Confusion, clutter, and calamity. Rihanna‘s roll-out of new album ‘ANTI’ has been defined by all over the last year. And the mess shows no signs of letting up – despite rare glimpses of hope over the last few months.
In a bid to put a year’s worth of poorly performing singles, start-stop release strategies, and all around disaster behind her, Rih announced the title of the LP and revealed its cover back in October. She also confirmed a tour with actual dates to boot.
However, it’s now been revealed that the model hasn’t even finished recording – a fact which puts the plausibility of a 2015 arrival into doubt.
Details below…
The news came courtesy of Sia, who penned chart-topping ‘Diamonds’ for Rih back in 2012.
Speaking with BBC Radio 2’s Jo Wiley in support of new album ‘This Is Acting’ (due January 29th), the hit vendor revealed that the Bajan beauty had met with her regarding songs for the set as recently as this week.
Confirming that she’d never properly met Rih before (…), the singer/songwriter says that all changed when they touched base re ‘ANTI’:
“She came over to my house for the first time the other night.
I had never really met her before. I used to just send her the tracks. And so I had met her very briefly at SNL when she sung ‘Diamonds.’
She came over and listened to half of 25 songs I played her because she’s still looking for songs for her new album.
She was there clearly to listen to songs and see if there was anything she that was in to. It was a business meeting, for sure.
She took four songs, but I don’t know if they’ll end up on the record, I’m pretty sure I have one (placement) on the new album. But I don’t know if I’ll have more than that.” {Source}
Sigh. Just a mess.
It’s easy to claim that Rihanna is being a perfectionist, but the proof is in the pudding when it comes to this train-wreck of a campaign.
How can one release a cover for an album that is not finished? Surely the music takes priority over the image? What’s more, surely the music is supposed to dictate the image? How can that be when the material isn’t even finished yet?
Additionally, why – if the LP isn’t wrapped – activate the Samsung campaign, “unlocking” doors of nothing and aggravating fans in the process?
At this junction, it’s clear there’s a whole lot of scrambling going on. And the saddest part of it all, is that it never had to be like this. It’s as if Rih and her team have overthought and overcooked this whole process to the point that all is left is an air of disinterest even if the finished product is a five-star-meal.
Who’d have thought it: Rihanna – more effective releasing McAlbums than when trying to be a serious artist. We guess the answer lies in the “trying” part.
As long as she’s taking to release ANTI we can all die and comeback and still be waiting ???
omg, so the album is DEFINITELY not coming this year.
Cos labels need 1-month notice ahead on when the album gets handed in before they start shipping worldwide.
So no Rihanna album until late January… and that’s if that heifer can actually get her sh!t together this time.
Which evidently means, more pointless “unlock the room” b.s from those samsung commercials. I would gag if Beyonce releases in January/February. Just to p*** Rihanna off.
I still think it’s coming this year. She may be looking for more songs for a planned re-release or something
It’s clear and so many T’s are always spilled innocently when people discuss working with Rihanna! It’s very clear as ever now that Rihanna
Has no creative control in her music. If Sis says “I’ve never met her.. Only sent her songs” where was he genuine vibe and the authentic conversations to get to know who the artist really is and put it through music even if Rihanna never touched a pen! Rihanna has floated by doing absolutely nothing to maintain her career except show up song the songs and perform the choro and take a photo in which all these things very AMAZING creative REAL PERFECTIONIST have spent so much time effortlessly taking their craft seriously! Funny how Rihanna was seen every where on the scene at clubs high and drunk ALL year long now she’s showing up at SIA’s house desperately needing a HIT! Baby bye !
I always wondered how she could get an album out each year.
How can you experience so much that you have a quality worthy album out each year, until I realized she doesn’t even write her own music. So she gets her songs from wherever, sings them, has them mixed for minimum goat vocals and then promotes the album by stripping naked.
This album needs to be fire with all its delays, cos this might be Rihanna’s version of Ciara’s ‘Fantasy Ride’ if she’s not careful.
So I guess the same can be said for THE GREAT WHITNEY HOUSTON! she has had songs “sent” to her also in her career. Does that mean she (whitney) has no creative input in her albums??? HELL NO!! Stop reaching, I personally don’t want it to come out this year…she should do a New YEARS eve release.
