{"id":283457,"date":"2019-11-13T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1092836"},"modified":"2019-11-13T07:00:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:00:04","slug":"rihanna-epically-claps-back-after-being-asked-the-status-of-her-next-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/rihanna-epically-claps-back-after-being-asked-the-status-of-her-next-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna Epically Claps Back After Being Asked the Status of Her Next Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019911\/rs_600x600-191011191343-600.rihanna.ct.101119.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.092651757188\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"19.233226837061\">\n<p>Don&#8217;t be rude boy because&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/rihanna\">Rihanna<\/a><\/strong> is not here for it.<\/p>\n<p>Early Wednesday morning, the superstar took to Instagram to apologize for being MIA&nbsp;recently. (You know, because she&#8217;s been busy perfecting&nbsp;her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1041126\/rihanna-s-next-era-how-she-built-her-multi-million-dollar-empire-from-the-ground-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multi-million dollar empire<\/a>.)&nbsp;&#8220;To all my friends\/family\/coworkers who I have yet to get back to in the past months&#8230;please forgive me,&#8221; she wrote to her 76&nbsp;million followers. &#8220;This year has been quite an overwhelming one, and I&#8217;m working on that ish called Balance. brb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While some applauded her&nbsp;candor\u2014&#8221;Love u ! We Def get that,&#8221; wrote&nbsp;singer&nbsp;<strong>Lyrica Anderson<\/strong>\u2014others&nbsp;seemed to miss the memo.&nbsp;&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1071687\/rihanna-dua-lipa-harry-styles-and-more-where-s-the-new-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Where&#8217;s the album heaux<\/a>?!!!&#8221; commented her&nbsp;stylist and Fenty&#8217;s junior creative director&nbsp;<strong>Jahleel Weaver<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And the &#8220;Diamonds&#8221; singer was none too pleased.&nbsp;&#8220;I don&#8217;t need&nbsp;this kinda negativity in my life!&#8221;&nbsp;she&nbsp;quipped&nbsp;in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B4zjWJHBWuc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comments<\/a>. &#8220;BLOCKT.&#8221; (Don&#8217;t worry, we assume these two are still on good terms despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/859131\/rihanna-is-the-queen-of-instagram-clapbacks-see-her-latest-in-response-to-body-shamers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">epic clap back<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>Back in 2016\u2014that&#8217;s almost four years ago, fwiw\u2014Rihanna teased she had already started working on her ninth studio album.&nbsp;Then, in December of last year, she&nbsp;made dreams come true by confirming it would be released in 2019. But, as we quickly approached the new&nbsp;year, fans&nbsp;can&#8217;t help but wonder what is going on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.266343825666\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"19.322033898305\">\n<p>&#8220;It really does suck that it can&#8217;t just come out, because I&#8217;m working on a really fun one right now,&#8221; she told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1048172\/rihanna-gets-candid-about-marriage-kids-and-falling-in-love-with-boyfriend-hassan-jameel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Interview&nbsp;<\/em>in July<\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em>I&#8217;m really happy with a lot of the material we have so far, but I am not going to put it out until it&#8217;s complete. It makes no sense to rush it, but I want it out. I&#8217;ve gotten to the point where I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Even if I don&#8217;t have the time to shoot videos, I&#8217;m going to put an album out.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And though she&#8217;s been focused on&nbsp;her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1050813\/rihanna-reveals-how-body-fluctuations-influenced-her-new-fenty-collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thriving fashion&nbsp;<em>and<\/em> beauty<\/a> brands, music will always be part of her life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Me the designer, me the woman who creates makeup and lingerie\u2014it all started with music,&#8221; she said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1081211\/rihanna-s-vogue-bombshells-singer-dishes-on-new-album-her-relationship-and-having-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an October interview<\/a> with&nbsp;<em>Vogue<\/em>.&nbsp;&#8220;It was my first pen pal\u2013ship to the world. To cut that off is to cut my communication off. All of these other things flourish on top of that foundation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <i>E! News<\/i> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1092836\/rihanna-epically-claps-back-after-being-asked-the-status-of-her-next-album?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t be rude boy because&nbsp;Rihanna is not here for it. Early Wednesday morning, the superstar took to Instagram to apologize for being MIA&nbsp;recently. (You know, because she&#8217;s been busy perfecting&nbsp;her multi-million dollar empire.)&nbsp;&#8220;To all my friends\/family\/coworkers who I have yet to get back to in the past months&#8230;please forgive me,&#8221; she wrote to her 76&nbsp;million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-13 11:19:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}