Rehab (Rihanna song)

"Rehab"
A portrait of a young woman looking to her left with a rainbow-like realistic environmental coloring as her backdrop. She is dressed exotically, with light-green facial paint covering her forehead up to her eyelids. Her short black hair is fringed to her right side. She is wearing light-pink lipstick, a sleeveless light-green top and Arabic-style earrings, all of which contrast in color with her light-green forehead. In the bottom right corner of the portrait is her name "Rihanna" in thin, white, capital letters, and directly below it in small letters is the title 'Rehab'.
Single by Rihanna
from the album Good Girl Gone Bad
ReleasedOctober 6, 2008 (2008-10-06)
RecordedJanuary 2007
StudioRoc the Mic (New York City)
GenreR&B
Length4:54
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Timbaland
  • Lane
  • Timberlake
Rihanna singles chronology
"Live Your Life"
(2008) 		"Rehab"
(2008) 		"Run This Town"
(2009)
Music video
"Rehab" on YouTube

"Rehab" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna 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 fifth and final single from the album. It was released in the United Kingdom as a CD single on December 8, 2008.

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 his producers, Hannon Lane and Timbaland, and provided additional vocals. "Rehab" 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.

"Rehab" reached top-ten positions on the singles charts in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. It reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart and number 18 on the US Hot 100. It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Anthony Mandler directed the accompanying music video, which was shot in Vasquez Rocks Park, near Los Angeles. It won the Urban Music Award for Best Music Video. Rihanna performed "Rehab" on the Good Girl Gone Bad Tour (2007–2009), and occasionally on the Last Girl on Earth (2010–2011).