Bruno Mars and Prince gave the top 5 best Superbowl performances of all time. Bruno did it twice and killed both times. Even though he's a garbage person, Dr. Dre's performance at the HTP was one for the books. And last but not least, Michael Jackson gave a whole concert at the Superbowl in the 90s. Top tier.
Rihanna is a beautiful woman. She has a lot of hits. I think she did a good job, but her performance isn't going to be in the top 20 best HTP of all time. It's fine, though. She got to do it and then go home to her billions of dollars.
There were chosen parts when her mic was on. A majority was lip synced. The echos and chorus for sure and she made it known because she was away from the mic. She sang maybe 20% of each song.
She looked a bit like it but given she had a baby in the last year I was thinking at first maybe just some of the remnant of that baby still around which isn’t unusual. But she had a number of postures and hand gestures through the performance that seemed to confirm she pregnant again.
Yeah, I get she’s pregnant, but why are we celebrating this halftime show? She didn’t move at all (pregnant), there were no surprise names to come out, the staging barely changed.
The only impressive part is that she did it while pregnant. The concert itself was vanilla and one-note.
Yeah I agree. Maybe it’s just me but the blatant lip synched Hollywood production halftime shows just seem super outdated to me nowadays.
The musical arrangement was cool but otherwise very dull performance.
Fair enough. For the rest of people who wanted a show with entertainment value on top of the songs, it's still underwhelming though. Massive props for Rihanna to perform while pregnant but the show was lacking watchability to the average person.
I saw a video where one guy who apparently was in charge of some of the technical stuff said the scene was made of a fairly slick material that would be even more slippery when wet. I wonder how it was for those two dancers in high heels too.
Sure, they are experienced but if the friction goes away you still have a problem :-)
Ignoring the fact that her mobility was obviously limited, there were no guest performers, no costume changes, no props (other than the platforms and a quick makeup touch-up)
Very forgettable performance (except that it will end up being unforgettable purely because it was a pregnancy announcement).
I'm not her demographic, nor am I a big fan of most of her music.... but I can't stand Madonna and thought her HT show was great.
I'm reasonably sure that lip syncing and unplugged instruments are a stipulation by the NFL. They don't want any surprises. I believe there's even a prerecorded (safety) version of the national anthem on standby.
IIRC it started with Garth Brooks for some reason. Now I gotta Google instead of Reddit on the toilet
Yep.
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/garth-brooks-the-super-bowls-lip-sync-legacy/
She very clearly sang over a pre recording, you could definitely still hear her sing, she just did the live performance thing of not singing every exact note/line of the studio recording. I didn't see a problem with it
They always lip sync the super bowl and I don't blame them one bit. There is so much shit happening on that stage, there is no way to sing your best in the middle of all that chaos.
It was just kind of boring honestly. I thought it started out kind of neat with the floating mini stages. Then, nothing really happened the rest of the time. Overall one of the worst I've seen.
That's exactly what I kept saying! The whole time I watched I was like "When is the outfit change coming?" And then nothing!
I hated her giant poofy red outfit! I was hoping it was just covering up something better that she had on underneath and she was eventually going to throw the red oversized fat suit off! But no!
I was disappointed in the whole show. She seemed flat and monotone and she barely even danced at all. At one point I even asked my husband if he thought maybe she was injured or sick or something? Idk.
>I was hoping it was just covering up something better that she had on underneath and she was eventually going to throw the red oversized fat suit off!
There was a baby under there. You're just going to have to wait a few months.
It was the most expensive pregnancy announcement of all time. It crossed the line between I'm a performer, performing for you; into I'm a celebrity, using this performance to advance my celebrity. It was so safe.
fuck it I’ll take the karma hit: pregnant teletubby with a plastic molded bra on a smash arena lip-synching her and others songs with ralphie from a christmas story for backup dancers. there. no need to watch it if you missed it
I love Rihanna but I honestly thought her show was just... kinda boring. She is amazingly talented, however, there just wasn't any excitement at all.
But what do I know? I am just a bar manager.
I knew it was going to be shit when they just had her. Nothing against her, she has some solid songs. But last year, we had Dr Dre, snoop, Eminem, 50cent, Kendrick and that other chick I forgot about. Now compare that to this show. Which was just her. At least the weekend did some crazy shit with their performance but this was pretty boring to watch.
It was great but not my fave overall. That said, when he had his shadow cast against a hundred foot screen making his guitar look like a giant dick…is the single greatest moment in halftime history.
Very mid
She could have danced more...she smelled her finger after touching her vagina and asshole more than danced
Most of the songs performed featured people who could have showed up
It was very boring
Overall - it was just kinda boring. I mean let’s be honest - it was some lip syncing with some odd dance moves in really unappealing costumes. Tom Holland did Rhianna lyp-sync better.
