![]() ![]() There’d been rascally fake-outs, three singles (none of which made it onto the actual album), whole social media accounts teasing its release. The build-up, of course, was extraordinary. Still, ANTI-her very-long-awaited eighth LP-arrived tentatively, almost meekly. It is hard to imagine anyone inhabiting a pop career with more ease or aplomb. Hearing her deliver a line like "Don’t act like you forgot/ I call the shot-shot-shots" (from 2015’s " Bitch Better Have My Money") with a kind of preternatural calm-it’s hard to imagine anything ever feeling better than that. Rihanna’s sureness regarding her presence in the world-in the work that she’s made, in the ways in which she has earned the right to palm a cocktail and chill on a beach-is bold and motivating, like Actual Confidence always is. Yet somehow, those hijinks don’t lessen her seriousness they merely amplify it. ![]()
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