Given her general omnipresence, it’s surprising to learn that You & I is only the third Rita Ora album in 11 years. Music for the Kosovo-born singer has increasingly felt like a rare side hustle in between judging TV talent shows, working as a UNICEF ambassador and launching a tequila brand. Not to mention “putting on a leggy display”, “showcasing her jaw-dropping figure” or “flashing her toned abs and legs in a crop top and hot pants as she grabs an iced coffee”. Just some of the past week’s leery headlines on one newspaper website.
An interview this year described her as “polymathic in entertainment”, as though she was Leonardo da Vinci – though to be fair, he never managed to perform both at the canonisation of Mother Teresa and in the Pokémon: Detective Pikachu movie.
