By Kevin Rutherford
Giant golden tigers? Singing sharks? Missy Elliott?
All in a day’s work for Katy Perry in her first Super Bowl halftime show.
As the country took a breather from a tied game between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots, Perry strode in, multiple costume changes and all, to get us a respite from all those super downer Super Bowl commercials. Like, seriously, Nationwide? Do we need these feels right now?
Here’s the best we got from Perry and her amazing technicolor live show.
-What was that giant golden tiger thing on which Perry strode into the stadium? Who cares, it was quite the entrance, the perfect way to part the seas of Pepsi advertisement balloons to get her from point A to point B. If you’re gonna have fireworks going during “Firework,” might as well play into the tiger motif on “Roar.”
-Lenny Kravitz dueting with Perry on “I Kissed a Girl” totally makes sense. It’s one of Perry’s more rocking tracks, or at least one of her songs that lends itself to guitar-heavy live production if the opportunity presents itself. So, sure, let’s get Lenny in there to shred and even sing the beginning of the verse. The only failure here was that that’s all Kravitz got to do. No “Are You Gonna Go My Way”? Missy Elliott got to do her own tunes and she wasn’t even an officially announced performer beforehand. Cinna deserved better.
-The singing sharks during “Teenage Dream.” The singing beach ball. The singing palm trees. The singing everything. The laughter that occurred once the sharks started singing may have damaged forever. It’s the eyes. Totally the eyes. The soulless eyes.
-Of course everyone knew by gametime that Missy Elliott was coming. But that didn’t make the silhouette of Elliott appearing onscreen as the opening notes of “Get Ya Freak On” rang through the stadium any less satisfying. Perry didn’t have much to do, but this was Misdemeanor’s time, so
-“Firework” is absolutely 100 percent Katy Perry’s best song and anyone who thinks otherwise is super wrong. Plus, the idea of her not performing this song at her Super Bowl halftime show was a complete no-brainer given that a song called “Firework” means hey, we can just set off hundreds of fireworks all over the stadium and it doesn’t seem forced; it’s weirder if you don’t. Bonus points for the “God bless America” exclamation at the end. Perry doing her American duty, y’all.
Setlist
“Roar”
“Dark Horse”
“I Kissed a Girl” with Lenny Kravitz
“Teenage Dream”
“California Gurls”
“Get Ur Freak On” with Missy Elliott
“Work It” with Missy Elliott
“Lose Control” with Missy Elliott
“Firework”
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