Will she ever launch new music? What are her ideas on her Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present efficiency? Holy s–t, she has a nine-month-old child and is already pregnant along with her second? Rihanna‘s followers have questions, and eventually, the magical pop star lastly has some solutions, because of a candid new interview with British Vogue.
Very first thing’s first: Will this yr lastly be the one Rihanna drops her first album since 2016’s Anti? She hopes so. “I need it to be this yr,” Rih advised the publication within the Wednesday (Feb. 15) profile. “Like, actually, it’d be ridiculous if it’s not this yr. However I simply need to have enjoyable. I simply need to make music and make movies.”
“I noticed that if I preserve ready till this feels proper and ideal and higher, possibly it’s going to maintain taking eternally and possibly it’ll by no means come out and no, I’m not right down to that,” she added, revealing that she by no means truly stopped recording music, however is indecisive about which songs are adequate for launch. “I’ve my concepts in my head, however I can’t say them out loud but.”
The interview with British Vogue — through which she posed alongside boyfriend A$AP Rocky and their lovely child son — happened again in January, proper after Rih and A$AP attended the Golden Globes collectively. There was nonetheless a month left to go earlier than the “Raise Me Up” singer (who misplaced the Globe for finest unique tune however is nominated for an Oscar) would carry out for the primary time in years on the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present, which went down Sunday (Feb. 12).
Rih expressed feeling nervous for the 13-minute, aerodynamic medley of hits, throughout which she subtly revealed that she’s pregnant along with her second child. On Sunday, although, all of it went off with out a hitch.
The publication hinted that the Fenty Magnificence founder has been approached by the NFL yearly for ten years to carry out at halftime, a proposal she poignantly declined in 2018 to face in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. Requested about why she determined to just accept this yr, Rih stated she was impressed by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s 2022 Halftime Present to proceed the streak of “representing the city neighborhood, globally.”
“There’s nonetheless loads of mending to be completed in my eyes,” she stated of the NFL’s infrastructure. “Nevertheless it’s highly effective to interrupt these doorways, and have illustration at such a excessive, excessive degree and a constant degree.”
Even earlier than she knew that she’d be pregnant along with her second baby with Rocky, Rih couldn’t imagine she agreed to be this yr’s headliner so quickly after giving beginning to her son, whose identify they preserve personal. “I’m going to say sure to the Tremendous Bowl in the midst of postpartum? What the heck am I considering?” she recalled considering.
One main wrestle she’s confronted since she and Rocky welcomed their child boy in Might final yr is the invasiveness of paparazzi. “Throw me to the wolves. Do what you need with me. However he doesn’t have a say in any of this,” Rih stated. “We’ve been defending him up to now and also you don’t have any consent to be posting photographs or promoting photographs of my baby, a minor. Get the hell out of right here with that.”
In terms of her relationship, although, turning into mother and father has solely strengthened issues between her and Rocky, whom she’s been courting since 2020. “We’re finest buddies with a child,” Rih advised the publication. “We have now to be on the identical web page, however we’ve at all times form of had that in our relationship. All the pieces modifications when you will have a child however I wouldn’t say it’s completed something however made us nearer.”
