Fresh off the band’s Super Bowl performance, for which they were widely ridiculed for being bested by special guests Beyonce and Bruno Mars, Rolling Stone magazine released quotes from its upcoming interview with Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin. She’s probably going to take advantage of it. You’re talking to Middle America when you have the Super Bowl. It featured her flanked by women sporting afros, black leather jackets and black pantsuits – a clear nod to the Black Panther Party of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Now poor Chris Martin admitted Beyonce gave them the same treatment when they approached her with with a song called Hook Up, calling it “awful”. I want to be able to say I played the Super Bowl based on my talents and my merit, thank you very much. However, some have questioned her performance for being too pro-Black. As the New York Daily News reported, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted the singer’s performance of “Formation”.
“The people who protect her and protect us, and keep us alive”.
All three acts of this year’s performers quickly became top trends on Twitter, with sentiments towards Coldplay’s halftime show measuring overall positive, according to social media analytics firm Zoomph, with twice as many positive tweets than negative tweets.
Beyonce’s performance came just days after she released the music video for her single “Formation”, which makes allusion to police shootings involving unarmed African-Americans and is also seen atop a police cruiser. I hear “Clocks” and I think, oh, I know this song, but I feel no nostalgia, no ties, no reverence for any impact they may have had on my life. “The halftime show I thought was ridiculous anyway”.
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For her part, Beyonce and her husband Jay Z recently pledged $1.5 million to the Black Lives Matter movement.
