Rihanna Struggling, Boyfriend Drama Hurts Music Career? Ditches New Album 'R8,' No Hit Song Inspiration, Needs Eminem?
Rumors suggest that Rihanna ditched her current work on R8, and now hopes to take her highly-anticipated new album in a totally different direction. But is the 27-year-old Barbadian beauty struggling to make another hit single?
According to the infamous gossip webloid Page Six, RiRi's having mega songwriter's block. An alleged insider claims that recording has since come to a hault until the self-described #BadGal gets her groove back:
"The singles haven't caught on. She'll be fine because she's Rihanna - but it's not a good thing that the songs haven't stuck."
Apparently, RiRi wasn't too impressed with the previous releases of "FourFiveSeconds," "American Oxygen," and "B*tch Better Have My Money" earlier this year. Although her eighth studio record was supposed to hit airwaves sometime in the Spring, now R8 supposedly doesn't even exist. Drake's ex initially felt too rushed:
"She released them because she felt really passionate about [them] and felt an urgency to get them out to her fans," the unnamed source explains. "This isn't going to be another 'Diamonds'... She's never not in the studio. It's not her going back in. She never stopped."
Maybe if the "Diamonds" superstar goes back to her dancehall roots, things will eventually work out:
"I know for sure that [Rihanna's] people have reached out to Popcaan and Vybz Kartel's people to record some music, and I've been told that she might be flying down to GeeJam studio during the summer... Maybe they are just vetting to see which dancehall artists she wants to work with or maybe she want to record more than one dancehall flavored singles" (via an Urban Islandz snitch).
But do MstarsNews readers think that RiRi's current relationship with soccer hunk Karim Benzema is hindering her creativity? Maybe she needs to hook back up with Eminem for another "Love the Way You Lie" or "The Monster" hit!