aespa first concert SYNK:Hyper line a two-night stint at Seoul

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Aespa is an international pop phenom and million-sellers whose concept is as real as it is fantastical. They exist as both real-life idols and cyberpunk heroines, with digital avatars algorithmically created from their data.

Kwangya, an intermediary metaverse character at the centre of Aespa's story, is a place where anything is possible; it's a place where you can exist outside of the confines of the real world, for better or worse. Karina describes their members (pronounced like "eye") as their best friends, culled from their online identities and personal data.

They were deep in preparation for their very first concert, SYNK: Hyper Line — a two-night stint at Seoul's Jamsil Arena. Karina, Giselle, Winter, Ningning, and Aespa are all trainees under SM Entertainment. The standard idol trainee system is a difficult crash course in singing, dancing, rapping, and social media etiquette. Ningning, the youngest member, trained for five years before debuting with Aespa in November 2020.

The training period is an opportunity for artists to grow individually as artists, where they work on their skills and develop certain assets. Karina is often called an all-rounder or an idol who's proficient across all disciplines, which is why K-pop is such a phenomenon. Giselle, Ningning, and Winter were all drawn to the entertainment industry at an early age. Giselle was born in Seoul and attended an international school in Tokyo, where she excelled in the arts. Ningning competed in the second season of China's Got Talent at eight years old and became part of SM's pre-debut trainee team. Winter was inspired by a kindergarten crush on Kwon Sang Woo and her fascination with people on stage.

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Winter's piercing vocals and cold expressions make her fascinating to watch. She can be both "Salty and Sweet." Karina played three instruments in middle school and was inspired by Girls' Generation's "Into the New World" in 2007. She now performs alongside Girls' Generation members Taeyeon and Hyoyeon as a part of SM's rotational girl group, Girls on Top, with WINTER. She sees idols as a beautiful illusion, but also a reality of being online in the 21st century, where we spend four to five hours a day on our devices.

Their English single "Life's Too Short" grapples with social media toxicity, with Giselle singing, "Some people are so mean, all behind a phone screen." It is a rare moment of vulnerability from a group. Aespa has become one of the leading girl groups of their generation after their hit single "Next Level" topped the charts in South Korea in 2021 and catapulted them to global fame.

Their follow-up, the No. 1 single "Savage," cemented them as unstoppable, powered by an addictive refrain, a hyperpop dance break, and Winter's now-iconic "Oh my gosh, don't you know I'm a savage?" Their Savage EP sold more than 1.42 million units in its first week alone. They broke their own record with 2022's Girls, which cracked the Billboard 200 and delivered "Illusion," a potent pre-release track that builds on the group's bold sonic identity and penchant for sticky, hypnotic hooks. Their success transcends the charts, as their faces are all over sheet masks, makeup products, outerwear, fine jewellery, sneakers, and finance apps.

Last fall, they attended Paris Fashion Week on behalf of the brand, and Gisele describes the "surreal" experience as a turning point. The relationship between an artist and their fans is unlike any other bond, and aespa is expanding their reach even further into the future frontier of fashion with their new digital capsule collection. The capsule collection is a partnership among luxury e-commerce platform The Dematerialized, PAPER, SM Entertainment, and Warner Music Group, and it is radicalising how people interact with their clothes. In the metaverse, designs aren't limited by fabrics and physics, and people can express themselves however they want.

Zendaya's glamorous outfit at the 2023 SAG Awards.

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Zendaya wowed attendees at the NAACP Image Awards with not one but two smouldering looks. During the 2023 NAACP Image Awards, he actress from Euphoria, who is just 26 years old, appeared in a dress from the spring/summer 2002 collection of haute couture designed by Versace.

The outfit was black and green and made of silk. The garment was initially designed to be a part of the spring 2002 couture collection that was shown by the Italian fashion company. It featured a split bustier with a plunging neckline and what looked to be a green bustle at the rear of the dress. In place of her usual dazzling sandals, Zendaya wore a pair of black heels with a pointed toe.

Zendaya's hair was pulled back into a high ponytail. Her makeup was light and natural, with a brown lip liner and bronze eye shadow giving focus to her eyes. She also did the award presentation for most outstanding motion film, wearing a white ensemble from Prada's spring 1993 show that went from head to toe.

