Rihanna’s “Born Again” is out now

Who sings the background vocals in Rihanna’s “Born Again”?

Rihanna’s new song “Born Again” was just released on all platforms. Two weeks after “Lift Me Up”, Rihanna dropped a second song for the soundtrack of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”. The song was added to the full soundtrack once it hit midnight locally.

The ballad was written by The Dream, James Fauntleroy, Rihanna and the score’s producer Ludwig Göransson. Dream and Göransson also produced the song while Dream, Fauntleroy as well as South African singer Busiswa Gqulu can even be heard singing the background vocals throughout the song.

What is Rihanna’s “Born Again” about?

The song is played after the movie’s post-credits scene and is about a person’s dedication to Wakanda. Rihanna sings “I give my heart to this place, I give my soul or whatever it takes” in the song’s chorus and lets everybody know that she will “be there” and “carry on”. She would never run away and is most likely referencing the late Chadwick Boseman in the second verse again: “I relive this just to see your face again, I know that you’d do the same.” Boseman played the Black Panther in the first movie that was released in 2018.

Meanwhile, Rihanna shines through the song with her lower register once again while the outro is based on the movie character’s sounds. Some of them sound like they’re imitating the Jabari tribe of M’Baku.

Could the length of Rihanna’s “Born Again” represent the angelic number 333?

Some fans also pointed out the fact that the song lasts exactly 3:33, which might represent the angelic number 333. “In numerology, 333 is a message sent from your guardian angel that they are by your side helping you to make hard decisions in your life that you may not want to make”, as some sources reveal. You would need to watch the movie (and its post-credit scene) to find out who “Born Again” is actually about…