Calvin Harris has shut down rumours that he produced an album for Rita Ora that by no means noticed the sunshine of day.
Ora was just lately interviewed by Louis Theroux for his new BBC Two sequence Louis Theroux Interviews… and was requested about what occurred to all of the music she had recorded, together with a second album that was meant for launch below Jay-Z’s label Roc Nation. The singer took the label to courtroom in 2015 to be launched from her contract on the grounds the agency had uncared for her. Roc Nation countersued and a settlement was reached in 2016.
Writer George Griffiths, who works for the Official Charts Company, described this on Twitter as his “own personal Princess Diana Newsnight moment”, arguing that “if rita’s calvin harris produced second album (i will never let you down was the first of MANY tracks) hadn’t been torpedoed she would have probably been one of the biggest pop stars in the world for like 2 years, i have never gotten over it.”
Harris replied to the tweet – “Entire thing is a myth, there is one unreleased song i worked on and it isn’t good.”
louis theroux interviewing rita ora and asking about her cancelled second roc nation album???? that is my very own private princess diana newsnight second
— george griffiths (@georgegriffiths) November 26, 2022
Ora informed Theroux she had been recording for “two or three years straight” earlier than Roc Nation shelved plans to launch her second album. “There was a whole moment that was about to happen, I recorded a music video and they scrapped it. I felt really disappointed like I’d let them down.”
Theroux additionally introduced up the rumours that Ora had a feud with Rihanna. “It’s been reported that all the music was going to Rihanna – she was obviously the most established artist – she was getting first refusal on all the music and she’d sit on songs that had been written,” he stated. “Either way the result was you couldn’t get a look at it and she had a problem with you.”
“I can’t speak for other people but I think publicly they always put women against each other,” Ora replied. “I’ve been nothing but a fan and respectful of her and I always will be.”
Meanwhile, Harris was introduced earlier this week as one of many headliners of Creamfields South 2023, which shall be going down in Chelmsford, Essex, in the course of the late May financial institution vacation weekend (May 26-28).