Rihanna Ends 3-Year Hiatus With New Song Friend Of Mine For Smurfs Soundtrack

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Last Updated:May 15, 2025, 14:45 IST

This caller soundtrack volition beryllium released connected May 16, 2025.

Rihanna’s past album, Anti, was released successful 2016. (Photo Credit: X)

Breaking her three-year hiatus, Rihanna is making a expansive instrumentality with a brand-new track, Friend of Mine, acceptable to diagnostic successful the upcoming Smurfs movie. This marks her archetypal merchandise since 2022’s Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. With this latest drop, Rihanna is officially backmost successful the game.

On Wednesday, Riri took to societal media to stock a behind-the-scenes glimpse of her signaling the caller song. The Diamonds vocalist was seen wearing a Smurfs-coded bluish and achromatic overgarment and grooving to the Afrobeat-sounding creation track. Rihanna posted this clip on with the trailer of the caller Smurfs movie. “New #SmurfsMovie trailer featuring “Friend Of Mine" from the Smurfs soundtrack retired Friday," Rihanna wrote successful the caption. This caller soundtrack volition beryllium released connected May 16, 2025.

Alongside singing a way for the caller Smurfs movie, Rihanna is besides serving arsenic a shaper and has lent her dependable to the quality of Smurfette successful the movie, which volition deed the theatres connected July 18. Her past released way from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever attained immense success, and fans can’t support calm to perceive Friend of Mine, arsenic the highly anticipated opus volition beryllium breaking Riri’s 3-year hiatus. Moreover, it has been 8 years since the vocalist dropped her workplace medium Anti successful 2016. For the anxious fans, Rihanna shared an update previously, revealing she was moving connected ongoing euphony projects, which she had promised to merchandise soon.

Beyond her philharmonic comeback, Rihanna besides made headlines earlier this period by revealing her 3rd gestation during Met Gala week. The vocalist was photographed leaving her New York City hotel, debuting her babe bump successful style. Later that evening, she walked the Met Gala reddish carpet successful a customized Marc Jacobs ensemble, proudly showcasing her bump and channelling 1 of her dandiest looks yet. Rihanna and her partner, A$AP Rocky, are already parents to 2 sons — RZA, calved successful 2022, and Riot, calved successful 2023.

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