Rihanna is constant to maintain followers looped in on the standing of her highly-anticipated subsequent album, dubbed R9, however they shouldn’t anticipate something quickly.
At her Fenty Hair launch social gathering in Los Angeles on Monday, the Grammy-winning singer gave Leisure Tonight an replace on new music and shut down retirement rumors.
“I feel that music, for me, is a brand new discovery,” Rihanna stated. “I’m rediscovering issues. I’ve been engaged on the album for thus lengthy that I kinda put all that stuff apart and now I’m ready to return within the studio. I’m gonna begin — give me a second!”
The “Work” singer famous that she’s not speeding her inventive course of, which incorporates revisiting already recorded tracks in addition to creating new ones.
“Yeah, I’m beginning over,” she defined. “However I don’t wish to neglect the songs that I’ve, so I truly wish to return and hearken to stuff with new ears, with my new perspective after which see what applies and what I’m nonetheless in love with.”
Rihanna hasn’t launched a studio album since 2016’s Anti, which scored Grammy noms for greatest city up to date album and greatest recording bundle.
The “Carry Me Up” artist additionally shut down rumors about her retiring from music after she was seen strolling in New York Metropolis together with her accomplice, rapper A$AP Rocky, sporting a t-shirt that learn, “I’m Retired.”
“Folks bought triggered with that retired phrase,” Rihanna quipped. “They had been like, ‘We’re by no means getting an album now.’ Nobody learn the opposite line, it was one thing about, ‘That is as dressed up as I get.’”
The Oscar-nominated singer additionally teased to ET in April that she already has songs for a possible new album which can be “so good.”
“I already bought stuff that I really feel like I could make hits out of. Yeah, actually,” Rihanna stated on the time, including that A$AP additionally loves the tracks for himself. “Me and Rocky are actually making an attempt to determine who’s going to make use of what as a result of it’s so good.”
