Rihanna is releasing new music this year — but the album that popped up on iTunes and Apple Music over the weekend is not it. Was it a real album? Yes, but no. While Rihanna was indeed the singer on the record, Angel seemed to comprise demos and some unreleased songs that have, according to Rihanna fans, been floating around the Internet in some fashion since Within hours, the album disappeared from iTunes and Apple Music as quietly as it had appeared, and Apple has not commented on the matter. In those two cases, a user uploaded the albums via a DIY distribution service that delivers independent music to Apple Music and Spotify. Due to the changes in music distribution and the technology of distribution and consumption, these kinds of leaks, whether secret or not, are far more more likely to happen than ever. While the singer said last year that she had a record in the works for a release, the exact date has not been announced. Popular on Rolling Stone.
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Model misbehavior. An up-and-coming model apologized Saturday for lying about being transgender, after losing her job over transphobic messages she posted on Facebook. The wild journey of the year-old cisgender beauty, known for her bright red hair and fearless attitude, started when she found herself in the middle of PR nightmare, after being called out by social media users for posting transphobic messages online, and then saying that she was transgender as a coverup.
Pop's need for speed: 'You have to drop new stuff constantly'
I n the final days of December, speculation that Rihanna might be about to release her ninth album, known among fans simply as R9, entered overdrive. Despite the many articles and social media posts leaking titbits about the work in progress over the last four years, Rihanna has never shared official details about the project, though she once said her next album would come out in When did fans start believing they deserve albums from their favourite pop stars? A similar chaotic energy surrounded Frank Ocean in The mood became so embittered, it was hard to tell whether fans still really wanted new work. The situation is exacerbated by the music media. These days, we know a lot about an album before the work is officially announced. Grimes has also been hit hard by this rolling news cycle. In the summer of , Ocean broadcast a livestream of himself building a staircase to an ambient soundtrack titled Endless.
There have been a plethora of images and videos shared on social media platforms during the ongoing bushfire crisis in Australia, but most of them are not real. As deadly blazes tear across southeastern Australia, false or deliberately misleading images and claims have proliferated online, in languages from Arabic to Hindi. And even the celebs are falling for it. On January 6, US singer Rihanna shared a photo of a map, which claimed to show Australian bushfires; yet, as it turns out, it is fake.
