Even stars get starstuck, particularly when speaking about Rihanna. Missy Elliott and Jack Harlow weighed in on what they hope to listen to and see from RihRih on Sunday (Dec. 12) when she takes the stage for the halftime present at Tremendous Bowl LVII. And, as you may anticipate, they’re anticipating nothing however the perfect.
“I anticipate nothing lower than the perfect from Rihanna,” Elliott tells Billboard. “When Rihanna steps out she’s going to most undoubtedly give 200%. I do know she’s working laborious and I can’t wait to see it. I do know it’s going to be unimaginable.”
Elliott and Harlow — who co-star in a Doritos industrial together with Elton John that can air throughout the sport between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs — say they are going to be on the sofa awaiting the massive second identical to everybody else.
“Sheesh. I imply, what an icon,” says Harlow about Rihanna’s step into the halftime performer pantheon. “I can’t wait to see what she’s received deliberate. I do know it’s going to be show-stopping. It’s superb to have somebody that’s such a legend nonetheless absolutely related and fully essential to what’s happening in the mean time. I feel Rihanna’s unimaginable.”
As for what songs he desires to listen to? Harlow isn’t choosy. “The entire catalog,” he says. “Every little thing.”
Elliott — who carried out with Katy Perry and Lenny Kravitz throughout halftime on the 2015 Tremendous Bowl — says sport day is a big occasion in her home, which is why she’s excited for Rihanna to hitch the unique halftime veterans membership.
“My cousins are all Tremendous Bowl fanatics,” Elliott ays of her household’s response when the rapper/songwriter/producer received the decision for Perry to huddle up for that yr’s extravaganza. “I knew it was large, however to not the magnitude that my cousins was like, ‘Oh my God, do you perceive what’s about to occur?’”
They have been so hyped, actually, that even trade veteran Elliott says she received a bit scared. That mentioned, Elliott thinks it’s solely becoming that an enormous star like Rihanna is taking the most important stage throughout the yr’s most tuned-into occasion. “Doing the Tremendous Bowl is superb as a result of I don’t assume there’s a much bigger platform of individuals which are watching you,” Elliott says. “I used to be on a excessive.”
Tremendous Bowl LVII will air on Fox at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday.
