{"id":288239,"date":"2020-02-13T17:26:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1123160"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:26:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:26:33","slug":"rihanna-restores-our-faith-in-r9-and-finally-confirms-shes-recording-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/rihanna-restores-our-faith-in-r9-and-finally-confirms-shes-recording-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna Restores Our Faith in R9 and Finally Confirms She&#8217;s Recording New Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32.101492537313\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13.516417910448\">\n<p><em>R9<\/em>, is that you?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/rihanna\">Rihanna<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;failed to make good on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/999013\/rihanna-has-finally-told-us-when-she-s-releasing-new-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promise of new music in 2019<\/a>, fans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1107760\/20-albums-to-get-excited-about-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">were losing hope<\/a> for a follow-up to the singer&#8217;s Grammy-nominated album&nbsp;<em>Anti<\/em>. With a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1120906\/rihanna-talks-new-fenty-fashion-collection-valentine-s-day-2020-and-birthday-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">booming fashion and cosmetics empire<\/a> at her fingertips, it seemed Rihanna&#8217;s focus really had shifted away from music for good&#8230; until now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rih-Rih took to Instagram on Thursday with a photo not only confirming that she&#8217;s back in the recording studio, but that she&#8217;s collaborating with&nbsp;<strong>The Neptunes<\/strong>\u2014<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/pharrell_williams\">Pharrell Williams<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; hip-hop duo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;gang. back in da STU,&#8221; she captioned a photo of a soundboard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pharrell last joined forces with Rihanna for his group&nbsp;<strong>N.E.R.D.<\/strong>&#8216;s 2017 track &#8220;Lemon.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"50.721590909091\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2.6931818181818\">\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2020\/02\/rihanna-celebrates-new-fenty-collection-at-bergdorf-goodman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a> with&nbsp;<em>The Cut<\/em>, the 31-year-old teased the exciting album update.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.855578727842\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020113\/rs_634x1024-200213153739-634-rihanna-neptunes-studio.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Rihanna, Studio, Instagram Story\" alt=\"Rihanna, Studio, Instagram Story\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.079030558483\">\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to be in the studio,&#8221; she shared when asked about her Valentine&#8217;s Day plans. &#8220;I&#8217;m so excited actually. I can&#8217;t say who I&#8217;m working with, but it&#8217;s somebody I&#8217;ve been wanting to work with him for a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When pressed further, Rihanna responded: &#8220;Okay, I&#8217;ll tell you. [It&#8217;s] Pharrell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1122305\/inside-rihanna-and-a-ap-rocky-s-late-night-out-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a rumored romance<\/a> with&nbsp;<strong>A$AP Rocky<\/strong>&nbsp;and launching her latest Fenty collection during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/fashion_week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Fashion Week<\/a>, there&#8217;s never been a better time to be Ms. Robyn Fenty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As she described to E! News during NYFW, &#8220;This never seemed like a dream that was possible. I don&#8217;t even think these were a part of my dreams. I just wanted to make music that was heard around the world. Being famous was not even part of my dream. That came and I was like, &#8216;Woah, I didn&#8217;t think about this part.&#8217; But having that creative space and having different outlets goes right in line with music and creating&#8230; With fashion, it&#8217;s no different. Just different material.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1123160\/rihanna-restores-our-faith-in-r9-and-finally-confirms-she-s-recording-new-music?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! 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With a booming fashion and cosmetics empire at her fingertips, it seemed Rihanna&#8217;s focus really had shifted away from music for good&#8230; until now.&nbsp; Rih-Rih took to [&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-288239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-29 01:55:24","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\/288239","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=288239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}