“Tremendous Bowl is one factor. New music is one other”

Rihanna has downplayed the notion that her upcoming Tremendous Bowl halftime present efficiency subsequent yr is indicative that she has new music arriving across the similar time.

Whereas talking to the pop star and entrepreneur on the crimson carpet of her latest Savage x Fenty Vol. 4 style present, a reporter from the Associated Press urged she “clearly” wouldn’t have agreed to the Tremendous Bowl efficiency if new music wasn’t on the best way. The singer’s final album was 2016’s ‘Anti’.

“No, no, no. That’s not true,” Rihanna refuted. “Tremendous Bowl is one factor. New music is one other factor. Do you hear that, followers? As a result of I knew, the second that I introduced this I mentioned, ‘Oh my God, they’re gonna assume my album is coming, I have to get to work.’”

However I do have new music popping out,” she admitted. “However we’ll see. We’ll see. [The two things are] Unrelated. However a particular undertaking.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Rihanna was requested why now felt like the proper time to headline the Tremendous Bowl halftime present. “It was a problem that I welcomed,” she replied. “It was a stage greater than something I’ve ever completed.”

She additionally talked about her son, who was born in Might of this yr. “[The Super Bowl is] a kind of issues, if I’m going to depart my child, I’m going to depart my child for one thing particular. And I used to be keen to do it. It was now or by no means for me, I really feel like.”

Her remarks echoed ones she made to ET on the crimson carpet the identical night. “Nothing would have gotten me out of the home if it wasn’t a problem like that,” she mentioned of the upcoming efficiency. “You could possibly get actual snug being at residence as a mother, [so this is] difficult myself to do one thing that I’ve by no means completed earlier than in my profession. I’ve to reside as much as that problem.”

The singer confirmed in September that she’s going to carry out at subsequent yr’s sport, which is able to happen on February 12, 2023 on the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The announcement got here after Rihanna, in October 2019, confirmed that she was requested to carry out at that yr’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present, however declined as a way to present solidarity with Colin Kaepernick.

Final month, Rihanna shared ‘Elevate Me Up’, her first new solo single since ‘Anti’ arrived in 2016. The music was shared as a part of the official soundtrack for Marvel movie Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally, and was co-written by Rihanna, Nigerian singer Tems, Swedish composer and producer Ludwig Göransson and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler.

The music was written as a tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman, who portrayed T’Challa/Black Panther within the authentic 2018 movie, and died in 2020 following a personal battle with colon most cancers.