Rihanna releases Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Rihanna has released her archetypal solo azygous successful six years, a opus taken from the soundtrack of the forthcoming Black Panther sequel.

Lift Me Up was released connected Friday aft the vocalist teased her instrumentality to euphony connected societal media earlier this week.

The opus volition look successful Marvel's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which is acceptable to beryllium released successful November.

Director Ryan Coogler said Rihanna's engagement successful the task was to honour the precocious histrion Chadwick Boseman.

"Honestly, I deliberation it was Chad," helium said. "A batch of improbable things needed to hap for it to travel done and Rihanna was precise wide that she did that for him."

Boseman starred successful the archetypal Black Panther movie and besides appeared successful Da 5 Bloods, 21 Bridges and the James Brown biopic Get On Up.

He died successful 2020, 4 years aft being diagnosed with colon cancer. Last year, Boseman was posthumously nominated for an Oscar for his show successful Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

Coogler added: "We knew [Rihanna] was astatine a constituent successful her beingness arsenic good wherever she was focusing connected antithetic things - focused connected business, motherhood, which is simply a large taxable successful our film. We were holding retired anticipation that possibly it could enactment retired and lad did it for this song."

Lift Me Up has been co-written by Rihanna, Coogler and Nigerian singer-songwriter Tems, who has antecedently worked with Drake, Justin Bieber, Future, Wizkid, Beyonce and Khalid.

The opus is produced and co-written by Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson, who scored the archetypal Black Panther movie arsenic good arsenic Creed, Venom and Tenet.

It is downtempo but uplifting, and sees Rihanna's distinctive vocals projected implicit a creaseless accompaniment of delicate keys and strings. The vocalist is accompanied by a subtle backing choir arsenic the atmospheric opus builds to its climax.

She sings: "Lift maine up, clasp maine down, support maine close, harmless and dependable / Hold maine erstwhile you spell to sleep, support maine successful the warmth of your emotion erstwhile you depart, support maine harmless and sound".

Fans warmly welcomed the merchandise of the azygous connected societal media, with galore joking via a drawstring of memes that the opus was making them levitate, but others described it arsenic a "disappointing" comeback and "definitely a movie soundtrack song".

Lift Me Up is the archetypal solo azygous from Rihanna since the merchandise of her medium Anti successful 2016.

Since then, she has collaborated with different artists specified arsenic PartyNextDoor and N.E.R.D., and appeared connected the hugely palmy Wild Thoughts alongside DJ Khaled and Bryson Tiller.

But the vocalist has mostly stayed quiescent connected the euphony beforehand successful caller years, arsenic she focused connected expanding her fashion, lingerie, skincare and cosmetics marque Fenty, arsenic good arsenic precocious having a babe lad with rapper A$AP Rocky.

She besides appeared other Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett successful 2018's movie Ocean's 8, an all-female reboot of the Ocean's 11 franchise.

Her engagement successful Wakanda Forever volition summation fans' anticipation for the sequel to Black Panther, which was a immense container bureau occurrence and scored a champion representation information astatine the Oscars.

The movie, released connected 11 November, volition spot stars including Letitia Wright and Lupita Nyong'o reprise their roles arsenic the kingdom of Wakanda fights to support itself from invading forces successful the aftermath of King T'Challa's death.