Adele and Rihanna have lots of love for one another (Picture: AP/Getty Images)
Adele is all of us as she reveals the only reason she will be attending the Super Bowl is for Rihanna’s much-anticipated halftime show.
Clearly not a National Football League (NFL) fan, the 34-year-old made her sentiments known at a concert on her Las Vegas residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace over the weekend.
‘I’m going just for Rihanna,’ the Someone Like You hitmaker confided to an audience member during the show, before she added, ‘I don’t give a flying f***,’ presumably about the NFL, to booming laughter from the audience.
The annual event will be held in State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on February 12 and it will see the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs battle it out for the championship title.
Rihanna confirmed she’d be taking the teams into the second half before we knew who would be playing.
Over the years the fixture has become just as famous for its halftime musical show as it is for the sport itself, as previous headliners include Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, The Rolling Stones and Lady Gaga.
Last year Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar all took to the stage.
It’s not clear what the Umbrella singer, 34, will include in her approximately 15 minute-long show, but the star is sure to put on a huge performance, as this is her big comeback since she dropped her last album, Anti, in 2016.
Since then, the Rude Boy hitmaker has welcomed her first son with partner A$AP Rocky in May last year.
On journeying to the Super Bowl stage – one of the biggest in the world with a viewership of almost 100million in the US alone – the Fenty business owner said this performance was ‘now or never’ for her.
Beyonce performed at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2016 (Picture: Getty Images)
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky welcomed a baby boy last year (Picture: Christopher Polk/NBC via Getty Images)
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the Stay singer said: ‘Nothing would have gotten me out of the house if it wasn’t a challenge like that.
‘You could get real comfortable being at home as a mum, [so this is] challenging myself to do something that I’ve never done before in my career. I have to live up to that challenge.’
Even for a worldwide superstar, the Super Bowl is a daunting thing, and Rihanna is conscious she must ‘get it right’.
‘The Super Bowl is one of the biggest stages in the world, it’s an entertainer’s dream to be on a stage like that, ‘ she said.
‘But it’s nerve-racking. You want to get it right. You know, everybody’s watching. And they’re rooting for you. And I want to get it right.’
Adele and Rihanna have met before at the 2013 Grammy Awards (Picture: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
This is not the first time Adele has fangirled Rihanna as, for 2018’s TIME 100 list, she wrote an impassioned tribute to the singer and said, ‘Whenever I’ve met her, she’s been the most gracious, loyal and funny goofball of an icon.’
She continued: ‘She glows like when someone’s taken a picture with a flash and you’re dazed for a few minutes after. But it’s also very clear in that glow that she genuinely doesn’t give a f***; she’s fearless and full of all the right kind of attitude to be everything that she is and will be forever.’
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The admiration goes both ways, as during an appearance on a 2012 Jonathan Ross show episode, Rihanna revealed she’d only attended The Brits that year to ‘stalk Adele’.
‘It really was nothing about me; it wasn’t about the Brits; it wasn’t about the performance. It was really just to see Adele again. … I love her.’
Although Rihanna’s Super Bowl performance has sparked rumours she could be back touring in 2023, there’s yet to be an official announcement.
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