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Zendaya has succeeded once again in being the centre of attention by wearing a breathtaking dusty-rose gown created by Pierpaolo Piccioli from Valentino on the red carpet of the 2023 SAG Awards. The maxi skirt was a key component of the ensemble. It was designed to complement the cutouts in her bralette top and was fashioned to fit closely to her body. Satin flowers cascaded down the train of the skirt.

Zendaya maintained her look lavish to complement the romantic vibe of the Valentino gown she was wearing by maintaining a glossy blowout and accenting it with face-framing curls and a side-swept split.

Despite Being Nominated for an Oscar, Hong Chau wants to remain the outcast.

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International press are writing about actress Hong Chau, She never imagined becoming an actress before she was nominated for best suppoorting actress in "The Whale". Brendan Fraser claims that she has changed into "a force of nature". While Brendan Fraser's caretaker in the Darren Aronofsky drama "The Whale" earned Hone chau her first Oscar nomination last month, She was passionately edged for a nomination in 2017. Although she is still figuring out how she feels about it, the outcome this time was better. "my sincere response to the nomination was simply relief" she acknowledged. 

The 43 years old Chau never imagined she'd be nominated for an Academy Award as an actress: She was raisesd in New Orleans and was bron to Vietnamese parents in a refugee camp. she studied creative writing and film studies at Boston University. After she sighned up for an improve class to cure her shyness, Heer teacher encouraged her to pursue performing, and chau moved to Los Angeles to seek Parts. But at first, Success seemed elusive, and she was told by sceptical casting directors that she would never be able to anything bigger than a day-player role. 

Chau Said, "But the pitty hopeful that I'd get to work on cool, weird movie- because thouse were the movies I liked- was what kept me going. I juist ket holding out hope that something would materialise, which it thankfully did". 

Chau's career began after tshe starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Downsizing" after making her big-screen debut in "Inherent vice". Sicne then, she has been a scene-stealer in films like HBO's "Wathmen" and the most recent culinary comedy "The Menu" in which she plays a coolly hostile maitre d'. A number of auteur-driven movies, Such as Kelly Reichardt's "Showing Up" Wes Anderson's "Asteroid City" and Yorgos Lanthimos' "And" will feature chau in the near future, but in the menatime, viewers can watch her in screen in "The Whale" where her character, Liz, Provides a lot of tough love to Fraser's 600-pound recluse. 

According to Fraser, Chau is"a force of nature:titanium backbone, suffers no fools and has a bear trap of a memory". "Because of how diverse and interesting she is, editing her work is an embarrassment of riches. She also has more to say than I do during dialogue, in the pauses and silences between lines".

Ed Sheeran performs "Perfect" in Brisbane.

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On the 17th of February, Ed Sheeran celebrated his 32nd birthday while he was about to his global tour in Australia. The celebration was acompained by his close friends Liam Hemsworth and Paul Barrie O'Brien, and the three of them traded presents with one another while they were there. He finished his three-night run on February 19 in Brisbane at Suncorp Stadium with an electric performance on Tides, Blow, I Am Mess, and Shiver. His run consisted of three consecutive weekends. As of right now, he is scheduled to do concerts at the Accor Stadium in Sydney on the 24th and 25th of February, the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the 2nd and 3rd of March, the Adelaide Oval on March 7, and the Optus Stadium in Perth on March. Ticket sales for the first two days of Ed Sheeran's show in Brisbane marked a records, while the third day of the event in Brisbane also broke records for ticket sales.

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Seven songs were performed by him, the most notable of which were The A Team, Castle on the Hill, and Don't. During the performances of Galway Girl and Celestial, he switched his instrument once more and even convinced everyone to sing the chorus of Thinking Out Loud. Before he performed each song, he also shared some experiences with his fans. One of those songs was Perfect, which he had written for a lady he had fallen in love with in 2015 and who is now the mother of his two children. He brought his Australian tour to a close with the song "I Don't Need You," which was performed in Brisbane. The doors to the event opened at around 5 p.m. (Australian Eastern Standard Time), Budjerah and Maisie Peters were already on stage, keeping the audience entertained with their performances.


