Rihanna was busty on the beach in a series of new behind-the-scenes images from her new Lift Me Up music video.
The 36-year-old dropped the single to massive fanfare last week, marking her first solo release after a six-year hiatus following her album Anti.
Now in the new making-of images she shared on Instagram, the songbird could be seen posing up with the video’s director Autumn Durald Arkapaw.
Lift Me Up was written for the new film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which Autumn worked on as a cinematographer.
In Rihanna’s behind-the-scenes images, she and Autumn could be seen grinning together in front of the beach bonfire that was featured in the video.
Another snatch of footage showed her peering intently at an iPad on the set, presumably watching the rushes.
The music video was comprised mainly of Rihanna strolling across the beach at sunset modeling a billowing, plunging white dress that bared her cleavage.
Clips from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever were interspersed with the new footage Autumn shot of the global pop star.
Although Rihanna featured on the 2020 track Believe It by PartyNextDoor, Lift Me Up is the first song she has released solo since Anti.
In the intervening time she has thrown herself into other projects, such as her buzzy and successful fashion and beauty enterprise Fenty.
When the new song dropped her fans erupted with joy online, such as one who rhapsodized that ‘my eyes instantly teared up.’
Lift Me Up is a tribute to the late Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, who died in 2020 at the age of just 43 after a secret battle with colon cancer.
Rather than recasting his role, the sequel has proceeded with three characters played by Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright front and center.
Directed by Ryan Coogler, who also helmed the first movie, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is scheduled.
Ryan also co-wrote Lift Me Up with the movie’s composer Ludwig Göransson, the Nigerian singer Tems and Rihanna herself.
Rihanna on Thursday released two alternate covers for Lift Me Up, both of them using images of her on the beach in her music video costume.
As with the original cover, the song title and Rihanna’s name are written in both English and the Wakandan script formulated by Black Panther’s production designer Hannah Beachler during the making of the original movie.
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