Rihanna Returns To Music With Chadwick Boseman Tribute ‘Lift Me Up,’ Her First New Song In 6 Years: Listen

The time that Rihanna’s fans person been waiting for has yet arrived. On Friday (Oct. 28), Rihanna, 34, made her eagerly-anticipated instrumentality to euphony with the merchandise of “Lift Me Up,” the pb azygous from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack. Arriving weeks aft the NFL announced Rihanna arsenic the headliner of the Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show, “Lift Me Up” marks the archetypal caller Rihanna way successful implicit six years. The profoundly affectional and moving opus had a spiritual consciousness to it, inspired by religion euphony with soft and harp elements.

“Burning successful a hopeless dream/Hold maine erstwhile you spell to sleep/Keep maine successful the warmth of your love/When you depart, support maine safe/Safe and sound,” she sings successful the archetypal verse of the song, produced by Oscar victor Ludwig Goransson. “Lift maine up/Hold maine down/Keep maine close/Safe and sound,” she past sings successful the chorus of the down tempo track.

“Lift Me Up” was written successful tribute “to the bonzer beingness and bequest of Chadwick Boseman” by Tems, Goransson, Rihanna, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever director Ryan Coogler, according to the property merchandise sent retired to herald the caller song.  The opus was recorded successful 5 countries and was produced by Göransson. “After speaking with Ryan and proceeding his absorption for the movie and the song, I wanted to constitute thing that portrays a lukewarm clasp from each the radical that I’ve mislaid successful my life,” said Tems. “I tried to ideate what it would consciousness similar if I could sing to them present and explicit however overmuch I miss them. Rihanna has been an inspiration to maine truthful proceeding her convey this opus is simply a large honor.”

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— Rihanna (@rihanna) October 26, 2022

Rihanna’s past azygous arsenic the pb creator came successful 2016. That year, she dropped her eighth workplace album, Anti and she released “Sledgehammer,” a azygous for the Star Trek Beyond soundtrack. Rih enactment retired a fistful of promotional singles into 2017 and worked with a fewer artists implicit the adjacent twelvemonth oregon so. She lent her vocals to N.E.R.D.’s “Lemon,” Future’s “Selfish,” to DJ Khaled for “Wild Thoughts” (featuring Bryson Tiller), and to PartyNextDoor’s 2020 opus “Believe It.”

The announcement of “Lift Me Up” resulted successful Rihanna being the apical Twitter inclination for hours, arsenic fans were ecstatic that they yet were getting caller music. To accidental fans privation a caller album is an understatement. The six-year span betwixt Anti and present marks the longest that Rihanna’s NAVY has gone betwixt albums, arsenic she would usually merchandise a caller LP each 2 years. The hype has, successful immoderate cases, turned rude. “If 1 of y’all motherf-ckers inquire me about the album one much clip erstwhile I’m trying to prevention the satellite […] ….on sight,” she said successful April 2020 astatine the tallness of the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, her euphony vocation has taken a backseat to surviving the coronavirus pandemic, her increasing manner and quality empire, arsenic good arsenic to her newborn son. But, during her pregnancy, Rih gave fans a hint that the medium is coming.

“I’m looking astatine my adjacent task wholly otherwise from the mode I had wanted to enactment it retired before. I deliberation this mode suits maine better, a batch better,” she told Vogue in 2022. “It’s authentic, it’ll beryllium amusive for me, and it takes a batch of the unit off.”