is very, very aware of how much her fans want new music from her, so she had to know what she was going to incite a reaction when she stepped out in New York this week in a shirt that read, “I’m Retired.” Some observers took that to mean that the singer, who has become an extremely successful entrepreneur in recent years, was done with music. “No one read the other line!” she pointed out to at her Fenty Hair product launch.
“It was something like, ‘This is as dressed up as I get.’ ..
. People got triggered with that retired word. They were like, ‘We’re getting an album now.
’” She added: “Clearly, I’m here, clocked in!” And guess what, she went to the launch dressed up too, so you really can’t take a T-shirt at face value. But can we take Rihanna’s own statements about her album at face value anymore? “I think that music, for me, is a new discovery,” she told . “I’m rediscovering things.
I have been working on the album for so long that I kinda put all that stuff aside and now I’m prepared to go back in the studio. I’m prepared. So I’m gonna .
Give me a second.” The Grammy winner conceded that she is, in a sense, “starting over,” but “I don’t want to neglect the songs that I have. So I want to actually go back and listen to stuff with new ears, with my new perspective and then see what applies and what I’m still in love with.
” Basically, the album is both in the works and she also hasn’t really started working on i.
