Tonight, Rihanna hosted a private event at Los Angeles’ Mama Gallery, where she revealed the cover and title for her eighth album “Anti”. Click here for photos.
The cover is a collaboration between Rihanna and contemporary artist Roy Nachum, who also made the “FourFiveSeconds” single cover.
Rihanna said a few words and announced that the project officially has a title: Anti.
“This is my favorite album cover I’ve ever done,” she said to screaming fans before a black sheet covering her album art was taken down (not by her, of course: “I’m not going to climb up that ladder in these heels”).
The cover features an image of a young Rihanna holding a black balloon, with a gold crown covering her eyes. Over the red-and-white canvas cover, a poem written by Chloe Mitchell is written in Braille.
The Braille and sight-obscuring crown follows the theme of all the album art so far, which Nachum is making as a statement on vision and vision impairment. As Rihanna said after its unveiling, “Sometimes the ones who have sight are the blindest.”
The album release date is to be announced.
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Roy Nachum making the album cover.