{"id":12674,"date":"2023-02-13T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/?p=12674"},"modified":"2023-02-13T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:40:16","slug":"review-rihannas-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/?p=12674","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Rihanna\u2019s Halftime Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By: George Spaulding<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday night, Rihanna made a huge music comeback with her halftime show performance during the NFL Super Bowl. From the dancers to the flying platforms, it was really a sight to see. This was also her announcement that she is pregnant again, as she did this show with her baby bump on display. Her doing this all pregnant takes this show to another level of impressive. She had no special guests. But her presence alone demands attention and she proved she can fill the stage without anyone&#8217;s help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rihanna opened up her show with \u201cB**** Better Have My Money\u201d, which was an excellent choice for the first song. It commands the audience\u2019s attention and I\u2019m so glad she included it in her setlist. She then goes into \u201cWhere Have You Been?\u201d, \u201cOnly Girl in the World\u201d, and \u201cWe Found Love\u201d, which are some of her biggest songs. She continues with \u201cRude Boy\u201d, which I\u2019m glad she included, followed by \u201cWork\u201d, and \u201cWild Thoughts\u201d. She then sings, \u201cPour It Up\u201d, which is another song that really gets you hype like her opening song did. \u201cAll of the Lights\u201d and \u201cRun This Town\u201d follow, with \u201cUmbrella\u201d and \u201cDiamonds\u201d closing out her set. \u201cDiamonds\u201d is a perfect closing song and the crowd turning on their flashlights took it to another level.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The songs Rihanna chose help you feel nostalgic and fired up, with all these songs effectively representing her expansive catalog. Some songs I wish she had included are, \u201cPon De Replay\u201d, \u201cDisturbia\u201d, and \u201cShut Up and Drive\u201d. The setlist is perfect as it is, but those songs would have taken it to another level for me. There likely just wasn\u2019t enough time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the setlist, the dancers and choreography were absolutely amazing. The choreography was made by star choreographer Parris Goebel, who has collaborated with Rihanna multiple times for her Savage x Fenty runway shows. The dancers are from Goebels dance crews that she founded, Royal Family and ReQuest. They elevated the entire show and it would not have been as good of a show without them. The dancers who were on the platforms performing was incredibly impressive considering how the platforms were not completely still. Rihanna even started to dance with them multiple times during the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, the halftime show was really good in my opinion. It\u2019s Rihanna so I wouldn\u2019t have expected anything less. The dancing, the songs, Rihanna in general, made this a truly spectacular show that is one for the books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: George Spaulding On Sunday night, Rihanna made a huge music comeback with her halftime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":12675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397,926,400,398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-features","category-professional-sports","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12676,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674\/revisions\/12676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}