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Snoop Dogg Gives Rihanna Advice for Super Bowl Halftime Show
Rihanna is done proceeding you speech that talk.
After years of relentless questioning implicit erstwhile she'll beryllium releasing her ninth workplace album, the popular superstar responded to each the pesky chatter successful an Apple Music teaser for her upcoming performance astatine the 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Released connected Jan. 13, the 30-second clip shows Rihanna dilatory sashaying down a lit runway arsenic audio snippets of people lamenting about the agelong hold for caller euphony plays successful the background. "Dude, Rihanna, we've waited for you," 1 dependable says, portion different snipes, "RiRi, wherever person you been?!"
As the chorus of voices commencement to overlap each other, the country abruptly turns acheronian and Rihanna is seen lasting successful the spotlight. Clad successful a achromatic catsuit and ample yellowish fur coat, the 34-year-old raises her digit to her lips to shush the sound—as her 2016 way "Needed Me" kicks in.
Is this Rihanna's mode of telling fans that the hold is over?
Time volition lone archer arsenic Rihanna prepares for her Super Bowl performance, which was archetypal announced successful September. At the time, the vocalist confirmed her engagement successful the highly coveted gig by sharing a representation of her manus holding a shot connected Instagram.
However, Rihanna's new Super Bowl teaser isn't the archetypal time she's responded to fans' pleas for a caller album. In 2019, she jokingly posted a video of a dancing puppy alongside the caption: "Update: maine listening to R9 by myself and refusing to merchandise it."
When an Instagram idiosyncratic asked her for an update successful 2020, she joked that she had "lost" a signaling of the highly anticipated album.
Earlier this year, Rihanna was capable to whet fans' appetite for caller euphony erstwhile she released "Lift Me Up" for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's soundtrack. Written alongside Tems, Ludwig Göransson and Ryan Coogler, the ballad served arsenic a tribute to Chadwick Boseman and marked the first single Rihanna had recorded arsenic a pb creator successful six years.
The opus was nominated for Best Original Song at the 2023 Golden Globe Awards, but ultimately lost to "Naatu Naatu" from RRR.
Find retired if Rihanna volition beryllium performing that—or immoderate caller music—at the Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show connected Feb. 12.
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