Rihanna has reportedly been planning her musical comeback, looking to release new music and go on a world tour next year.
The ‘Don’t Stop’ singer has been teasing her ninth studio album, dubbed ‘R9’, since 2018, and first promised to release it in 2019. That year, she captioned a video of a dog dancing to House Of’s ‘Jump’ Pain. Around’ with the message “Update: I listen to R9 alone and refuse to post it.”
Now, Entertainment Tonight has reported that the Bajan-born pop star is planning her musical comeback and recently signed a deal with Live Nation. The publication also revealed that Rihanna is looking to release new music and go on a world tour between 2024 and 2025.
The Fenty fashion brand owner’s original goal was reportedly to go on tour this year, before discovering that she and partner A$AP Rocky were expecting their second child, Riot Rose. Reports emerged that she was set to headline Glastonbury 2023 before becoming pregnant with it forced her to pull out. She is rumored to be one of two female headliners booked to headline the festival’s lineup in 2024.
In February, he told a British Vogue who wanted to release his album this year.
“Honestly, it would be ridiculous if it wasn’t this year,” he said. “But I just want to have fun. “I just want to make music and make videos.”
Rihanna also admitted that her 2016 album ‘Anti’ was her “most brilliant album” and that its legacy, along with her perfectionist tendency, has gotten in the way of her releasing her next work.
“I realized that if I keep waiting until this feels right and perfect and better, maybe it will continue to take forever and maybe it will never come out and no, I’m not up for that,” the 35-year-old said. he said about the upcoming album. “So I want to play. And by play I mean that I have my ideas in my head, but I can’t say them out loud yet.”
Rihanna’s last release was the 2022 song ‘Lift Me Up’, a somber ballad that was the lead single from the soundtrack of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever . It was also a tribute to the late actor Chadwick Boseman.
In March of this year, Rihanna was the headliner at the Super Bowl LVI halftime show, where she revealed her second pregnancy to the world. Before the performance, she told Associated Press that “the Super Bowl is a thing. New music is something else,” hinting that he was not releasing music at the time of the performance.
She continued: “I knew, the moment I announced this I was like, ‘Oh my God, they’re going to think my album is coming, I need to get to work.’”
At Apple Music’s Super Bowl LVII halftime show press conference, Rihanna revealed that she was “open to exploring, discovering, creating new, different, weird, weird things that may never make sense to me. fans. I just want to play, I want to have fun with music.”
In other news, Rihanna also became the first woman to have ten songs reach 1 billion streams on Spotify.
2023-10-25 19:23:58
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