Nearly a decade after releasing her most recent album “Anti,” billionaire pop star and beauty mogul Rihanna hinted at her long-awaited new music in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, stating she’s been in the studio for eight years but finally had the realization about what she wants her new album to sound like.

Anti, Rihanna's eighth studio album, has held over the fans of her music for the last decade as the Barbadian superstar dominated other ventures — fashion, beauty, and motherhood. Rihanna's ability to do it all (and do it well) was illustrated in a rare Feb.

I am actually feeling really good about this. I know I kept saying this over the years,” she says. Fans have guessed that her next album would lean into reggae, tapping into her Caribbean roots, but Rihanna says that theory is “way off!

After eight years in the studio, Rihanna has finally found a new sense of artistic freedom and the space to craft her long anticipated ninth studio album, commonly referred to as R9 by her devotees, the Navy.