{"id":29959,"date":"2023-03-13T05:44:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T05:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=29959"},"modified":"2023-03-13T07:01:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T07:01:37","slug":"watch-rihanna-stun-the-oscars-with-rousing-first-lift-me-up-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=29959","title":{"rendered":"Watch Rihanna Stun the Oscars With Rousing First \u2018Lift Me Up\u2019 Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rihanna went from the Super Bowl to the Academy Awards this year, delivering an uplifting performance of the Oscar-nominated song \u201cLift Me Up\u201d from \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d at Sunday\u2019s awards show. And while by necessity she had to lip sync at her recent halftime appearance, many in the audience at the Dolby Theatre and at home were struck by the power and emotiveness of her live vocals. \u201cLift Me Up\u201d is Rihanna\u2019s first single after a long drought of new material being released, and it earned the singer her first Oscar nod. The music was created by Rihanna, Tems, \u201cBlack Panther 2\u201d director Ryan Coogler and composer Ludwig G\u00f6ransson, with Tems and Coogler penning the lyrics. <\/p>\n

At last month\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show, her first live performance since the 2018 Grammys, Rihanna sang some of her biggest hits, including \u201cWhere Have You Been,\u201d \u201cOnly Girl (in the World),\u201d \u201cWork\u201d and \u201cWe Found Love.\u201d \u201cLift Me Up\u201d was not on the setlist. Rihanna also made waves for revealing her second pregnancy while on stage. On March 5, Rihanna shared an Instagram video of her eldest son, born last May, with a video of him watching the \u201cLift Me Up\u201d video. The post had the caption: \u201cMy son when he found out his sibling is going to the Oscars and not him.\u201d <\/p>\n

In an essay for Variety, \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d composer G\u00f6ransson explained collaborating with Rihanna, Tems and Coogler on \u201cLife Me Up.\u201d \u201cFor the first time in six years, Rihanna returned to the studio, and I had never heard her voice sound like this before. There was a new kind of conviction and softness in her sound. She took the chorus of the song to a new level,\u201d G\u00f6ransson said. \u201cI imagined Shuri (Letitia Wright) singing to her brother the same way Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) sang to her son. After three weeks of meticulously fine-tuning every word, the feeling and melody line that Rihanna added to the chorus was a feeling of timelessness. It felt like the past, present and future all came together at the same time.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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