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Rihanna's Road to Super Bowl 2023
Let's beryllium real: This is what you came for.
After the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs finished playing the first half of Super Bowl LVII connected Feb. 12, the evening's existent performer took halfway stage. Rihanna headed onto the tract astatine State Farm Stadium successful Glendale, Arizona for the halftime show. And yes, she was shining agleam similar a diamond.
Dressed successful a red-hot ensemble, Rihanna performed a medley of her hits, including "Bitch Better Have My Money," "Where Have You Been," "Only Girl (In the World)," "We Found Love," and "Rude Boy." She past moved connected to adjacent much instrumentality favorites similar "Work," "Wild Thoughts," "Pour It Up," "All of the Lights" and "Run This Town"—and the transitions from 1 opus to the next were smoother than limousine. But that wasn't all. The nine-time Grammy victor besides belted out tracks similar "Umbrella" and "Diamonds."
Of course, her epic show should travel arsenic nary astonishment to anyone. After all, Rihanna had enactment successful the work, work, work, work, work, enactment to present a genuinely unforgettable show.
"You're trying to cram 17 years of enactment into 13 minutes, truthful it's difficult," she told Nadeska during an Apple Music Halftime Show press conference connected Feb. 9. "Some songs we had to suffer due to the fact that of that, and that's going to beryllium OK. But I deliberation we did a beauteous bully occupation of narrowing it down….There's astir apt astir 39 versions of the acceptable database close now."
After that showstopping performance, fans mightiness inquire Rihanna where person you been? But to beryllium fair, 34-year-old has been alternatively busy. In summation to increasing her Fenty empire, RiRi welcomed her archetypal child with A$AP Rocky last spring.
Still, Rihanna felt similar present was the cleanable clip to instrumentality to the stage.
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"It feels similar it could person lone been now," she said astatine the property league astir performing astatine the Super Bowl. "I mean, erstwhile I archetypal got the telephone to bash it again this year, I was like, 'You sure? Like, I'm 3 months postpartum. Like, should I beryllium making large decisions similar this close now? Like, I mightiness regret this.' But erstwhile you go a mom, there's thing that conscionable happens wherever you consciousness similar you tin instrumentality connected the world, you tin bash anything."
She added, "The Super Bowl is 1 of the biggest stages successful the world. So, arsenic scary arsenic that was, due to the fact that I haven't been connected signifier successful 7 years, there's thing exhilarating astir the situation of it all. And it's important for maine to bash this this year. It's important for representation. It's important for my lad to spot that."
While Rihanna conscionable released two tracks for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, fans are asking her to delight don't halt the music. So however is she feeling these days?
"Musically, I'm feeling open," she continued. "I'm feeling unfastened to exploring, discovering, creating things that are new, things that are different, things that are off, weird, mightiness not, ever marque consciousness to my fans, the radical that cognize the euphony that I enactment out. But I conscionable wanna play, I wanna person fun. I privation to person amusive with music."
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