Prices of the tickets for the 'A' reserve area varied from as high as $189.90 to as low as $89.90, while admission fees for the 'B' and 'C' reserve sections of the stadium are $149.90 and $109.90 respectively. In addition, spectators were observed forming lines outside of Suncorp Stadium in order to purchase a wide selection of items from two enormous stands.

A new version of the Civilization game is in progress

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It has been almost six years since the release of the last serise of the Civilisation game, developer Firaxis has announced that it is work in progress for the new version. The studio did not reveal much about the new game, but they did say that Ed Beach will be leading the creative direction. Beach has spent his significant time of the last 15 years working on the series, most recently as the lead designer on the last released Civilisation VI. Sid Meier, a legend in the video game industry, created the classic turn-based strategy game Civilisation. 

The goal of the game is to establish a mighty kingdom that will last forever. Dominate the globe by creating and leading a civilisation through the centuries, from the Stone age right on up to the age of Information and Technology. You'll go to battle, negotiate treaties, advance your culture, and more as you compete against some of history's most powerful figures to build the greatest civilisation the world has ever known. Civilisation VI introduces new methods to shape your planet via interaction. Cities may now grow geographically throughout the globe, new opportunities can be discovered by active study into technology and culture, and competing leaders will pursue their own goals based on their unique pasts as you compete for one of five possible game outcomes. 

In a press release issued this week, Take-Two Interactive—parent company of Firaxis—announced the news. Several workers shifts at the studio were reported in the statement. Studio manager Steve Martin is leaving Firaxis after more than 17 years in the role, which he took up from Firaxis co-founder Jeff Briggs in 2006. Martin has decided to leave the firm. Former COO Heather Hazen is taking over day-to-day management of the studio and will now report directly to Firaxis's CEO. "I'm happy to have this chance to continue on the studio's famous tradition," Hazen stated after hearing that Firaxis is working on the next installment in the renowned Civilisation game. I am honoured to be given the chance to continue the studio's rich history. 

The head designer of the Civilisation series remarked, "I'm happy to be working with some of the top developers in our business, and we have plans to take the Civilization franchise to thrilling new heights for our millions of gamers across the globe." Here at my company, we have some of the most talented programmers in the business. It was announced on Friday that Jake Solomon had left his position at Firaxis. Despite being one of the most prominent designers at the firm thanks to his contributions to the XCOM series and Marvel's Midnight Suns, the designer has opted to quit the company after 23 years of service." Despite his fondness for the process of making tactical turn-based games, Solomon noted on Twitter that "it's time for other, better individuals to take that sector ahead." "This new fantasy is like a bright bulb shining in my brain." We need to go give chase right now."

Amazon want staff to return to work in May.

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Starting in the month of May, Amazon conside that the employees to take at least three days off each week to spend away from the workplace. The corporation unveiled the approach in a document that was issued on Friday and was ascribed to Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy (via CNN). 

According to Jassy, in favour of the regulation, that a hybrid work arrangement would "strengthen" Amazon's corporate culture and foster greater employee cooperation. This was her justification for allowing hybrid work arrangements. it would not be an easy to bring thousands of people back to the offices throughout the globe, so we'll give the teams who need to conduct that task some time to design a strategy. We are aware that it will not be perfect right away; however, as our real estate and facilities teams continue to iron out the kinks and ultimately keep evolving how offices to be set up to work, the office experience will gradually get better over the course of the upcoming months. 

Amazon made an announcement not long after the COVID-19 pandemic, and it said that the company thought employees will return to work in October of 2020. This timetable kept being pushed back by the office as fresh waves of the coronavirus caused cities all around the globe to go into lockdown. Activision, the parent company of Blizzard Entertainment, has confirmed that starting in July, workers of Blizzard would be called for the office attendence at least three days each week. The date of Amazon's announcement aligns with this news. 

Amazon has had a situation quite similar to that which has occurred at Blizzard, in which a significant number of workers have organised in order to criticise the practises of the company. JFK8, a facility on Staten Island, was the first Amazon workhouse to be unionised. It gained notoriety when the majority of its workers voted to unionise in the previous year. JFK8 is known as "the first unionised Amazon workhouse." The decision was made in response to an announcement by Amazon at the beginning of the year stating that the company will be laying off more than 18,000 employees.

