The Super Bowl 50 Performances

So, of course, every one is talking about the Super Bowl 50 halftime show. What originally started as a Coldplay performance grew into Bruno Mars and Beyonce joining in. Admittedly, I was half-watching the performance cause I was live tweeting the MC Twitter.

To start, I absolutely loved the colorful lights, costuming, decor, everything that Coldplay incorporated. The band played their big hits that everyone could sing along to,  and it gave me a warm feeling.

Bruno Mars (and Mark Ronson--who we currently have on the cover this month) danced his way in with hit song "Uptown Funk." He is suuuuch a good dancer and entertainer.

Next was Beyonce, storming in with her new song (and music video) "Formation." That woman can deliver a great performance no matter what. She's got the voice, the moves and the ASS. Watching her makes me wanna start dancing again. (Also, can we talked about how she dropped her music video on Saturday, performed on Sunday AND announced she's going on tour?! This girl is dropping all the surprises.)

My favorite part of the entire halftime show was Beyonce and Bruno having a dance off, and combining her music with the lyrics of "Uptown Funk." They are both great dancers and it was hard to determine who won that battle.

For the last bit of the show, a montage of past performances was shown--Paul McCartney, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson and more--and everyone reminisced and remembered all the greats before tonight. At the end, the stands spelled out the inspirational message, a message we should always incorporated in our lives, "Believe in Love."

Usually, I focus on the vocals in any performance, but tonight it wasn't about them. It was about the overall presentation. Coldplay lit up the stadium with colors, Bruno showed off his moves and Beyonce strutted her fierce swagger. Each artist contributed to an awesome--but short-lived--halftime show. If they were allotted more time, I'm sure they could have fleshed out a more complex show.

Even though the halftime show had three great artists in today's industry, the best performance of the entire #SB50 was Lady Gaga singing the national anthem.

In this state of her career, Gaga has blossomed into the classiest singer ever. I love that she used "gimmicks" to put herself on the map and loved by all, and now she's taking a different direction--her endeavors with Tony Bennett, singing the Sound of Music medley at the Academy Awards.

Anyway, she could have incorporated wild antics and flashy vocals for the national anthem, but she sang it in a simplistic, beautiful way that gave me instant goosebumps and her shedding a tear. In addition, she built the song's momentum to its climax at "the land of the free"--she started soft and pretty and grew to a big voice and went to church.

Lady Gaga has always been a phenomenal singer, yet people continue to say, "Oh I never knew she could sing like that!" Guys, she was accepted into the prestigious Juilliard at age 11. Even in her early career popstar days, she had an amazing voice, but it was masked behind the costumes and the theatrics of her performances. Needless to say, she absolutely killed it, and it was a great start start to the 50th Super Bowl.

xoxo