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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“Maybe we’ve reached a point where all good music has already been written.”
There’s a lot of good pop music that could be re-performed. I think it will happen.
I was a rabid 50 year NFL fan, and beginning in 2016 with all the kneeling and wokeness crap, it began to fall apart for me. By the time 2020 came around, I was done with it. I did my homework, too, in depth. My first forays into that looked at data from the NFL’s contributions and associations up to around 2014 or so, and they weren’t giving money or time to racist organizations. But that all changed around 2016, especially with their embrace of BLM and the kneeling.
So, last night, I wrote letters to people I am trying to stay in touch with, then read some more of my brother’s gigantic encyclopedia of the work of “Calvin and Hobbes” for another hour or two.
THAT was time “well spent”.
My wife watched the game, and wanted to talk to me about it this morning, but I have divorced it from my interests. I will watch a game here and there going forward as a social event with friends who are still into it, but lacking that reason, I don’t watch at all anymore.
All you need to do is look at the advertising and peruse their support of racist organizations such as Black Lives Matter, and you can clearly understand, if you are like me, the NFL doesn’t want your business.
They will absolutely take your money if you give it to them, but they flip you the finger as they do so.
I won’t give them any more money.
Give me a break. That was awful!
Me either. I wonder if there will be an all white half time show next year. Or maybe a Hispanic show.
It does get a little tiresome...almost all black entertainers and the assumption that everyone is into hip hop. Every, single, time.
Do they think it doesn’t go unnoticed?
Paint was drying...didn’t see it.
It seems not. It’s as though the NFL thinks it can only identify as black and hip hop is the only genre anyone listens to.
Plenty of options never explored. Probably because of “white supremacy”. SMH.
I remember the Michael Jackson halftime, he was standing there for about a minute waiting for the tape to start playing.
They could always do K-Pop for the Asians.
Personally, I thought it sucked.
I’m not a fan, at all. Wasn’t impressed with the BLM national anthem either.
Personally, I didn’t watch.
I’m not a fan.
But, having said that, he did not grab his crotch.
His dancers did not grab theirs.
There were no clothed sex acts on stage.
There were no wardrobe malfunctions.
Whitie was not called out for murder.
Neither were the police.
A guess you could say it was actually classy.
But, I still did not care for the music.
“Will there ever be another white halftime performer, who isn’t a rapper?”
Another? When was the last one. I started looking back and gave up. Long ago the halftime shows were good, have not been for a very long time.
If the NFL is going to put a black urban pop or rap artist on, I’m not going to watch.
However, if they put on somebody like say Weird Al Yankovic, I would probably watch. And enjoy it.
Right! After all, the NFL is all about diversity.
Certainly no where near the level of quality and entertainment expected of a Las Vegas performance.
“Maybe we’ve reached a point where all good music has already been written.”
You could be right. It’s unfortunate that Mozart and The Doors couldn’t get together and cut an album. It would have been unique.
Bowling has a half time show?
Super Bowl? Is that made by Marie Callender?
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