--- description: To hear it, you're going to have to download the Dubsmash video messaging app from the iTunes store or from Google Play. title: Rihanna Just Dropped Her New Single image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Rihanna Just Dropped a Teaser of Her New Single ## Video: Rihanna, Jim Parsons and Steve Martin Discuss Aliens, Obama and More [Watch (HLS stream): Rihanna, Jim Parsons and Steve Martin Discuss Aliens, Obama and More](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/WepBiSrI.m3u8) (1:30)  _Published 2015-03-18. In their new animated movie, Home, voice talents Rihanna, Jim Parsons, and Steve Martin make an unlikely trio. But defying expectations, their chemistry, on- and offscreen, is hard to deny._ by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 15, 2023 5:06 AM CUTPublished: Mar 26, 2015 7:02 AM CUT by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 15, 2023 5:06 AM CUTPublished: Mar 26, 2015 7:02 AM CUT **Correction appended** After much anticipation, Rihanna released a teaser of her new single early Thursday and tweeted the news to her 42.7 million followers. To hear it, you’re going to have to download the Dubsmash video messaging app from the [iTunes store](https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/dubsmash/id918820076?mt=8 "undefined") or from [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilemotion.dubsmash&hl=en "undefined"). > [](https://twitter.com/rihanna/status/580969135905107968) The rumors around her much-anticipated eighth album — her first in over three years, have been swirling for awhile but intensified on Wednesday with a [somewhat mysterious](http://time.com/3759184/rihanna-new-music-r8/ "undefined") Instagram post. It’s just this tidbit of the single for now, but hopefully the album is coming soon. _Read next:_ [_This Woman Has Rihanna Tattoos All Over Her Body_](http://time.com/3739159/rihanna-superfan-tattoos/?iid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ### Rihanna — Gratuity “Tip” Tucci, _Home_  20th Century Fox; Getty Images In the new movie _Home_, Rihanna plays a young girl searching for her mother amid an alien invasion; the animated-film newcomer also contributed songs to the movie’s soundtrack. ### Jennifer Lopez — Lucy Tucci, _Home_  20th Century Fox; Getty Images _Home_ also marks a return to CGI for Lopez, who played a saber-tooth tiger in 2012’s _Ice Age: Continental Drift_. Lopez performs a song in the film, too, making it the rare two-fer in the animated-pop-star catalog. Most animated movies don’t force their moonlighting music stars to share the spotlight. ### Nicki Minaj — Steffie, _Ice Age: Continental Drift_  20th Century Fox; Getty Images In _Continental Drift_, the fourth installment in the _Ice Age_ series, Lopez played opposite Minaj, who inhabited the role of Steffie, a wooly mammoth. It clearly agreed with Minaj, who went on to make a guest appearance on the animated series _Steven Universe._ ### Taylor Swift — Audrey, _The Lorax_  Universal; Getty Images Swift’s acting career has been about to fully happen for years, with live-action roles in _Valentine’s Day_ and _The Giver_ and several _Saturday Night Live_ cameos indicating that once the promotion cycle for her album _1989_ winds down, she may just dive into acting more fully. But her most commercially successful film is one in which she doesn’t appear onscreen; Swift played the environmentalist love interest to the protagonist in this adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s 2012 green parable _The Lorax_. ### Justin Timberlake — Boo-Boo Bear, _Yogi Bear_  Warner Bros.; Getty Images Timberlake is by now as known for his acting as for his musicianship, but there are a few roles that are better left unremarked-upon than his animated turn as little Boo Boo in the Hanna-Barbera adaptation _Yogi Bear_. The 2010 film, in which animated bears played opposite real human actors, hit $100 million domestically but was critically pilloried. Timberlake was in the midst of promoting his turn in _The Social Network_, and managed to get away more or less unscathed. ### Bruno Mars — Roberto, _Rio 2_  20th Century Fox; Getty Images Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg reprised their roles as macaws in this 2014 sequel, joined by fellow feathered friend Bruno Mars. The “Locked Out of Heaven” artist also recorded a song for the soundtrack, as did co-star Janelle Monáe. ### Katy Perry — Smurfette, _The Smurfs_  Columbia; Getty Images The singer, known for her preference for bold, eye-catching colors, worked blue in the two _Smurfs_ films, in 2011 and 2013\. Perry, unlike other pop stars, generally avoids acting, making her stint as Smurfette all the more notable. ### Madonna — Princess Selenia, _Arthur and the Invisibles_  The Weinstein Co.; Getty Images After _The Fifth Element_ but before _Lucy_, French director Luc Besson’s strange career took a turn towards entertaining kids with this 2006 CGI/live-action hybrid about a race of tiny people living in a child’s garden. Madonna was along for the ride as one “Princess Selenia,” though her role was dubbed by other nations’ pop stars for international releases of the film. ### Beyoncé — Queen Tara, _Epic_  20th Century Fox; Getty Images If not quite her Achilles’ heel, film has never been Beyoncé’s strongest suit. Though _Epic_, an animated fantasy adventure in which Beyoncé played the benevolent queen of the forest, was a financial hit, it was quickly overshadowed after its 2013 release by rumors of a new Beyoncé album, which came to fruition in December. She hasn’t made another movie since. ### Pink — Gloria, _Happy Feet Two_  Warner Bros.; Getty Images So what? She’s still a penguin! The singer (credited as Alecia Moore on the film’s poster) replaced the late Brittany Murphy in this 2011 Arctic-set sequel; her co-stars included fellow musician-turned-actor Common. **Correction**: The original version of this story mischaracterized the music Rihanna released. 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