Rihanna Says Her 9th Studio Album Will Be “Worth" the Wait

Everything we know about RiRi's long-awaited album

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joanna is saying her long awaited Night the Studio album
the show fans the worth in the wait. So it
has been a long time. We love Rihanna's music. It
is what we do at Kiss. We are built on
some Rihanna here at Kiss, and we've been waiting eight
years to be exact, right.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, like almost a decade we have been waiting for
new music from Rihanna, which is so crazy if you
think about it. But she did an interview with harp
Is Bizarre where she talked about this ninth album and
she addressed the rumors that the next album will be
a reggae record, to which she said, way off, there
is no genre. Now, That's why I waited. She then

(00:37):
went on to say that she cannot put up anything mediocre.
After waiting eight years, you might as well just wait
some more. But it got me thinking about like sometimes
in life, when we wait too long for things, you
put so much expectation and pressure on those things to
be perfect, and nothing is perfect. And I feel like
there's been so much anticipation around this specific album album,

(01:01):
and I also kind of like I was thinking about
this just in our like day to day lives and
all the pressure that people put on too, like where
they go to college, you know, like you put so
much pressure on where you're gonna go, where you're going
to get in, who you end up marrying, having kids,
like even in you know, in the entertainment industry, these
people that make movies, they spend years and years, and

(01:23):
you have so much pressure. And I feel like there's
so much pressure in the weight, you know. So I
feel like Rihanna is probably feeling so much pressure because
people have waited so long. She's going to be like
tinkering it up until the last minute. Ja Mega's wait
and we will.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
You know. I've talked to a lot of artists over
the years about that moment of having to release an album,
and I guess most of them tell me that they'd
never release it if it weren't for somebody pushing.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Them giving them a deadline.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
The label or something giving them a deadline, because they
keep wanting to tweak it to make it better, Like
they could endlessly go in every night to the studio
and to week and tweak and tweak, but at some
point they just have to give it up and just
send it out. And so I think a lot of
it's perfectionism too, and it's it's so intimate and personal
but exciting nevertheless, that it's coming.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yes,