 

Why Portugal? an abastract objectives of immigrants

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Portugal a member of the European Union country satreted to issued residence cards to immigrants since 2007. Foreigners could obtain a Portuguese residency permit by according to a certain government process. Five years after acquiring their residence card, immigrants will be allowed to apply for Portuguese citizenship, while entrepreneurs and professionals are urged to become citizens under special arrangements (ie. golden visa). In this essay author will explore the meaning and immigrant's prespectives (Nepali) of the Portuguese Residency card though doing KURAGRAPHY (the anthropological methodology).

 

Under the Immigration Act, Portugal promotes international students, entrepreneurs, and professionals to acquire residence permits and citizenship. Generally, immigrant have to  register a legal notification of enter in the Portuguse teriotery in the government online plateform. Then they have to application for the Portuguese tax payer number (NIF-numero de identificaço fiscal), a Social Security number, after having these document immigrant have right to search for a job in the Portuguese job market. Individuals who enter Portugal without proper documentation may apply for a residency permit by following appropriate legal processes. 

 

The Card Making Ritual is regarded as a pure rite for Nepalese immigrants to aquaire a Portuguese citizenship. The theories of Ven Zennep's "Rites of Passage" (1960) and Victor Turner's "The Ritual Process" (1966) suggest that this period of "liminality" is either from the past or the future, and that individual responsibilities are sometimes assumed to be changed or reversed during this period of transition. From this perspective, Nepali immigrant individual although they were from high political and social economic backgroung from Nepal, the immigrant individual have to follow the standard immigrant regularization procedures.That creats a common status of the immigrants, I used them to addressing the situation of the communitas and legal liminality.

 
Immigration from Nepal to Portugal is a recent phenomena not more than two decades. Card making has numerous connotations, including regularisation, integration, gaining access to Portuguese public institutions, and social significance. The receiving card for Nepalese immigrants in Portugal is perceived as the golden ticket (for the legal rights to live in Portugal (Europe- It has social prestige in family and society, imagination of individual rights of freedom, access of career prospects, quality of education, access of beter health care, and so on) percived as package of the secure future.

Immigrants conside that the application procedure for a residence card and citizenship in Portugal is simpler than in other European nations, and Nepali immigrants enter to Portugal following a variety of methods and channels. The skyway between Kathmandu, Nepal and Lisbon, Portugal is 8,887 square kilometres. Normally, visa application for the Schengen countires then enter to the Portugal. Besides that immigrants travelling to Portugal over the difficult journey, crossing borders through the jungle in various Portuguese teriotery.

The Nepali Diaspora in Portugal varies depending on the host country's political, economic, and immigration policies. Lisbon has the greatest number of 10,080 Nepalese immigrants, with 16,849 having gained resident cards in Portugal. Consulado do Nepalese in Portugal is diplomatic agency of the government of Nepal, and there are more than 35 Nepali social-cultural and regional communities are working for the social welfare and awareness. Alexandra Cristina Pereira (2019) has finished her Doctorate research on "the sociological study of Nepalese entrepreneurs residing in Portugal." Nepalese students Abhas Dangol (2015), Manika Bajracharya (2015), Sanjeev Dahal (2016), and Asmita Budal (2018) did sociological studies on Nepali immigrants in Portugal for their doctoral dissertations. The major objective of Nepali immigrants in Portugal is to get a residence card, then Portuguese citizenship to get a Portuguese passport, and proceed to possible high-income countries using their Portuguese passports.

 

The song "If We Ever Broke Up" by 19-year-old Mae Stephens became popular on TikTok.

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Mae Stephens, a 19 years-old young girl originally from Kettering, Northamptonshire, has just signed with EMI Records after her song "If We Ever Broke Up" became a viral sensation on the video sharing platform TikTok. Mae was working as a cashier at a supermarket when a 15-second clip of her track went viral. Since then, she has receiving millions views on her videos. Since she was 12 years old, Mae has been writing and composing music on her grandmother's piano. She was the "loud, eccentric child" at school and utilised music to get through the cruel world of adolescence. She was resolved to keep on and show sceptics that they were incorrect.
 

