<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td>' California King Bed' A 26 second sample of the break - up power ballad "California King Bed", where Rihanna sings the chorus . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> <P> "California King Bed" was written by its producers The Runners (Andrew Harr and Jermaine Jackson) with additional writing by Priscilla Renea and Alex Delicata, and vocal production by Kuk Harrell . Renea also provided background vocals, while Delicata played the electric and acoustic guitar . Its recording took place in 2010 in the studios We The Best in Miami and Burst HQ in Wisconsin . The song is a rock and R&B power ballad with "acoustic guitar (complete with audible string scrapes), soft piano keys and intimate melancholy, building into a massive power - balladish chorus", as noted by NME's Emily Mackay . According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., "California King Bed" is set in common time in the key of G major with a moderately slow tempo of 85 beats per minute . The song follows a chord progression of G / B--C2 for the verses, and G--D--Em--C in the chorus . Rihanna's vocal range in the song spans from the low note of E to the high note of C. Both Ryan Burlenson of the website Consequence of Sound and James Reed of The Boston Globe compared the song with Taylor Swift's material . Mackay compared it with Beyoncé's "If I Were a Boy" (2008). </P> <P> Lyrically, the song was considered a "break - up song" that talks about "the waking death of a relationship, the stage of limbo before the final crash ." As Digital Spy's Robert Copsey added, its lyrics discuss "the kind of separate - togetherness felt moments before a break - up ." Adam R. Holz of Plugged In noticed that "' California King' ponders how a woman could be so physically close to a man yet so emotionally distant . She doesn't get an answer, but she does quip about evidence of their sexual relationship on the sheets the next morning . The woman also equates asking the man if he loves her with emotional weakness ." During the chorus, she sings: "In this California king bed we're ten thousand miles apart / I've been California wishing on these stars for your heart / For me, my California king ." </P>

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