Kurbadhagen - July 10th, 2022, Norway]↗ — best overall audio and video quality, but somewhat less prominent vocals; less pre-song banter and more post-song
- Angelina Jordan singing "Love On The Brain" (Rihanna) at Kurbadhagen, Sandefjord, Norway 10.7.2022↗ — vibration artifacts in video; post-song "takk" + English banter
- Angelina Jordan (16) - Love On The Brain (Live at Sandefjord/Norway, 10th of July 2022)↗ — missing beginning of music; more prominent vocals
- Angelina Jordan - Love On The Brain - Kurbadhagen - 2022.07.10 #angelinajordan #loveonthebrain↗ — missing beginning of music; more prominent vocals
- Angelina Jordan "Love On The Brain" (Live) Kurbadhagen. July 10,2022. Please enjoy↗ — some bass sound artifacts; on-screen text and images, including musician names
Parking garage
There are no super-high notes in this informal performance, walking through a parking garage.
Germany's Next Top Model
This episode aired on 2023-05-11, but seems to have been recorded in late 2023-01 (based on a social media post by Heidi Klum). Here she gets up to around B5–C6 (perhaps closer to C6) in a very high run to end the song. This seems to be the highest "pure-tone" note she had hit in any performance up until this time. (She went to a D6 the following year singing "Mercy" in Las Vegas.)
- Angelina Jordan(17) on GNTM - Love On The Brain 2023 - version 1↗ — last half of video is repeat of first half
- Angelina Jordan(17) on GNTM - Love On The Brain 2023 - version 2↗ — different visuals and audio from Heidi and Sofia, but Angelina's vocal from 0:50 to 1:13 [end of song] is identical to version 1 vocal, 1:08–1:32 and 2:42–3:05
- Angelina Jordan - Love on the Brain - GNTM Germanys next Topmodel (engl. subs)↗ — more pre-song stuff
- [4K] Angelina Jordan (17) performs at Germany's Next TopModel 2023 S18 E13 May 11th 2023.↗ — includes "Valerie" and "One Moment in Time"
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Love on the Brain↗. Wikipedia. Accessed 2021-04-04.
- ↑ All I want is to spread love through music 🥰🤍💫↗ - angelinajordana on Instagram, accessed 2025-10-20
- ↑ Angelina Jordan (13) - Love On The Brain (Rihanna) - Full song (with lyrics) (practice session)↗. YouTube. Accessed 2021-04-04.
- ↑ Angelina Jordan - When We Were Young - Parts 1 & 2 - 2019↗ [upload date uncertain; now deleted]
- ↑ Angelina Jordan Singing and Playing "When We Were Young" on the Piano 2019↗. John Samuels on YouTube. Accessed 2020-07-15.
- ↑ Angelina Jordan on Instagram: “With this song I wish you a beautiful Sunday. #Adele #whenwewereyoung #sunday”↗
- ↑ ** BEST KARAOKE ** When We Were Young - Adele (FULL VERSION)↗. Best Karaoke on YouTube. Accessed 2021-04-04. [originally a Sing2Piano video, but no longer available on that channel]
