Rihanna released a short film with A$AP Rocky for her Fenty Beauty brand, but fans were less than thrilled, demanding new music.
While Rihanna has released such one-off singles as ‘Lift Me Up,’ from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack, an album seems out of her grasp. Over the years, the singer hasteased a comebackcountless times, but nothing has ever come to fruition.
In lieu of a new song, Rihanna dropped a short film with A$AP Rocky, a film noir-style video to promote Fenty Beauty. And many fans said they “don’t care” and demanded the singer release music instead.
Rihanna fans didn’t hold back in their demands for new music
When the Fenty short film dropped, Rihanna fans immediately went on the defense and called for the singer to finally make her musical comeback.
“Rihanna we need a trailer for new music,”wroteone Twitter/X user.
“Doing anything but music,”saidanother.
“Ate, now can she ate an album please?”beggeda third fan.
ate, now can she ate an album please?
“Since it’s not new music, I do not care,”admittedanother follower.
“We don’t need this. We need music,”echoeda fan.
In promotion of the short film, Rihanna shareda mini traileron her Instagram page, which was then flooded with similar comments.
“And that’s one of the most annoying things, you have time to make short films for your brands but you can’t release ONE single? You don’t do ONE thing for your fans, It’s so boring now,” said one fan.
“We’re SO TIRED OF YOU, girl. @badgalriri IT’S BEEN 8 YEARS. I finished school, now I’m almost graduating from college. LIKE? WHERE’S THE ALBUM?” declared another.
Bee is a former music writer at Dexerto. Bee has been working in the digital media space for a decade. Their work can be found in American Songwriter, Billboard, and Grammy.com.
