The
magazine points out Beyonce's surprise release of her single
"Formation" during Anti's
week climbing the charts as just one reason some fans have been pitting the two
superstars against one another, but the "Work" singer isn't bothered
in the least.
"Here's
the deal. They just get so excited to feast on something that's negative,"
Rihanna says. "Something that's competitive. Something that's, you know, a
rivalry. And that's just not what I wake up to. Because I can only do me. And
nobody else is going to be able to do that."
Obviously,
Rihanna has enough going on in her own life as it is. She's in the middle of a
63-city world tour, and says her gruelling schedule makes it a challenge to be
in a relationship.
"My
schedule is so crazy right now," she laments. "It's definitely going
to be a challenge when I do decide to pursue a relationship . . . but I have
hope!"
But
she couldn't be prouder of her latest album, even if it turns out to not be as
popular as her previous work.
"It
might not be some automatic record that will be Top 40," Rihanna
acknowledges. "But I felt like I earned the right to do that now."
Rihanna's latest
music is definitely personal, judging by the way she describes her songs. For
example, "Higher" is about
a woman in a not so healthy relationship. "You
know he's wrong, and then you get drunk and you're like,
'I could forgive him.
I could call him. I could make up with him,'" she explains. "Just,
desperate. We just said, 'You know what? Let's just drink some whiskey and
record this song.'"
Her
song "Work," which Ariana
Grande recently poked fun of on Saturday
Night Live thanks to the not easily understood chorus, is inspired
by her home culture in Barbados.
"You get what
I'm saying, but it's not all the way perfect," she explains. "Because that's how we speak in the
Caribbean."
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