You get up, look at Instagram, make yourself breakfast and go back to your phone. The typical routine of every person living in the middle of 2026. Between news of the new releases on Fridays and a bit of brainrot, you get a new Rihanna reel. It’s probably Fenty advertising. It is, but you stay to watch it because ‘Le Freak’ is playing and it’s strange that Rihanna decides to make a trend like ‘One Night in My Life’. It will have some chicha.
We see the artist and businesswoman working very hard at a Savage X meeting in which she compares colors, reviews outfits and… signs records? Why are you signing vinyls of ‘Music Of The Sun’, ‘Loud’ and ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’? Is there a promotion where you buy some panties and get a signed record as a gift? No, most likely it has to do with the box set he released last year for the 20th anniversary of his career, but dreaming is free. The video continues and Rihanna blurts out as if nothing had happened that she has a studio session next. Come on now.
What she’s really worried about is finishing her son’s Mardi Gras costume, but still… Isn’t it strange that, knowing full well the absurd anticipation that exists with her music, Rihanna uploads a video in the studio? In her latest interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Riri said she had been going to the studio every year since the release of ‘ANTI’, which turned 10 on January 28. Seeing her physically there is impressive, but the video has its trick.
We see Rihanna surrounded by people, making jokes, concentrating, dancing… Why don’t we see her sing? Why don’t we even see her in the cabin? That Rihanna lets us know that she’s still going to the studio is cool, but we have to press the red button more, the ‘REC’ button or whatever. Does the fact that we don’t see her sing have something to do with a matter of secrecy or because she really didn’t sing anything that day? And if so, why would she upload a video in which we don’t see her sing? I imagine that if it’s true that he’s been going to the studio for 10 years straight, he won’t record every day, but it’s still quite ANTIclimatic.
For a celebrity of Rihanna’s stature, it’s strange to make a video like this for no reason. Does this mean ‘R9’ is just around the corner? At last? Of course not. The worst thing of all is that the video means absolutely nothing, but it is normal for us to think that it does, and Rihanna has to know that. The only reasonable conclusion I can come up with is that Rihanna is evil and wants her fans to suffer forever. Joking aside, going to the studio for 10 years and not getting tired has a lot of merit, but the question is: Does it bring any kind of relief to Rihanna’s fans?
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— Rihanna (@rihanna) February 27, 2026
