Rihanna On New Album: ‘I Just Want To Have Fun With Music’

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It’s been four years since Rihanna released an album but the singer is working hard on recording new music.

NEW YORK: It’s been four years since Rihanna released an album but the singer is working hard on recording new music.

The pop star, 32, told The Associated Press for her new album she’s already held tons of writing camps” where songwriters are put into groups to create original tracks for artists.


Now, she said she’s asked herself the questions: What do I feel personally? What do I want to put out, and as an artist, how do I want to play it with my art? How do I want to interpret that?”

How do I want to reimagine it because its been so structured before,” Rihanna continued in a recent interview.

Rihanna On New Album: 'I Just Want To Have Fun With Music'

The multi-genre artist who has won Grammys in the R&B, dance and rap categories added: You do pop, you did this genre, you do that, you do radio, but now its just like, what makes me happy? I just want to have fun with music. Everything is so heavy. The world that we live in is a lot. Its overwhelming every single day. And with the music, Im using that as my outlet.”

Rihanna’s ANTI,” the singer’s eighth album released in 2016, was a critically acclaimed effort, launching multiple hits such as Work,” Love on the Brain,” Needed Me” and more. Overall, Rihanna’s achieved 14 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart since making her debut in 2005. She’s accumulated 31 Top 10 hits on the chart.

Since the release of ANTI,” she’s guest appeared on songs like DJ Khaled’s Wild Thoughts,” Kendrick Lamar’s Loyalty,” N.E.R.D.’s Lemon” and Future’s Selfish.” Her only 2020 release has been Believe It with PartyNextDoor.

Rihanna, who has been uber-busy with her successful makeup and fashion lines, says the pandemic has challenged things musically speaking, but she plans to press on.

I want to go on tour but I cant, so Im stuck with music that I love, and now Im trying to figure out how I can even create visuals to that,” she said. Thats a challenge as well. But I love challenges so, you know, Im gonna get it done.

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AP Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu contributed to this report.

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Leanne Italie is a member of the APs Entertainment and Lifestyles team. Follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/litalie.



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