“In an incredibly divided and fragmented media environment, the Super Bowl halftime show is absolutely one of the biggest, if not the single biggest way to expose music to an enormous audience”, said Brian Hiatt, senior writer at Rolling Stone. Coldplay and Beyonce should be able to tackle the need for a wide-ranging audience.
They didn’t disappoint. Beyonce was joined by Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams and the trio resurrected “Bootylicious” for us one more time.
Chris Martin and the rest of Coldplay – Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman, and Will Champion – speak on stage during the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Press Conference on Thursday (February 4) in San Francisco, Calif. I asked him, ‘Please, could you make me some Super Bowl shoes?’ He made two pairs.
It was arguably a little more shocking to have a “wardrobe malfunction” back in 2004, but Janet Jackson still went ahead and flashed her conveniently pierced nipple to the crowd when performing alongside Justin Timberlake.
ET’s Kevin Frazier hosts NFL Honors Preview Show with Melissa Stark airing Saturday on CBS and then tune in for the big game starting 3:30 p.m. PT/6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday. The University of MI and Grambling State University bands performed twice. Florida A&M’s band performed in 1971, after Duncan graduated, and backed Prince in 2007.
You stay off the Internet for five days afterward. Today, its nearly impossible to conceive that the second Super Bowl featured Miami-area high school bands at halftime.
The Grammy victor opened by declaring: “Ladies and gentleman, for the next 12 minutes, we are going to bring the righteous and mighty power of the E Street Band into your attractive home!”.
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“We know we have great people joining us”. Artistic statements are fine, but Quenzels goal is strictly mercenary: to move from the end of the first half to the beginning of the second without anyone tuning out. “We try not to”.
He won’t talk about a wish list of future performers.
There are also several speculations on who will sing alongside Coldplay, since there have been a lot of acts that took the stage as surprise guests previously. However there have been rumors of Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars.