The reporter waiting for Rihanna is as tired a trope as it is, so let’s leave that part aside: Yes, she arrived at the Savage x Fenty Vol. 4 sets after midnight, for a call duration of 21h. No, nobody was mad. How could we be? This is Rihanna we’re talking about, one of our newest self-made billionaires thanks to her beauty and fashion empire, and she has plans for us: an upcoming Super Bowl performance, new music just released (more on that in a minute), the premiere of Savage x Fenty Vol. 4 Wednesday, and yes, a brand new baby. She is busy.
She is also tired. Which, given that she was taking work calls about new loungewear designs from the delivery room, is fair. Not that she looks tiredness. “I thought I was going to get back to work and I did,” she said from the sound stage where she took pre-show interviews, perfectly made up and wearing an embossed Alaïa minidress. alligator. “Then I took a little break, then I came back, and now I’m back outside.” It’s a new kind of fatigue, though, this tired mommy. “I used to be tired and push and keep going. It’s a tiredness you have no control over. Your body shuts down. And just recently I spent three days at the studio. in a row, like, slept in the studio – to make a song because it’s a project that’s really important for me to get out. I believed in it and wanted to be part of it, so I did. This song, “Lift Me Up”, a lullaby-like ballad in tribute to the life and legacy of Chadwick Boseman written by Tems, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna and director Ryan Coogler for wakanda foreverwhich fell at the end of October. Variety reported that she curated the film’s soundtrack, much like Kendrick Lamar did for the first Black Panther movie. Or as Rihanna trilled again: “We’re back outside.”
Savage x Fenty Vol. 4 premieres on Prime Video November 9 and features models like Precious Lee, Cara Delevingne, Joan Smalls, Irina Shayk, Zach Miko and Lara Stone; actors like Marsai Martin, Simu Liu, Damson Idris, Taraji P. Henson and Abbott Elementary School Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph; social media superstars Rickey Thompson and Avani Gregg and musician Bella Poarch; and performances by artists like Anitta, Burna Boy, Don Toliver and Maxwell. At the beginning of November, it was revealed that Johnny Depp was also part of the cast. (He walks to OutKast’s “So Fresh, So Clean.”) Rihanna was proud of the production, she said vogue. “It looks so good. It’s beautiful. It’s one of those things you say you want to do and the logistics are impossible, but we kind of pulled it off.
