After Rihanna confirmed she’ll headline the 2023 Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present, she hit up the studio for the fourth time in a few weeks, elevating followers’ hopes that her new music is on the way in which.
Will Rihanna’s followers get her long-awaited ninth album and a jaw-dropping Tremendous Bowl efficiency? Shortly after Rihanna, 34, and the NFL confirmed that she would headline Tremendous Bowl LVII’s Halftime Present, the “Work” singer visited a recording studio, hinting that she may be placing the ending touches on her anticipated follow-up to 2016’s Anti. With an enormous purple Chanel bag in hand, Rih made her method into the recording facility on Monday (Sept. 26), dressing casually for the journey. She rocked an outsized black jacket, a shirt with a vivid print on the entrance, a pair of grey Adidas, and her trademark cool demeanor.
This marks the fourth time in current weeks that the paparazzi have caught Rih visiting a studio. On Sept. 14, she and A$AP Rocky hit up a late-night studio session in West Hollywood. They returned a number of days later, resulting in hypothesis that they weren’t simply having fun with a while out after welcoming their first youngster in Could. When Rocky, 33, and Rih visited the Los Angeles studio once more on the 18th, it was onerous to not marvel if Rihanna’s ninth album may see the sunshine of day in 2023.
In spite of everything, artists have, previously, utilizing the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present as a launching pad for a nationwide or world tour. Amid hypothesis that Taylor Swift would play the massive sport, Rihanna — who hasn’t carried out publicly for the reason that Grammys in 2018 – tweeted a photograph of her holding an NFL-branded soccer on Sept. 25. “Let’s GO @Rihanna,” added Roc Nation’s official Twitter account. JAY-Z’s leisure firm/document label has been producing the Halftime Present for the previous 4 years, and their response confirmed that Rih would play the sports activities extravaganza at Glendale’s State Farm Stadium on Feb. 12.
The NFL’s partnership with Roc Nation got here after the league confronted criticism for basically blackballing Colin Kaepernick after his protests towards police killing folks of coloration. Rihanna beforehand turned down an opportunity to headline the Halftime present in solidarity with the exiled quarterback. “Completely,” she instructed Vogue journal in 2019. “I couldn’t dare do this. For what? Who good points from that? Not my folks. I simply couldn’t be a sellout. I couldn’t be an enabler. There’s issues inside that group that I don't agree with in any respect, and I used to be not about to go and be of service to them in any method.”