Posted on 02/11/2024 8:50:36 PM PST by RandFan
R&B star Usher delivered a hit-heavy half-time show at Sunday's Super Bowl - with help from will.i.am, Alicia Keys, Ludacris... and a pair of roller skates.
A disclaimer shown before the performance jokingly warned viewers it may cause "singing, dancing, sweating, gyrating, and possible relationship issues". It would go on to deliver on all fronts.
Dressed in all-white and surrounded by a swarm of energetic dancers, Usher emerged on the stage at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas and launched straight into one of his best-known songs, Caught Up.
It kicked off a dynamic performance which took advantage of the 45-year-old's dancing skills and sizeable back catalogue.
Before his half-time show, Usher admitted it had been "a challenge to squeeze 30 years in to 13 minutes". But the singer did an admirable job of cramming in as many of his most recognisable songs as possible.
The set features acrobats and a brass band so large there were enough members to spell out "USHER" on the grounds of the stadium as he was performing.
The singer switched effortlessly between the two apexes of his music: club anthems and sex jams.
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He didn’t shine. Oops. Need to proofread before posting.
It was better than the average Super Bowl halftime show just because it wasn’t rap and Usher didn’t lip synch, as most Super Bowl singers do, but otherwise I thought it was boring. Today’s so-called “ music” is garbage, nothing but autotuned singers performing soulless modern elevator music. And that’s not just me trying to be a curmudgeon by criticizing anything that came after my generation. The advertisers obviously agree, because they constantly use music from the 70s and 80s instead of any of the current pablum.
I was talking to a relative who is currently at college, and he told me, almost all the students he knows mostly listen to 80s alternative music.
I thought it resembled a 3 ring circus with clowns in strange costumes and then I hit the off switch
Maybe we’ve reached a point where all good music has already been written.
Bruno Mars was the best I had seen in many years. Killed it at SB 50.
Compared to that this was as bland and boring as they get.
Mars isn’t too shabby on guitar, he’s not Prince, but not bad.
hated every minute of it
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Don’t do too much hating. Not good for the long term life.
I hope so, but I doubt it.
Yep, it's like Classical Music, no new symphonies are being written, people just want to hear the classics.
We’ve reached the point at which the population is not educated enough to know how to write music.
Just look at J-Lo and Shakira and their tasteless pole dancing and caged children routine back in 2020.
Not my style. Buy I appreciated a marching band, roller skates, no Satanic themes right in my face. No uber-lewd moves onstage by anyone. A duet with that girl on the piano. A couple of guys in fedoras with canes.
I probably only understood about 20% of the words, but coulda been much worse.
No huge complaint for me.
Who?
Does he work in a theater showing people where the empty seats are? When the announcers said not to miss the half time show, I decided to miss it. I am very certain that I missed nothing.
Super Bowl Halftime is when all the white people go to the bathroom and take a dump
Now AI will start generating the music, probably will be an improvement.
At least the white guys do, the women love watching that stuff.
Hubby and I hated every minute of it.
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Instead of sitting there hating maybe it would
have been a nice moment or two to get up and walk
outside, breath in the fresh air, stretch/exercise
the muscles for a couple of minutes.
Agreed. It wasn’t the best halftime show I’ve ever seen, but it wasn’t terrible. It was definitely safe, if a bit underwhelming at times the audio mix at times was terrible and you could barely hear the vocals. It looked like his face microphone kept bouncing around And they were having a hard time trying to compensate.
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