5 Rihanna Songs To Get You Ready For The Super Bowl
Is it Rihanna’s halftime show featuring the NFL Super Bowl or the Super Bowl featuring RiRi’s halftime performance? Either way, you want to spin it, we are just days away from the award-winning singer making her highly-anticipated comeback to perform live as she takes on a 13-min halftime show at Super Bowl LVII on Sunday (Feb. 12) in Phoenix!
Football’s biggest night will see the matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles with kickoff beginning at 6:30 pm ET, which means that the halftime show likely happens around 8 p.m. ET.
"From the time it starts it just never ends," Rihanna said in a press conference on Thursday (Feb. 9). "Now I'm saying too much, but it's a jam-packed show."
According to Rihanna, the setlist for the show has changed 39 times and it still is unclear what tracks the Bajan-born artist will perform from her 17-year career. While we count down the hours until she takes the stage, here are five songs you should totally replay to get you ready for an epic performance that is likely to go down in history.
Don’t Stop the Music
With the permission of Michael Jackson to borrow the iconic “Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa” hook from his 1983 track “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” for “Don’t Stop the Music,” the global dance-pop party hit was born. “Don’t Stop the Music” was also nominated for “Best Dance Recording” at the 50th annual Grammy Awards.
Work
As soon as you hear the opening background music and RiRi’s voice, you’re instantly transported back to 2016 when “Work” became one of the defining tracks of the year. Featuring Drake, the hypnotizing dancehall beat is one that can’t be forgotten and was also nominated for “Record of the Year” and “Best Pop/Duo Group Performance” at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.
Hard
Straight off her Rated R album, Rihanna tapped rapper Jeezy to tie together this uptempo song back in 2009 and entered the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.
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Rude Boy
This 2010 dancehall track was co-written by Rihanna, Ester Dean, Makeba Riddick, Rob Swire and Stargate, which soared to the No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 spot for five consecutive weeks.
Pon de Replay
This song had to make our list! It’s Rihanna’s debut single off of her Music Of The Sun album which was released back in 2005 and effortlessly secured her deal with Def Jam, “Pon De Replay” is one track that never gets old and put Ri on the map with her distinct sound and style.
