Who might be the special guests Usher is teasing for his Super Bowl Halftime Show?
Fresh off of his Las Vegas residency, Usher is ready to take on the Super Bowl Halftime Show
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The Super Bowl is coming up on Sunday, February 11, and for those who don’t care about football, that means the Super Bowl Halftime Show is coming up. This year the baton has passed to Usher, an R&B superstar and consummate showman who is fresh off of a popular Las Vegas residency (“My Way”). Ahead of the show, the singer has announced a new album, Coming Home, as well as the “Past Present Future” arena tour. But right now, his full-time job is to tease his halftime show, which “will definitely be an event,” as he told Billboard.
Given his catalog of hits, “it’s really hard to determine what moment matters more than others,” he said, musing over “the dance, the wardrobe, the lighting, how long you stay in a song, the fact that the audience may sing along… It’s a lot.” He did divulge that there will be special guests. As to who those guests may be, Usher remains tight-lipped. Could it be BTS’ Jungkook, with whom he collaborated on “Standing Next To You”? Lil Jon and Ludacris, for their smash hit “Yeah”? Will.i.am, returning the favor for Usher’s appearance at the 2011 halftime show? Alicia Keys for “My Boo”? Keke Palmer, just to rub salt in her ex’s wound? The list of potential collaborators is endless!
Luckily, Usher will get a little more time than the average Super Bowl performer; he told Entertainment Weekly that he had managed to secure a full 15 minutes for his set (a bump from the usual 13). “I can’t explain why, but it’s a funny thing that I was able to do and craft,” he told the outlet. “That was a huge strategic thing that happened between me and my agency.”
“I’m trying my hardest not to overthink it, but it’s literally 12 to 15 minutes if I can manage to impress the entire world—over 30 years of a career within 15 minutes. It’s a lot. I’m definitely happy that I’m coming off a successful residency and kind of in the rhythm of it overall,” he told Billboard, adding that he got some advice from former halftime performer Katy Perry. “This is a moment I’ve prepared for for 30 years.”
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You guessed it . . . Frank Stallone.
This might be the best use of this meme in this site’s history.
It’s certainly in the top fifty.
If Lil Jon and Ludacris don’t show up for Yeah, the whole thing is a failure.
hang on, I’m about to FTFY . . .
If Lil Jon and Ludacris don’t show up for Yeah, the whole thing is a failure.Ok, got it. You’re welcome.
I hope they’re all ready to be sacrificed to Taylor Swift and Dark Brandon at halftime!
All hail the Snake-God Queen
didn’t her plane crash in August 2001?
JAMES IHA! JAMES IHA!CTHULHU FHTAGN!
As long as it all results in all of us voting for Grand-Pop Biden, which is, of course, the point of the whole thing.
The ghost of Mama Cass!
With dancing mascots dressed like the sandwich that killed her
Did she murder the sandwich, or did the sandwich murder her?
She died of heart failure.
I think the easy guess would be Ludacris and/or Lil Jon since Yeah is still arguably his biggest mainstream hit. I mean I guess a possible guess would be Taylor Swift since she’ll already (maybe) be there but I don’t think she’d mesh with Usher at all.
God spare us a Taylor guest appearance.The internet might finally, literally implode and Switft-ly collapse into a black hole.
Ok, in that case, I’m totally on board with it.
Well damn, now I only want it more. Please, someone needs to end this hell we’ve created for ourselves
I bet Suge Knight knows…
Forget the guests, I think the biggest thing to guess on is what he’ll do that will inevitably get turned into a meme and/or popular internet reference for a month or so, like the Left Shark at Katy Perry’s show or the Weeknd stumbling through that light maze.
Eric Idle, The Shaggs, and Clownvis. Calling it now.
I heard that The National is going to play a cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Anthem’, with backup from Neil Diamond and Neil Young… just to stick it to all of those people who get mad about Neiling during The National’s Anthem.
You put a lot of work into this, and it shows. I salute you.
Neil Diamond did a GREAT job singing the national anthem.
I would give gold to see Neils Diamond and Young jam together…and to be excused from the super bowl.
lil’ xenomorph critter gonna bust out of his chest cavity to say hello
It will go on to say “my baby! Hello my honey! Hello my ragtime gal!”
Check please!!!
GWAR!
Gwarfinitely
god bless you!
Janet Jackson’s boobs
Who might be the special guests Usher is teasing for his Super Bowl Halftime Show?My guess is the guests will be Elvis Autotune and The Fantastic Fabulous Backing Tracks.
I admit to being uneducated to what the hell people currently in the U.S listen to . , but Usher? ..from the 90s/2000s ? …us he big again ?