Rihanna Spotted In 1st Photos Since Announcing Super Bowl Halftime Show, With Giant Chanel Bag

Will Rihanna’s fans get her long-awaited ninth medium and a jaw-dropping Super Bowl performance? Shortly aft Rihanna, 34, and the NFL confirmed that she would header Super Bowl LVII’s Halftime Show, the “Work” vocalist visited a signaling studio, hinting that she mightiness beryllium putting the finishing touches connected her anticipated follow-up to 2016’s Anti. With a elephantine purple Chanel container successful hand, Rih made her mode into the signaling installation connected Monday (Sept. 26), dressing casually for the trip. She rocked an oversized achromatic jacket, a garment with a vivid people connected the front, a brace of grey Adidas, and her trademark chill demeanor.

Rihanna makes her mode into a studio. (WavyPeter / SplashNews.com)

This marks the 4th clip successful caller weeks that the paparazzi person caught Rih visiting a studio. On Sept. 14, she and A$AP Rocky deed up a late-night workplace session successful West Hollywood. They returned a fewer days later, starring to speculation that they weren’t conscionable enjoying immoderate clip retired aft welcoming their archetypal child successful May. When Rocky, 33, and Rih visited the Los Angeles workplace again connected the 18th, it was hard not to wonderment if Rihanna’s ninth medium mightiness spot the airy of time successful 2023.

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After all, artists have, successful the past, utilizing the Super Bowl Halftime Show arsenic a launching pad for a nationalist oregon satellite tour. Amid speculation that Taylor Swift would play the large game, Rihanna — who hasn’t performed publically since the Grammys successful 2018 – tweeted a photograph of her holding an NFL-branded shot connected Sept. 25. “Let’s GO @Rihanna,” added Roc Nation’s authoritative Twitter account. JAY-Z’s amusement company/record statement has been producing the Halftime Show for the past 4 years, and their effect confirmed that Rih would play the sports extravaganza astatine Glendale’s State Farm Stadium connected Feb. 12.

The NFL’s concern with Roc Nation came aft the league faced disapproval for fundamentally blackballing Colin Kaepernick aft his protests against constabulary sidesplitting radical of color. Rihanna antecedently turned down a accidental to header the Halftime amusement successful solidarity with the exiled quarterback. “Absolutely,” she told Vogue magazine successful 2019. “I couldn’t situation bash that. For what? Who gains from that? Not my people. I conscionable couldn’t beryllium a sellout. I couldn’t beryllium an enabler. There’s things wrong that enactment that I bash not hold with astatine all, and I was not astir to spell and beryllium of work to them successful immoderate way.”