Pop and R&B superstar Rihanna made a grand return to the stage on Sunday, floating high above the Super Bowl field, dazzling the crowd with a fast-paced medley of her hits and revealing that she is pregnant with her second child.
Dressed in a hot pink jumpsuit and baggy coat, Rihanna opened the biggest showcase in music by singing “Bitch Better Have My Money” as she stood, with a noticeably rounded belly, on a platform suspended in the air.
She was gradually lowered to the ground as she went through well-known songs from “Only Girl (In the World)” to “Rude Boy” and “Work.”
The singer gave birth to her first child, a boy, with rapper A$AP Rocky in May 2022. Rocky was spotted in the stadium crowd cheering on his girlfriend’s performance.
Rihanna concluded her Super Bowl set with “Diamonds” as fireworks lit up the sky around the stadium.
Rihanna joined a list of music luminaries who have performed at the Super Bowl, from Lady Gaga to Beyonce, Prince, Madonna and the Rolling Stones. The telecast usually draws around 100 million viewers in the United States alone.
In the pre-game ceremony, country star Chris Stapleton sang the U.S. national anthem while Oscar-winning “CODA” star Troy Kotsur performed the song in American Sign Language.
Emmy-winning “Abbott Elementary” star Sheryl Lee Ralph sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn that has become known as the Black national anthem, accompanied by a choir.
The stars were out in full force at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards.
While the fashions are never as glamorous as the Oscars, they do rival the Grammys in terms of edginess and risk-taking. In other words, anything goes! Here are some of our favorite fashions that rocked the red carpet this year.
We are used to RiRi wearing something a little more rock and roll on the red carpet, so it was surprising to see her show up in something so soft and feminine. While some viewers thought she looked like she was wearing a sheer bathrobe, we thought it was the perfect outfit to demonstrate that blush is sexy, too.