Kiss It Better
Rihanna
“Kiss It Better” tells the story of a broken relationship. She is aware that no one does it like him so instead of arguing all night she ‘kisses it better’.
A preview of the song first appeared in December 2014—over a year before the release of Anti—on Rihanna’s Instagram page, featuring guitarist Nuno Bettencourt.
https://www.instagram.com/p/wZn2FQBMxx/
In December 2015, a few weeks before the album’s release, the song’s producer, Glass John, took to Twitter and ranted about the delays behind Rihanna’s album. According to Glass John, “Kiss It Better” was supposed to be the first single for Anti, but Travi$ Scott convinced Rihanna to go with “Bitch Better Have My Money” instead. (Travi$ denied John’s claims on Snapchat.)
https://twitter.com/glassjohn/status/680966123911647232
https://twitter.com/glassjohn/status/680966232753885184
https://twitter.com/GlassJohn/status/680964390120628224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
John also released a now-deleted 60-second video preview of the track and threatened, “if you don’t say your [sic] sorry "Kiss It Better” isn’t going to come out… how about that?"
According to James Corden, the host of CBS' The Late Late Show With James Corden, Rihanna was supposed to perform this song at the 2016 Grammys. Rihanna ended up cancelling her performance at the last minute due to health issues.
On 31 March 2016, Rihanna released the music video for “Kiss It Better” via her official Vevo account.