Rihanna has “received stuff she may make hits out of” for brand new album
Rihanna has offered an replace on her long-awaited new album, saying she’s “already received stuff she may make hits out of”.
Yesterday (April 17), the Bajan singer attended a launch occasion for her FENTY x PUMA Creeper Phatty Earth Tone shoe line in London. On the occasion, she spoke to Entertainment Tonight about her new assortment, her trend sense and motherhood.
After sharing that her sons RZA and Riot‘s favorite tune is ‘Wheels On The Bus’, Rihanna revealed if her youngsters would seem on any of her new music.
“I imply, it’s as much as them,” the ‘Wanted Me’ singer mentioned. “I already received stuff I really feel like I may make hits out of. Me and [partner, A$AP] Rocky are actually attempting to determine who’s going to make use of what as a result of it’s so good.”
Earlier this month, the pop juggernaut shared that she has “quite a lot of visible concepts” for her hotly-anticipated ninth album.
“It’s bizarre,” she mentioned. “My mind is working backwards proper now. I often have the music first, and the music leads me into all of those visible alternatives, and now I’m having all of those visuals, and I don’t have the songs for them but, however possibly that’s the important thing, this time. Possibly the visible concepts are main me to the songs that I must make.”
When requested if she noticed the venture as considerably of a “rebirth”, Rihanna responded: “Random concepts, quirky concepts, issues that don’t have anything to do with me in any respect. I imply, I can’t let you know. The opps is watching.”
Whereas speaking with ET, she confirmed that she nonetheless “doesn’t have the songs simply but” to go together with her visible concepts. Afterwards, Rihanna diverted the chat away from her upcoming music, saying: “I can’t let you know [anymore]. That’s like me snitching on my document.”
Rihanna’s final full-length album was her 2016 eighth album ‘Anti’. She has been teasing the follow-up – dubbed ‘R9’ – since 2018, initially promising followers in an Instagram remark that it might arrive the next yr. In 2019, she additional taunted followers by importing a video of a dog dancing to Home Of Ache’s ‘Soar Round’ with the message “Replace: me listening to R9 on my own and refusing to launch it.”
In 2020, nevertheless, she dampened the hopes for the album when she informed followers to cease asking her to launch new materials throughout the pandemic.
Final yr, Rihanna signed a brand new take care of Dwell Nation and it was reported that the singer deliberate to launch new music forward of a possible world tour within the subsequent few years.
In December, Rihanna added to the rumours by alluding that there could also be new music and a world tour on the horizon. “Effectively, we’re all the time gonna return on tour. [But] I really feel I wish to do a tour when there’s new music. We already know what that’s gonna be, with the songs that I’ve carried out on my final tour. That was a very long time in the past,” she informed Entertainment Tonight.
“I really feel prefer it’s solely truthful that my followers get what they’ve been ready on, which is new music. After that, let’s similar to, blow all the pieces up.”
Extra just lately, A$AP Rocky confirmed in February that Rihanna was nonetheless “engaged on” her ninth album.
Rihanna’s final launch was the 2022 tune ‘Raise Me Up’, the sombre lead single to the Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally soundtrack and a tribute to late actor Chadwick Boseman.