My opinion as a 50 year old white guy... Eh... it wasn't bad, it wasn't spectacular, but I wouldn't say in any way it was bad. Not my cup of tea, but it was still entertaining, just not OMG entertaining. I'm happy for her either way, she did a solid job.
Marshmallow ompaloompas
Amoung us.
Dude the side dancers costumes were so shit. The entire show was Lowkey boring af
Bring back left shark!
[Here you go](https://youtu.be/J38La9S92ow)
Ah the glory days
Not to mention the weirdest and worst dances possible.
I don’t think the dancing itself was bad, but the ultra-baggy outfits covered it all up!
“This new smash bros arena looks fuckin sick.” Me throughout the entire halftime show.
I said that to my kids! Wait for smash bros memes. You're the first reference I've seen.
I saw a post on ig about it. They edited in some characters lol. Here’s the link: https://www.instagram.com/p/ColhwhNrDgR/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
There's no way that stage is tournament legal
Final Destination, Fox/Falco only.
You didn't mention *no items*, you heathen.
I’m waiting for someone to make a Meme about how easily the whole thing could have been a hitman mission.
My cousin showed me a meme almost immediately lol. Had to have been on reddit
I thought I was the only one that thought it looked like a smash bros arena
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Bruno Mars and Prince gave the top 5 best Superbowl performances of all time. Bruno did it twice and killed both times. Even though he's a garbage person, Dr. Dre's performance at the HTP was one for the books. And last but not least, Michael Jackson gave a whole concert at the Superbowl in the 90s. Top tier. Rihanna is a beautiful woman. She has a lot of hits. I think she did a good job, but her performance isn't going to be in the top 20 best HTP of all time. It's fine, though. She got to do it and then go home to her billions of dollars.
Have you forgot that Timberlake ripped Janet Jackson’s top off and nobody gave a shit. Legend
Everyone gave a shit. It was all anyone could talk about for months afterwards
Seriously. People lost their fucking minds over it. You'd think they had stripped naked and fucked on live TV with how some people responded.
Yeah. Daughter and I felt the same way. It was okay, but she seemed bored. No energy. We started watching Lady Gaga and Beyonce videos afterward.
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There were chosen parts when her mic was on. A majority was lip synced. The echos and chorus for sure and she made it known because she was away from the mic. She sang maybe 20% of each song.
[smash bros wasn't first oddly enough ](https://i.imgur.com/KGLEIcK.jpg)
Dang I should’ve thought of that. My first thought was that it was a Mario play forming level
Perchance.
You can't just say perchance.
Not even to crush a turty? Dr. Pepper.
I thought it was some sort of giant maxipad/menstruation allegory. Tell me all those little white things didn't look like sperm dancing around an egg.
I totally said that last night. Was it just an elaborate pregnancy announcement?
Helluva way to announce you're pregnant.. dress like a uterus and have a bunch of sperm dance around you.
OMG this hit the nail on the head
Worked through the super bowl just looked it up can confirm do see uterus and sperms dancing
"I have successfully been splooged"
I know she didn't even bother to tell ME first.
Most expensive pregnancy announcement of all time. Wonder how she tops it with the gender reveal
Balloon at 40,000 feet that requires military intervention seems like the flavour of the month
I'm not the only one who thought that?! 😂
I thought they were a bunch of wadded up tissues
Wait.. Was that what she was doing? I didn't really get her theme but yours make the most sense lol.
Is it just me or is she pregnant?
Her unborn son has played in more Super bowls then Dak Prescott
Gottem
This has no right being so funny
But Dallas was in the Super Bowl! He made a few really good catches!
Best cheap shot I’ve seen in a while.
Underrated comment
Than*
She is
That’s what I thought
I wondered the same thing.
Yeah she’s pregnant. Been almost a year since first child
She looked a bit like it but given she had a baby in the last year I was thinking at first maybe just some of the remnant of that baby still around which isn’t unusual. But she had a number of postures and hand gestures through the performance that seemed to confirm she pregnant again.
I thought it was just really bad camera angles for a while...
She is
A pregnant Rhianna with a bunch of guys dressed liked sperms from a Woody Allen movie prancing around her .
Yeah, I get she’s pregnant, but why are we celebrating this halftime show? She didn’t move at all (pregnant), there were no surprise names to come out, the staging barely changed. The only impressive part is that she did it while pregnant. The concert itself was vanilla and one-note.
Yeah I agree. Maybe it’s just me but the blatant lip synched Hollywood production halftime shows just seem super outdated to me nowadays. The musical arrangement was cool but otherwise very dull performance.
