With November creeping on, anticipation for Rihanna‘s eighth McAlbum continues to escalate.
Oddly, the set is taking much longer to cook than its predecessors and has seen the 26-year-old maintain a lengthy spell out of the spotlight – while the likes of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Beyonce have dominated the Pop landscape.
Under the guise of mystery and intrigue, the star has managed to evade questions about the project.
Yet, when promoting her new Rogue Man fragrance in Fort Belvoir, Virginia yesterday, she was asked about the LP directly and surprisingly answered.
Find out what she had to say below…
Speaking on the follow-up to 2012’s ‘Unapologetic’, Rih said:
“I can’t give you any hints of when it will drop. It’s going to be great, that’s all I’m going to tell you and I’m excited about it.”
Elaborating briefly, she explained that the hold-up is more to do with her “perfectionist” tendencies than anything else:
“I try to battle myself and outdo everything I’ve done and that’s been the hardest thing to do. You start overthinking things at times”
Remaining coy on specifics, Fashionista Fenty would only offer:
“I can’t wait for everybody to hear (the music) little by little. … little by little. I can’t wait.” {Source}
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For an act whose only consistent trait is to be inconsistent, there is so much irony in the implied perfectionist angle she’s attempting to spin.
Indeed, what’s there to “battle” when your default mode is “basic”? Basic vocals, basic performances, basic creativity. We would add basic songs to that list, but that would be fibbing. She brings the hits. Still, when each album’s direction is essentially handed to her, it’s hard to see what the delay is.
At no point over the course of her career have we ever observed in Rihanna an artist that strives to do better, be better. Instead, a good song is quickly followed by one of the garbage variety, while she’ll deliver her best performance only to immediately follow with her worst. She really is something.
That said, in being the fair and unbiased site we are, we feel it only right to believe her when she hints that this is the project on which all of the above changes. After all, as Ne-Yo highlighted, the pressure generated from the success of a certain rival may be exactly what Rih needs to wake up, fix up.