Interviewed by the British edition of the newspaper voguethe singer confided in her desire to return to music and the pressure surrounding the creation of her next album.
Will 2023 be the year of Rihanna’s big musical comeback? Less than a week after her impressive performance during the Super Bowl halftime show, the singer confided in the columns of the magazine Vogue UK her desire to release a new album before the end of 2023. She poses for the cover of the magazine, along with her companion ASAP Rocky and their 9-month-old son.
“I want it to be this year. It would be ridiculous if it didn’t happen this year. But I just want to have fun. I just want to make music and make music videos,” she told vogueunaware however at the time of the interview to be pregnant again.
In her exchange, the superstar specifies that she has never really stopped recording music, but assures that she tires quite quickly of the creations that she has made over the years.
“Listening to these tracks again is almost like trying to dress in our clothes from a few years ago. You say to yourself, ‘Yuck, I would never wear that today. Your tastes change, your desires change” , says Rihanna.
“There is this pressure that I impose on myself”
Rihanna has released her latest record, Anti, in 2016. This album, which rose to the top of the charts upon its release with hits such as Work Or love on the brainis according to the singer the “most successful” career project.
Additional pressure for the singer, who wants to do even better with this new album.
“There is this pressure that I impose on myself. I tell myself that if it is not better than ‘Anti’, it is not even worth it”, she confides to vogue UK.
And to add: “I realized that if I keep waiting until it feels perfect and better, it’s going to take forever and it will never come out. I’m not ready for that.”
If she has not released an album for almost seven years, Rihanna began her return to music at the end of October with a single lift me upfor the film’s soundtrack Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Thanks to this piece, the singer won her first Oscar nomination in the category best original song. She will face in particular the artist Lady Gaga, and her title hold my handfilm soundtrack Top Gun: Maverick.
