Rihanna breaks silence about new album: 'I want to create something soulful and timeless'
The singer said she was tired of performing her big hits on stage and wanted to create an album that 'felt real'
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Your support makes all the difference.After releasing seven albums in eight years, Rihanna hopes her next album will stand the test of time.
Speaking for the first time about her as yet untitled eight studio album, Rihanna said the new record will be more soulful with tracks she hope will be “timeless”.
“I wanted songs that I could perform in 15 years, I wanted an album I could perform in 15 years,” she told MTV, admitting she was getting tired of performing her roster of number one hits on tour.
“I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs. They don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.”
The news may come as a disappointment to fans that prefer “We Found Love” and her other club anthem tracks to her most recent release “FourFiveSeconds”, a slower, more soulful track featuring Paul McCartney and Kanye West.
But the Barbadian singer hinted she didn’t want to go back to making mega hits.
“I’ve made a lot of songs that are really. From the jump, they just blow up. And I wanted to kind of get back to – not that they weren’t real music, bust I just wanted to focus on things that felt real, that felt soulful, that felt forever.”
While many will still know all the words to “Umbrella” from 2007, fans will be eager to find out what Rihanna really means by timeless tunes when she releases her album later this year.
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