The artists we really, really want new music from in 2021
Will the wait for a new Rihanna album finally be over?
While last year might have seen Taylor Swift give us not one but
two new albums, there are still plenty of artists who are holding out on us. Some have been teasing new material for a while, others have been more secretive about their projects, but all have one thing in common – we’d really, really love to hear what they’ve been up to at some point in 2021. Go on, please?
Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty has been taken her sweet time with the follow-up to 2016’s ‘Anti’ and, while we appreciate her not rushing to release anything mediocre, the waiting game has become fun only for her. Every fan enquiry is met online with a sassy response, which makes us laugh and then do a really big sigh. Not even moving to London and partying in Brixton (pre-pandemic, obviously) has sped up the pace and pulled the focus back from her building her one-woman beauty and fashion
In 1979, David Byrne predicted Netflix. âItâll be as easy to hook your computer up to a central television bank as it is to get the weekâs groceries,â he told
NMEâs Max Bell, sitting in a Paris hotel considering the implications of Talking Headsâ dystopian single âLife During Wartimeâ.
He predicted the Apple Watch in that interview too: â[People will] be surrounded by computers the size of wrist watches.â And he foresaw surveillance culture and data harvesting: âGovernment surveillance becomes inevitable because thereâs this dilemma when you have an increase in information storage. A lot of it is for your convenience, but as more information gets on file, itâs bound to be misused.â