Summer Walker might be “Finally Over It,” as she croons on the title track of her latest studio album, but she’ll never get over Anna Nicole Smith.
On Monday (Nov. 17), the Billboard 200-topping R&B star stopped by The Terrell Show to speak with host Terrell Grice about the journey to her third studio album, Finally Over It. Between professing her desire to further explore funk music and naming her favorite Erykah Badu song (spoiler, it’s “Honey”), the “Girls Need Love” singer also explained why Smith — who died in 2007 — was her visual and aesthetic muse for her new record.
“I love her. She’s hot. She’s sexy. She’s fun and free,” Walker gushed. “And I want that to be me … People come up with s—t for creative direction, but I really want to get into that. I got to find my old billionaire!”
The official artwork for the streaming and digital versions of Finally Over It, which arrived on Nov. 14, features a solemn Walker holding a bouquet of white roses and wearing a voluminous wedding gown as she poses next to her much older, white, wheelchair-bound husband. The image is a direct callback to Smith’s iconic 1994 wedding, during which she married J. Howard Marshall, a then-89-year-old petroleum tycoon billionaire.
’90s Playboy icons proved to be a key source of inspiration for Walker as she rolled out Finally Over It. At September’s MTV Video Music Awards, where “Heart of a Woman” competed for the best R&B Moon Person, Walker called upon Pamela Anderson’s iconic 1999 VMAs outfit for her red carpet look. “F—k my type,” she captioned a Sept. 7 Instagram carousel, teasing the latest Finally Over It single.
Finally Over It marks the conclusion to the trilogy Walker launched in 2019 with Over It, her debut studio album. The era-defining record reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and its follow-up, 2021’s Still Over It, became Walker’s first project to top the chart — and the highest charting album from a female R&B artist since Beyoncé’s Lemonade in 2016. Featuring a boatload of collaborators — including Anderson .Paak, Mariah the Scientist, Teddy Swims and Chris Brown — Finally Over It also includes the hit “Heart of a Woman,” which earned nominations for best R&B song and performance at the 2026 Grammys.
Watch Summer Walker explain Anna Nicole Smith’s influence over Finally Over It below.
