Super Bowl halftime show : Pregnant Rihanna admits ‘no updates’ on plans for new music as fans reel

Rihanna said that she prepared many different versions of a setlist for her forthcoming Super Bowl halftime show.

The singer admitted that “there are probably 39 different versions of the setlist right now”.

“The setlist was the biggest challenge,” she said. “That was the hardest, hardest part, deciding how to maximise 13 minutes... That’s what this show is going to be, it’s going to be a celebration of my catalogue in the best way that we could have put it together.”

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Rihanna has revealed she is pregnant with her second child while performing at the Super Bowl 2023 halftime show.

Fans went wild over the pop star’s announcement as she graced the stage for the 13-minute concert, sporting her baby bump under an all-red custom jumpsuit by Loewe.

“So you telling me Rihanna did whole halftime show alone WHEN SHE PREGNANT??” one fan wrote in amazement.

Another said: “I don’t think Rihanna understands the level of excitement she brought to everyone that loves her and her music. She sang classics that made us go way back. Danced and sang while pregnant. Epic!”

A third added: “Rihanna is actually so cool. Like she was born cool, her songs are cool, her aura is cool, her dancing is cool. Six years later and she’s still such a baddie on that stage while bloody pregnant!”

Kate Ng reports.

The Super Bowl halftime show’s sign language interpreter has been praised for ‘stealing the show’ during Rihanna’s performance.

Justina Miles was tasked with interpreting Rihanna’s half time performance for the 2023 Super Bowl on Sunday night (12 February), and viewers were impressed.

The 20-year-old is the first female deaf performer at the show and is also the first deaf person to ever perform the pre-show’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” sung by actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, reports CNBC.

Videos showing Miles’ performance have since gone viral; the interpreter can be seen doing sign language to Rihanna’s lyrics while dancing along enthusiastically.

“Justina Miles stole the show as Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show ASL performer!” wrote one viewer on Twitter.

It was a frustratingly short 12 minutes, particularly as the filling to a football sandwich, but it was a performance to go down in the music history books. And oh, darling, didn’t Rihanna do things her own way.

Comeback doesn’t entirely feel an apt word for the woman who has been conquering the business world over recent years, but regardless this was a comeback show setting a new level for artists who take a performing break. More importantly than this, Rihanna has served to inspire, not just entertain. It was already an impressive feat to play such a high pressure show months after giving birth, but to do so while pregnant again makes the feat even more admirable.

Lucy Anna Gray on why Rihanna proved she is still the master.

In a cute video shared by the NFL’s Instagram account, rapper ASAP Rocky was filmed cheering on his girlfriend from the sidelines. The footage shows him gleefully filming the show on his phone and swaying to the music, while sucking on a lolly pop.

Rihanna blew the crowd away with her Super Bowl halftime show at the weekend, in what was the singer’s first solo live performance since 2016.

The “Diamonds” star sent fans wild, crashing Twitter, over speculation that she might be pregnant with her second child. Her representatives have since confirmed the news.

The Independent’s Tom Murray has rounded up some of the most striking images from the show below.

The Super Bowl 2023 halftime show popped off, with Rihanna headlining the event.

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