Rihanna Slams Online Troll for Demanding New Album and Making Fun of Her 'Forehead.' See Her Ruthless Clapback

Mar. 15, 2025

Rihanna in Los Angeles in October 2024.Photo:Kevin Mazur/Getty

Kevin Mazur/Getty

InsultingRihannaisn’t going to make her release a new album any faster.

The global superstar, 36, hasn’t released a new body of work since 2016’sAnti, and one online troll decided to remind her of the fact in a comment on her recentInstagrampost celebrating New Year’s 2025 — and RiRi was quick to clap back.

“We want an album forehead,” wrote Instagram user @lorenzohirmez underneath a video of the “Work” performer ringing in the new year with friends.

In the original Instagram video, the Barbados native declared, “Y’all, I didn’t drink all year! I didn’t drink all year.” She added in the caption, “New Year, New Me.”

While the Grammy winner hasn’t released a new album in almost nine years, she put out two songs — “Lift Me Up” and “Born Again” — for theBlack Panther: Wakanda Foreversoundtrack in 2022 and headlined the Super Bowl halftime show the following year.

Rihanna in New York City in December 2024.Cindy Ord/WireImage

Cindy Ord/WireImage

Speaking toEntertainment Tonightfor an interview in April, the “We Found Love” hitmaker opened up about forthcoming music and described her new songs as “so good.”

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Rihanna in London in December 2024.Samir Hussein/WireImage

Samir Hussein/WireImage

In an interview withBritishVoguelast year, the mother of two spoke about feeling"toxic pressure"to top the quality ofAnti— a.k.a. “most cohesive album I’ve ever made” — with her upcoming music.

“It’s not the right way to look at music because music is an outlet and a space to create, and you can create whatever. It doesn’t have to even be on any scale,” she said at the time. “It just has to be something that feels good. It could just be a song that I like. It literally could be that simple.”

source: people.com