tHe is the perfect form of super -bowl half time show Plato and the event, organized by the corporate, highly choreography musical performances used to persuade people who get more advertising fees from NFL than Doritos TVs do not watch and Duncan ‘donuts. Over the years, he has provided moments of big spectacle: Playing purple rain in the Prince rain, Rihanna announced his pregnancy, saying that he was stuck by hundreds of sperm -seeing dancers in the duties drip. But it has never been a place of serious arts. Its biggest controversy – Jenett Jackson’s nap slip, Mia’s middle finger – has been young in his brutality.
Can this change be made with the arrival of Lamar’s Super Bowl stage with the great public intellectuals of this decade-a Pulitzer award-winning wrapper, who has changed the possibility of hip-hop? This is an unexpected match for the NFL in a normal year, but performing in front of a president who has attacked intellectualism, black activity and communities in which Lamar picked up before, before his Before the beginning, it felt a moment.
But Lamar did not necessarily want to make a statement. She is in the most naughty part of her career and is in the largest part of her mainstream popularity: in 2024 she released a series of dualing disinfection with Drake, which ended not like ours – a A song that spent the summer on the billboard 200 and repeatedly spent and repeatedly. And especially Drake is called a pedo file. This is a pleasant song of deviation, but one of the thieves undernuns who does not fit with the involvement of the super bowl. So which candy will arrive in New Orleans? Prophet or inflammatory?
Finally we got the taste of both, with an uneven but expensive set, which was the most inward in the history of the super bowl, perhaps at the cost of knocking on the knockout. It started as Uncle Sam with Samuel L. Jackson, who betrayed Lamer: “This is your uncle, and it’s a great American game!”
Lamar launched the show over the 1987 fierce Grand National GNX, the rare car for which his album has been named. It presented an unintentional and unknown track, known as the bodies on the Kendrik Lamar Subardet, a preliminary sign that he was not in New Orleans to play the crowd. Her dress also talked about the feeling of suicide: she wore a versatic jacket through a highly incredible pair of British designer Martin Rose and boot cut jeans.
This set was heated with sharp and polite when the dancers flooded the stage dressed in red, white and blue tracks, shake a head for the United States and possibly two rival groups of Compton A moment of the unity between. When the All -African American Dance Cast began mutual interference to make the American flag, it was a moment that felt the importance when Trump saw (and it was rumored shortly after).
As Uncle Sam Jackson screamed at Lamar he was “very tall, very careless, very ghetto” (probably in the forefront of how this set would be reviewed in the red states) Lamar in a widespread set Gone, which resembles a Taramic computer Street corner. , Another impressive set that was reminiscent of S. Devlan’s Compton Street corner, which Lamar performed two years ago with Dr. Dary, Snoop Doug and Eminem in the Super Bowl.
It sometimes felt like a Lincoln Center game compared to a half -time show, which has a mutual interaction of dense layers and dances, Jackson’s speaking words moments and lammer album track that always clear point They did not come together to make. Lamar is capable of deploying a largest flow of rap history, but the complex verses attack did not always work in this field and you occasionally suffer from the anthem or a bitch, do not hit my voice.
But when those four female dancers in a ridiculous interplay, not like us, things changed halfway through the set. As soon as the opening bars of the song on the PA, Kendrick jokingly: “I want to present their favorite song, but you know they like to sue,” The pair’s joint record label, Universal Music of A reference to the ongoing Drake’s defamation case. There were some rumors in the week to the Super Bowl that the trial would prevent the song from presenting the song.
And for a moment it seemed as if it could happen. Instead of launching it, he played the role of a pair of songs with Luther and all stars, SZA, whose growing sound balanced the set more layered environment and useful counter. Jackson even acknowledged that the more gentle number would be pleased to doubt the sports fans at home: “This is what America wants – good and quiet,” he screamed.
But then the Canderk slammed the intervals and wandered in the opposite direction, eventually not like us and felt happy. He revealed a madness, looking straight under the camera when he called “Hey Drake” before joining his ruins. It eliminated the hardest shock-censoring the word “Pedo Fell”, possibly at the request of his lawyers and censorship-but still screaming a catastrophic song. It shows young children by pointing to a lower level. Perhaps the chiefs would be losing 27 points in half a time, but at that time it was Drake, the largest defeat in North America.
Kendrick himself has always seen himself more witnesses than a worker – or when he had a family relationship, “I am telling social tricks / I am telling workers overnight.” It was an excellent, intelligent set that easily selected artity during Mimi’s moments. Instead, the most obvious protest was not seen on the TV but on the stadium, as Someone managed to join the crowd and raise the Palestinian and Sudanese flag over Kendrick’s GNX. The most interesting thing about Lamar is that you will never know whether the protesters are causing a storm on the stage or a set -up plan.
