Rihanna returned Sunday after years of away from the live performance stage, giving a pulsating pop efficiency on the Super Bowl LVII halftime present that referred to as on her deep reservoir of hits.
Seven years faraway from her final album, the 33-year-old Barbadian billionaire brushed apart the rust, reigning over a present that minimize a distinction to the ensemble halftime efficiency of 2022.
Rihanna, carrying a cherry pink jumpsuit, arrived on an elevated stage at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., and opened with “B—h Better Have My Money.”
Her stage moved up and down excessive above the sector however under crackling fireworks as she transitioned right into a string of hits: from “Where Have You Been,” to “Only Girl (In the World)” and “We Found Love.”
By the time she rolled right into a suggestive efficiency of “Rude Boy,” she had come right down to a bigger stage, surrounded by legions of dancers dressed all in white.
The efficiency crescendoed with Rihanna roaring by means of “Run This Town,” the 2007 smash “Umbrella” and at last — because the darks went down and followers held up lights — “Diamonds.”
At one level, Rihanna stroked her abdomen throughout “Diamonds,” fanning discuss on Twitter that she may be pregnant.
“Thank you, Arizona,” she mentioned smiling, as the gang cheered on the finish of the present.
Rihanna’s halftime outing got here after a mishmash rap-centric halftime present final yr that starred Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar. Two years in the past, the Weeknd featured within the halftime present.
Rihanna had as soon as been reluctant to lend her highly effective vocals to the NFL’s greatest night time, saying that she “absolutely” couldn’t headline the halftime present in 2019.
“I couldn’t dare do that,” Rihanna advised Vogue on the time, citing the NFL’s rejection of the social activism of Colin Kaepernick. “I just couldn’t be a sellout.”
But on Sunday, on the first Super Bowl to function two Black beginning quarterbacks, Rihanna appeared to relinquish her resistance.
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