If you are a Rihanna fan who is awaiting her new album, here’s some news: You may have to wait a little bit more.
The singer recently revealed in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar that her ninth album has to be the best that she can offer seeing that her fans have been waiting eight years for it.
“I cannot put up anything mediocre. After waiting eight years, you might as well just wait some more,” she said.
Rihanna admitted that every time she approached her next album, she realised that “it’s not matching” her growth.
“It’s not matching my evolution. I can’t do this. I can’t stand by this. I can’t perform this for a year on tour. After a while, I looked at it, and I was like, this much time away from music needs to count for the next thing everyone hears. It has to count. It has to matter. I have to show them the worth in the wait,” she said.
Teasing the ninth album further, Rihanna said that she is very optimistic about it, adding, “I’ve been in the studio the whole eight years. But it didn’t hit me. I was searching for it. I went through phases of what I wanted to do. ‘This kind of album, not that album.’ I know it’s not going to be anything that anybody expects.”
“And it’s not going to be commercial or radio digestible,” Rihanna added. “It’s going to be where my artistry deserves to be right now. I feel like I’ve finally cracked it, girl!”
It is noted that Rihanna’s last album was the 2016’s “Anti”. Since then, she has only released two new songs, “Lift Me Up” and “Born Again” for the “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” soundtrack in 2022.
