Kevin Mazur/Getty ImageApparently Chris Brown and Rihanna aren't making beautiful music together after all.
The producer who told the Los Angeles Times that he recently had collaborated with the couple on a duet for Brown's upcoming album said Friday that the so-called new project was actually a tune they worked on before the singer was busted for allegedly assaulting Rihanna.
"The reports are inaccurate, the duet was recording long before the incident," a publicist for producer Polow da Don tells E! News.
The clarification comes three days after details started to emerge about a love song Brown and Rihanna were supposedly hard at work on as lately as this week.
A source had told the L.A. Times that the song, written by da Don as a single for Rihanna, was reconceived as a duet for the two after Brown's Feb. 8 arrest. The lyrics dealt with love's "trials and tribulations, the way love is complicated and blind," the source said.
Per People, meanwhile, Brown and da Don cowrote an R&B track called "Bad Girl" last year and, in August or September, Brown and Rihanna recorded reference vocals for a demo version. But the song was never meant to be a finished duet and was ultimately handed off to other artists and, in fact, the Pussycat Dolls cut a version of the tune for the Confessions of a Shopaholic soundtrack this year.
Polow released this statement Thursday: "My heart goes out to both Chris and Rihanna for what has happened in the past. They are both great artists to work with and I wish them well."
Brown is scheduled to be arraigned April 6 on felony charges of making a criminal threat and assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury.
—Additional reporting by Ashley Fultz