The interaction went down in the comments of Rihanna’s Instagram post celebrating New Year’s 2025
Insulting Rihanna isn’t going to make her release a new album any faster.
The global superstar, 36, hasn’t released a new body of work since 2016’s Anti, and one online troll decided to remind her of the fact in a comment on her recent Instagram post celebrating New Year’s 2025 — and RiRi was quick to clap back.
“We want an album forehead,” wrote Instagram user @lorenzohirmez underneath a video of the “Work” performer ringing in the new year with friends.
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The comment caught Rihanna’s attention, and she wrote back, “Listen Lorenzo! You ain’t cute enough to be calling me by my black name you dizzy f—!”
In the original Instagram video, the Barbados native declared, “Y’all, I didn’t drink all year! I didn’t drink all year.” She added in the caption, “New Year, New Me.”
While the Grammy winner hasn’t released a new album in almost nine years, she put out two songs — “Lift Me Up” and “Born Again” — for the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack in 2022 and headlined the Super Bowl halftime show the following year.
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Last week, Rihanna made an unofficial return to the stage to sing her 2016 songs “Needed Me” and “Sex with Me” at a New York City Girls Love Karaoke event, according to videos shared by fans online.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight for an interview in April, the “We Found Love” hitmaker opened up about forthcoming music and described her new songs as “so good.”
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In an interview with British Vogue last year, the mother of two spoke about feeling “toxic pressure” to top the quality of Anti — a.k.a. “most cohesive album I’ve ever made” — with her upcoming music.
“It’s not the right way to look at music because music is an outlet and a space to create, and you can create whatever. It doesn’t have to even be on any scale,” she said at the time. “It just has to be something that feels good. It could just be a song that I like. It literally could be that simple.”
Source people.com
