Unreleased footage of a teenage Rihanna during her first trip Down Under in 2006 has surfaced.
In an interview with journalist Simone Amelia Jordan, the then 18-year-old spoke about her home Barbados, making genre-defying music, and tackling fame as a shy person.
A particularly insightful moment in the interview, not to mention one that aged well, is when Jordan asks the star if she saw herself moving in a particular sonic direction going forward.
"Not at all. It can't happen. It's too boring that way for me," said Rihanna.
"As an artist I like to be creative and take risks and try different things, and that's why my sound is so different, because it's not [one] particular sound—it's a fusion of all different kinds of sounds."
The journalist behind the footage is Australia's most revered hip-hop journalist, Simone Amelia Jordan.
After launching Australia's highest-selling hip-hop magazine Urban Hitz, Jordan went on to have a glittering career in the United States as a radio host on SiriusXM and the editor of The Source.
Jordan won the Richell Prize For Emerging Writers in 2021 and set to work on her memoir Tell Her She's Dreamin', which released on August 30.
