Super Bowl halftime show 2024 dwell: Usher takes the stage as Taylor Swift watches on

While viewers positively appeared to take pleasure in Usher’s show, there’s a palpable sense of disappointment at the lack of any shock look from Justin Bieber, who was RIGHT THERE IN THE STADIUM.

A reminder, Usher was Bieber’s mentor after he was found by music supervisor Scooter Braun. They later collaborated on Bieber’s hit track, “Somebody to Love”.

Unfortunately for Biebathons or no matter his followers are known as, the pop singer regarded content material to observe his pal from a field together with his spouse, mannequin Hailey Bieber/Baldwin.

Is that it?! Just like that, it’s finished. I can’t imagine that was the full set, he’d simply received us all pumped up.

Honestly, if you happen to’re outdated like me, this one goes off each time.

Loving the Prince vibes from HER, guitar held aloft and every part.

Taking some cues from Michael Jackson, Usher is placing on the efficiency of his lifetime, loaded up with spectacular costume adjustments, nice dance strikes and wonderful vocals. I’m actually having fun with how he’s mixing up the pop bangers with a few of his most transferring ballads.

With a stunning crimson silk cape billowing behind her, Alicia Keys performs a chic second from her single, “If I Ain’t Got You”, earlier than a sultry rendition of “My Boo”, her 2004 hit with Usher. Now on to some Confessions bangers!

Amid the frenzy over Swift’s presence at tonight’s recreation, a clip has resurfaced of the second she was joined by tonight’s halftime show headliner, Usher, throughout her 2011 Speak Now tour.

The duo did a enjoyable rendition of the R&B star’s 2004 hit at what was then recognized as the Philips Arena (now rebranded as the State Farm Arena), when Swift took on a few of the rap verses instead of the observe’s featured artists, Lil Jon and Ludacris.

If, like me, you’ve completely no thought what’s going on with the sport a part of tonight’s occasion, you’ll be relieved to know that we’ve in all probability received between 10 to twenty minutes earlier than Usher is because of take to the stage.

Ryan Gosling will be seen crying in his automotive to Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well” in a brand new teaser trailer for The Fall Guy, my trusty colleague Kevin EG Perry experiences.

The forthcoming motion comedy based mostly on the Nineteen Eighties tv collection of the similar title, and stars Gosling as stunt man Colt Seavers (initially performed by Lee Majors).

The solid of the new movie, which is directed by Bullet Train’s David Leitch, additionally options British actors Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Hannah Waddingham, and US star Stephanie Hsu.

In one scene featured in the trailer, which aired throughout the Super Bowl on Sunday (11 February), Blunt’s character Jody, Colt’s ex-girlfriend, knocks on his window and asks whether or not he’s crying to Swift’s track, “All Too Well”.

“Doesn’t everybody?” Gosling’s character replies.