@Yandi
Have a seat! Comparing the late very GREAT power house to someone who has been hyped by scandals lies and bad self representation to cover up the lack of vocal ability.. Not to mention RAW talent! Whitney was a star ! Her voice still stands as one of the best in the business and to even compare the two is a definite insult to her legacy even through all the gossip Whitney THE ARTIST not NIPPY the wife mother daughter friend regular person we are talking business! Rihanna is a product to anyone that does business with her! She is a person who puts money into others pockets and now she’s trying to find a way out of her own debt but she’s only loosing the only credibility she had in this industry GOOD HYPE! She’s WATERED DOWN ! YESTURDAYS NEWS! We may still be talking about her but the numbers will tell WHY ! And it will be an all Time KII?? cry ur eyes out child! Prepare yourself
I wasn’t comparing whitney houston to rihanna. I was comparing the creative process. And the input. I KNOW whitney houston is timeless LEGEND! but she wasn’t a writer. So in turns she has tracks written and sent to her by producers (i.e. r. Kelly, babyface)
Now back to why I compared the their creative process. Rihanna has sold 230+ million records worldwide. Now Im not calling her a legend but I think she deserves to have a song or to “sent” to her for her and her teams approval. Furthermore, it kills me how people can questions her input and say that she doesn’t contribute towards her hit songs. She is the flavor, a song is nothing without a singer and/or artist to deliver the complete package!!! Rihanna in combination with her swag, style, voice (because she does have a voice contrary to the way people try 2 slay her) is what sells the song. Which is why she has 13 number 1’s, 50 million album’s and 190 million singles, and is currently the biggest selling female artist of the 2010’s. So the damnation that you, Sam, and the countless others on this damn blog be serving about her album release is falling on deaf ears!!!! ? ? The PEOPLE (POP CULTURE ) IS LIVING AND BREATHING FOR Robyn Rihanna Fenty! !! (Carry on)
makes me wonder if that album even exists. if the tour is sold out she can tell it’s bs… neh? who got balls to give the tickets back?!? or see the same old stuff? like beyonce tho. whatever… just guessing. it better not be that way and that album drops somewhen in the near future.
good nyte.
@Wtf
Wtf are you talking about “Like Beyoncé” you and the rest of these little kids that’s even spending 2$ going to go see Rihanna dry humping herself and pretending to act like a drunk old tired lady singing the blues should definitely be praising BEYONCÉ for her continuous HARD WORK in all her CONCERTS whether she do the SAME TWO STEPS three times in a roll! Beyoncé could end a concert after ONE SONG and the media Respected critics THE FANS BOTH RIH AND BEY WOULD SAY BEYONCÉ ONE SONG WILL S*** ON RIHANNAS WORLD TOUR “TWO WORLD TOURS” ??? the real Kii is u Navi fans are so delusional that u all don’t even see that you love Beyoncé so much that you can’t leave not ONE post literally without saying her name! How Lame! Carry on
ugh that garbage on my post. i don’t care. go somewhere else. *points in direction*
I think the initial post was referring to Beyoncé starting the Mrs Carter Show without any new music. I think the album came out like closer to the end of the tour. Anyway, Rihanna doesn’t need to praise Beyoncé for anything. Beyoncé might be a decent performer but her catalog is boring as he||. Her hit list doesn’t have a d*mn thing on Rihanna’s that’s just a fact. Fans AND critics alike, are tired of hearing single ladies and crazy in love every show girl bye.
I’m just not understanding this ……like why has she been fooling us this whole time like this album is complete & ready for release, we clearly won’t get anti until next year
LMAOOOOO
The real kii is Jack off we sales
Oh? English please? I don’t speak Section 8.
LMFAO @ section 8?️?️?️?️
I’m done
Another pointless post about “ANTI” with an even more inane and biased, journalistically inept commentary following thereafter… Just STFU already.
When the album is done and out, it’ll be done and out!
You, like the rest of the world, is clearly CHECKIN’ and SALIVATING for a new Rihanna record. What you need to do is worry about your FLOP ASS urban-r&b faves struggling to scan quadruple-polystyrene and let the artist with the magnitude of global hits that even comes CLOSE to the “Queen of Pop” do her thang.
??????????? finally someone with a brain why are you giving you’re baseless opinion when it’s you’re job to simply give information and let the public decide. I want her to take as much time as she needs this will be her best work yet
The Anti campaign has been a disaster of EPIC proportions! Rihanna has proven that she’s not a true boss b****. She constantly needs someone to run her career for her while she posts selfies to IG, smokes weed/crack and eats Melissa’s hairy snatch. At this point, she needs Def Jam because she has no clue as to what the f*** she’s doing. Bum ass b****.
And I’m guessing the B SCOTT hand-me-down is a “Boss Ass Bįţch* then? You know, the one who is invited to every awards show in North America imaginable but isn’t the one being honored?
Girl, STFU… When Cedrick the Entertainer actually releases an album that more 150K people give a single shot about, then we can talk. Cool.
