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Rihanna Teases Big Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show
Who tally the satellite of Super Bowl Halftime Show performances? Just inquire Rihanna.
While prepping for her Feb. 12 large crippled debut, the 2023 headliner turned to other popular queens for inspiration, namely Beyoncé. The "Crazy successful Love" vocalist had performed astatine both the 2013 and 2016 NFL championships.
"I watched Beyoncé's halftime performances a mates of times," Rihanna said connected the NFL podcast The Process with Nate Burleson on the iHeart network, successful an occurrence released hours before the 2023 Super Bowl. "She is simply a beast and a full different level. Just to beryllium inspired, really."
Rihanna said that to hole for her Super Bowl Halftime Show performance, she besides rewatched different past pistillate Super Bowl Halftime Show performers—Madonna, the 2012 headliner, and Janet Jackson, whose 2004 show with Justin Timberlake was marred by a "wardrobe malfunction," as good arsenic the precocious Whitney Houston's iconic show of the U.S. nationalist anthem astatine the 1991 Super Bowl.
Rihanna recalled being invited to headline the Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show successful August, 2022, soon aft giving birth to her and A$AP Rocky's first child. "It was truthful scary because it was benignant of unexpected," she said. "My lad was lone possibly 3 months old."
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She continued, "I haven't performed successful 7 years—2016 was my past tour. That to maine was the past clip I retrieve being retired determination connected the stage."
Rihanna's past afloat performance was astatine the 2016 Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The past clip she sang onstage was successful 2019, erstwhile she performed astatine her 2019 Diamond Ball at Cipriani Wall Street successful New York City.
"I miss it," Rihanna said connected the podcast, speaking astir performing. "But to travel backmost from zero to the Super Bowl, similar that's benignant of nuts. I didn't cognize what to think. It's going to beryllium a situation and that gets maine excited and I deliberation that was the existent propulsion for me."
She continued, "I conscionable privation to enactment connected a large amusement and I privation to bask it. I don't privation the unit to succumb me."
The vocalist besides teased astatine slightest 1 peculiar guest. "I'm reasoning astir bringing someone," she said. "We'll see."
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