After a six-year hiatus from releasing solo music to deal with being a billionaire business mogul, Rihanna is lastly making her return to our ears — however not together with her long-awaited ninth studio album. The Fenty Magnificence powerhouse might be releasing her first solo single in six years — “Lift Me Up” — on Oct. 28. She introduced the track by sharing a cryptic teaser of herself buzzing on Twitter and Instagram. The brand new track will function the lead single for the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack in addition to a tribute to the primary movie’s late star Chadwick Boseman.
Rihanna co-wrote the track with Afrobeats artist Tems, the movie’s director Mike Coogler, and Oscar-winning composer Ludwig Göransson. “After talking with Ryan and listening to his route for the movie and the track, I needed to write down one thing that portrays a heat embrace from all of the people who I’ve misplaced in my life. I attempted to think about what it could really feel like if I may sing to them now and categorical how a lot I miss them,” Tems mentioned in a press release. “Rihanna has been an inspiration to me so listening to her convey this track is a good honor.”
A press launch for the track teases that “Raise Me Up” heralds in “the following period of Rihanna’s iconic profession,” that means there might be extra new music to return, which could come within the type of a second song on the Wakanda Forever soundtrack. The soundtrack comes out Nov. 4.
There’s nonetheless no phrase on when to anticipate Rihanna’s new album, however together with her current large information, it might lastly be on the horizon. Rihanna first indicated her return to music on Sept. 25, when she introduced that she would headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show in February 2023. On Oct. 6, she advised TMZ that she was “nervous” but “excited” for the performance, although she saved quiet about whether or not she’d have any particular friends.
“Raise Me Up” places Rihanna immediately within the Oscars dialog, because the observe might be eligible to run for Finest Authentic Music on the 2023 Academy Awards. The lead single for the primary Black Panther movie, Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “All the Stars,” was nominated in 2019, setting a welcome precedent for Rihanna. If acknowledged, it could mark her first Oscar nomination. Beforehand, Riri recorded the Sia-penned “Sledgehammer” for Star Trek: Past in 2016 and a trio of songs for her animated 2015 movie House, none of which obtained Oscars recognition.
