It’s been greater than eight years since Rihanna’s final album, Anti, and the Navy is ravenous for any indicators of life in relation to R9.
RiRi offered a concise replace concerning her present relationship with creating music in her Interview magazine cowl story whereas chatting with former stylist Mel Ottenberg.
“I’ve a variety of visible concepts,” she stated, which usually isn’t the beginning of her artistic course of. “It’s bizarre. My mind is working backward proper now. I normally have the music first, and the music leads me into all of those visible alternatives, and now I’m having all of those visuals.”
Sadly, Rihanna admitted she doesn’t have the songs to accompany the visible concepts simply but, however hopefully they finally come to fruition.
“I don’t have the songs for them but, however possibly that’s the important thing, this time,” the “Work” singer teased. “Perhaps the visible concepts are main me to the songs that I have to make.”
She surreptitiously added: “Random concepts, quirky concepts, issues that don’t have anything to do with me in any respect.”
Again in February, A$AP Rocky teased that the nine-time Grammy winner — with whom he shares two younger sons — is “working” on her long-awaited album, however Rihanna has remained tight-lipped on the matter. “She’s engaged on it,” he stated whereas out for Paris Trend Week.
Billboard‘s Heran Mamo penned an essay in March in regards to the sobering concept that Ri’s Navy may have to return to grips with the actual fact she could by no means launch one other album, and that’s completely positive after delivering eight in a couple of decade’s time.
Nevertheless, Rihanna did make her return to the stage for her first efficiency in eight years in March for a pre-wedding celebration for Anant Ambani, who’s the son of Asia’s richest man, and Radhika Service provider in Jamnagar, India.
The 36-year-old’s most up-to-date musical output got here with a pair of singles in late 2022 for the Black Panther: Wakanda Endlessly soundtrack. “Carry Me Up” served as a tribute to the late actor Chadwick Boseman, together with “Born Once more.” The previous earned Rihanna a Grammy nomination for greatest track written for visible media, and an Oscar nod in the perfect unique track class.
Anti arrived in January 2016. The album reached No. 1 on the Billboad 200 in its first full week of monitoring with 166,000 models within the U.S. within the week ending Feb. 4.
Try some photographs from Rihanna’s Interview cowl shoot beneath.
