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The Weeknd changes the rules at Superbowl halftime

2021-02-08T16:49:53.407Z


Goodbye mini-concerts on the lawn, the Canadian artist has turned the covid constraint around by offering the most sophisticated show in the history of “half-time shows”.


Seven million dollars for a 15-minute show.

The Weeknd saw the big picture for this "

half-time show

" of the 55th Superbowl, marked by the covid-19.

The 30-year-old singer has appropriated the Raymond James Raymond from Tampa Bay for a sophisticated and original sound and light, all in neon and bandages.

The tone was set from the start, about ten meters above the ground, in a setting that looks like Las Vegas, reminiscent of the video for the tube

Blinding Lights

.

Descending from a convertible suspended at the top of the Buccaneers' case, he then joined in a halo of light a choir of nearly one hundred singers dressed in a religious-inspired alb, gospel style, to sing

Starboy

.

Some fans then regretted the absence of Daft Punk, with whom he co-wrote this hit of 2016. The thing was however clear, this show will be that of The Weeknd, only of The Weeknd.

The thing was however clear, this show will be that of The Weeknd, only of The Weeknd.

Mark J. Rebilas / REUTERS

Continuing in his scenography that looks like a video clip, the mustached singer followed up with

The Hills

before plunging, GoPro in hand, into a sort of luminous labyrinth, soon joined by a dozen masked dancers.

A sequence that did not fail to make Internet users react, amused by the strangeness of the shots filmed on

I Can't Feel My Face

.

From this extraordinary show we will also remember the grandiose finale on the stadium lawn.

Surrounded by a hundred dancers, their faces covered with bandages (reminiscent of the universe of his last album After Hours) Abel Tesfaye, whose real name is called

Blinding Lights

, the most listened to track on the Spotify platform.

The performance ended with fireworks fired around the stadium, the traditional high point of the halftime show.

The traditional EVE EDELHEIT / REUTERS end-of-half-time fireworks display

Sophistication vs. rock'n'roll

The show was undoubtedly the most successful in the history of this high mass in terms of the use of space, video and cameras.

A service resolutely oriented towards viewers, perhaps more than the fans present in the Raymond James Stadium, at the reduced level (25,000 against 65,000 usually) due to the pandemic.

To the communicative energy of the usual mini-concerts, The Weekend preferred a staging worked to its climax, not hesitating to extend its own funds to "

make this half-time show what it had in mind. head,

”his manager, Wassim Slaiby, told

Billboard

magazine

.

A bias against that of Miley Cyrus, headliner of the "

tailgate party

", the pre-match party.

Deprived of concert since the start of the pandemic, the former Disney muse seemed in great shape and more determined than ever to defend on stage her latest album

Plastic Hearts

.

For more than an hour, she watered a few thousand caregivers (7,500 health professionals were graciously invited to the Superbowl) with a pure glamrock condensed with striking homogeneity, alternating composition of the said opus and successful revivals of standards of the genre .

The veteran Billy Idol (inseparable from Steve Stevens) and the stainless Joan Jett in turn joined behind the microphone for the best moments of a setlist with communicative energy.

A show commensurate with the event that leaves a bitter aftertaste while waiting for the reopening of the concert halls.

Dressed as a rock'n'roll Cheerleader, Miley Cyrus rolled out a most energetic setlist Doug Benc / REUTERS

Source: lefigaro

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