Fresh from her Super Bowl showdown Rihanna is on the cover of British Vogue Magazine with her baby and beau A$AP Rocky. She talks representation, dressing for maternity, and feeling like “anything is possible.”
The billionaire says it is her intention to drop the long awaited album (R9) this year but did not confirm whether it will be a reggae inspired album as she had promised 2 years ago.
“I want it to be this year,” she tells Vogue. “Like, honestly, it’d be ridiculous if it’s not this year. But I just want to have fun. I just want to make music and make videos.”
The Fenty Beauty Queen who is the standard of music video perfection said: “And I need the right background music with the visuals. I can’t just go shoot a video to me talking,” she says, laughing.
“When you come off of an album like Anti…in hindsight, it really is my most brilliant album. I say that because in the moment, I didn’t realise it. But it always felt like the most cohesive album I’ve ever made. When you break it down and you realise this album goes from ‘Work’ to ‘Kiss It Better’ to ‘Needed Me’ to ‘Love on the Brain’ to ‘Sex with Me’ to ‘Desperado’.” She says. “And somehow it all fits and not for a second did you glitch?”
She admits it’s a toxic pressure to play a game of perfection which builds with each promise and delay of the album.
“It is toxic. You’re right. 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. It just has to be something that feels good. It could just be a song that I like. It literally could be that simple.”
At the Super Bowl the Anti singer revealed that she was pregnant while on a platform 500 feet above the stadium grass. She details what life is like with her boyfriend and young child.
“We’re best friends with a baby,” she says, to Vogue laughing as she details the harmony of their relationship. “We have to be on the same page, but we’ve always kind of had that in our relationship. Everything changes when you have a baby but I wouldn’t say it’s done anything but made us closer.”
The Roc Nation artist also talks about her ordeal in “Dressing for pregnancy” which sh says “was such a piece of cake.”
“But dressing in postpartum, what the f**k do you do? The week that I came home from the hospital – that was nothing but sweats and hoodies. But the weeks after that, you don’t know what to put on. Everything is too small or too big.” A true clothes addict, she looks genuinely peeved. “You kind of just gotta wait it out otherwise you end up buying so many clothes you’re not going to use. Well, unless you get pregnant again.” Indeed.
