By many accounts, Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was underwhelming, but according to Jimmy Fallon, it was “unbelievable” and “one of the best halftime performances of all time.” Okay, Jimmy.
Jennifer Lawrence is not a Philadelphia native, but she won an Oscar for playing one in Silver Linings Playbook. So I guess that was a good enough reason for flight attendants on a Sunday flight from New Orleans to Los Angeles to give her control of the airplane’s PA system.
In a video uploaded to Instagram while still a little “tipsy,” Kevin Hart commented on his behavior after the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl on Sunday night—specifically his failed attempt to run onstage with the people carrying the big trophy.
There was something a little leaden in Justin Timberlake’s step during Sunday night’s Super Bowl LII Halftime Show; something muted in his voice, which lay low in the sound mix and was occasionally accompanied by backing vocals. The performance ran almost 14 minutes, but felt more like 20 in its slog through eight…
Brands love to sell you stuff by tugging at your heartstrings, and certainly, you can see why a company might think it’s appropriate to use the famed “Drum Major Instinct” sermon Martin Luther King, Jr. gave just a few months before his assassination to sell, uh, Dodge Ram trucks. These trucks, just like MLK, were…
Thus far today, I, the picture of health, have 1) watched six hours of the TV program ER, and 2) eaten a burrito. Pink, who has the flu, sang the National Anthem live during the most-watched television broadcast in the country. I suppose Pink’s performance might have sounded better had her body not been wracked with a…
As Justin Timberlake is unlikely to cough up one (1) nut for this evening’s Super Bowl viewers (as my colleagues here at Jezebel have advocated) in retribution for revealing one of Janet Jackson’s breasts at Super Bowl XXXVIII, we can instead observe #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay. Recall how after Timberlake tore off…
Welcome, 2018, to the U-S-of-fucking-A, where every American should be advised to carry his birth certificate, social security card and passport to attend the Super Bowl because yes, immigration and customs enforcement officers will be there. Thanks to the GOP, which prizes limited government, freedom, the…
It’s fucked up that Justin Timberlake is headlining the Super Bowl halftime show after playing the active role in the Nipplegate scandal that effectively ended Janet Jackson’s commercial viability. It is specifically fucked up because in the aftermath, he weaseled his way out of any accountability only to emerge…
In 2004, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson performed at the Super Bowl halftime show. During this performance, Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson’s nipple—covered by a pasty, but still—to millions of Americans, causing an international crisis from which the world is still reeling.
For the past 29 years, the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women has released an annual Femicide Report, which publicizes domestic violence and homicide in the state. This year, the report included information about the 24 Minnesotans who died as a result of domestic violence in 2017. The report recommended increased…
Justin Timberlake would like to assure you that he “absolutely” took the time to resolve his issues with Janet Jackson after the Super Bowl strip fiasco of 2004.
In a decision thematically consistent with the rest of 2017, Justin Timberlake will be returning to the Super Bowl Halftime Show stage on February 4 in Minneapolis as headlining act, this time sans Janet Jackson.
In the wake of 2004's Super Bowl XXXVIII—the one in which Janet Jackson’s exposed nipple stopped the world dead in its tracks—Justin Timberlake threw Janet Jackson under the bus repeatedly. He showed up at the Grammys a few days later (a ceremony Janet was initially supposed to appear at but was disinvited when the…
My timeline kept tweeting about P!nk as Lady Gaga commenced the airborne, acrobatic beginning of her Super Bowl Halftime performance, but I was imagining something else, perhaps a bit darker: the flight of Spider-Man on Broadway, notoriously ill-fated but uniquely imagined by director Julie Taymor.
Lady Gaga did not deliver the middle finger to Trump that was semi-expected at her Super Bowl halftime performance, but she did sing gay rights anthem “Born This Way” in front of a country whose rights seem to be receding by the moment. She also sung it in front of Vice President Mike Pence, who was there.
One of the many underlying and righteous themes of Hamilton, as you no doubt know, is its emphasis on immigrants like Alexander Hamilton for the continued success of this country—and especially on women as its cornerstone.
As I type this, my downstairs neighbor is blasting Slayer and concocting something in an outdoor smoker that can only be described as “succulent.” I don’t know what it is, but the smell alone is sending shock waves of hunger and envy through my body in a way that’s borderline erotic.
This year’s Super Bowl halftime show will be the first ever to feature hundreds of drones. CNN reported on Saturday that drones will hover somewhere in the airspace above Lady Gaga’s head by the grace of the Federal Aviation Administration, which has made an exception to its ban on drones in and around stadiums.
Breaking with the “tradition” set forth by...someone that usually allows for one big celebrity and then a few smaller, less sparkly ones to take the stage with pyrotechnics and dancing and sliding towards the camera on their knees, Lady Gaga will be doing the Super Bowl Halftime show alone.
