Rihanna’s new album is reportedly set for release in
December and we are READY!
According to journalists who recently attended Universal
Music France’s Open Session event, Rihanna will release her highly-anticipated
ninth studio album later this year. It’ll be her first album since 2016’s Anti,
which spawned hits like “Needed Me” and “Work.”
Rihanna has not commented on the reports, but she did note
she’s eager to drop it during a conversation with Interview Magazine in June.
“It really does suck that it can’t just come out because I’m
working on a really fun one right now,” she said. “I’m really happy with a lot
of the material we have so far, but I am not going to put it out until it’s
complete. It makes no sense to rush it, but I want it out. I’ve gotten to the
point where I’m like, ‘Even if I don’t have the time to shoot videos, I’m going
to put an album out.'”
“I used to be in the studio, only the studio, for three
months straight, and an album would come out,” she explained to Interview
magazine. “Now, it’s like a carousel. I do fashion one day, lingerie the next,
beauty the next, then music the next. It’s like having a bunch of kids and you
need to take care of them all.”
While many details aren’t yet available, it is known that
the album will be a reggae album.
“Though it’s too soon to name a full list of collaborators, one early influence may be Supa Dups, the Jamaican-born record producer who has worked with such dancehall greats as Beenie Man, Sean Paul, and Elephant Man,” writer Chioma Nnandi said in Rihanna’s cover story for Vogue’s June 2018 issue.