When the first installment was released in 2018, Kendrick Lamar composed and curated songs for the accompanying Black Panther: The Album, along with other artists including SZA, The Weeknd, Anderson. With its Rihanna-led single, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever follows the tradition started by its predecessor of tapping high-profile Black artists to create original music for the film. “It’s authentic, it’ll be fun for me, and it takes a lot of the pressure off.” I think this way suits me better, a lot better,” she told Vogue earlier this year. “I’m looking at my next project completely differently from the way I had wanted to put it out before. If the years-long wait has proven anything, it’s that Rihanna is moving on her own timeline, and no one else’s. Sure enough, this week, those rumors were confirmed. First, she was announced as the 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner, prompting the question: Does this mean Rihanna is releasing new music? And then, Wakanda Forever promos online and in Times Square were lit up with the letter R, suggesting Rihanna’s musical involvement in the sequel.
But in recent weeks, hints of her return came to the surface. She’s expanded her Fenty Beauty empire and Savage X Fenty lingerie business, was named an actual billionaire, and recently became a mother to a baby boy this spring. the following year, Rihanna has been, understandably, very busy. Since she released her last album, the masterpiece Anti, in 2016, along with collaborations with DJ Khaled and N.E.R.D.
“Rihanna has been an inspiration to me, so hearing her convey this song is a great honor.” I tried to imagine what it would feel like if I could sing to them now and express how much I miss them,” Tems said in a statement. “After speaking with Ryan and hearing his direction for the film and the song, I wanted to write something that portrays a warm embrace from all the people that I’ve lost in my life. With lyrics like, “Keep me in the warmth of your love when you depart / Keep me safe / Safe and sound,” their heartfelt homage to Boseman is clear. The song was recorded in five countries and produced by Göransson too. The song was written by Rihanna, Tems, Oscar-winning composer of Black Panther Ludwig Göransson, and director Ryan Coogler. The uplifting, emotional ballad is meant to be a tribute Chadwick Boseman, the late and beloved star of Black Panther whose loss has been deeply felt by fans and fellow actors, especially his former co-stars in the Wakanda Forever cast. Her latest is “Lift Me Up,” the lead single from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack-a grand comeback fit for the superstar and mogul. After a years of waiting, begging, and nagging, Rihanna has blessed us with new music at last.
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Still, there is little of the heft and power of Tems songs such as Free Mind or Damages in this track – just breezy harp, swelling strings and, faint in the background, the sound of a bunch of Marvel executives rubbing their hands together.It’s finally here. The most notable feature of Lift Me Up is its writing credits: it was co-written by rising Nigerian alté star Tems, and you can hear her presence in the graceful and – for a Rihanna song – unusually ornamental verse melody. (There are indications that the industry, too, is holding out its hype for the “real” Rihanna return – Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist features the R&B singer SZA on its cover today, rather than Rihanna: basically an acknowledgment that this isn’t the “true” comeback single.) It feels like a money talks kind of song: it’s telling that the only two things luring Rihanna away from fashion and cosmetics and back into music in the coming months are the Super Bowl half-time show and a Marvel film sure to be a mega-hit. The track’s lyrics (“Lift me up / Hold me down / Keep me safe / Safe and sound”) are light and frankly anonymous, a far cry from the brilliant, world-weary and starkly emotional lyrics of Anti.
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