When Rihanna announced she’d be returning to acting at this 12 months’s Super Bowl Halftime Show on Sunday, February 12, her fans went wild. Could this mean the pop star was making a return to music? Her last performance was in 2018 on the Grammy Awards, and since then the musical artist has been seemingly focused on her beauty empire and becoming a latest mother, leaving some were wondering if she’d ever get back to her past love: music.
But it surely looks like the Halftime show is just the start— Rihanna is reportedly planning to announce a world tour. A source told The Sun, “She has her North American dates able to announce for 2023 after the Super Bowl and it is going to be a matter of time before European dates are announced for 2024.”
The source added, “Her plan is to establish mini residencies in major cities quite than visit multiple places.”
The Anti singer has also been seen on the studio these past few months, though some people suggested she may be visiting A$AP Rocky. Nevertheless, with the discharge of Black Panther 2: Wakanda Perpetually got here two songs for the soundtrack by Rihanna, “Lift Me Up” and “Born Again. So she has been recording, though the promise of a tour doesn’t necessarily go hand-in-hand with a latest album.
The source did say she’ll be keeping the rumored touring short, because her focus remains to be on Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty.
In November of last 12 months, Rihanna told E! News’ Justin Sylvester that even the Super Bowl halftime show is just 12 minutes long, so she isn’t nervous about filling the time after putting on two hour shows most of her performing history. Nevertheless, she is considering some surprise guests.
“Twelve minutes?” she said. “You can actually do this by yourself, but it surely’s one in all those things where you’ll be able to decorate it nonetheless you wish. So whether I decide to do it for myself or whether I decide to bring a few of my peers on, it’s…I do not know what I’m gonna do yet.”
She added, “It’s gonna be great either way.”
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and more. Her first book, The Lonely Hunter, can be released by Dial Press in February 2022.
