Rihanna has revealed which of her eight albums that she loves listening to.
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar in a rare interview, RiRi revealed that her last album, Anti, holds a special place in her heart.
She said: “I listen to Anti from top to bottom with no shame. I used to always have shame. I actually don’t like listening to my music, but Anti—I can listen to the album. It’s like it’s not me singing it, if I’m just listening to it.”
The Barbadian star added: “That’s the one album that I can have an out-of-body experience where it’s not like … You know when you hear your voice in a voicemail, and it’s like, ‘Ugh.'”
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Elsewhere in the interview, Rihanna divulged information about her long-awaited ninth album.
“I think music is my freedom. I just came to that realization,” she told the magazine.
“I just cracked the code on what I really want to do for my next body of work. I am actually feeling really good about this. I know I kept saying this over the years.”
She denied rumors that the project, nicknamed R9 by fans, would be a reggae album.
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“Way off! There’s no genre now. That’s why I waited,” she said.
“Every time, I was just like, ‘No, it’s not me. It’s not right. It’s not matching my growth. It’s not matching my evolution. I can’t do this. I can’t stand by this. I can’t perform this for a year on tour.’
“After a while, I looked at it, and I was like, this much time away from music needs to count for the next thing everyone hears. It has to count. It has to matter. I have to show them the worth in the wait. I cannot put up anything mediocre. After waiting eight years, you might as well just wait some more.”
Earlier this month, it was announced that Rih will share her first song in almost three years, courtesy of the new Smurfs movie.
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RiRi, who is among the film’s voice cast — she’ll play the role of Smurfette — is also set to contribute in a significant way to the soundtrack.
