According to Giuliani, he felt it was wrong for Beyonce to use the appearance as “to attack police officers who are the people who protect her and protect us, and keep us alive”. We’ll work on that.
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Giuliani said that Super Bowl performances should offer “decent, wholesome entertainment” instead of attacking “people who put their lives at risk just to save us”. Like many other Americans, their thoughts – and their TVs – were tuned to football.
For Beyonce, “Formation” is more than just another song – she wants it to have a positive impact on her fans’ lives. He called the whole halftime show “ridiculous”.
Check out the footage below to see how Beyonce feels about Coldplay and react: did you enjoy her halftime performance?
The pair recently collaborated on Coldplay’s new single Hymn For The Weekend, which features on their album A Head Full of Dreams, and clearly get on well – Chris’s ex Gwyneth Paltrow was left looking after Bey’s daughter Blue Ivy during the Super Bowl performance.
Prior to the performance, some of Beyoncé’s dancers posed for a picture with their fists raised to the sky, evoking the black power salute by two prominent athletes during the 1968 Olympic Games. “Any of it. Maybe some of it. Mike WiLL-Made It-you know that his name is Mike WiLL-Made It?” At one point during their routine, the dancers formed an “X” on the field, which some people are taking as a tribute to slain black activist Malcolm X.
However, producer and director JasFly took to Twitter to say: “Beyonce, backed by 50 black women with afros dressed [as] black panthers, is telling the world that #BlackLivesMatter”. San Francisco police killed him in a hail of bullets December 2.
And the haunting video ends with Beyonce going underwater as the police auto sinks.
Senior correspondent Jessica Williams led The Daily Show’s examination of Beyoncé’s Superbowl half-time show, where she focused on how the element of Black empowerment behind the choreography and the greater spectacle.
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The release of the video Saturday heightened expectations that Beyonce would make a political statement at the halftime show.
