{"id":2449677,"date":"2019-10-09T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T14:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=896066"},"modified":"2019-10-09T08:59:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T14:59:40","slug":"rihanna-talks-reggae-inspired-new-album-turning-down-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/rihanna-talks-reggae-inspired-new-album-turning-down-the-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna Talks \u2018Reggae-Inspired\u2019 New Album, Turning Down the Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rihanna<\/a> gave more hints about her new music in an interview for Vogue<\/em>\u2018s November cover story<\/a>. The singer and designer also spoke candidly about turning down the Super Bowl halftime show, as well as Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the midst of her busy New York Fashion Week where she hosted the star-studded Savage x Fenty show<\/a> and her annual Diamond Ball<\/a> charity gala, Rihanna sat down with Vogue<\/em> to offer a few more hints about her long-awaited ninth album.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to look at it as a reggae-inspired or reggae-infused album,\u201d she said. Rihanna first revealed that her album would have reggae influence in her last Vogue<\/em> cover story, in June 2018. Eight sources close to the project offered more details to Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> soon after, revealing that more than \u201c500 records\u201d had been submitted to the singer and her label for consideration.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not gonna be typical of what you know as reggae. But you\u2019re going to feel the elements in all of the tracks,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

The politically outspoken star also confirmed that she turned down an invite to headline the Super Bowl halftime show in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick<\/a>. The football player made waves when he began to kneel during the National Anthem before games as a protest in response to a wave of racially charged police brutality incidents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t dare do that,\u201d she explained. \u201cFor what? Who gains from that? Not my people. I just couldn\u2019t be a sellout. I couldn\u2019t be an enabler. There\u2019s things within that organization that I do not agree with at all, and I was not about to go and be of service to them in any way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, Rihanna\u2019s mentor Jay-Z and label Roc Nation partnered with the NFL<\/a> to help plan the halftime shows and address issues around \u201csocial change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rihanna also addressed mass shootings, responding further to comments she had made after the shooting in El Paso<\/a> in which she called out President Donald Trump for calling it \u201can act of cowardice\u201d instead of a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are being murdered by war weapons that they legally purchase. This is just not normal,\u201d she said. \u201cThat should never, ever be normal. And the fact that it\u2019s classified as something different because of the color of their skin? It\u2019s a slap in the face. It\u2019s completely racist<\/em>. Put an Arab man with that same weapon in that same Walmart and there is no way that Trump would sit there and address it publicly as a mental health problem<\/em>. The most mentally ill human being in America right now seems to be the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Barbados native further addressed immigration issues in the United States. When asked if she had anything she would say to young immigrants, she responded, \u201cWhat do you say? What can you say? It\u2019s gonna get better?<\/em> I almost feel sick to my stomach. I don\u2019t even believe this is happening in real life. In front of my eyes. In front of the world. It\u2019s not even hidden. This is blatant.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rihanna gave more hints about her new music in an interview for Vogue\u2018s November cover story. The singer and designer also spoke candidly about turning down the Super Bowl halftime show, as well as Donald Trump. In the midst of her busy New York Fashion Week where she hosted the star-studded Savage x Fenty show and […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2449677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 18:40:42","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}