Rihanna Says She Actually Enjoys Trolling Her Fans About Her 'R9' Album

From ELLE

Rihanna's new album, R9, is reportedly ready, but she's been taking her time with releasing it. While celebrating the launch of her new Fenty 2-20 collection at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City on Friday night, she spoke to Entertainment Tonight about the fun she has teasing her fans ahead of the release of her mysterious follow-up to 2016's Anti.

"To be continued," Rihanna said in reference to her album. "I like to antagonize my fans a little bit. Well, they antagonize me, too! So, they get it right back."

Riri cleverly uses social media to pique her fans' interest about when they will finally, finally be able to listen to her new music. With this Instagram post at the end of 2019, she let fans know that she was enjoying her new album all by herself, and she wasn't going to share any of the joy:

Probably to her delight, Rihanna's fans responded with comments including "stop playing" and a series of crying emojis. As ELLE.com's R. Eric Thomas pointed out in December, the trolling has not stopped, but there is one clue: the teasing is increasing in its frequency and Def Jam Recordings has likely joined Rihanna in her mission to get her fans hyped up. The company, which is releasing R9, tweeted out this photo of Rihanna making a diamond with her hands, and something so vague is just the kind of clue that artists drop before they release new music. . .right?

Rihanna did respond to an Instagram comment from a fan that her new music was coming in 2019, but as far as we know, 2019 eventually ended, and we got no new music. The truth is that Rihanna, who constantly wears knock-out looks like the orange mini-dress she showed up in at the Fenty event on Friday, can do whatever she wants forever.

Let the games continue.

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