The rumors started after Ora’s interview with Louis Theroux, in which she discussed music, specifically an album that was supposed to be released under Jay-Roc Z’s Nation label.
Ora was supposed to release her sophomore album under the label, but instead dropped out and sued Roc Nation in 2015, prompting the label to file a countersuit.
According to reports, after six months of back and forth, Roc Nation and Ora reached an agreement.
In 2018, she finally released her sophomore album, which was completely different from what was supposed to be released under Roc Nation.
However, rumors about the unreleased album persisted. Given that Ora was dating the Scottish DJ at the time she was recording her intended sophomore album.
Many speculated that he may have assisted the British singer in the creation of the unreleased album; after all, he did co-produce “I Will Never Let You Down” with her.
A Twitter user wrote:
“Louis Theroux interviewing Rita Ora and asking about her canceled second roc nation album? This is my own personal Princess Diana newsnight moment.”
He continued:
“a reminder 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.”
But, before the rumor got out of hand, Harris took to Twitter to clear things up.
He replied to the tweet:
“Entire thing is a myth, there is one unreleased song I worked on and it isn’t good.”
Another source of speculation is an interview Ora gave in which she revealed that Harris denied her request to perform “I Will Never Let You Down” at the Teen Choice Awards.
She explained:
“I was supposed to perform, and for anyone that doesn’t understand how it works. He wrote and produced the song, so [Harris] has to approve anything TV-wise, for anybody that doesn’t get it, so he has to approve the rights to [use the song] and he didn’t approve the Teen Choice Awards.”
Perhaps it was because of this incident that fans suspected Harris had a song or two on the unreleased album but decided to pull it.
According to Buzzfeed, Harris and Ora began dating in May 2013 and ended their relationship in June 2014. It was a public and messy breakup, which Harris confirmed on Twitter.
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