Ciara has nothing to do with this. She dropped her single and released her album. She wasn’t pressed for an extravagant album rollout or AFRAID like Rihanna is. Rihanna knows her star is fading. She knows her singles flopped/underperformed. She knows that no one is checking for her album or interested in unlocking rooms. Anti should have dropped after her Grammy performance but she can’t release unless she has a #1 single.
She has played a terrible game with this one… she was so sure that her songwriters and co. as well as hand- picked selected songs would have been packaged and sealed by this time; because she doesn’t do all the work and constantly relies on others.
YAWN.
It’s the same f*cking ANTI post every few days?
Ain’t ya’ll bored already or have other music artists to talk about other than the ones who contribute to the sites main traffic and helps pay dem bills.
BTW I’m completely baffled as to what EXACTLY she is trying promoting with Samsung….
Sia is spilling all the tea on my fav someone is paying her well…
Let me get this straight, she doesn’t write a single song, she doesn’t produce, she doesn’t sing, so what does she do? If she doesn’t do anything related to music, why hasn’t someone else just thrown some random Sia leftover songs together and called it a finished album?
Because she’s afraid to release. If FFS or BBHMM went #1 the album would have dropped months ago. Actually she’d be working on #R9 by now.
Regardless of not going #1 both of those songs did well
#Mess
I’m tired…
Yawn. Need Web traffic? Post about Rihanna.
No one is checking for that Goat. We’re just here to mock her deluded stans.
#jackie stays getting dragged on this site kii good. That b**** is like a S**. Flares up and never goes away
Dragged? Bish where?!
Lol, I’ve never seen someone get dragged so much. She’s forever taking L’s.
And your mama took so many DĮCKS and that’s why you’re here. Who da daddy sis?
Lol Sorry b****, i’m not you, I know who my father is, has been married to my mom for 27 yrs. You ghetto section 8 on welfare bitchs assume because you all don’t have fathers lol that everyone else must not have one either. Like I said before you ugly h**, you stay taking L’s.
R5 might as well not come for another damn month! WHY start this antidiary promo if your album is not finalised and turned tf in to the label?! This heaux is trying it and has the nerve to collect coins for a tour, W…Y…D????
This era only prove the power of Rih … she sold out a stadium tour without new material just as Beyonce did so now the hive can stop to annoyed us with that old argument .
Now this proves us that Rihanna is on charge of her career now and thats why shes taking all this time cause she dont used to be the boss of her own career . Now its 3 years …i miss the old Puppet she was then
I would commend some of your accurate critiques, but since this site is obsessed with Rihanna, I won’t endorse. Antyways, Rih get your ish together pronto
Same couldn’t get through the weekend with trying to drag Rihanna for not releasing Anti, even though she hasn’t set a release date or promised anything. There are plenty of artist who have released albums this month, can you talk about them. I guess you know they wont’ get as many hits.
Ummmm wow
Though I’m highly interested, unless you’re giving me an official release date, a tracklisting, and a new single, it makes no sense for everybody whose worked on this project giving the same G’damn update as everybody has! Just STFU and finish the darn thing!
This era is a complete mess ! So I guess the antidiary thing is just to distract her navy. Also the tour is not sold out
This site must be suffering with them trying to generate web traffic with these desperate thirsty Rihanna posts.
LB please stop it with the delusion. Most Rihanna posts on here don’t even reach 100 comments anymore. This isn’t 2012. She’s stale.
No one is getting 100 comments because you an’t even so a sec without a android spam or you current employment popping up.
????????? I am speechless at this disorganized mess. Smh Screaming at Jackie murdering the navy!!!!!!!!!!
Is Rihanna anti Anti?! While the pop star has already released the artwork and name of her upcoming CD, there are reports that the Barbados beauty is “uncomfortable and unhappy” with her first project with Jay Z’s Roc Nation label. Related: Rihanna Finally Has Her Next Big Movie Role! According to The Sun, Riri’s own father —Ronald Fenty —says she is iffy with her new set of songs! According to Mr. Fenty :
“Robyn is not happy with the new album. She’s not comfortable with it… When she went over the songs she found all these little things she wanted to change and was worried about it. It’s a long process and isn’t easy.”
What’s making it worse is that the 27-year-old is putting a lot of pressure on herself!
“It’s been three years now since her last album and she wants this to blow everything else away, no competition, because she’s calling it her ‘first album.”‘
The record isn’t necessary bad; it just doesn’t feel complete.
“She has some things she likes but wants something more. To her it’s not ready. She doesn’t know which of the 26 songs to use. She’s still looking for fresh material and has the energy for it.”
