Superstar Rihanna has confirmed her long-awaited new song, Lift Me Up, will be released on Friday. The 34-year-old Barbadian singer last released solo music in 2016 with her eighth studio album Anti.
The new track has been recorded for the upcoming Black Panther sequel, Wakanda Forever. In a post on social media, Rihanna shared what appeared to be a snippet of the new song, featuring a soft melody and swelling strings and a short video clip showing her name spelled in the fictional Wakandan alphabet.
The clip, posted to Twitter with the simple caption “lift me up. 10.28.22”, showed the image of a large silver ‘R’ flanked by sentences in the Wakandan alphabet, with a translation of ‘Rihanna’ and ‘Lift Me Up’ appearing underneath. Late month the singer, who welcomed her first child with rapper boyfriend ASAP Rocky earlier this year, also revealed she will be performing at the next Super Bowl halftime show.
