Are you ready for the event?

Everyone is waiting for what I am calling the Rihanna concert,

formerly known as the Beyonce concert previously before then known as the Super Bowl.

We're previously known as the Prince concert and then the Michael Jackson concert

and then the place where Whitney Houston sang the song.

Yes, in the place where Justin Timberlake earned my eye for the rest of his life.

Oh my god. Hey, hey, you're listening to It's been a minute from NPR.

I'm Brittany Luce here with my good friend Jean Demby, host of NPR's Code Switch.

And this weekend, whatever you call it, the Super Bowl or the Rihanna concert,

it's going to dominate the conversation.

Are you ready?

I'm ready for different reasons that you are.

My Eagles, my beloved Eagles are in the Super Bowl, but yeah, I'm ants.

And you know, it's football, so you can't be ant without a little bit of like a little ethically dubious to it.

The NFL has long been a flashpoint for the biggest tensions in American culture.

In 2019, Rihanna herself turned down the halftime show because she said she couldn't support the league's ethics.

But now, just four years later, she's taking the stage to perform her biggest hits.

And with 14 number one hits, she's got a lot to choose from.

Umbrella is going to be there.

You know, it's like the Super Bowl.

It's like the most sort of like middle of the road American thing.

So you're going to get all the songs.

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