Beyonce’s Super Bowl halftime performance was the talk of the internet.
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By most standards, it seemed the world unanimously approved of Beyonce’s Super Bowl halftime performance on Sunday.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani criticized the singer when he appeared Monday on Fox News, calling her performance “outrageous”. After all, she’s the Queen B of surprises.
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.
Meanwhile, others thought the performance for the Black Lives Matter Movement was incredible after the 34-year-old star was previously accused of shunning her black heritage. Giuliani asked. “I mean this is a political position, she’s probably going to take advantage of it. You’re talking to middle America when you have the Super Bowl, so you can have entertainment”.
Melina Abdullah, a Black Lives Matter activist and leader in California, said it’s wonderful that artists like Beyonce “are willing to raise social consciousness and use their artistry to advance social justice”. And, as if we don’t have a right to protest this brutality and demand law enforcement reforms by proclaiming #blacklivesmatter.
Speaking about her reaction to the track, which was called Hook Up, he said: “She turned it down in the sweetest possible way: She told me, ‘I really like you – but this is terrible'”.
A few Stanford student communities, including Delta Delta Delta and the Cardinal Ballet Company, were invited to participate in the Super Bowl 50 halftime show as the audience members dressed in black surrounding the stage.
Some may argue that it was all just for show but a number of instances prove that Giuliani’s comments are not unfounded. I didn’t know what the heck it was – a bunch of people, like, bouncing around…. “It was awful”, he said.
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Actress, Anna Kendrick tweeted, “Even Chris Martin is like, what am I doing here?”
