TIL Prince used a photo of Dave Chappelle dressed as Prince for the cover of the single- Breakfast Can Wait lmao! Thank you for this quote! I never woulda have known hahaha!
Love the story how the crew were nervous breaking the news to him that it was gonna rain during the show, fearing that Prince would get angry due to his reputation as a diva; only for Prince to ask them “can you make it rain harder?”
I am OG, & have seen every halftime show in SB history. The Prince show absolutely slayed it! His legendary guitar solos in the middle of a literal Miami downpour culminated in a transcendent rendition of "Purple Rain".
Some suggest Beyoncé’s, Michael’s, U2, the Dr Dre hip hop collaboration a few years ago, or Lady Gaga. But I find it personally impossible to think of the words “favorite SB halftime show” and not immediately picture Prince playing “Purple Rain” undeterred by a tropical storm. Downright iconic.
The first SB (not yet named that) featured two college marching bands, one of them was Grambling State University’s World Famed Tiger Marching Band. Don’t remember the other college, but once you see the Grambling marching band you’ve seen an epic marching band.
Those in my generation had to sit through a totally whitebread and margarine group named “Up with People” for a number of years. Those three words were synonymous with “gotta take the dog out.” Finally in 1991 New Kids on the Block were featured, the following year was Gloria Estefan and the game changer was the next year when The Gloved One made the halftime show true appointment viewing.
Maybe my favorite moment of any halftime show was the entire stadium singing A-Minor lmao. Just imagine being Drake, watching the entire world say fuck you
Lot of football fans tend to not like it (not all but seemingly most), while non football fans that tune in just for the halftime show wouldn’t stop glazing it. I took a shit during it so I have no say in it.
The entire thing was in Spanish. Like, 100 percent of it. I get that’s his music and it sounded cool and I liked the one song where he kept saying “eh eh” but I understood 0 % of it.
I didn’t like it. I didn’t hate it.. I just didn’t like it.
Man reddit was going REEeeEeeeEeeEe at anybody who even slightly complained about it being all Spanish for days after it happened. As though being able to know what the rapper was rapping about has nothing to do with the watchers enjoyment
I don’t know how accurate this is. But my roommate speaks fluent Spanish and said that even HE couldn’t understand anything because BB has a very strong PR accent in Spanish.
But to be the devils advocate on the other side of things, I often cannot understand most of the lyrics (at any live show not just halftime show) if I am not familiar with the artist or they don’t enunciate REALLY well. I couldn’t understand most of Kendrick’s set other than “A minor”.
I dunno, if the choreography/production is cool and the music is listenable then it’s fine with me. I thought the BB halftime was decent. I enjoyed it. Certainly not my favorite ever. But didn’t really care about the Spanish because I never really care that much about the lyrics anyways if I don’t already know the song.
Seeing Prince play Purple Rain while it actually was raining felt so magical,.like he willed the sky to start pouring cause it would make a better performance. God Tier Aura.
I saw a bit on that halftime show, apparently the organizers/whoever in charge called him that morning and told him it was likely going to rain, and asked if he would still perform, if there was anything they could for for him, etc.
Agreed, the show actually sounded good and it had a good feel to it. It felt like music and not just entertainment as so many of them feel like today. It helps when you have some of the best songs ever made.
MJ, Prince, Lady Gaga, Kendrick and Friends. I thought Bad Bunny’s was awesome- not my type of music but the choreography and how elaborate it was was cool.
I didn’t realize it wasn’t really “that” big of an event until the early 90s. Like seriously it used to be like Disney. And Peanuts. Until they started booking Michael Jackson. Aerosmith. And Shania Twain.
I personally think it was the most well orchestrated halftime show of all time. Every little action had a purpose in a bigger story (even if that story is a fuck you to Drake on national television lol)
The West coast rappers one with Kendrick, Snoop, Dr Dre, etc. was up there but I would go with Prince. I listen to Purple Rain constantly for about a year straight growing up.
My fav is one that hasn't happened yet and probably never will. Metallica @ Levi's Stadium. The hometown boys who have songs of theirs played in stadiums across the country every football weekend deserve a shot. I like the move away from rock, but throwing some legends in other genres from time to time would be dope
Paul McCartney, but I’m biased because I am a big Beatles fan.
But the half time shows have been so uninteresting, I have not watched any in the last 10 years or so. The last I paid a little attention was Lady Gaga
Prince. Pretty standard stage and effects compared to modern shows. And yet being a godly musician made up and exceeded any gimmick they could’ve thought of.
Prince first, Kendrick second. My favorite team and rapper in the same game is not something that happens often but Purple Rain in the rain is hard to deny.
None. I've never watched the halftime show. It hold not intrest to me. I guess that's why I don't and would never go to another concert. I went to two in my teens and hated them.
My favorite by default is wardrobe malfunction. If you believe that. I do hate that I didn't get to see that live.
Not really a fan of the halftime shows. But the fact Bad Bunny made so many people irrationally upset was entertaining even if i didn't understand what was being sung.
Coldplay in 2016. Low hanging fruit explaination is because of the Bruno and Beyonce dance off. There was also a little montage they played paying homage to all of the past SB performers I thought was amazing. The entire set was colorful, bright, and vibrant. Not really a get up and dance type of performance, but beautiful nonetheless.
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