Love the cover and the simplicity of the spread... but this article is a hot mess. So much about Bey/Formation in here, navy/hive ****ery and how ANTI is/was doing on the charts wtf? Did she sign off on this?
After her last tour, in 2013, for Unapologetic, Rihanna vowed to take a break from recording. “I wanted to have a year to just do whatever I want artistically, creatively,” she says. “I lasted a week.” The paparazzi got a picture of her going into the studio, “and my fans were like, ‘Oh, yes! We’s droppin’ a single.’ ” From that moment, she says, the Navy was expecting an album. It would be another two years.
