Speaking to Allure in November 2020, Pharrell Williams gave fans an update on his long-time friend and collaborators album. The Fenty Beauty entrepreneur shared a photo of a soundboard on her Instagram stories that reads 'The Neptunes' and wrote a caption along the bottom of the snap reading, "gang. In February 2020, Rihanna reassured fans that new music is on the way, posting that she was in the studio with The Neptunes.
I don’t have the whole song, I’m just going to play you a piece of it, and it probably won’t sound great because it’s an iPhone recording of the speakers," said Grey. I don’t know if she’s still making a reggae album or what, but this is a song we did for it. "This was when Rihanna was supposedly doing some kind of reggae album. Wrote this with a guy named Hymn," she said. "I was working with Diplo on a song for Rihanna. Skylar Grey teased a reggae-inspired song she worked on with Diplo for Rihanna's album in September 2020. That's a challenge as well, but I love challenges so you know I'ma get it done." "I want to go on tour but I can't, and now I'm stuck with music that I love, and now I'm trying to to figure out how I can even create visuals to that. "The world that we live in, a lot is overwhelming every single day. But now, it's just like - what makes me happy? I just want to have fun with music." You do pop, you do this genre, you do that, you do radio, you do who's following you and your fans. "How do I want to interpret that, reimagine that? Because it's been so structured before. In an October 2020 interview with the Associated Press, Rihanna explained how she just wants to have fun with her new music. "We started with tons of writing camps," she revealed, before sighing and adding, "Now it's more what do I feel personally? What do I want to put out as an artist? How do I want to play it with my art? On October 31st 2020, Rihanna was spotted wearing a fur coat while entering the NoMad Hotel downtown LA for a suspected music video shoot, sparking rumours of an upcoming music release.
In December 2020, Rihanna revealed she plans "to take my music and my brands to a different level" in 2021. The singer jumped in the comment section of an Instagram post celebrating her musical achievements over the years, responding to a fan asking about new music.Ī fan asked Rihanna to "celebrate by releasing a song," to which Rihanna replied, " I think I should" with a 'soon' emoji, before adding "just 1 tho lol". In March 2021, Rihanna confirmed that the release of a hotly-anticipated new song will be coming "soon". What songs are going to be on Rihanna's new album? Take a listen to a sample below.Here’s everything we know about #R9 so far. Unfortunately for those who care not for paying money for music, the singer’s new track is only available from the paid-for streaming service Tidal, and iTunes at present. A typically fated Rihanna love story, basically. From Drake’s perspective, Work, co-produced by Boi-1da and PARTYNEXTDOOR, is a straightforward song about facing the labours of work before play, but Rihanna’s vocals sound a little more disappointed and dejected. The glossy, modernist Work skewers elements of dub and dancehall: her voice is at times Auto-Tuned, and a distant sample of what sounds a little like Grace Jones’s My Jamaican Guy haunts its empty spaces.
The rumour is that fans will have to wait until Friday for the full album, but today Rihanna has broken her relative silence with the premiere of Work, a track which features longtime collaborator, reported ex-lover and all-round internet obliterator, Drake.įrom the four tracks lifted from the record so far, Anti is set to be as diverse as it has been long awaited.
Listening to ANTI ? /AgqlhU0GEz- Rihanna January 25, 2016