The Weeknd’s highly anticipated Super Bowl halftime performance is finally here!
It all went down during the halftime of Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Fla., where Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes of the Tampa Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs went head to head despite the crazed past year and football season due to the coronavirus pandemic. As super fans of the two teams anxiously awaited the final score, music fans were delighted to watch The Weeknd perform his best hits.
Leading up to the performance, fans of the artist speculated how exactly the pop/R&B singer would alter his typically out-of-the-ordinary style to fit the Super Bowl stage. The “Starboy” singer shut down rumors he would bring out other artists like Drake and Ariana Grande, and his performance proved he probably didn’t need the extra star power.
The Weeknd instead danced solo (well … with backup dancers, of course) and gave viewers a sneak peak into his music videos for his major Hot 100 hits during the performance, including “Can’t Feel My Face,” “Blinding Lights,” “I Feel It Coming,” and surprisingly, his 50 Shades of Grey single “Earned It.” Despite viewers enjoying the large band that The Weeknd brought on stage, some were left quite dizzy and even nauseous from the performance.
The Weeknd spun fans in a gold hallway
No, it wasn’t the bright red jacket or the hundreds of backup dancers in matching red jackets and face bandages that made viewers a bit nauseous during The Weeknd’s Pepsi Super Bowl LV halftime performance … it was the artist himself.
After opening his performance with “Starboy” and debuting a huge band, The Weeknd, in his typical After Hours red blazer, seemingly walked behind the stage before grabbing a camera himself to walk around in an all gold hallway for his 2015 single “Can’t Feel My Face.”
The artist performed the song spinning around in circles, pushing the camera closer and closer to his face. The Weeknd’s dancers dressed in the same red jacket and facial bandages (alluding to his alter ego that the artist claims is a statement about Hollywood’s obsession with plastic surgery) joined the artist in the gold hallway to frantically run about and push The Weeknd around. That moment, plus the ending of the performance where The Weeknd and his dancers ran around in circles on the Super Bowl field, caused viewers to feel a bit dizzy.
Some on social media noted how nauseous they felt watching the performance, while others joked about the performance reminding them of the days they were lost in the supermarket looking for their mom.
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