"Rehab" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna (pictured) for her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007). Def Jam Recordings serviced the song to contemporary hit radio in the United States on October 6, 2008, as the eighth and final single from the album, and released it in Britain as a CD single on December 8. Development of "Rehab" began while Rihanna was accompanying Timbaland on Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveShow tour in 2007. Timberlake wrote the song in collaboration with its producers, Hannon Lane and Timbaland, and provided additional vocals. It is a mid-paced R&B; song with an emotional, melancholy chorus; the lyrics are about the protagonist's painful memories of her former lover, who is portrayed metaphorically as a disease. Critics were divided on the song's production and composition, some comparing the structure to that of Timberlake's 2007 single "What Goes Around... Comes Around". The accompanying music video, directed by Anthony Mandler, was shot in Vasquez Rocks Park near Los Angeles, and won the Urban Music Award for Best Music Video.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1816:

Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa The Barber of Seville was hissed by the audience during its debut at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barber_of_Seville

1872:

New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, today the largest art museum in the United States with a collection of over two million works of art, opened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art

1959:

The Canadian government under Prime Minister John Diefenbaker cancelled the Avro CF-105 Arrow interceptor aircraft program amid much political debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow

1988:

The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast voted to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_War

2009:

The Tamil Tigers attempted to crash two aircraft packed with C-4 in suicide attacks on Colombo, Sri Lanka, but the planes were shot down before they reached their targets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_suicide_air_raid_on_Colombo

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

venire: 1. (law) A writ of venire facias. 2. (law, chiefly US) A group of persons summoned by a writ of venire facias to appear in court for jury selection. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/venire

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Nature has two voices, the one high, the other low; one is in sweet accord with reason and justice, and the other apparently at war with both. The more men know of the essential nature of things, and of the true relation of mankind, the freer they are from prejudice of every kind. The child is afraid of the giant form of his own shadow. This is natural, but he will part with his fears when he is older and wiser. So ignorance is full of prejudice, but it will disappear with enlightenment.   --Frederick Douglass https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass