The halftime show Super Bowl LVII is on everyone’s lips in the return to the scenes of Rihanna. It will have been necessary to wait more than half a decade to be able to again benefit from a bestial staging which also spread the rumor of a possible pregnancy of the soloist from Barbados.
But it is also that historically, the show of Riri goes directly to the Top of female artists because the performer has become the third woman who has done it completely solo in all history. The format, which has grown over the past 30 years from bands and Disney musical shows to international megastars, has been shared by several artists simultaneously with the exception, in the female section, of Lady Gaga and Diana Ross until 2023.
And curiously, the three have some similarities although understanding the big difference between Diana Ross’ performances in 1996 with those of Lady Gaga (2017) and now Rihanna (2023). In each of them, the heights of the gigantic American stadiums played a big role. The great diva of the 70s and 80s decided that her show had to end by leaving in a helicopter.
From the top of the stadium it started Lady Gaga launches her Super Bowl halftime show in a vacuum held by cables who put him down on the ground soon after. The suspense when the stadium lights went out had a big impact that year.
Last night Rihanna decided to play with the heights again. The flying platforms that swapped positions and heights, added to the red and white lighting, the stadium floodlights and the television frames, gave us one of the best stagings in recent years.
A beastly spectacle featuring a pregnant and completely alone woman. Can anyone think of a more empowering message than this? Third historical performance of a female artist without collaborations on stage (we do not count Gloria Estefan since her performance lasted only 3 minutes), something that has been more frequent in the male section in recent decades: Paul McCartney, Prince, The Weeknd, Michael Jackson, U2, the Rolling Stones, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, The Who…