Mae wants to be the one who stands up for the child abuse. If We Ever Broke Up by Mae has exploded in popularity, dominating both TikTok and Instagram. Mae thinks confronting her ex's dad how they treated her is a great way to reawaken her sense of self-confidence and assertiveness. Mae is now focusing all of her time and energy on her singing career, having left her job at Asda to pursue it. She takes the song as proof that individuals can get out of horrible relationships, and if she could turn back time, she'd give her ex's parents a call to spill the beans.

MC Stan a 23 years Rapper won the Bigg Boss Season Sixteen 2022/023

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MC Stan, a 23 years young rapper won the Bigg Boss 16, a popular Indian reality show. The top five finalists Priyanka Chahar Choudhary, Shalin Bhanot, MC Stan, Shiv Thakare, and Archana Gautam were defeated by MC Stan to take home the "Bigg Boss 16" trophy. He also received a car and prize money totaling Rs 31.80 lakh in addition to the trophy for the winner.

 

Shah Rukh Khan, the superstar actor in Bollywood, has now been surpassed by Stan in terms of popularity on social media. Rapper MC Stan broke Shah Rukh Khan's Instagram live session record, which had been around 255k views.According to BollywoodLife.com, over 541K people tuned in to Stan's Instagram live session on Thursday. He now stands alongside BTS member V, Jungkook, Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Cristiano Ronaldo in the world's elite group in the social media fan following. Over 900K people watched V and Jungkook of BTS' Instagram live session earlier this month. Stan has now surpassed a major Bollywood celebrity's record for popularity twice. Earlier, according to reports, Stan's Bigg Boss 16 winning post with Salman Khan received a record number of likes and even outperformed the posts of Indian cricket legend Virat Kohli in terms of popularity. Salman and Stan's photo received more than 7.4 million likes in the social medias. 

 

At the age of 12, Stan, whose real name is Altaf Tadavi, started performing in front of crowds. His family hasn't been talked about much, but growing up in a slum in the city of Pune had a big impact on his writing.

 

The Dutch reality series Big Brother served as the inspiration for the Indian reality series Bigg Boss. Through Viacom18 and Disney Star, Endemol Shine India produces it. Following that, OTT services Voot and Disney+ Hotstar make the various versions of the show accessible internationally. The first and only iteration of the franchise is called Big Boss in Hindi.  On Sony TV, the first season debuted in 2006. Arshad Warsi served as the host. The grand prize was one crore (130,000 USD).Viacom 18 bought the rights to Bigg Boss, and Shilpa Shetty hosted the following season as it aired on Colors TV. Salman Khan hosted the fourth season, while veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan served as the host for the third season. Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan co-hosted the show's fifth season, but from the sixth season onward, Khan has hosted it exclusively.

Rahul Roy was the winner of Bigg Boss season one in 2006/2007, the Second season in 2008, Ashutosh Kaushik, Vindu Dara Singh in Third Season in 2009; Shweta Tiwari in Season four in 2010/2011, and Juhi Parmari in the Fifth Season in 2011/2012, Urvashi Dholakla in Sixth season in 2012/2013, Gauahar Khan in Season seventh in 2013, eighth season 2014/2015: Declared in Halla bol, Gautam Gulati in spin-off season in 2015, Prince Narula in season ninth in 2015,  Manveer Gurjar in Season tenth in 2015/2016, Shilpa Shinde in Season eleventh in 2016/2017, Dipika Kakar season towelveth in 2017/2018; ,Sidarth Sukla in thirteenth in 2018/2019; Rubina Dilaik in fourteenth in 2019/2020,Tejaswi Prakash in fifteenth in 2020/2021, MC Stan in Season sixteenth in 2022/2023.

 

A 23-year-old rapper who won one of the most well-liked reality competitions has gained widespread attention. MC Stan, a native of the western state of Maharashtra, was previously only well-known to hip-hop and rap fans who admired his snarky rhymes and unapologetic mannerisms..

 

 

 

 

 

Indian Premier League IPL 2023 will begin on March 20

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The opening match of the IPL 2023 will be in Ahmedabad between the defending champion Gujarat Titans and the Chennai SuperKings. IPL fans can celebrate now that the complete schedule for the upcoming season of the competition has been made public.

