--- title: Rihanna May Be Trolling Her Fans With This New Fenty Shirt description: Despite the fact that Rihanna recently said that she was working on new music, she now appears to be trolling her fans with a Fenty t-shirt. canonical: https://time.com/5609978/rihanna-fenty-no-more-music-shirt/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-06-19T15:18:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:15.720Z og:title: Rihanna May Be Trolling Her Superfans and This Is Proof og:description: Art of trolling og:url: https://time.com/5609978/rihanna-fenty-no-more-music-shirt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdda81f82e1033230/69894b6edb298795412627bf/rihanna-trolls-fans-fenty-shirt.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Fenty X The Webster Cocktail Event og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rihanna May Be Trolling Her Superfans and This Is Proof twitter:description: Art of trolling twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdda81f82e1033230/69894b6edb298795412627bf/rihanna-trolls-fans-fenty-shirt.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Rihanna Might Possibly Be Trolling Her Superfans and This Is Proof > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Fenty) Dimitrios Kambouris—Getty Images for Fenty  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 19, 2019 3:18 PM UTC Despite the fact that Rihanna recently [told her _Ocean’s 8_ co-star Sarah Paulson](https://time.com/5603890/rihanna-interview-magazine-career-tips/) that she was “working on” her long-awaited ninth album in an interview for [_Interview_](https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/meet-rihanna-the-shy-gal), Rih now appears to be trolling her music-thirsty fans with a new [Fenty](https://time.com/5587259/rihanna-fenty-lvmh-fashion-house/) t-shirt. At a Fenty pop-up in New York City on Tuesday, Rihanna debuted a new $230 Fenty t-shirt emblazoned with the words “No More Music.” > [](https://twitter.com/TeamOfRihanna/status/1141075118770311170) But while this design certainly gave some shoppers pause, Rihanna is known for trolling her Navy fanbase when it comes to their pleas for new music. Back in October 2018, [Rih posted a meme of herself](https://time.com/5415363/rihanna-new-music-meme/) on Instagram in which she’s wiping sweat off her brow while surrounded by fans. She wrote across the image “when your fans keep asking you for new music.” So don’t worry too much Rih stans, here’s the official word on the album as of the June interview: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5609978/rihanna-fenty-no-more-music-shirt/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5609978/rihanna-fenty-no-more-music-shirt/"},"headline":"Rihanna Might Possibly Be Trolling Her Superfans and This Is Proof","datePublished":"2019-06-19T15:18:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:15.720Z","description":"Rih debuted a new $230 Fenty t-shirt emblazoned with the words “No More Music.”","url":"https://time.com/5609978/rihanna-fenty-no-more-music-shirt/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music","Rihanna","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdda81f82e1033230/69894b6edb298795412627bf/rihanna-trolls-fans-fenty-shirt.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdda81f82e1033230/69894b6edb298795412627bf/rihanna-trolls-fans-fenty-shirt.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fenty X The Webster Cocktail Event","caption":"Fenty X The Webster Cocktail Event","creditText":"Dimitrios Kambouris—Getty Images for Fenty","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5609978/rihanna-fenty-no-more-music-shirt/","name":"Rihanna Might Possibly Be Trolling Her Superfans and This Is Proof"}}]}] ```