Rihanna doesn't need to release new music, she has given us a lifetime of work to consume over and over again and continually reassess.
This isn’t the sort of defiant and awe-inspiring pivot I envisioned for my girl, who's been working her ass off since she was a teen and has consistently suffered misogynistic and racist treatment from the public. Her abandonment of music is likely more financially driven, as singers make little off of streaming, rather than some spiritual endeavor. I assume her recent motherhood is playing a role too. But I’ll take some inspiration from a fabulous celebrity where I can find it.
Maybe the main reason I’m so pro-retirement is that Rihanna has given us a lifetime of work to consume over and over again and continually reassess. Her Halftime Show setlist hardly scratched the surface of her best-selling tracks, guest appearances, and beloved deep cuts—if you can even apply that phrase to Rihanna’s discography. It’s not even just that there’s a lot to listen to, but the replay value is also endless.
I’m also a proponent of slow, repetitive music consumption. I love digging through artists’ catalogs like a fun research project and uncovering new layers and themes to a person’s work. There’s a lot to mine about celebrity, the pop industry, gender, and sexuality in Rihanna’s catalog, in particular. (I’d recommend revisiting
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