Check out Rita Ora!
The Pop chart-topper returns to the airwaves this week with the release of her brand new single ‘You Only Love Me’ (due January 27).
Trumpeting her comeback, the 31-year-old appears on the cover of GQ Hype.
Beyond posing it up, Ora dishes on her forthcoming third studio album (her first since 2018’s ‘Pheonix’), owning her masters, falling in love with her partner Taika Waititi, and more.
Pics and quotes below…
On Her Approach To Her Third Album:
“I have this presentation I do for everyone I work with, so we’re all on the same page: what’s the language? What’s the purpose? What’s the connection? I tell everyone my journey. [With the album, I’m] capturing this moment in my life where I’m falling in love. There are things I talk about on it, very personal thoughts, about what it took for me to decide on this person, and to commit to him.”
On Being Central To The Songwriting On Her Album:
“With this album, I’ve just been very brave and confident. I’ve written a lot of songs on this album, I’ve been in every session, and if not, I’ve altered songs to fit me. I’ve never done that before with any album: really done all the work and written every single song or been a part of every single song process.
I never really committed to the songwriting as much with the first and second album as I have with this, but after a few weeks of getting into the groove of it, I realised I could really do this. I can stand and sing on the mic forever, but in understanding the world of songwriting I was getting a bit nervous, because it’s a very vulnerable and open album.
It’s my love story, basically, to the world, but I wanted people to really connect to it. There’s different faces of love: it’s not just being in love with a person. You can be in love with going and getting a pint, which is my favourite thing to do.”
On What Anchors Her Today:
“The position I got myself in: owning my masters and having control creatively. I’m in a different seat on the bus now.”
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Owning her masters is HUGE. She may not be big in the US, but she has multiple huge #1 hits in the UK and Europe and a #1 album so believe that she is making BANK!
#BO$$MOVES
Lmao!!! You make fun of American artists being “local” but celebrate this broad who struggles for 10 years to break out of the tiny British market.
Monica is more successful
Monica didn’t even have 10 years of success in her “local” market 💀 Where Trenches?
💯the jokers on here love to come for Monica like she doesn’t have a long list of reciepts, #1 hits and albums, awards and 20 plus yrs old relevance in a fickle industry. We don’t even know who Rita WHora is in America…
@Eunice, why are you commenting on her if you don’t know her? All you have done is prove what a sad loser you are. Moni99a hasn’t been relevant since the ’90s, even then she was hanging on to her relevancy.
Flop ass trick 💯
I’m hyped for the new single
Excited to see what she’s cooked up! She never disappoints!
She about to come back with a bang 💥
We waiting rita 😁
Don’t count her out just yet. The underdog is usually the one to come out on top when no one is expecting it 💯
THIS!
Great that she owns her masters, she can make bank for her retirement when she sells them again…
But wait: can we not pretend her stylist must hate her and made her look like she works in a ticket booth in a skating rink and hasn’t washed for weeks???
She’s a pretty girl but never looked so bad 🤷🏾♂️
13 ghosts audition? 👻😱😂
B**** has bops
I googled her to see what her big hits were. I went through an entire video of songs I literally have never heard of or completely forgot about. Only 2 I recognized and liked. Oh well.
Who?
Fl0pbych
Come through queen!
Oh look riris understudy yall swore up and down would take her spot. Lol Ten years later and it’s still a kii 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Rih doesn’t own her own masters 😂
Rihanna does own her masters do your hm.
She doesn’t. Do your’s, smelly cat 😂
Rih was a manufactured industry w*****. She ain’t have no input in her ish.
Smelly? What are you 5?..again do your homework.. Rihanna owns her masters lol Rita thought sucking and f*king jay z and all those other powerful men in the industry would get her a Rihanna career. Smh Let us laugh! 🤣
I ain’t reading DAT, smelly cat! lmaoooooooooooo 🤣
I love Rita’s music. If she were to do a clothing line, I guarantee 100% it would outsell Beyoncé’s.
gurl don’t NOBODY want new music from you…
Her Phoenix album was a mf masterpiece. Ain’t none of y’all haters can say otherwise!
So who’s this supposed to be? Couldn’t recognize her out of a line up tbh
Lol Rita had so very little fans LOL that one fan making 7+ account to hype her up. Lmao if only you bought her music instead haha
Queen!
Love this b**** music
Never heard of her
Yassss gworrrrl
Rita stays in her bag! 💰 Get money bish!
Lol I recall the days it was said she’d end Rihanna. Fast forward today and she still never even took off
Flop we don’t wanna music from you sis you’re not That gurl!!!
She’s just always been too basic and boring imo 🤷♂️
💤🥱😴 too bland for me
Rihanna wannabe never could be that’s she. 💅🏾
Boring, we don’t know her in Canada
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaas Rita! You got the haters BIG MAD! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Flop
You a flop lol
Harpo who is dis flop?
No one’s checking for this bish. Send her back to Albania.
Look like she was dug up from the local cemetery in the 1st photo.