“Beyoncé Silences Doubters With Intensity at Halftime” may sound like a tweet from a devoted follower of The Church of Destiny’s Child, but it’s an actual headline on The New York Times website right now. Look, you can throw your shade all you want: “Madonna is a true queen!”, “This bitch just yells a lot!”, “LOL, who? I was too busy guzzling Madonna’s pussy juices to watch!”, “Tears for LaTavia!”, “Madonna, Madonna, Madonna!”, etc.
But you are wrong. Don’t finish. Beyoncé had one of the best Super Bowl halftime shows of all time.
I’m mostly saying this because Michelle Williams popped out from under stage, and it was literally the best moment of my waking life… If you think I’m joking, then you (really) must not know ’bout me.
What did you think of the performance? Don’t be an idiot. Say you loved it.
– Dewitt
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spectacular show! talented and beautiful! all 3 performers blew me away – jennifer, alicia, and beyonce were ALL top-notch last night!
Michelle sucks. Give me some Kelly.
mediocre, with beyonce not singing a lot of time…. oh and yeah those horrible yells…
last year’s was a PERFORMANCE.
This year, the woman just kept hollering “sing it!” “put your hands together!”
the pyro was nice though.
STOMP. STOMP!
“My horse can count to ten!”
That gif of Michelle’s entrance :D:D:D:D:D Girl that was F-I-E-R-C-E!!
I’m not going to compare her to anyone but herself, though as a Madonna fan, the temptation is great. I love Bey and have seen two of her concerts and watched several of her key performances on YouTube. Considering that this was an opportunity to be seen by millions of potential new fans, this felt totally lazy and dialed in to me. It was a total miss-mash of other performances and compared poorly to most of them. The stage of her profile looking at itself with a fabric weave coming out at the end was tacky, tacky, tacky. She looked hot (except for the crazy eyes) but honestly, she danced and posed much more than sang… that to me was the biggest disappointment. I am sure she was live but her mic wasn’t loud enough, and Kelly and Michelle’s were even lower, which felt shady to me…. why bring them out if you don’t give them a moment to be heard? Plus, the staging was lame… why bring out DC3 and then force them to do a walk of shame off the stage so you can sing Halo… and Halo is an inspriational power ballad… flinging her weave so the audience could touch it felt really… shall I say… reductive… lol. Anyway, there were fun moments (I loved that she did Bootylicious)… but overall I give this performance a “Bey Minus”.
Dewitt: “Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”
I really wanted her to keep Kelly and Michelle on stage and all 3 of them do Single Ladies, that would have been great and different. It seemed a bit rushed doing all those songs. But Queen Madonna need not worry. Beyonce is referred to as a King now.
The shade! The shade of it all!
You say “potential new fans” as if she isn’t already an INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR.
Any superstar has the potential to garner new fans no matter how famous they are… maybe people don’t apprecaite someone’s music until they see a live performance, for example. I know lots of people who don’t listen to the radio and/or don’t go to clubs who are contstantly “discovering” artists that are already very well known. Honestly, I am not too up on current music… several big stars I was slow to pick up on. I still don’t know if I have heard a Lana Del Ray or Roisin Murphy song, for example, even though lots of people have told me to listen to them. And I had know idea what the hell Gangham Style was until maybe a month ago.
And hey, to reiterate, I am a Beyoncé fan, but I seriously thought this show was lame. Even a fan can be critical of someone’s work when they feel let down by it. I still think it was an opportunity to show the world what she can do, and she blew it.
I can understand that she probably wanted to watch the game and it was cold as shit, but the whole thing was frown face.
Beyoncé was good. That’s all. Just good. She’s not great. She’s not fantastic.
She’s not transcendental. There is a certain ‘Magic’ that true iconic performers have that make time stop when they step on stage. Sorry Dewitt, but she does not have ‘it’!!! Madonna, Janet, Xtina, Tina, Aretha, and yes, even Gaga, they have that ‘it’ that makes them legendary! Beyoncé does not. This performance was just a step over the line of mediocre like much of her catalog.
We will have to agree to disagree. I find Beyoncé quite magical, actually.
Dressing like a dominatrix and using pyrotechnics. I think I saw that at a drag show in Palm Springs last month. At least she didn’t lip-sync.