Rihanna covers the newest issue of Interview Magazine and she seizes the moment to keep it all sorts of candid about her long-awaited new album.
The Bajan-born belle has been building her business empire and has established a net worth to the tune of $1 Billion by way of Fenty Beauty, Savage Fenty, and more.
Still, fans have been salivating for a follow-up to 2016’s ‘ANTI’ LP.
And despite years of promises, the project – affectionately christened ‘R9’ by RiRi’s Navy – has yet to materialize.
Now, she’s opening up afresh about the status of the album.
Full story below…
Speaking with Mel Ottenberg, Rihanna said of her long-gestating project:
“I have a lot of visual ideas. It’s weird. My brain is working backward right now. I usually have the music first, and the music leads me into all of these visual opportunities, and now I’m having all of these visuals, and I don’t have the songs for them yet, but maybe that’s the key, this time. Maybe the visual ideas are leading me to the songs that I need to make.”
Peep more from the Nadia Lee Cohen lensed shoot:
Horrible blasphemous photos. She could really benefit from working out. Her mid section reminds me of a granny. Rihanna isn’t a true artist. She can’t sing, can’t dance, can’t perform, doesn’t write, doesn’t play an instrument. She’s basically a puppet. Stick with pushing lip gloss sis. Leave music to the real ones.
Let’s see a picture of you after 2 kids.
Nobody cares anymore about Rihanna.
Why do you lie?
She’s still one of the most streamed artists in the world monthly
And streamed more than Beyoncé and has had no album for 8 years so don’t lie 😂😂
We love an honest Queen. Don’t got the songs, period. Rih keeps it 💯 ; people love her for it. When the songs come, they’ll come! If they don’t, we have a great memory of slayage to live by. As for these photos, girl you bouta work w/ Ryan Murphy AHS baby momma ? What’s tea ?
Rihanna not gonna release nothing new till ANTI completely rides out it was on the charts for 6 years. Let’s the album play out
Y’all need to stop asking Rihanna about music. She’s over it, doesn’t want to do it anymore… There won’t be a next album.
Teaaa lol
She don’t have the hit song and scared to FLOP. Yall need to stop this narrative of shes over music. Cuz if she had a smash song she’d have already released and wouldn’t had pop them children out. This an extremely arrogant woman who always wanna win. She stalling becuz no hit song.
Beyonce take notes, that’s how you give EDGY.
Bey did a shoot like this back in 2011 been there done that babes
She always trying but it gives Walmart 🤣
Nobody cares. And she was never passionate about music. She was just milking it like fast food to make money. That’s all she ever cared about.
Millions care, lol she’s still being steamed heavily. Including you. You clicked on the post and then commented.
A hot mess.
Super Bowl halftime time
Total viewers: Beyonce 110.8 million
Rihanna 121 million
Usher’s NFL Super Bowl 58 Halftime Show Sets Record by Drawing 129.3M Viewers.
You mean usher x alicia keys Ludacris halftime show ..
Super Bowl halftime time
Total viewers: Beyonce 110.8 million flop
Rihanna 121 million and pregnant 🍼
Thats wayyyyy different… 🏟
Fans BEEN able to see beyonce perform b4 SB, they haven’t seen Rihanna live in YEARS however. Ofcourse that would give rih a major boost on top of the fact that ppl were already tuned in for THE MAIN EVENT which was the actual Game. 🏈
why is beyonce name attached tom this mess. u can talk about this baby mama wihout mentioning bey. stteam cowboy carter since u decide to use bey name for clout. beyonce is number 3 as having the best superbowl performance. where is big forehead, at the bottom. this is once viewership, not dull boring performance.
50 had to come down to tearing other black people thats what he’d do. And the coward wouldn’t dear target rihanna who still is holding onto a list.
Kinda poetic that Rihanna went from releasing too frequently to too infrequently.