 

This season's league will classified in two groups, with Group A consisting of the Mumbai Indians, Kolkata KnightRiders, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals, and Lucknow SuperGiants. Group B will see the Gujarat Titans alongside the Chennai SuperKings, Punjab Kings, SunRisers Hyderabad, and Royal Challengers Bangalore.  

On May 6, the 1000th IPL game will be played in Chepauk between two the most compitetive teams CSK and Mumbai Indians, against one another. A doubleheader featuring KKR vs. PBKS in Mohali and DC vs. LSG in Lucknow will be the first of the season's matches on April 1. On April 2, the five-time champion Mumbai Indians will kick off their season against RCB, and on April 3, CSK will welcome LSG to Chennai. May 28 has been set aside for the final. 

 

IPL 2023 will begin on March 20, 2023, and end on June 1, 2023, according to information obtained from official sources. The IPL will feature 10 teams; originally, there were only 8, but as of this point, the teams from Gujarat and Lucknow have been combined.

 

 

Australian porn star Angela White nearly died while filming a sex scene

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A well-known British adult performer, has been quoted by the international press as saying that Angela White, an Australian porn actress, almost died during shooting a sex scene in 2013. 

 

According to rumours, Lee's nine-and-a-half-inch penis is insured for $1 million. He was astonished to find out that White had complained of belly ache after their first session together. White has tweeted briefly about the near-fatal episode previously, revealing that doctors removed her appendix via her belly button. 

 

White and Lee have collaborated in the future, and now Lee is among the highest-paid porn performers in the world. Porn actress White made history in 2020 by being the first performer in AVN history to win Female Performer of the Year three times.

 

Angela Gabrielle White, 37 years old  an australian Pronographic flim atress and director began her career in the adult industry in 2003. White is a graduated from the University of Melbourne with a first-class honours degree in gender studies. White researched women's experiences in the Australian pornography industry. White's honours thesis, "The Porn Performer: The Radical Potential of Pleasure in Pornography", was published in The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality in 2017.

ChatGPT is an advanced language processing technology developed by OpenAI

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ChatGPT is an advanced language processing technology developed by OpenAI. It was trained using text databases from the internet and 300 billion words were fed into the system. The end result is a Chatbot that can seem eerily human, but with an encyclopedic knowledge. However, academics, cybersecurity researchers and AI experts warn that ChatGPT could be used by bad actors to sow dissent and spread propaganda on social media. The potential of language models to rival human-written content at low cost suggests that these models may provide distinct advantages to propagandists who choose to use them. This could expand access to a greater number of actors, enable new tactics of influence, and make a campaign's messaging far more effective.

AI systems could improve the persuasive quality of content and make it difficult for ordinary Internet users to recognise as part of co-ordinated disinformation campaigns. Josh Goldstein, a co-author of the paper and a research fellow at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, says that generative language models could produce a high volume of content that is original each time, allowing each propagandist to not rely on copying and pasting the same text across social media accounts or news sites. However, access to these systems may not remain the domain of a few organisations, as more actors invest in state-of-the-art generative models, which could increase the odds that propagandists gain access to them. Gary Marcus, an AI specialist and founder of Geometric Intelligence, an AI company acquired by Uber in 2016, says that even if platforms such as Twitter and Facebook take down three-quarters of what those perpetrators spread on their networks, there is still at least 10 times as much content as before that can still aim to mislead people online. 

The surge of fake social media accounts has caused a major headache for Twitter and Facebook, and the quick maturation of language model systems like Chat-GPT can only exacerbate the problem. Both the January 2023 paper co-authored by Mr Goldstein and a similar report from security firm WithSecure Intelligence warn of how generative language models can quickly and efficiently create fake news articles that could be spread across social media, further adding to the deluge of false narratives that could impact voters before a decisive election. However, if misinformation and fake news emerge as an even bigger threat, should social media platforms be as proactive as possible? Some experts think they will be lax to enforce any of those kinds of posts. Luís A Nunes Amaral, co-director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, argues that these fake posts are meant to infuriate and divide people, which drives engagement.

