“It could only happen to me now”: Rihanna ready for her big Super Bowl comeback

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PHOENIX | Pop music icon Rihanna has long resisted the appeal of the popular Super Bowl halftime show. Absent from the stage since 2016 and a new mother, the singer will finally take up the challenge on Sunday and the details of this great comeback have remained hidden. 

The traditional press conference for performing artists at the Super Bowl was held in Phoenix, Arizona. Usually, singers make a point of promising grand artifices and memorable moments. 

Rihanna, who saw her first boy born last May, opted for discretion instead. < /p>

“I promise myself to have fun at this show, at the Super Bowl,” she soberly indicated in anticipation of her expected performance on Sunday evening, in front of some 72,000 people at State Farm Stadium and more than 200 million viewers. around the world. 

The singer, businesswoman and actress did not look drawn despite the workload, the stress of the return and the attention turned to her. Maybe it's the magic of her Fenty makeup line, launched in 2017… 

“But I haven't slept a wink. We were at the stadium all night fine-tuning everything. We've been working on this for a while and we're getting closer to a finished product,” explained the pride of Barbados. 

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Since the release of her album Anti in 2016, Rihanna has not embarked on a tour and it is rumored that this half-time performance is a prelude to a return to the stage in 2023.  

Impossible to know more about her plans or the details of what she is concocting for the Super Bowl, since the journalists were not authorized to ask questions. 

This conference rather took the form of a discussion with moderator Nadeska Alexis, from Apple Music. Nothing has therefore filtered through on potential special guests or the songs that will appear in the repertoire. 

“Le setlist is the biggest challenge. You have to put 17 years of work into a 13-minute show. There are difficult choices and we have done a good job at this level”, she underlined, mentioning that 300 to 400 people are currently working on this performance. 

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In 2019, the NFL approached Rihanna to star at the halftime show. The artist had declined the invitation because she was protesting the treatment of quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who spoke out against social injustices. 

The one who recorded 14 songs that reached the top of the charts and who won nine Grammys did not discuss this episode. 

“It could only happen to me now in my life. When I got the call (from the NFL), I wondered. It was three months after I gave birth. The Super Bowl is one of the biggest stages in the world. I thought it was important for me to do it this year, so that my son could see that,” she said.  

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