Rihanna to Headline Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present

The Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present may very well be lit past phrases, as a result of TMZ has realized the NFL and Roc Nation have been in talks with Rihanna to headline.

Sources with direct information inform TMZ … there have been a number of discussions with Rihanna and her group. We have no idea if she’s a agency go, however our sources say the NFL could reveal who they’ve locked up as early as Sunday afternoon through tweet.

Rihanna makes a variety of sense, as a result of she’s a Roc Nation artist, so it is a straightforward name for Jay-Z.  BTW, Rihanna has been teasing her new music for greater than a 12 months, and if she’s able to launch it there isn’t any higher platform than the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present.

We’re advised there have additionally been discussions with one other performer, nevertheless it’s not both/or — in different phrases, there could be a minimum of 2 performers on stage.

It is attention-grabbing … Rihanna turned down a proposal to headline on the 2020 Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present due to her opposition to the way in which Colin Kaepernick was handled by the NFL.

TMZ broke the story … the NFL requested Taylor Swift months in the past to headline the Halftime Present, however she took a go.

We’re advised she’d love to do the Tremendous Bowl, however solely after she rerecords all 6 of her early albums, and she or he’s solely rerecorded 2 thus far.