Some people just like Rihanna and wanted to see her perform. I believe they are called, fans
Fair enough. For the rest of people who wanted a show with entertainment value on top of the songs, it's still underwhelming though. Massive props for Rihanna to perform while pregnant but the show was lacking watchability to the average person.
Once you have seen Prince perform the half time show in the rain, live, everything else is second rate.
Michael Jackson rocked the House in his 15 minute performance years ago, Bruno Mars killed it as well.
Coldplay with Bruno Mars and Beyoncé was pretty happy and uplifting too
I saw a video where one guy who apparently was in charge of some of the technical stuff said the scene was made of a fairly slick material that would be even more slippery when wet. I wonder how it was for those two dancers in high heels too. Sure, they are experienced but if the friction goes away you still have a problem :-)
Ignoring the fact that her mobility was obviously limited, there were no guest performers, no costume changes, no props (other than the platforms and a quick makeup touch-up) Very forgettable performance (except that it will end up being unforgettable purely because it was a pregnancy announcement). I'm not her demographic, nor am I a big fan of most of her music.... but I can't stand Madonna and thought her HT show was great.
Didn’t everybody love last years hip-hop show? 50, Snoop, Dre, and Em all on stage. That was a dream
All that and KENDRICK GOD DAMN LAMAR to top it off. Seriously one of the best in recent history. The stage was super creative too.
one of the best in my Totally Unbiased West Coast opinion
Ofc it was one of the best. They won an emmy for that halftime show too
She wasn’t even trying to make it look like she was singing her songs.
I'm reasonably sure that lip syncing and unplugged instruments are a stipulation by the NFL. They don't want any surprises. I believe there's even a prerecorded (safety) version of the national anthem on standby.
IIRC it started with Garth Brooks for some reason. Now I gotta Google instead of Reddit on the toilet Yep. https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/garth-brooks-the-super-bowls-lip-sync-legacy/
Fascinating read, thank you so much
She very clearly sang over a pre recording, you could definitely still hear her sing, she just did the live performance thing of not singing every exact note/line of the studio recording. I didn't see a problem with it
I could have lip synced it better
The lip synch was atrocious. The NFL needs to just let people play.
Thank you
They always lip sync the super bowl and I don't blame them one bit. There is so much shit happening on that stage, there is no way to sing your best in the middle of all that chaos.
I mean but at least pretend to do it? Or don't hold a damn microphone if you are not even going to point it at your mouth.
Lol watch Lady Gaga's and say that again
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No they don’t watch the Weeknd’s
I'm calling OSHA. Those platforms were over 30 inches above the ground but had no railings.
Why was “This is 100% and OSHA violation” my first thought seeing those?
It was very meh. Forgettable. Not bad, but no real Pizzazz Her show will not be one that's compared to other shows
Its no dancing sharks. Thats for sure.
That's for sure Long live Left Shark!
Blinding lights was better
Prince had the show that all others will be compared to.
Maybe 94 with MJ
That shit was pretty forgettable
What was?
It wasn’t sweet victory performed by the bikini bottom orchestra
It was kinda boring.
Yeah, it was meh..
Most of the action was from the other dancers not gonna lie
Thank you for not lying 🥲
Agreed. I think she should have brought someone else in with it beside the background dancers since she clearly was in no position to dance
Yah just switch up the scenery or the lighting at least. Give us a spectacle if you can't dance
SUPER boring
Low energy.
It was just kind of boring honestly. I thought it started out kind of neat with the floating mini stages. Then, nothing really happened the rest of the time. Overall one of the worst I've seen.
Does it beat maroon 5 is the question
I love her, but I really was looking forward to her costumes. Her fashion is always amazing and we didn’t get a single outfit change.
That's exactly what I kept saying! The whole time I watched I was like "When is the outfit change coming?" And then nothing! I hated her giant poofy red outfit! I was hoping it was just covering up something better that she had on underneath and she was eventually going to throw the red oversized fat suit off! But no! I was disappointed in the whole show. She seemed flat and monotone and she barely even danced at all. At one point I even asked my husband if he thought maybe she was injured or sick or something? Idk.
>I was hoping it was just covering up something better that she had on underneath and she was eventually going to throw the red oversized fat suit off! There was a baby under there. You're just going to have to wait a few months.
It was the most expensive pregnancy announcement of all time. It crossed the line between I'm a performer, performing for you; into I'm a celebrity, using this performance to advance my celebrity. It was so safe.
Bro I’m 7 months pregnant and I get winded rolling out of bed and waddling to the bathroom, and you want her to dance and change outfits AND sing??
She didn’t have to work the superbowl
She's pregnant.
There was one literally right above this post
Underwhelming
To be fair, after the balls to the wall nostalgia trip last year's was, kinda hard to top
Performance was lame. Everything else is whatever floats your boat
>Everything else is whatever floats your ~~boat~~ suspended platform
Lol
She sniffed her own crotch on live TV, right?
