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"Right Now" is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna recorded for her seventh studio album Unapologetic (2012). The song was written by Terius Nash, Robyn Fenty, David Guetta, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Shaffer Smith, Giorgio Tuinfort, Nick Rotteveel with production helmed by Guetta, StarGate, Nicky Romero, Tuinfort. Musically, "Right Now" draws influence from electronic and dance music.
Rihanna began "working on the new sound" for her seventh studio album in March 2012, even though she had not yet begun recording. On September 12, 2012, Def Jam France announced via Twitter that Rihanna would release a new single the upcoming week while her seventh studio album is scheduled to be released in November 2012. However, the tweet was shortly deleted and replaced with another clarifying that "more information will be made available tomorrow, Thursday, September 13". Right after her performance at the iHeartRadio music festival in September 2012, Rihanna revealed that her single "Diamonds" would be released the same month. Via her official Twitter account, Rihanna posted series of "teasing" tweets announcing her seventh studio album. On October 11, 2012, in one of her tweets revealed that the title of her new album is Unapologetic.
During one of the teasing tweets Rihanna wrote, "There's another secret collab on #UNAPOLOGETIC. "Guess who is featured on the #7th song [Right Now] on #UNAPOLOGETIC, HINT: his birthday is tomorrow November #7th." In a followed tweet, she explicitly revealed that the secret artist is the French disk-jockey David Guetta. Via his official Twitter account, Guetta also responded, "No more secrets I produced for @rihanna with @stargate and @nickyromero right now huge club beat and also my first urban beat fresh off." Rihanna and Guetta have previously collaborated on "Who's That Chick?" (2010), which is included in the re-release of his second studio album One Love (2009), entitled One More Love (2010).
"Right Now" was also co-written by Rihanna herself, Terius Nash, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Shaffer Smith, Giorgio Tuinfort and Nick Rotteveel. Production of the song was helmed Guetta, Nicky Romero and Tuinfort as well as Eriksen and Hermansen under their production name Stargate. The record engineers were Paul Norris and Aamir Yaqub, and were assisted by Xavier Stephenson at Metropolis Studios in London. Rihanna's vocals were recorded by Marcus Tovar and Kuk Harrell at R Studios in Los Angeles, California, while it was mixed by Manny Marroquin at Larrabee Studios in Burbank, California and Romero at White Villa Studios in Ede, Netherlands. Harrell also handled production of Rihanna's vocals. All instrumentation and programming was carried out by Eriksen, Hermansen, Guetta, Romero and Tuinfort.
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