Either all this is COMPLETLY TRUE or RIHFUNDED is just siking her fans out for some EPIC SURPRISE RELEASE… And or promotial gimick like samsung delema. I think it is true & SELF TITLED is to blame cuz she not only has to compete with this almost unpromoted surprise album but also has to compete with bey musically… i swear if ANTI SOCIAL came out right after the grammys (the height of FFS) she would have went #1 for sure selling atleast 250k or even 300k but instead of trying to be a creditable artist ( which almost gureentee sales in todays market) shes so worried about the charts. If quality was the REAL concern ffs & bbhmm would have never saw the light of day.
I think she going to drop the album and fashion line at the same time.
*sips tea*
Girl this shitt ain’t even funny anymore its beyond pathetic ???
Its honestly not even worth having a stan war over anymore lol. Rihanna needs to hang it up #FLATSCREEN#PLASMA
Lol exactly. She’s late and tired no ones checking anymore.
Anyways who watched that new GOT2beReal episode?? ???
KIII AT ALL THIS HOT BOILING TEA SIA IS SPILLING!!!! BITXH IS THROWING BUCKETS OF IT IN FACE I CAN’T BREATH!!! ALSO DEATH AT THE NAVY BEING ABSENT FROM THIS POST!!!! #WHERESTHENAVY #ANTINAVY
Annnnd KIIII AT JACKIE SCALPING LESSERS LIKE THE RENT IS DUE!!!!!
GUURRRLL I CANT WITH THIS POST!!!
#WHEREISANTI! ?!?!?!?
Well I already smoked my #R8 pre-rolled blunt after black Friday came and went.
Another post about Anti? Talk are just gonna p*** her off and she’ll add 8 more rooms for yall to open
I gave up on Anti-Talent a couple of weeks ago, I just came for the comments?
The same way you gave up on Tha carter V ? Tha Carter V and Anti are both in the same boat kii both no release date
Expect Wayne has been in the business for over 20 years, he has nothing left to prove. Rihanna is still considered to be in her prime, and once Birdman Sandusky and Weezy get back on speaking terms Tha Carter V will drop,and it won’t be doing 150k in the opening week ???
But when will it drop sis? Kii your faves last album barley scanned platinum kii face it he is nothing but a flop and hasbeen who resorts to performing in night clubs even though he has been around for 20 years oh how he mighty have fallen Jay Z would never
B**** Waayne just announced a new tour the f*** you talking about. And he performs at nightclubs, not because he has to but because he wants to, and Jay Z is a puppet don’t nobody care about that fat lip b******.
And IANAHB 2 went gold off his name alone,
the album had very little promotion, he didn’t give his fans some Pandora boxes to unlock and he didn’t perform at major award shows nor did he do numerous interviews, so you’re dismissed. ?
D*mn shame..it’s a wrap before the flop was even released…It’s worse for Rihanna versus any other artist due to her arrogance and ugly attitude.
Starting a campaign before finishing her album? Weird !
I think her label is pushing her to do quick.
She’s trying to evolve from ” fast food selling music” artist to artist and the road gonna be bumpy.
Rihanna’s problem is that her image as popstar, rockstar, bad gyal was more important at one point than her music.
So now, ( after a possible jay z conversation about her career), she has to make the music bigger than herself.
Note this people : In less than 10 years, Rihanna will retire from music to do something else with her fame. You can really feel this.
My cup runneth over….
People be SO pressed for her degradation. That’s why she keep winning, cuz ya’ll KEEP hating. Smh. U can’t WAIT til she drop this album!!! Thatgrapejuice.net is on Rihanna d*** so freaking hard!!! Hop off already!
The drama! This is no mess. As Rihanna is looking for songs, all she would have to do is go in the studio, sing the already written and produced song exactly as it is on the demo, put it on the track list and done! a day recording tops. For all we know she could be looking for tracks fro the deluxe version.
We all know Rihanna sang Diamonds exactly like the demo and Stupid in love because when the Sia/Ne-Yo/Brandy versions came out they sounded exactly the same (Brandy gave a bit extra) Ya’ll are making mountains…
Rihanna is committed to dropping awesome music album after album. She is clearly one of the top artist in the world. She has a certain standard, like most top artist. I’d rather her take her time then release a half booty album. I figure early 2016it will drop. Stay tuned!
Anyway, anyone listened to Willow’s new album? It’s cute. 🙂
lol i thought her fans said she was involved in the creative process for the making of the songs and stuff. Cause according TO Sia she just goes song shopping and buys a couple. It’s crazy that it’s the first time SIA HAS MET her,i THOUGHT THEY WOULD’VE AT LEAST MET to record Diamonds but all Rihanna did was copy her demo. sad that todays artist are so lazy like this
Yeaaaa… didn’t ya’ll say she was gonna flop!!???
-WORK #1, her 14TH
-FASTEST album to go platinum
-100 million gold and platinum singles.
This ERA Seems PRETTY DAMN EPIC to me!… smh Hating ass m************!!