Rihanna has defined her resolution to comply with carry out on the Super Bowl after infamously turning earlier provides from the NFL down.
The star rejected the organisation’s strategy for her to be the Halftime Show performer in 2018. That transfer was made in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, the previous San Francisco 49ers quarterback who was shut out of the league after taking a knee to protest police brutality through the US nationwide anthem at video games.
In a brand new interview with British Vogue, Rihanna acknowledged there have been nonetheless points with the system and society. “There’s still a lot of mending to be done in my eyes,” she mentioned. “But it’s powerful to break those doors and have representation at such a high, high level and a consistent level.”
The singer pointed to final 12 months’s efficiency from Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar, coupled with hers this 12 months. “Two Super Bowls back-to-back representing the urban community, globally,” she mentioned. “It is powerful. It sends a really strong message.”
She continued to clarify that turning into a mom had additionally modified her perspective in additional methods than one. “Raising a young Black man is one of the scariest responsibilities in life,” she mentioned. “You’re like, ‘What am I leaving my kids to? This is the planet they’re gonna be living on?’ All of those things really start to hit differently.”
Rihanna famous that giving delivery had given her a way that “nothing is impossible”: “It’s this knowing that you can do anything, even things that seem the craziest, like, ‘I’m going to say yes to the Super Bowl in the middle of postpartum?’ What the heck am I thinking? But you’re geeked on a challenge like that because you know what your body just did.”
The star’s Super Bowl efficiency on Sunday (February 12) was the second-most-watched halftime present of all time, averaging 118.7million viewers. Katy Perry’s 2015 efficiency nonetheless holds the report with a median of 121million viewers.
The set additionally featured a tribute to late style icon André Leon Talley, the previous editor-at-large of Vogue. At the top of her set, Rihanna donned a pink sleeping bag coat by Alaïa – an obvious homage to Talley, whose favorite Norma Kamali coat was in the identical model and color.