RITA Ora is back – and she’s feeling sexier than ever.
Sitting down with Bizarre’s Jack as she drops her new single Heat today, the singer says: “I wanted to really celebrate my sexuality and the way I am as a woman.
Another line has Rita singing: ‘Only one thing I need. Your heat on me’[/caption]
Rita Ora says she’s still in the honeymoon phase with husband Taika Waititi three years after tying the knot[/caption]
“My last album was so different, it was about my love life and getting married.
“But with this next lot of music I wanted it to be so carefree and back to how I was coming up in the industry.
“I wanted to celebrate everything I have become.
“It’s not super deep, just fun.”
Rita certainly doesn’t hold back on Heat, with racy lyrics including: “Sex on sight, anywhere you like. Inside or outside.”
Another line has Rita singing: “Only one thing I need. Your heat on me.”
Keen not to put words into her mouth, I ask Rita what she means and she gives a cheeky laugh, explaining it’s not just about getting down and dirty.
“It’s the need of it happening right now, in this moment,” Rita says.
“It’s the idea that I want it on right now or I don’t want to hear about it.
“It’s that simple. I think that comes from the excitement of the song.
“I wanted it to feel instant and to have an impact.
“It is a brave, straight-up demand that you can use in any way you want.”
As for her own love life, Rita is happily married to Hollywood director Taika Waititi and even three years after they married, she is still in the honeymoon phase, adding: “I feel in a really great happy place right now.”
She is now turning her hand to playing Cupid with her pals so they find “the one”, telling me not to only go for “your type on paper”.
Rita adds: “I have never really had a type, I have never really thought of it like that.
“It’s always been about the person.
“I’ve never cancelled anyone out as they don’t fit my perfect list of what I think’s perfect.
“You don’t really know until you meet someone who takes you by surprise. Being open may surprise you.
“That would be my advice.
“It’s helped a lot of my friends and now I see them and they are really happy, but admit they’d have never gone for that person.”
This weekend, Rita will perform Heat for the first time at WorldPride in Washington and her fans heading to Capital’s SummerTime Ball on June 15 will hear it there too.
‘Always nervous’
And after five years, a UK tour also looks to be just around the corner. Rita says: “My favourite thing is performing live.
“The fact I can still say I get to do it is a blessing.
“I am really lucky.
“I’m supporting Ricky Martin on tour and hopefully next year my own tour.
“There is a lot happening.
“I’m hitting the ground running.
“My time off is usually around Christmas.”
For now, she is focusing on her new music and the follow-up to her last album You & I, which reached No6 in the charts when she released it in 2023.
“I am always nervous as it’s new music,” Rita says.
“Its like having a baby.
“You put it out into the world and you can’t control how it’s digested.
“You put so much effort into one thing and then you have to learn how to let it go.”
