Rihanna says she’s ‘excited to put out new music’ but STILL doesn’t ‘have any updates’
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Pop sensation Rihanna has admitted she still doesn’t know when she’ll be releasing new music, despite insisting she’s “excited” to create more hits, as she sat down for a new interview that aired just hours after revealing she’s pregnant. her with her second child during her performance at the Super Bowl that broke the internet.
The 34-year-old singer sat with Good morning americaMichael Strahan from before his halftime show on Sunday, when he opened up about the pressure of performing in front of millions of people around the world just nine months after giving birth to his first child.
During the meeting, which aired Monday morning, Rihanna, who has released just one new song in the past six and a half years, addressed mounting pressure from her fans to release a new album.
‘[The fans want] more’, she admitted when questioned by Strahan about the possibility of releasing new songs.
‘They are waiting. I’m excited to release new music, but I don’t have any updates for you yet.’
Pop sensation Rihanna has admitted she still doesn’t know when she’ll be releasing new music, despite insisting she’s “excited” to create more hits.
The 34-year-old singer sat down with GMA’s Michael Strahan before her Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday as she discussed dealing with pressure from fans.
Her interview with GMA aired just hours after the 34-year-old confirmed she is expecting a second baby with A$AP Rocky, after revealing a baby bump during their halftime show.
While many expected Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show to include a surprise album announcement, the singer shocked the world with news of a very different upcoming arrival: her second child with fellow rapper A$AP Rocky.
Just minutes after sparking a flurry of pregnancy speculation when she appeared to flash a growing bump onstage, Rihanna, who gave birth to her first child, a baby boy, nine months ago, confirmed the happy news via a spokesperson. .
Although Rihanna’s halftime performance was hailed by many as one of the “greatest Super Bowl shows of all time,” the singer admitted she was incredibly worried about getting back on stage after a seven-year touring hiatus.
‘It’s strange, it feels strange. Because it’s not going back on stage like never before,” she shared.
“There were so many things that I felt like I had to get over to be able to do this. I had just literally become a mom, and I hadn’t toured in seven years. So to go from that to the Super Bowl. It was one of those things I knew that would be a challenge.
And while Rihanna is certainly no stranger to performing in front of huge crowds, having embarked on multiple world tours throughout her career, she confessed that she still has a hard time coming to terms with the staggering number of people watching her while she’s on stage. .
‘Yes Yes Yes [I think about how many people are watching me],’ she said. ‘I still haven’t been able [overcome that thought] for this day.
“The camera represents so many people, a huge audience, and the camera at a Super Bowl is one of the biggest audiences.”
Many expected Rihanna’s halftime show to include a surprise album announcement, but instead, the singer was surprised by news of a very different upcoming arrival: her second child.
Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show marked the first time she had performed live on stage since 2018, when she joined DJ Khaled at the Grammy Awards.
Last year, Rihanna delighted her fans when she broke her six-year music hiatus and released a new hit, Lift Me Up, a ballad she created especially for the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack.
Speaking about the ballad, and what motivated her to break her musical hiatus to make the song, Rihanna explained that she was inspired by the powerful portrayal of “motherhood” in the film.
ryan coolger [the director of Wakanda Forever] she approached me and asked if I would be interested in doing a song for the movie,” she told GMA. “And when I saw the movie, I felt like ‘this is so powerful. The sense of motherhood and the strength that she embodies.’ I felt that when I saw the movie and it just hit me.”
The poignant song earned her an Oscar nomination and led many to speculate that the chart-topping hitmaker was finally ready to return to the music industry, having spent years focusing her energies on her incredibly lucrative fashion ventures. and beauty, Savage x Fenty and Fenty Beauty.
Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show marked her first time performing live on stage since 2018, when she joined DJ Khaled onstage to sing Wild Thoughts at the Grammy Awards.
The chart-topper stayed true to her best-known hits during her Super Bowl show and didn’t reveal any new songs during her 12-song performance.
She had the crowd going wild when she transitioned into Where Have You Been, followed by the hit Only Girl (In The World).
We Found Love, Rude Boy and his hit Work followed, although his collaborator Drake did not appear on the last song. He continued with Wild Thoughts and Pour It Up.
Rihanna didn’t discuss her pregnancy during the interview, instead wearing a loose-fitting, shearling-lined coat that covered her growing belly.
Speaking about the pressure of performing at the Super Bowl, Rihanna admitted she was even more apprehensive because she hadn’t toured in seven years.
The hitmaker chose some controversial songs, including an excerpt from her verse from rapper Kanye West’s All Of The Lights, and also performed part of Jay-Z’s Run This Town, which also featured West in his original version.
West fell out of favor after making numerous anti-Semitic comments, including praise for Adolf Hitler.
Rihanna concluded her performance with the one-two punch from Umbrella and then Diamonds as the closer.
Fans were delighted by the performance, which saw Rihanna perch on a lucite platform that was suspended high above the football field, a feat made all the more impressive and audacious by the news that she was pregnant.
However, not everyone was impressed with the singer’s show.
Former President Donald Trump led the charge against Rihanna’s halftime show when he shared a scathing review on his social media platform Truth Social, writing: “EPIC FAIL: Rihanna gave, hands down, the worst halftime show in the history of the Super Bowl, this after insulting well over half of our Nation, already in serious DECLINE, with his foul and insulting language.
‘Also, so much to your “Stylist!”‘
The superstar, who was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty, hasn’t released a solo album since January 2016.
His only solo music in the last seven years came in October, when he released Lift Me Up in tribute to the late actor Chadwick Boseman.
Rihanna’s shocking pregnancy announcement was all the more surprising given that it came shortly after she confessed to Apple Music’s Nadeska Alexis that she had been hesitant to sign up for the Super Bowl performance because she had just given birth.
“I was like, ‘Are you sure? I’m three months postpartum. Should I be making big decisions like this right now? I might regret this,'” she said.
“When you become a mom, something happens that makes you feel like you can take on the world — you can do anything,” Rihanna continued. “And the Super Bowl is one of the biggest stages in the world, so it was terrifying… there’s something exciting about the challenge of it all.
‘It’s important that my son see that.’