New year, same Rihanna. With 2025 less than a day away, the superstar has already struck out in one of her signature comebacks, blocking a troll on Instagram on Wednesday (January 1) who was demanding new music and insulting her.
The exchange was confirmed in Ri’s latest post, a video of herself celebrating with friends at midnight on New Year’s Eve. “You guys, I haven’t had a drink in a whole year,” she excitedly tells the camera in the video.
“New year, new me,” the Fenty mogul captioned the post.
However, one person in the comments seemed bent on pouring cold water on her march. “We wanted an album on the forehead,” they wrote.
But Rihanna being Rihanna, the “Umbrella” singer quickly let him down. “Listen Lorenzo!” she replied. “You’re not cute enough to call me by my black name, you dizzy bastard!”
The Barbadian musician hasn’t released an album since 2016 be opposed tothe song reached number one on the Billboard 200. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Soundtrack. The latter track earned Ri a Grammy nomination for Best Song for Visual Media and an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.
Rihanna has been hinting that a new record has been years in the making, but fans have to get used to taking her updates with a grain of salt. In April, she told interview She had “a lot of visual ideas” for her next musical project, but no songs to match. “Maybe the visual creativity is leading me to the songs I need to make,” she added at the time.
Two months later, Ri told entertainment tonight She’s “starting over” the album-making process. “I don’t want to neglect the songs that I have, so I actually want to go back and listen to some stuff with new ears, a new perspective, and see what works and what I’m still passionate about,” she told the outlet in June. “I’ve been working on this album for so long that I put all that stuff aside and now I’m ready to get back in the studio. I’m going to start – wait a minute!
See Ri’s post below.
