Monday, February 6, 2012 8:25AM - By Travis Woods
In one of the more bizarre and ridiculous Super Bowl halftime shows in recent memory, Madonna’s performance on Sunday night featured the singer on a golden throne while wearing a golden headdress, surrounded by half-naked gladiators as she lip-synched her way through a batch of old hits and new songs. There was some controversy, there was some “edginess,” and there was some just plain weirdness.
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Monday, February 6, 2012 8:01AM - By Travis Woods
Last night, the bizarre ritual of loading a simple football game with world-stopping import and millions of dollars worth of advertising occurred, a little something we like to call the Super Bowl. The Giants won, Madonna rose from the grave and danced, M.I.A. flipped off the world and cursed, and the New England Patriots went home empty handed once again. And, before all that happened and went down, the ceremonies began, as they always do, with the National Anthem. Performed by former American Idol contestant Kelly Clarkson, and unlike the bloodcurdling recent version by Steven Tyler, this National Anthem went off without a hitch.
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Monday, January 30, 2012 11:37AM - By Travis Woods
Because if there is one thing football fans tune into the Super Bowl for, it’s the chance to catch the live televised debut of a new Madonna single, rumor has it that Madge will be performing her soon-to-be-released new single, “Give Me All Your Luvin,’” during her set at the halftime show of the Super Bowl on February 5th.
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Monday, December 5, 2011 9:19AM - By Travis Woods
Well, it has been confirmed—after we reported to you in early October that Madonna was rumored to be the halftime performer for Super Bowl XLVI on February 5th at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, it was announced over the weekend that Madge would indeed performing the show, and would be backed by Cirque du Soleil dancers.
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Thursday, November 3, 2011 9:08AM - By Travis Woods
Well, folks, our long national nightmare is finally over. No, I’m not talking about such trivial, trifling matters as an economic collapse, military quagmires, or Justin Bieber knocking people up—I’m talking about the fallout from Janet Jackson exposing portions of her breast on national TV during the Super Bowl. God, I can hardly type the words, I’m still so haunted by the experience.
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Monday, October 3, 2011 10:00AM - By Travis Woods
Ugggghhhhh. After dazzling us last year with a mind-meltingly bad performance by the Black Eyed Peas, “the NFL has reportedly locked down Madonna to perform at the Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show in February,” according to SB Nation (via Billboard). Which is awesome for fans of hyper-toned and muscular zombies who lip-synch, dance, and speak in false British accents as part of a wildly ego maniacal bid to give herself a false sense of aristocracy.
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Monday, February 7, 2011 8:29AM - By Travis Woods
Looks like Prince fans weren’t able to enjoy the Super Bowl revelry last weekend as much as, say, those people who inexplicably love Tron and orgies of shameless lowest common denominators of pop music. According to Entertainment Weekly, the Purple One was set to perform a Friday Super Bowl pre-show, a pre-show that never happened.
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Monday, February 7, 2011 7:53AM - By Jeffrey Hyatt
In a direct contract to the classic rock n’ roll acts that have headlined the Super Bowl halftime show since Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson went boob crazy back in 2004, the Black Eyed Peas took center stage Sunday night for the Super Bowl XLV Halftime Show with a performance that provided some sparks, but was mostly underwhelming.
Once the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers headed for the locker room after the first half, the hip-hop quartet hit the stage, or rather descended onto the stage from the top of Cowboy Stadium.
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Monday, February 7, 2011 7:49AM - By Travis Woods
As you may or may not have heard, in between a programming block of new commercials and a concert by one of the worst popular bands of this or any generation, there was a football game broadcast on television last night between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers. While whoever won or lost has become increasingly unimportant (hint: it wasn’t the team with the guy who’ll sexually assault you just for reading this), the spectacle surrounding the Super Bowl has, conversely, become increasingly important. All of which is why is sucks to be Christina Aguilera this morning.
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