Rihanna is finished listening to you talk that talk.
After a long time of relentless questioning over when she’ll be releasing her ninth studio album, the pop superstar responded to all the pesky chatter in an Apple Audio teaser for her upcoming performance at the 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Clearly show.
Produced on Jan. 13, the 30-next clip reveals Rihanna slowly and gradually sashaying down a lit runway as audio snippets of people lamenting about the prolonged wait for new new music plays in the background. “Dude, Rihanna, we’ve waited for you,” just one voice states, although yet another snipes, “RiRi, wherever have you been?!”
As the chorus of voices start to overlap each and every other, the space quickly turns dim and Rihanna is viewed standing in the highlight. Clad in a black catsuit and big yellow fur coat, the 34-calendar year-aged raises her finger to her lips to shush the audio — as her 2016 monitor “Wanted Me” kicks in.
Is this Rihanna’s way of telling followers that the hold out is around?
Time will only convey to as Rihanna prepares for her Super Bowl performance, which was to start with announced in September. At the time, the singer confirmed her involvement in the very coveted gig by sharing a photo of her hand holding a soccer on Instagram.
Nonetheless, Rihanna’s new Super Bowl teaser is not the 1st time she’s responded to fans’ pleas for a new album. In 2019, she jokingly posted a video of a dancing puppy dog alongside the caption: “Update: me listening to R9 by myself and refusing to release it.”
When an Instagram consumer requested her for an update in 2020, she joked that she had “missing” a recording of the highly predicted album.
Before this calendar year, Rihanna was able to whet fans’ appetite for new songs when she released “Lift Me Up” for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s” soundtrack. Written alongside Tems, Ludwig Göransson and Ryan Coogler, the ballad served as a tribute to Chadwick Boseman and marked the first single Rihanna had recorded as a lead artist in six several years.
The track was nominated for Greatest Primary Song at the 2023 Golden World Awards, but ultimately lost to “Naatu Naatu” from RRR.
Lovers will have have to wait till Feb. 12 to see if Rihanna will be executing that — or any new music—at the Apple Tunes Super Bowl LVII Halftime Clearly show.
