Singing, dancing, roller-skating—Usher is the consummate performer. On Sunday, following months of hype, he’ll take the stage at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas for the Super Bowl 2024 halftime present, cramming three many years of his hits right into a 13-minute efficiency.
Usher’s efficiency at Super Bowl LVIII comes after his 100-show Las Vegas residency and the discharge of his first album in eight years, Coming Home, which the singer launched on Friday.
During the set, located in the course of the face-off between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers, Usher is predicted to maneuver by a sequence of his hottest hits, from the 2001 R&B mainstay “U Got It Bad” to the quintessential membership tune “Yeah!” The latter tune has had one thing of a renaissance recently. Fitting when you think about the observe is at the moment celebrating its twentieth anniversary.
Before taking the stage, Apple Music, which has sponsored the present since final 12 months’s Super Bowl halftime spectacle starring Rihanna, teased Usher’s efficiency with a brief movie known as “Where’s Usher?”, that includes Ludacris and Lil Jon, furthering hypothesis that his “Yeah!” collaborators can be becoming a member of him on the Super Bowl stage.
Following the present, Apple Music will provide the efficiency in spatial audio, Apple’s Dolby Atmos–powered “immersive” sound characteristic. (Short model: You’ll hear it just like the way in which you’d on the stadium.) Something it additionally did with Rihanna’s efficiency. Watch it right here.