Adam Levine performing at the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show. Photo: Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Football fans might not realize it, but plenty of Americans only attend Super Bowl parties for seven-layer dip, liberal drinking, and the nationally televised pop concert otherwise known as the Super Bowl halftime show.
24. Maroon 5, Travis Scott, Big Boi Maroon 5’s halftime show was exactly like all of Maroon 5’s music: so safe and antiseptic that you hardly remember it’s there until you’re watching a Super Bowl halftime show and you realize you know every single one of the songs and you want to crack yourself over the head with the Rock Band guitar gathering dust in your closet. There was almost no acknowledgement in this set that it was taking place on the largest annual stage in America.
20. Justin Timberlake Justin Timberlake is a former member of NSYNC, husband to Jessica Biel, ex-boyfriend of Britney Spears, tour mate of Christina Aguilera, and co-Emmy winner with Andy Samberg. He couldn’t enlist the help of any of those people to enliven what was the most boring Super Bowl halftime show of the modern era? Instead, we got a projection of Prince on a giant sheet while Timberlake sang “I Would Die 4 U.
17. Paul McCartney This was America’s punishment for Janet Jackson’s nipple: an old white dude standing in the middle of an LED stage, playing the guitar by himself. This show was safer than having sex in a panic room with three condoms and all of your clothes on.
13. Boys II Men, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves, the Temptations, and Queen Latifah This could have been a staid look at an older genre of music, but then Latifah and Boyz II Men came in and injected some youthful energy into what otherwise looked like a very professional high-school talent show. Boyz II Men disappointed by using most of their time onstage for their new single “A Song for Mama,” which is soundly awful.
9. Michael Jackson Just because you’re the first doesn’t mean you do it best. For starters, the networks hadn’t quite figured out how to broadcast a halftime show yet. It’s hard to hear the music over all of the cheering , there was a commercial break in the middle of the program, and the game was in California, so it wasn’t quite dark out.
Madonna 2? Blapshemy. I’d swap her with JLo and Shak’s performance and perhaps I’d agree with your top 10.
How about last on JLo the wanna be ho! WHAT WAS THAT WITH THE STRIPPER POLES? I thought Janet Jackson was chastised for what she did, but this was worse. Showing little girls that fame and admiration is a singer on a stripper pole That’s worse than nudity.
I was like “prince better be No. 1.” You did not disappoint.
Disagree. Their performance should be ranked in the top 3.
Carol Channing doesn’t make the list?
Bruno Mars in 2014 should be way higher on that list!
Well if you couldn’t put Mother Monster in the top slot, at least it was The Purple One.
Garbage
Pretty close, although Lady Gaga should have been 2 and Madonna way way down the list
Mj performance was is the best ....they needed him to Kick-start it....he set pace, he made the show.
Adam Levine was the worst.
Yes!! Absolutely correct! (Little known fact: I was at the first one in 1993!)
Best quote: 'Martha Reeves, whose singing sounded like a squirrel was humping her larynx...'
You were Absolutely correct there Michael Jackson created the halftime show and is reason why people internationally even care about it these days. However, he’s number 1 though😉
No thank you
All are trash besides yonce and I never even watched 😂😂
The absolute BEST!!!!
Let’s make it easy 1. Prince - everyone else. cc anildash
YES. Prince.
I approve of this post! Great memories. Although I no longer watch NFL football, I will forward to catching show on YouTube or something!
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