Rihanna reveals she’s ‘starting over’ on long-awaited 9th album: ‘Gimme a second’

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Entertainment Tonight” at the launch of her new business venture, Fenty Hair, that she’s “starting over” on her highly anticipated ninth album, which has been dubbed “R9” by fans.“Music for me is a new discovery.

I’m rediscovering things,” she said at the event in Los Angeles on Monday. “I have been working on the album for so long that I kind of just put all that stuff aside.”“Now I’m prepared to go back into the studio.

Now I’m prepared. So I’m gonna start,” she added.Rihanna then laughed and said under her breath, “Gimme a second.”“So we’re starting over,” “ET” reporter Kevin Frazier said to the superstar about her album.“Yeah, starting over,” Rihanna confirmed. “But, I don’t wanna neglect the songs that I have,” she explained, “so I wanna go back and listen to stuff with new ears with my new perspective and see what applies and what I still am in love with.”Rihanna has not released an album since 2016’s “Anti.”Fans took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to react to the latest update on her album.“JUST STARTING ???” one fan tweeted.“I’m sick of her lies,” a different fan said.“Ain’t this the 3rd time,” another person wrote.A fourth fan tweeted, “8 years and NOW she is starting on new music?

WOW.”At the Fenty Hair event, the Grammy winner made a joke about how her fans have been waiting so long for her next album.“This is probably the longest I’ve ever taken to create something.