Rihanna’s entire appeal is being ANTI BEYONCE and the commercial success and lack thereof reflects that, can get a #1 hit easily but cant get a strong debuting album to save all of humanity. 🐝 🍯
Anti 11 Million
Lemonade 7 million
Super Bowl halftime time
Total viewers: Beyonce 110.8 million
Rihanna 121 million
All fans have in a recent body of work is ANTI. Lemonade wasn’t available for streaming until Coachella.
Thats wayyyyy different… 🏟
Fans BEEN able to see beyonce perform b4 SB, they haven’t seen Rihanna live in YEARS however. Ofcourse that would give rih a major boost on top of the fact that ppl were already tuned in for THE MAIN EVENT which was the actual Game. 🏈
SB FLOP with destiny child
Super Bowl halftime time
Total viewers: Beyonce, Kelly x Michelle 110.8 million
Rihanna x baby 121 million viewers
WOW, a 10% increase in ratings. 😆 🤣 more ppl watched the GAME period in 2022 vs 2013
Pack it up Rih. Just leave music all together. Maybe go into acting. I no longer care about your album.
What Would 50 Do
Now compare ANTI Tour to FORMATION TOUR
Formation tour 49 shows in 2016
ANTI Tour 32 shows in 2016
and Fenty x Puma Fashion show in 2016 to . u greasy b****
ANTI Tour grossed $120M off 75 Shows
is she the latest to join the ozempic community? no shade.
there is a spot open for her in the pop music landscape and she needs to seize it again. I think she was burned from anti, that rollout was a mess.
She don’t have the hit song, if she did this arrogant woman would have been everywhere acting crazy and sticking up her finger like she used to in her winning eras.
FENTY . by Rihanna $1,000,000,000
Shampoo by beyonce . $0.00
Ivy park $0.00
32 grammys > 9 grammys
Lemonade 7 million,
Renaissance 2 million
ANTI 11 million
FENTY $1,000,000,000
Beyonce shampoo $0.00
168,000 Beyonce
C.unt Carter album
ANTI Tour grossed $120M off 75 Shows
It Should have been called THE RECESSION TOUR
It didn’t even SELL OUT. 😆 🤣 😂
Blame Roc nation,
We don’t mind waiting boo, is this maybe a hint that it’s going to be a visual album because I highly doubt she has visual ideas for just a few singles of off the album.
The words “Rihanna” and “ideas” don’t relate seeing how everything is created for her lazy ass
A damn hot messseee💅🏻 sit yo lazy ass down and retired from music. We don’t give a a damn for your imaginary album which is teased for at least 7 years
😆 🤣 😂 😭
“I Don’t Have The Songs Yet” = “Producers are giving their best material to Beyonce, not me”. 😆 🤣 😂
Best selling albums by a black woman in US total units this year (so far):
#1. “SOS” — 620K
#2. “Cowboy Carter” — 561K
#3. “Pink Friday 2” — 408K
#4. “Ctrl” — 263K
SOS has legs. It’s almost 2 years old and still selling like hotcakes. Snooze is still charting in top 20 after a year. Cowboy Farter will be forgotten after Taylor drops. Nicki is about to annihilate Renaissance Flop Tour numbers too. I feel sorry for Beyogre😢
Lol at that last part 😆 🤣 😂
Rihanna Loud
238k pure sales
500k sales plus streaming
Beyonce Cowboy Cerror
168k pure sales
407k sales plus streaming
lol 😂
Why U lying? Rihanna never sold 500k of nothing first week. Loud didn’t even hit #1 and you can’t compare because it was released during a different sales climate.
If u really wanna compare Loud to something, then compare it to 4 that sold 317k first week w/o any huge commercial hits hahahahahhahaha.
Rihanna is a singles artist. Never been an album seller or touring success.
Funny this stan war. Both artists are quite on the same low level as far as talent goes.
Rihanna so mature and chill now that she don’t have a global hit song lolll. It got her dating beneath her, popping out babies, and acting so humble 😄