As much as she can no longer contain her overflowing emotions with having Leonardo DiCaprio for a beau, Rihanna can’t also keep her excitement over her upcoming eighth studio album reportedly titled “R8.”
On January 24, Rihanna tweeted about a first glimpse of her new music and directed her followers to iTunes via her website so that they would be able to listen to her new music.
It turns out that the song was an A-list collaboration with British singing legend Paul McCartney and American rapper Kanye West, much to the delight of the fans, who have long been waiting for new music from Rih Rih, reports Entertainment Tonight.
The leaked song from the R8 album was titled “FourFiveSeconds” which runs for more than three minutes, something new for Rihanna’s kind of music.
Rihanna is the main vocals in the leaked song while Paul McCartney provides the acoustic accompaniment with his guitar. Kanye West subsequently joins by coming in towards the middle and singing part of the lyrics.
Leak after leak
One day after the New Year, a new song from Rihanna, titled “World Peace” was leaked on the internet. And as expected, the leak made the online rounds quite fast and in no time, practically everybody was asking if the song is part of Rihanna’s R8 album. Most of the speculations believe it is.
Music fans the world over believed “World Peace” was quite catchy and if it is indeed a cut from her upcoming R8 album, then Rihanna’s latest studio album is perhaps the best yet from the singer-rapper.
Some quarters in the industry also believe that should “World Peace” is released along with R8, the cut would eventually zoom up the singles charts and would likely make a run for 2015’s summer hit, even though summer is still months away.
Far too long
It’s been over eight years since the original bad girl came up with her seventh studio album titled “Unapologetic” released on November 19, 2012.
On December 9, for her intention of letting her fans know that she is keeping her promise to deliver new music to them soon, Rihanna posted a new music track snippet on Instagram, believed to be part of the singer-rapper’s new song titled “Kiss It Better.”
That was the second song snippet she shared to her fans in a period of two weeks. She also posted on Instagram a 15-second snippet of an anonymous song on November 25, which stirred her fans almost to no end with excitement.
While there is no specific date mentioned on the actual release or even the official title of her latest album, Rihanna nonetheless confirmed that something is indeed in the works, which is more than enough to get her fans more excited than ever.