R9 Is Officially Going To Be A Reality, And Rihanna Teased That It's Going To Have A "Completely Different" Sound
I really thought all hope was lost for R9, and I'm so glad I was wrong.πππ
OH MY GOD, IT'S HAPPENING. And by "it's happening," I mean the coveted, the otherworldly, the we-really-didn't-think-this-would-happen R9!!!
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That's right β Rihanna is soon to be blessing our ears with her long-awaited ninth studio album.
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If you'll remember, Rihanna's last album, Anti, was released back in January 2016 β meaning we've been in a Riri music drought for more than half a decade.
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The announcement comes after months β nay, YEARS β of the Navy pestering Rihanna about the album, and her β hilariously and repeatedly β trolling usΒ about it. The last we heard about a potential R9 was back in March, when the singer said she'd release "just one" new song in celebration of a Billboard 200 record.
Well, speaking to AP Entertainment ahead of the third volume of the Savage X Fenty show, the Barbados-born artist and entrepreneur teased that her album is going to be "completely different."
RT @APEntertainment: Rihanna says her next album is "going to be completely different." Promoting her latest Savage X Fenty Show, the pop sβ¦
"You're not going to expect what you hear," she said, with a slight smirk. "Just put that in your mind. Whatever you know of Rihanna is not going to be what you hear."
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"I'm really experimenting, and music is like fashion β you should be able to play," she continued. "I should be able to wear whatever I want, and I treat music the same way. I'm having fun, and it's going to be completely different. That's it."
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Spoken like a true queen, an ethereal human being, a music goddess, and [insert 500 more positive descriptions that couldn't even begin to do justice to the legendary icon that is Rihanna].
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Me β literally just sitting here in front of my laptop screen β trying to guess potential features, decipher what Rihanna means by "different," and hypothesize about a potential release date.
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