 

Smriti Mandhana made history this week by becoming the most expensive player in women's cricket.

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Indian female cricketer Smriti Mandhana made a history by becoming the most expensive player in women's cricket. In a player auction for the inaugural Women's Premier League (WPL), Royal Challengers Bangalore bought her for a staggering $413,000 (£340,000). She lead the team in 23-day competition that kicks off on 4 March in Mumbai. Mandhana, who opens the batting for India. Madhana has a combined 6,049 runs from her 193 international appearances across the three formats, including five hundreds in one-day international and a Test century. Widely considered a prodigy, she became the first Indian woman to hit a double century in under-19 cricket, representing Maharashtra, as a 17-year-old. She has played in the Kia Super League, The Hundred in the UK and the Women's Big Bash League in Australia.

Anant Tambwekar, a former cricketer, has worked with her father Shravan Mandhana, her father brought her to him as a 12-year-old. Mandhana's accomplishments in her decade-long international career have been impressive, especially since the 2017 ODI World Cup in England, where she played a pivotal role in India's breakout campaign. In February 2019, she topped the ICC Rankings for batters in T20s for the first time. She is the only woman other than Australia allrounder Ellyse Perry, whom she'll share the dressing room with at the WPL, to be named the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year more than once. Last year, Mandhana dominated the run charts in T20s among players from full member nations and was named on both the ICC ODI and T20 Teams of the Year.

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She also had a Player-of-the-Match-winning 32-ball 61 at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games semi-final against hosts England. Her other notable performances from last year include an unbeaten half-century in the final of India's victorious Asia Cup Campaign and a pulsating 49-ball 79 in the second T20 against Australia in Navi Mumbai. Off the field, she has brand associations with high-profile clients like Red Bull and Nike and has appeared on adverts with Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh and and cricket icon MS Dhoni. She is one of India's most popular female athletes on social media and could become the superstar female cricketer that the women's game in India is yet to see.

Rihanna's Super Bowl Halftime Performance

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Rihanna's live performances was at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, when she was honoured as Video Vanguard. The Barbadian singer, composer, and fashion entrepreneur proved that she was eligible for the award with a series of themed performances that transformed the Madison Square Garden stage into a dancehall, a lightning-studded storm cloud, and a gorgeous all-white band recital. From the same year has a listless succession of psych-rock jams, soul songs, and ballads, all of which serve to highlight her casual brilliance in singing across genres.

Rihanna had a tough upbringing since her mother had to deal with her alcoholic and abusive father. After just hearing two of her songs during her audition, Jay-Z recruited the teenage singer to her Roc Nation label, confirming her assumption that America was the key to a successful music career. The first time her voice was on 2005's "Pon de Replay;" it was a delicate but raspy thing, blessed with a formidable vibrato and a depth of range that sneaked up on us when she trotted effortlessly across the high notes in 2006's "Tainted Love" flip "S.O.S." and 2007's New Order interpolation "Shut Up and Drive," and when she leaned into her low end on "Rehab."

Rihanna released seven studio albums in the course of eight years, cemented her place at the top of the pop charts by embracing new musical styles, providing radio-friendly hits to a wide audience during tough times for R&B artists, and collaborating with artists as diverse as Coldplay and Jeezy. The album Anti followed the career of a singles artist with devastating impact who was sick of hearing that she didn't produce great albums, a falsehood that stunning album cuts like 2012's "Get It Over With" from Unapologetic should have put an end to. Her public presence and an aura of unruffled calm seemed to ooze from her every move, and we fell in love with her as her catalogue matured. The other girls pretended to be shy while Rihanna was talking trash.

