Rihanna
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It’s not R9, however it nonetheless counts for one thing! Rihanna is ready to launch her first tune in almost three years this week as a part of the upcoming Smurfs film soundtrack. The star will drop “Good friend of Mine” on Friday, Might 16.
A snippet of the tune was featured within the new trailer that dropped on Wednesday. Primarily based on what may be heard within the clip, “Good friend of Mine” finds the musician singing over an Afrobeats-sounding dance observe, “You’re trying like a pal of mine.” The brand new teaser opens with a shot of Rihanna dancing within the studio as she information the observe.
Together with offering music for the movie, Rihanna can also be the voice of Smurfette. She stars alongside John Goodman, James Corden, Nick Offerman, Sandra Oh, and extra within the movie, set for a July 18 launch date. The soundtrack, in the meantime, may also characteristic Tyla and the observe “Larger Love” by DJ Khaled, Cardi B, and DESI TRILL, which dropped in February.
“Good friend of Mine” will mark Rihanna’s first launch since 2022’s “Raise Me Up” from the Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually soundtrack. She hasn’t dropped an album since 2016’s Anti.
Whereas “Good friend of Mine” is bound to holdover followers eagerly awaiting her ninth studio album for a bit, it’ll solely be a matter of time earlier than they’re clamoring for extra. Rihanna last provided a real update on her potential subsequent album in February, saying she was “feeling actually optimistic” in regards to the music she had been engaged on.
“This feels proper. It feels prefer it digs proper into the place I must be, and I need this. This physique wants to return out, and I’m able to go there. That is changing into my new freedom, as a result of once I’m within the studio, I do know that my time away from my children is to blossom one thing that hasn’t been watered in eight years. I’ve been within the studio the entire eight years. Nevertheless it didn’t hit me. I used to be looking for it,” she stated.
She continued, “I went by means of phases of what I needed to do. ‘This sort of album, not that album.’ I do know it’s not going to be something that anyone expects. And it’s not going to be business or radio digestible. It’s going to be the place my artistry deserves to be proper now. I really feel like I’ve lastly cracked it, woman!”
From Rolling Stone US.