Was Rihanna's Halftime Show Good? (with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd) (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In a preview of our new Patreon episode available in full on Pop Pantheon: All Access, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd joins DJ Louie for a Monday morning recap of Rihanna's big return to the stage at the Super Bowl Halftime Show last night in Glendale, Arizona, her first live show since 2018. They discuss what they liked about the performance, what they felt was missing, the pregnancy reveal, the divisive reaction from fans, the setlist, the outfits, the staging, how the crew did with their predictions last week, how Rihanna defies pop star expectations and most importantly, what it all telegraphed about the future of her pop career, if there in fact is one at all.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, DJ Louis here, just dropping a little preview of our new Patreon episode in which |
| 0:04.9 | Julianne Esquado Shepard and I wrap up last night's divisive Rihanna Super Bowl halftime show. |
| 0:11.3 | We're talking all the things we liked, the things we didn't like, and going pretty deep on what |
| 0:16.1 | this all portends for the future of Rihanna the pop star. |
| 0:20.6 | So if you enjoy this snippet, you can go to patreon.com slash pop pantheon and subscribe to |
| 0:25.5 | hear the entire episode. |
| 0:26.6 | You can also do the link in the show notes of this episode. |
| 0:29.8 | Click that. |
| 0:30.4 | I'll take you to the same place. |
| 0:32.0 | And I hope you enjoy this snippet. |
| 0:35.1 | Here it is. |
| 0:36.3 | My initial reaction was almost like split. I like didn't know |
| 0:40.3 | what to think of it. And like this is a different type of superstar Super Bowl performance than |
| 0:46.4 | we're conditioned to be used to from the other kind of major pop figures that have done this |
| 0:51.7 | recently who take on this kind of maximalist doing the most |
| 0:55.4 | kind of attitude towards it. And so I guess I'm curious like how you think about her as a different |
| 1:03.9 | kind of pop performer and whether people's reactions to last night who, and maybe people that |
| 1:10.1 | are having kind of like negative reactions to last night is about maybe people that are having kind of like negative reactions to |
| 1:11.8 | last night is about Rihanna not trying hard enough, which is like what some are saying or |
| 1:16.9 | whether this has to do with kind of like being conditioned to only sort of value one specific |
| 1:21.1 | brand of like pop superstar performance, I guess. Yeah, I mean, I guess I get it because everyone wants the Super Bowl to have bells and whistles |
| 1:31.3 | and, you know, fireworks, which there were, and Lady Gaga, like, fucking flying in the air, |
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