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Rihanna will headline the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show after Taylor Swift reportedly turned it down. Here are 6 times musicians declined the coveted performance spot.
Rihanna will headline the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show after Taylor Swift reportedly turned it down. Here are 6 times musicians declined the coveted performance spot.
Pauline VillegasSep 26, 2022, 03:31 IST
Jay Z, Pink, and Adele are among the musicians who have refused to perform at the Halftime show.Rich Fury/Getty Images; Karwai Tang/Getty Images; Jim Dyson/Getty Images
Though she declined the offer in 2019, Rihanna is now set to headline the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show.
On Friday, Taylor Swift reportedly joined the group of musicians who turned down the opportunity.
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Rihanna will headline the 2023 Super Bowl after she previously declined to perform. In a 2019 interview with Vogue, Rihanna confirmed that she turned down the offer.
Rihanna at the launch of Fenty Beauty products at Ulta Beauty.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
On Friday Variety reported that Taylor Swift was in the running to perform at the 2023 Super Bowl. However, People and TMZ confirmed the pop star will not be hitting the stage in February.
Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 28, 2022.Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
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Though Jay-Z produced the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show starring J-Lo and Shakira, the rapper rejected the offer to perform himself.
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, chief visionary officer at The Parent Company.Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images
After Pink's 2018 Super Bowl National Anthem performance, the NFL reportedly offered her the halftime gig for the following year, but she declined.
Pink on the backstage red carpet at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards.Rich Fury/Getty Images
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In 2019, Cardi B told The Associated Press that she declined the offer with "mixed feelings."
Rapper Cardi B poses on the red carpet at the 2021 American Music Awards.Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
In 2016, Adele talked about turning down the halftime show during a concert in Los Angeles, Billboard reports.
Adele on the red carpet at the 2022 Brit Awards.Joel C Ryan/AP Images
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According to Big Boi, Outkast was asked to perform at the 2004 Super Bowl but turned it down because André 3000 "didn't want to cut the songs" for time purposes.
André 3000 speaks on a panel at the winter 2020 Television Critics Association press tour.Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images