After a night perfermence in 2016 is that the next seven years would put admiration of Rihanna's distaste for predictable career moves to the test as she became a billionaire, launched several businesses outside of music, and rebuffed questions about her next album with the same snark that used to be reserved for her naysayers. Apart from a few selected guest appearances on tracks by Kendrick Lamar and N.E.R.D., the singer didn't release much new music for the remainder of the decade, and she seemed to get bored of the constant speculation about a new album in the comments sections of her social media posts. A pop star whose last tour took place during the Obama administration landing the highest-profile gig in the country four years after she turned down the opportunity to play the same event in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, who had been effectively blacklisted for kneeling during the national anthem at games, is an odd choice. "There are things inside that organisation that I do not agree with at all," she told Vogue that year. (The alliance between Jay-Z and the NFL, which caused a firestorm when the rapper-mogul declared Kaepernick's protest over, gave Black musicians and businesspeople some clout in the league. The NFL claims it wants to "End Racism," but its ongoing absence of Black head coaches and the Kansas City Chiefs' dedication to branding that Native American organisations have considered disrespectful cast doubt on that claim.

The event highlighted the singer's present dedication to motherhood by showing an unexpected baby bulge only months after the birth of her first son with A$AP Rocky, and also reintroduced us to Rihanna the live performer by leading us through her back catalogue. All of this mystery was packed into a cool, collected performance that saw the singer float in the air on a suspended platform while roaring through songs from all corners of her extensive catalogue; it's a testament to the Barbadian icon's strength, to a career dedicated to making the difficult look doable. Even though she only performed 13 songs, Rihanna told Apple Music's Nadeska Alexis last week that she had gone through almost 40 different iterations of the set list while preparing for the show. Is there any way we could have gotten "Man Down"? (The inclusion of the Ye collaborations "Run This Town" and "All of the Lights" was intriguing but not unexpected; it was his Saint Pablo tour that pioneered the floating-stage thing, right? Back when things were easier

It was risky to kick off the show with "Bitch Better Have My Money," and the absence of ballads like "Take a Bow" and "Stay" in favour of the raunchier "Rude Boy" and "Pour It Up" gave the spectacle a faintly reckless air that counterbalanced the hard-fought seamlessness displayed as the star was shuttled onto and off of the moving platform, which resembled a ship's deck. Fireworks were sent off above the stadium whenever the singer's harness strap needed to be attached or removed, directing the attention of the crowd upwards.

Rihanna's performance at Super Bowl XXX in 1996 was a homage to the 1996 Super Bowl XX extravaganza, in which Diana Ross sang "Take Me Higher" and then left the field in a helicopter. She has the same skill with pop ballads, R&B tunes, and dance music as her predecessor. The set included some sharp changes, with "Bitch Better Have My Money" leading into "Where Have You Been," and "Rude Boy" following "We Found Love," but the lone survivor kept her composure the whole time. They were unnecessary. As the latest in a long line of women giving memorable performances while pregnant, she held court in a blood-red dress, surrounded by a swirl of dancers in white, soft-launching a new kid by hosting a kind of metaphysical conception to the tune of "Work" and "Wild Thoughts." Beyoncé and Cardi B also used television to share the reveal.

Strangely, in 2021, when the Weeknd performed a similarly upbeat medley that was low on fancy footwork, the conclusion was not that the halftime performance lacked superstar guest stars or sophisticated choreography. This was not the spot to go seeking for Rihanna's backflipping skills, considering we have never seen her do any of that before and this was her first public performance after giving baby. (Last winter, when Snoop, Dre, and Eminem two-stepped on top of trailers, you got your life. You don't need an 8-count to go down, right?) Video game-inspired set design, the star's ability to dominate any environment, and a never-ending string of tunes from at least half a dozen radio formats were all mentioned before the show started starting.

Perhaps it won't be remembered as fondly as other Super Bowl performances, such as the Coldplay show from 2016 (during which Beyoncé's stunting made it easy to forget that she wasn't the headliner), Michael Jackson's two-minute statue pose from 1993, or Whitney Houston's flawless "Star-Spangled Banner" from 1991. (Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni's emotional response to Chris Stapleton's rendition of the national anthem predicts the video will go viral. You either have faith in your friend's ability to sing your spirit out of your body, or you goof off and find out. What Rihanna's Super Bowl performance accomplished really well was convey the message that she is a determined, self-motivated individual who played the fame game so effectively that she went from a bungalow to a billion in less than 20 years, and her singles still smash. There are still many unanswered issues about her decision to return to live performances after she previously rejected them. We've been fans long enough to ask whether or not she has any more upcoming gigs, but we also know that she's free to respond whenever she wants. Making history once again will have to do for now.