It's been more than eight years since Rihanna's last album, Insteadand the Navy is starved for any signs of life when it comes R9.
RiRi provided a brief update on her current relationship with making music within herself Interview mag cover while chatting with former stylist Mel Ottenberg.
“I have a lot of visual ideas,” she said, which isn't usually the beginning of her creative process. “It's weird. My brain works backwards right now. I usually have the music first, and the music leads me to all these visual opportunities, and now I have all these visuals.”
Unfortunately, Rihanna admitted that she doesn't yet have the songs to go along with the visuals, but hopefully they will eventually come to fruition.
“I don't have the songs for them yet, but maybe that's the key, this time,” the “Work” singer teased. “Maybe the visual ideas lead me to the songs I need to do.”
He added furtively, “Random ideas, weird ideas, things that have nothing to do with me.”
Back in February, A$AP Rocky teased that the nine-time Grammy winner – with whom they share two young sons – was “working” on her long-awaited album, but Rihanna has remained tight-lipped on the matter. “She's working on it,” she said while out for Paris Fashion Week.
Advertising signHeran Mamo wrote an essay in March about the depressing notion that Ri's Navy might have to come to terms with the fact that they might never release another album, and that's perfectly fine after delivering eight in roughly a decade.
However, Rihanna returned to the stage for her first appearance in eight years in March for a pre-wedding bash for Anant Ambani, who is the son of Asia's richest man, and Radhika Merchant in Jamnagar, India.
The 36-year-old's most recent music output came with a pair of singles in late 2022 for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack. “Lift Me Up” served as a tribute to the late actor Chadwick Boseman, along with “Born Again”. The former earned Rihanna a Grammy nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media and an Academy Award nod for Best Original Song.
Instead arrived in January 2016. The album reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in its first full week of tracking with 166,000 units in the US in the week ending February 4.
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