Rihanna’s halftime performance at Super Bowl LVII generated uproar, with the Federal Communications Commission receiving numerous complaints about her “too se,xual” performance.
The general consensus among those who felt obligated to protest to the feds about Rihanna was that the lyrics and dance were far too se.xualized, with some viewers even equating it to porn.
The 103 complaints made to the Federal Communications Commission, a U.S. government organization that governs television, were obtained by TMZ, and the most of them were about Rihanna’s halftime concert.
One viewer in California even compared Rihanna’s set to Kim Petras and Sam Smith’s performance at the Grammys, writing … “I don’t care what someone worships but children shouldn’t be exposed to por,nography and as an adult I don’t wish to see it … Where has decency gone? How about respect for others and self?”
Rihanna wasn’t dancing much because she was pregnant, and the majority of the ire was directed at the background dancers, who some believe made motions that were “patently obscene and absolutely improper for children.”
When RiRi did manage some dance moves, they drew complaints too … with one viewer in Florida complaining, “She spread her a** cheek at the crack. She rubbed her p,ants where her labia were three times.”
Rihanna’s show was a cakewalk for the FCC compared to another Super Bowl halftime performance, the Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction at the 2004 Super Bowl which generated 540,000 complaints.