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The 13 Super Bowl halftime shows post-Nipplegate
- Updated: February 3, 2018
It’s been 14 years given Justin Timberlake incidentally unprotected Janet Jackson’s breast during Super Bowl XXXVIII, a habit malfunction on standard with domestic crisis, apparently, and so dubbed Nipplegate. Here’s a demeanour during a adorned halftime performances since.
2005: What improved approach to make certain boobs stay orderly tucked divided than sinecure a 60-something British man for a gig? Safety followed scandal, as Paul McCartney let slice with a tried-and-true set including Drive My Car, Get Back, Live and Let Die, and Hey Jude. But hey, there was an LED stage!
2006: The Rolling Stones barrelled in, another protected low-pitched choice with nary a possibility of nippledom — even Mick Jagger’s black garb looked roughly nunlike. Still, a maestro performers chomped ably into their hits Start Me Up and (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.
2007: You couldn’t have scripted it improved if we tried. Prince, pint-sized nonetheless powerful, belted out Purple Rain in a downpour. Throw in a marching rope and a guitar many likened unto a hulk phallic pitch (so most for a scandal-free show), and it was a philharmonic to remember.
Prince performs during a halftime uncover during a Super Bowl XLI [The Associated Press]
2008: Tom Petty a Heartbreakers offering adult a four-pack of biggest hits: American Girl, we Won’t Back Down, Free Fallin’ and Runnin’ Down a Dream. Straight-ahead and solid.
2009: The run of determined acts behaving mostly determined songs continued with Bruce Springsteen and a E Street Band cranking out 10th Avenue Freeze Out, Born to Run and Glory Days. But when The Boss gives orders, we best obey: “I wish we to step divided from a guacamole dip!” he yelled. “I wish we to put a duck fingers down and spin your radio all a approach up!” Yes, sir!
2010: Some critics claimed The Who mailed their opening in, though during slightest a theatre was cold — a rope was perched on a platter that looked like a pulsing speaker, and there were lasers. Lasers! Plus, if we got bored, we could only suppose examination a uncover from a CSI franchise: thesis songs Baba O’Riley, Who Are You and Won’t Get Fooled Again all done a set list.
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2011: Poor Black Eyed Peas. For all a hatred a organisation got for a performance, you’d consider critics delivered those black eyes themselves. The cover of I’ve Had a Time of My Life was sore — right hook! The light-up suits were gimmicky — left hook! Slash and Fergie butchered Sweet Child o’ Mine — TKO! Game over.
2012: You wish spectacle? You got spectacle. Madonna did her best Cleopatra homage, along with LMFAO, Cirque du Soleil, Nicki Minaj, M.I.A., Cee Lo Green, cheerleaders and a gospel choir. But for all that, a impulse that done headlines was when M.I.A. flipped a bird in front of a TV camera. Cue a US$1.5-million lawsuit from a NFL.
2013: Nobody remembers that Beyoncé was uninformed off a liaison involving her lip-synching a U.S. inhabitant anthem during Barack Obama’s second inauguration. Everybody remembers this was a year that she reunited with Destiny’s Child and delivered a opening that was pristine fire. Literally. There were abandon sharpened adult from a stage.
Kelly Rowland, left, Beyonce and Michelle Williams, of Destiny’s Child, perform during a halftime uncover of Super Bowl XLVII [The Associated PRess]
2014: Ever a entertainer, Bruno Mars illuminated adult a night with Locked Out of Heaven, Treasure, Runaway Baby and Just a Way You Are. Red Hot Chili Peppers jumped out — enthusiastically shirtless, notwithstanding a cold — for a chronicle of Give it Away. Minor debate swirled when viewers satisfied a Peppers weren’t personification their instruments.
2015: This is a Super Bowl halftime uncover that gave us Left Shark, a Katy Perry backup dancer wearing a shark dress who went brute with a choreography during Teenage Dream. Instantly meme-worthy, Left Shark became a pitch of independence, an unlawful loser in a universe that final perfection, or something like that. Oh, and Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliott showed up.
Katy Perry performs during halftime of Super Bowl XLIX [The Associated Press]
2016: Sure, Coldplay, Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson were there, though this was Beyoncé’s impulse — again. Bey gave viewers a ambience of Lemonade, her second visible album. The strain Formation was a confidant Black Lives Matter anthem, one suggestive of a Black Panthers, that now begat controversy. Police unions opposite a states called for protests, and some even attempted to picket a NFL.
2017: Lady Gaga flew down from a tip of a NRG Stadium and onto a field. There were 4 outfit changes. A clear star phone. Flying drones. A clever nonetheless totalled summary of inclusion. Plus a setlist with Edge of Glory, Born This Way, Telephone, Just Dance, Million Reasons and Bad Romance. Lady Gaga only out-Gaga-ed herself.