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Pregnancy will limit how much she can jump around. I sort of view this as her farewell to music. A big stage to say goodbye.

Conrots to her. But have to be honest, as a fan Im bummed out. Was excited for the prospect of R9 and a tour but those things are 2 years away at this point.

I sort of look at the Superbowl show as her farewell to music now. With her second kid on the way the earliest we get R9 is probably 2025 at this point. Anything she's recorded already will be thrown in the trash and never released simply due to how old anything she's recorded will be by the time she releases it. And can just honestly see her not returning to music at that point. 9 years between albums, only 2 live performances in the last 5 or so years. Would she bother?

Its not going to be anytime soon though is it. Cant see her releasing any music until 2023 at the absolute earliest. And at this stage i could honestly see her just waiting until 2026 so she's got a solid 10 years between R8 and R9.

She hid it really well for as long as she did. So happy for her, she's truly glowing.

One of her more underrated gems.

Crazy to think this is twelve years old. This always strikes me as an album that I expect to have come later in her career, just because of how much she was experimenting and branching out her style so early on. Hard and Rude Boy are still my two favourite Rihanna songs as well.

The fact a retired musician is still making and breaking records just shows how ageless her music is.

Really lets her vocals pop without the music.

Was it 2019 when she told us all it'd be out before the end of that year...

So...is this a bad time to say I've bought Rated R and Talk That Talk... Call iT a Rihannamas present to myself. And maybe she'll accidentally send out R9...

Beyonce and Rihanna featuring on the same album. When are they just going to do a song together? Also...did someone remind Rihanna she's a musician?

Disturbia

This Is What You Came For

You Da One