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Rihanna fans who are desperate for new music don’t need to feel blue any longer, the superstar finally has a new song coming out soon, recorded for the Smurfs movie soundtrack.
As revealed Wednesday with the release of the film’s new trailer, RiRi will drop a track called “Friend of Mine” on Friday. The teaser also features snippets of the song, which finds the Fenty mogul singing over a dreamy Afrobeats-inspired dance track, titled “You’re looking like a friend of mine.”
Starring Rihanna as the voice of Smurfette opposite John Goodman, James Corden, Nick Offerman, Sandra Oh and more, the Smurfs movie is set to hit theaters July 18.
In addition to the “Umbrella” singer’s new song, its soundtrack will also feature Tyla as well as a song called “Higher Love” by DJ Khaled, Cardi B and DESI TRILL, which dropped in February.
“Friend of Mine” will mark Rihanna’s first release since 2022’s “Lift Me Up” from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack. She hasn’t dropped an album since 2016’s Anti, which spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
The new trailer comes a week after Ri attended the Met Gala with partner A$AP Rocky, who was one of the event’s co-chairs this year. On the red carpet, she showed off her baby bump, revealing that she’s expecting her third child with the rapper.
And though fans have been waiting for a new Rihanna album for nine years at this point, the musician says that her latest pregnancy isn’t going to stop her from working on Anti‘s follow-up.
Dailey, H. (2025, May 14). Rihanna is dropping new song ‘Friend of mine’ for the ‘Smurfs’ movie Soundtrack soon. Billboard. https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/rihanna-new-song-friend-of-mine-smurfs-release-date-1235971001/