Rihanna may have shared a hint at what fans can expect next and it is not a new album. Speaking with Harper’s Bazaar as the cover star for the magazine’s legacy issue, the mother of two detailed a new industry she might enter in the future. In the conversation, the global pop icon detailed the care she puts into her Fenty brands and the business ventures that might be on the table.
“I care because my name is on it,” explained the 37-year-old founder of Fenty Hair, Fenty Skin, Fenty Beauty, and Savage X Fenty. “I don’t want my name to represent anything that I didn’t stand for.”
She continued, “I want to do furniture. Home design,” adding, “I think I’ll do wine later in my life. Because I respect the art of it all, and we would want to have our own family vineyard,” after journalist Lynette Nylander suggested wine noting the Grammy-winner’s multiple paparazzi photos leaving establishments carrying a wine glass.
Elsewhere in the interview, Rihanna discusses music and her longtime hiatus from releasing an album since 2016’s Anti.
“I listen to Anti from top to bottom with no shame,” detailed Rihanna. “I used to always have shame. I actually don’t like listening to my music, but Anti—I can listen to the album. It’s like it’s not me singing it, if I’m just listening to it. That’s the one album that I can have an out-of-body experience where it’s not like … You know when you hear your voice in a voicemail, and it’s like, ‘Ugh.’ ”
She later continued, “I’ve been in the studio the whole eight years. But it didn’t hit me. I was searching for it. I went through phases of what I wanted to do. ‘This kind of album, not that album.’ I know it’s not going to be anything that anybody expects. And it’s not going to be commercial or radio digestible. It’s going to be where my artistry deserves to be right now. I feel like I’ve finally cracked it, girl!”