Last night EW threwits annual partyfor itsEW 100 issue on stands today!

at the cavernous Gotham Hall in Manhattan.

I went for one reason: to watchRihannaperformUmbrellain the flesh.

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Pop music aint my beat at EW.

I grew up on classical, then switched to your typical twenty-something white-dude indie rock sometime around college.

We heardYeah,by Usher,prettygood, but only that.

(And since tainted forever byHitch.)

But it came out in the spring.

And last summer was a disaster.

And after the jump, Rihanna will sing it to us at the EW 100 party!

So lets just skip to the closer.

What do you think?