- My number one favorite Super Bowl halftime performance
of all time is (mimics drum roll).
(upbeat music)
Nobody better come at me too.
I love all y'all, okay?
Everybody has great performances.
I just, I was asked to pick my top three. Calm down.
It's finally Super Bowl time.
I know you're excited. I'm excited.
It's that massive event, you know,
that concert surrounded by amazing ads
with a bit of sports balls sprinkled in there.
Just kidding. I'm so excited.
February 13th on NBC. That's right.
This year, I'm actually very in sports ball.
I've been watching. There have been a lot of great games,
like OT. It's been really great.
And a lot of moments when you're like,
"What are you doing? Who was that pass thrown to?"
Like, there's been a lot of that too.
I ain't gonna say names. That would be rude.
But this year's halftime show
sounds like it's going to be huge.
I love Snoop Dogg. I love Eminem.
Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre.
(mimics horn)
Obviously, it's super cool too, because, you know,
I live in LA right now
and it's really cool for LA 'cause the Rams are in it.
I, I will say people are so stoked about this halftime show
and the halftime show every year is pretty spectacular,
no matter who's doing it.
So today I'm going to count down
my top three favorite Super Bowl halftime performances
of all time.
(cheering)
Alright. So my third favorite
Super Bowl halftime performance is (mimics drum roll).
That was my drum roll.
(upbeat music)
Bruno Mars. That was in 2014.
He was spectacular.
He's such a great vocalist. He's such a great entertainer.
Like, I mean the cool thing about Bruno Mars too
is you always expect like he's always got the costumes down.
He always looks like shiny and awesome.
And his band is always like put together.
It's just a full show.
Like what I thought he was amazing at
is that for the majority of it,
I feel like people try and cover so much ground
when they do the show. I thought it was really smart.
He and his band kind of kept it in one place
for a minute and he stepped out for a minute
to sing a beautiful ballad moment.
But then he came back and the Red Hot Chili Peppers came in.
It was amazing.
I feel like he is one of the smartest plays
for a Super Bowl halftime show.
You can be an amazing artist,
but it's maybe not the gig for you. It's a hard play.
And I feel like he's one of those entertainers
that literally is perfect for that.
I didn't even know this,
but actually Bruno was like,
I think he was like 28 when he performed.
I think he's the youngest person ever
to perform the halftime show.
So (mimic horn) Bruno Mars, you were already awesome.
But now you're like the awesome young person to do it.
I don't know what I just said there.
(laughs)
I just thought it was so well done.
The songs were great.
His band is incredible.
He was one of my favorite performances
for the Super Bowl ever so.
(upbeat music)
My second favorite super halftime performance is,
drum roll please.
(mimics drum roll) (cheering)
Anyone who has a top three Super Bowl
halftime performance like list,
and doesn't have the JLo-Shakira moment in there
is lying to themselves.
(upbeat music) (cheering)
Also, Shakira and JLo, they have the highest watched
like performance of the halftime show ever on YouTube.
Like that's crazy. Oh, not shocking. Let's be real.
It was it incredible.
I mean, both of those women,
I love in general, just separately as artists.
But I thought they complimented each other well.
While they have similarities, they're so different as well,
and they brought something.
They brought a different kind of fire.
They're both passionate and I love that.
And it was just the dancing, the costumes,
the attitude like, it was so like,
as a woman watching that,
it was so bold and beautiful and strong and I loved it.
One of my favorite parts of their performance was, you know,
they embraced the singer-songwriter in themselves
where literally they're singing in Spanish,
they're singing in English.
It was like celebrating Latin culture.
They embraced the sexuality, the sensuality in themselves.
They were very bold, powerful, passionate women.
And I love that that was celebrated.
It was very tastefully done.
It was about women in that moment.
And I thought it was really cool at the Super Bowl.
And that's the power of Shakira and JLo.
I would expect nothing less.
I feel like they should take this show to like Vegas.
I know that, I know JLo's done Vegas
but I just mean that show together would be incredible.
I bet dance classes went up just everywhere
after that performance.
People were like, "You know what I'm gonna learn?
I'm gonna learn salsa. I'm gonna learn how to dance."
I bet people just, they were lining up
thinking they could possibly look like that.
You can't. (laughs)
It was one of my favorite performances ever,
not just for the halftime show.
My number one.
I'm gonna pick up this photo 'cause I was told to,
and I'm gonna, oh. (laugh)
Okay, wait, I didn't know this was gonna happen.
But this is really funny
'cause I did sing the National Anthem for the Super Bowl.
And what they don't tell you is, I don't know,
I don't even how many times I've sang the National Anthem.
Okay. And I know the words,
but when the audience is singing it with you,
it's usually in a delay and it kind of messes with you.
And so I was focused, very focused,
and they're like "Don't worry.
The words will be on the screen."
What they didn't tell me is that the words come up
when the audience is singing it.
So you have already sung that line
and then it appears. That's how it goes the whole time.
And so I was like closing my eyes and like, "Oh my God."
'Cause all the wrong words were up in front of me.
It was really funny and aerated the field
with my stilettos on the way out. So that was fun too.
People are always looking like, "Do you know the words?
How you gonna mess it up? How you gonna do it?"
Like everybody's, and everybody's always compared
to Ms. Whitney, which no one should be compared
to her because she's the ultimate.
So no one can achieve that.
That was my favorite as well.
My number one favorite Super Bowl halftime performance
of all time is (mimics drum roll)
(upbeat music)
Who doesn't say Prince?
Give me one person who doesn't say Prince.
God agreed with me when he had it rain during "Purple Rain."
It was the most incredible.
He was such an amazing artist.
It was so incredible.
One of the smartest plays I thought he did was
yes, he did songs that we love of his,
but he also covered songs.
He knew that the moment was more than about him.
It was about everyone celebrating,
that everybody had a good time.
It was about having a good show.
He wanted to sing songs obviously that people knew too
that they were singing along with.
He was just so smart about a performance
in general, and God, his voice was incredible.
His playing was incredible.
Oh my God. I remember the girls dancing, singing with him.
Woo. They were incredible.
It was, and, and literally Jesus agreed.
He shined down upon and just made it rain
during "Purple Rain." You cue the rain during "Purple Rain."
What? It was incredible.
To get a whole audience to sing and ooh,
they weren't even singing like the words.
They didn't even need words. They just had vibe.
♪ Ooh. ♪
Yep. Whole audience was singing. It was so cool.
He was like, "I don't need my mic. Everybody knows this."
It was such a magic moment.
And then he had the sheet and his silhouette
and he was like playing and it was so Prince
and it was so cool.
And if you don't believe me just YouTube and watch it again.
You're welcome in advance for this
'cause it was awesome to watch again.
It's so cool. Anyway, it was, that was my all time favorite.
I feel like that's probably everyone's favorite.
It's hard to top him.
So.
(whistle)
Okay. Here's the thing.
Good luck to the Rams, I guess, and the Bengals as well.
But more the Rams because well I live here y'all.
You go home with the one you came with.
I will actually be at the game.
So I'm very, very excited.
I'm gonna be there at the Super Bowl,
cheering the Rams on.
I'm gonna have, my daughter has one of those foam things
with the Ram, I'm gonna wear it.
I wanna look that kind of cool. (laughs)
You're welcome.
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