When Rihanna introduced she’d be returning to acting at this 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present on Sunday, February 12, her followers went wild. May this imply the pop star was making a return to music? Her final efficiency was in 2018 on the Grammy Awards, and since then the musical artist has been seemingly targeted on her magnificence empire and changing into a brand new mom, leaving some have been questioning if she’d ever get again to her past love: music.
However it looks as if the Halftime present is only the start— Rihanna is reportedly planning to announce a worldwide tour. A supply advised The Solar, “She has her North American dates able to announce for 2023 after the Tremendous Bowl and it is going to be a matter of time earlier than European dates are introduced for 2024.”
The supply added, “Her plan is to arrange mini residencies in main cities somewhat than go to a number of locations.”
The Anti singer has additionally been seen on the studio these previous few months, although some individuals recommended she may be visiting A$AP Rocky. Nonetheless, with the discharge of Black Panther 2: Wakanda Endlessly got here two songs for the soundtrack by Rihanna, “Carry Me Up” and “Born Once more. So she has been recording, although the promise of a tour doesn’t essentially go hand-in-hand with a brand new album.
The supply did say she’ll be retaining the rumored touring quick, as a result of her focus continues to be on Fenty Magnificence and Savage X Fenty.
In November of final 12 months, Rihanna advised E! Information’ Justin Sylvester that even the Tremendous Bowl halftime present is simply 12 minutes lengthy, so she is not actually nervous about filling the time after placing on two hour reveals most of her performing historical past. Nonetheless, she is contemplating some shock friends.
“Twelve minutes?” she stated. “You possibly can truly try this by your self, but it surely’s a kind of issues the place you may enhance it nonetheless you need. So whether or not I select to do it for myself or whether or not I select to carry a few of my friends on, it is…I do not know what I am gonna do but.”
She added, “It is gonna be nice both means.”
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and extra. Her first e-book, The Lonely Hunter, will likely be launched by Dial Press in February 2022.
