When it was announced that Barbadian singer and Savage X Fenty founder Rihanna was headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show, the online stratosphere exploded with theories that the wait for the follow-up to her 2016 album Anti was coming to an end. Well, the ever-elusive chanteuse isn’t quite ready to confirm or deny if this new music is coming before the NFL season ends. Among the talk of the upcoming Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4 (which has some strange guests on the runway), Rihanna spoke to The Associated Press about how her 2023 Super Bowl performance is completely unrelated to dropping new tracks anytime soon. “The Super Bowl is one thing, new music is another,” says the Fenty Beauty mogul. “Do you hear that, fans? Because I knew, the second I announced it, they’re going to think my album is coming. I have to go to work. But I have new music coming out. But we’ll see, we’ll see. Unrelated, but a special project.” Rihanna Talks Motherhood and Super Bowl Halftime Performance: ‘It Was Now or Never for Me’ This “special project” appears to be something different from The Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack, in which Rihanna features on Chadwick Boseman’s tribute song “Lift Me Up,” her first song as a featured artist in six years . While some fans were excited for even a glimpse of the pop star’s vocals, the rest of the Navy is still asking the age-old internet question: Where is R9? The last we heard about the mysterious album was in 2019, when Rihanna confirmed to T: The New York Times Style Magazine that her next album would be focused on reggae. Although Rihanna has mostly been a fun pop-up on tracks like Kendrick Lamar’s “LOYALTY,” PartyNextDoor’s “BELIEVE IT” and NERD’s “Lemon” since the release of Anti, the musician has expanded in recent years into a whole job. titles. She went on to launch Fenty Beauty in 2017, created the Savage X Fenty underwear line in 2018, and recently had a child with partner A$AP Rocky last May – all of which have kept Rihanna pretty busy for the past few years.