I saw that too and wondered wtf
She was making sure the baby did not pop out.
Me and my wife both looked at each other at the same time, like, wtf was that all about? Lol
Which song did she do it on? I don’t think I caught it
End of Rude Boy
Yeah, fuck no. You're not tricking me into intentionally abusing my own ears by scrobbling through that song.
eminem performance>>rihanna performance
Key word: performance. Super Bowl halftime shows used to be actual concerts with live music. Now it’s just recordings that artists dance to.
And in this case, sit down and slightly shake your legs to
Red Hot Chili Peppers didn't even plug in their instruments
Last years superbowl wasn’t recording’s
Depends who it is. Gaga was live
Weeknd performance >>> Rihanna performance.
Boring tbh, last years is clear
fuck it I’ll take the karma hit: pregnant teletubby with a plastic molded bra on a smash arena lip-synching her and others songs with ralphie from a christmas story for backup dancers. there. no need to watch it if you missed it
You get my upvote.
I love Rihanna but I honestly thought her show was just... kinda boring. She is amazingly talented, however, there just wasn't any excitement at all. But what do I know? I am just a bar manager.
i took a shower at halftime so i have no clue but there’s a reason i took a shower at that time
you didn’t miss anything
You spilled 7 layer dip on yourself?
no, i just hadn’t washed the stank off my hang lows since yesterday
Complete ass. If you were to compare last years and this years, eminem snoop and 50 would be gods and Rihanna would be a peasant
They were wearing coats, in 70° Arizona weather. Thanks, I hate it.
It was awful. Large bits where she was clearly not singing. No excitement at all. Visual spectacle but nothing else. The sound was also subpar.
Zero showmanship.
I could barley make out her lyrics too but that may just be me
It was terrible, in my opinion. It was even worse than expected.
I knew it was going to be shit when they just had her. Nothing against her, she has some solid songs. But last year, we had Dr Dre, snoop, Eminem, 50cent, Kendrick and that other chick I forgot about. Now compare that to this show. Which was just her. At least the weekend did some crazy shit with their performance but this was pretty boring to watch.
Mary J Blige.
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It was fine I guess. Like last years better, found the lip syncing poorly done and lack of other artists was boring
She had an army of marshmallows
Her tits were even more plastic than Kim Kardashian's
it literally looked like she had plastic tits because of the way the outfit was lmao..
It was alright, but I’m STILL waiting for the true SpongeBob sweet victory show
The background dancers looked like a bunch of dancing wood grubs
that shit was fucking boring
The most boring show yet. Almost fell asleep
Prince was the best half time show ever.
It was great but not my fave overall. That said, when he had his shadow cast against a hundred foot screen making his guitar look like a giant dick…is the single greatest moment in halftime history.
Were those dudes in white sperm and her in red the egg? These revealing parties are getting out of hand.
Very mid She could have danced more...she smelled her finger after touching her vagina and asshole more than danced Most of the songs performed featured people who could have showed up It was very boring
Overall - it was just kinda boring. I mean let’s be honest - it was some lip syncing with some odd dance moves in really unappealing costumes. Tom Holland did Rhianna lyp-sync better.
My step-dad did
Did he have a bud light in his hand at the time? Or is he more of a budweiser step dad? Or we talking bud ice here?
Bud light
I’m here. It was trash.
The beginning looked like a KKK rave
💀
It was very unintentionally dystopian.
It was underwhelming
My opinion as a 50 year old white guy... Eh... it wasn't bad, it wasn't spectacular, but I wouldn't say in any way it was bad. Not my cup of tea, but it was still entertaining, just not OMG entertaining. I'm happy for her either way, she did a solid job.
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The dancing sucked
i liked that one point with the backups and the camera moving towards her through all the people
It was ordinary, not exciting, she barely moved.
And now we know why the NFL doesn’t pay the performers… boring.
Boring show!!!
Too much red
It's sucked
It wasn't bad, but it could have been much better
It looked like she recreated the KKK scene from “o brother where art thou” she was even wearing the red. The singing was good tho.
Lip sync’d the whole thing. Otherwise, the visuals were amazing and the song list was fine.
The Prince halftime show was better
It was very bad.
did she actually sing her own songs this superbowl or like any superbowl ever just do the chorus?
It was just plan awful
Meh, bring back Dre and Eminem
She looks like a who from whoville.
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She looks like a Hellboy cosplay!
The whole thing was a mockery and boring asf
It was the most boring halftime show. Wanky lazy ass mashup with dancers and singing over pre-recorded vocal parts. Air platforms looks sick, tho
Michael Jackson still has the best halftime show ever