Hey, it's Charlie. It's an exciting moment because it's Rihanna's first live performance in seven years.

Well, of course, not talking about Rihanna, our great producer, but Robin Rihanna,

Fenty, the global pop star, and to celebrate her Super Bowl half-time show performance,

thought it would be a good time to go into her back catalog, which Nate and our friend,

Gina Delvack did a little while back. I hope you have a good time listening with them to Rihanna's

repertoire. Welcome to Switched On Pop by Musicologists. Nate Sloan, I'm so happy to be joined by

Gina Delvack. Hey, Nate, so happy to be back. Friend of the show, I think, and we don't have

many of those. But we're all friends. You make friends everywhere you go. Put your capitol

friend. Thank you. I can't call myself the baddest in music, but I definitely love to podcast,

so I'm happy to be back. Yeah, so who are you? I'm the founding producer of Call Your Girl friend,

a podcast for long-distance besties everywhere, and then I work on a variety of other projects

as suits my needs. And what is your burning musical question today?

Okay, so looking back through the truly epic catalog of Switched On Pop's history,

there's one huge omission to me. And her name is Robin Rihanna Fenty.

Yes. Better known as Rihanna, reread to some. She who walks out of restaurants with wine glasses

in hands. She who has graced many a Met Gala red carpet, a celebrity, a fixture in our culture,

and someone of a goddess, I might say. You've shamed me in the town square, and rightly so.

Let's, let's, let's write this wrong today. I'm so looking forward to doing that. And the reason

that we want to do this is because she has a new album dropping any day now. In the meantime,

we wanted to set the stage for why is R9 as her fans, aka the Navy? She has a special name for

her fandom. Whoa, that's, this is all news to me. R9 being the ninth album,

correct? Okay. And the Navy being her fan base. Okay. You know, Beyonce has the beehive.

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