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SOS
Rihanna
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- Album
- A Girl Like Me
- Released
- 2006
- Genres
- Length
- 3:59
- Tempo
- 137 BPM
- Label
- Def Jam Recordings
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About this song
SOS is the lead single from Rihanna's album A Girl Like Me. It samples Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" and makes several references to 1980s songs. It became Rihanna's first number one on the Hot 100, passing the #2 peak of her previous best single, "Pon de Replay."
What it's about
The song's story is simply about falling deeply in love.
Fun facts
- Samples “Tainted Love by Soft Cell”.
- Sampled in 4 other songs, like “SOS (post-indigo mix) by scarletfeathers”.
- Covered 4 times, including “S.O.S. by The Chipettes”.
- Written by E. Kidd Bogart, Ed Cobb and J.R. Rotem.
- Produced by Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers and J.R. Rotem.