
Yes, you can! Where to watch Rihanna's Super Bowl show in SARihanna will make her live music comeback at the Super Bowl Halftime Show this weekend. Here's where and when SA fans can tune in to watch.
by Cornelia Le Roux
09-02-2023 12:44
in Entertainment
After years of no live performances from Rihanna, the music star will headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show this weekend. Image: Supplied/ Apple Music
One thing is synonymous with Super Bowl Sunday: The epic halftime show. This year, it's game on for music superstar Rihanna to wow the Super Bowl LVII crowd at Arizona's State Farm Stadium on Sunday 12 February.
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Super Bowl with Rihanna: Where and when to watch in SA Great news for Mzansi is that the 57th annual showdown will be broadcast live, exclusively across Africa, on ESPN (DStv 218, Starsat 248) at 01:30 (SAST: South African time) on Monday morning.
Quick side-note: To subscribers' utter dismay, DStv has turned into a repeat offender. I have lost count of the Men in Black repeats, but I bet you it has surpassed the 19 times Anaconda has slithered its way back onto e.tv over the years.
But I'm all over the scheduled Super Bowl repeats which will air at 08:00, 17:00 and 22:00 on ESPN2 (DStv 219 and StarSat 249), as well as at 14:00 on ESPN (DStv 218, StarSat 248) on Monday.
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A touchdown in front of the telly at around 17:00 or 22:00 with a couple of friends and frosties sounds like the perfect way to kick off the week. Those off-whack Super Bowl commercials, the American National Football League's top franchises locking horns for the Vince Lombardi Trophy and of course, Rihanna! What more can we ask for? I vote for no load shedding.
ALSO READ: Rihanna gets Super Bowl ready with new Savage X Fenty release
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Rihanna on a roll: Oscar nod, Super Bowl and a tour?! Sassy songstress and billionaire businesswoman Rihanna is also reportedly planning to announce an album or even a tour after her headline act at the Super Bowl LVII showdown between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs.
Rihanna stuns in her new new Savage X Fenty collection just in time for her Super Bowl Halftime Show. Image: @savagexfenty | Instagram. It's been six long years since the nine-time Grammy winner released an album and fans are eager to see Rihanna return to the stage for the first time since the 2018 Grammys.
It's been a couple of good months for RiRi though.
Her super successful Savage X Fenty Vol 4 show was aired on 9 November 2022. And on 24 January, Lift Me Up, the star's single from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.
.@rihanna will reportedly perform "Lift Me Up" at the 95th annual Oscars on March 12, 2023 via @Variety. pic.twitter.com/ReXFgz8fwe
Rihanna Charts (@RFentyCharts) January 24, 2023
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Motherhood unlocks superpower' The Umbrella singer gave birth to her baby boy with long-time boyfriend and rapper A$AP Rocky in May 2023.
Rihanna gave birth to her and A$AP Rocky's baby boy in March 2022. Images via Instagram @fentybaby/ @rockyxrih In an interview with Extra, Rihanna credited motherhood as the reason for her agreeing to do the halftime show.
I feel like it was now or never, really. There's this weird s*** that happens when you become a mom, that you just unleash or unlock other parts of your superpower, you feel like you can take on or you could do anything.
I wanted to take on the challenge and I wanted to do something that would force me to get back onstage.
WATCH: Rihanna's Super Bowl Halftime Show trailer .
Super Bowl 2023: Who will join Rihanna on stage? It's still under wraps as to who Rihanna will bring out as her special guests.
In November, RiRi told E! News that with only 12 minutes to perform onstage, there is a possibility that she might not invite any guests.
If the superstar however decides to share her Super Bowl glory with other performers, A$AP Rocky, Jay-Z and Calvin Harris are on top of our guess-list .
According to Bustle. Jay-Z and Rihanna has a long history together with the songstress signing with Def Jam Records in 2005. Jay-Z also and featured on one of her first mega-hits, Umbrella.
He's also never appeared at the Super Bowl, not even during his wife Beyonc 's 2013 Halftime Show, where she reunited with her Destiny's Child bandmates.
But in 2019, his company Roc Nation partnered with the NFL to advise on bookings for the Halftime Show, which is likely a huge reason why Rihanna finally agreed to play ball after declining the opportunity in 2018 in solidarity with American civil rights activist and football quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
Fan speculation According to XXL Mag, fans are also hoping that Eminem makes a repeat return to the Super Bowl stage, while Drake, Future and believe it or not, even Kanye West are rumoured as possible guests.
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