Rihanna is reportedly inspired by Freddie Mercury for R9

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American music executive and co-president of Roc Nation, Omar Grant, said of R9: “It’s coming. It’s coming at some point. She’s put out some incredible music, but it’s also to the point where we have to outdo what we did in the past.

“When you build something like a ‘Rihanna record’, we have to continually beat what we did last time and be different from things we have done in the past.

“We are going to be criticised if we do something that’s not as good, or the same.  “Also, it doesn’t really fit if we go with too much of a departure from where it is - then it kind of gets into that weird zone.”

There's also a rumour that Rihanna has been heavily inspired by rock legends Queen and late frontman Freddie Mercury, so could that signal a rockier sound from the R'n'B-pop queen?

An insider said: “Over the past few months, a lot of meetings have been taking place about Rihanna’s new album. It’s changed so much over the years, both in terms of direction and sound, but the new brief is ‘Queen.’

“Execs have been told she’s been inspired by Freddie Mercury and has been listening to a lot of his and Queen’s old records.”

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[RAMROD 116,859]

Well, hope she can belt like Freddie was, especially live 

Excited nonetheless

[gagzus 22,456]

So Mayhem basically lol 

[Gohan 16,839]

I hope the vocals get inspiration from him as well

[JohnPokerface 623]

"an insider" 

[Hydrangea 7,797]

I just made an edit of that famous pic of Freddie in bed with all those random man and put riri over Freddy and then I remembered I can’t POST an image so I’d have to upload it somewhere and I remembered imgur is banned in the uk so I gave up.
 

idk just imagine it 

[MountainMonster 2,651]

Let’s just hang it up. She’s retired at this point. 

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23 minutes ago, gagzus said:

So Mayhem basically lol 

I don’t see what MAYHEM and Freddie Mercury have in common 

[ImpossiblePrincess 3,928]

I mean personally I think her best albums are when she just makes good music and doesn’t give a crap if it’s better then her last one but go off Riri.

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22 minutes ago, Hydrangea said:

I just made an edit of that famous pic of Freddie in bed with all those random man and put riri over Freddy and then I remembered I can’t POST an image so I’d have to upload it somewhere and I remembered imgur is banned in the uk so I gave up.
 

idk just imagine it 

Catbox 

Edited 8 hours ago by ImpossiblePrincess

[ANVEEROY 65,178]

Save us from TS!

[Noah 27,413]

I wonder how many concepts she scrapped at this point. I know it was a joke on the internet, that she'd release music yearly, but she really had a good ear for the songs she picked and she knew what would work. 

[Ziggy 13,920]

…how’s that going to work?…she can’t sing … not even “like that” but based on the jay z show yesterday…

[dynamite 66,525]

Idc if she's inspired by me at this point 

[VTV 13,807]

coming for Ava Max