Rita Ora to release new music 'in a matter of days' after recording a song for huge Netflix reality TV series
The How We Do singer, 34, has recently been in the studio cooking something up for the dating series Love Is Blind UK.
According to reports, she is set to bring out a song named Joy - which is a powerful track about 'finding inner peace' and is expected to be released in the coming days.
A source told The Sun: 'It's no secret that Rita loves love so she jumped at the chance to record a track for Love Is Blind UK.'
She is set to release her fourth studio album very soon, but Joy won't be apart of it.
They described Joy as a 'mini side-project' rather than being part of the new album.
The source added: 'The song will be used on the show and be available to stream but there are no plans for a video or to send it to.'
Rita recently revealed how Beyoncé has always been her 'protector' as she discussed being hit by speculation that she was 'Becky with the good hair'.
Beyoncé's smash hit 2016 album Lemonade featured poignant lyrics about cheating and she sang about the mysterious woman in her track Sorry.
Fans widely speculated it referred to alleged infidelity by Beyoncé's husband Jay-Z with a woman called 'Becky', and theories began circulating online about her identity.
Rita found herself at the centre of the rumours as she was wrongly accused of having an affair with Jay-Z, with the singer forced to hit back and deny the claims.
Now, Rita - who was represented by Jay-Z's Roc Nation label at the time - revealed she was so upset by the claims because Beyoncé has always been her 'protector'.
Speaking on Davina McCall's Begin Again podcast, Rita explained: 'Behind closed doors, [Beyoncé] is literally my fairy godmother, she was my protector - that's what's insane because there was nothing but love.'
Rita also admitted that she felt 'ugly' in her late twenties because she 'wasn't as thin as other people'.
The singer appeared on Fearne Cotton's Happy Place podcast in partnership with Dove's Self Esteem Project for a candid body confidence chat.
Rita opened up about how her relationship with her body has changed in recent years, as she revealed she used to feel like her body wasn't 'hot'.
'I think for me the idea of looking a certain way in my late 20s, that's when it started to hit me because my stamina was low, I wasn't looking after my body, I was getting sick a lot and I didn't feel like my body was hot,' Rita said.
'And I didn't accept the idea of okay well I'm not as thin as these other people - and so I'm ugly. And that's really sad to think back on because I know I wasn't.
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