I say ‘Hell, yeah!’ to the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show headliner

Jennifer Lopez was announced last week as the Super Bowl halftime show headliner for February’s game in Miami, along with Shakira. Is it 2002? 

Just kidding, I love them both. There will be so. Much. Hair flipping.

And I love that we’re going to get some pyro and choreography and lasers and stuff, because J. Lo knows how to put on a damn show — unlike last year’s act, Maroon 5. And no, Adam Levine creepily removing a different layer of clothing for each song until he ends up flaunting his nipples to a billion people is not a show I want to see. (#JusticeForJanet)

While I put on an early 2000s pop playlist, try out this quiz about halftime shows of yore.

Questions

1. In 2015, Katy Perry was the headliner of the show at Super Bowl XLIX when one of her costumed backup dancers, who came to be called what, overshadowed her set by becoming an internet meme?od

2. What New Jersey legend busted out a real rock star move when he was the 2009 Super Bowl headliner, doing a power slide across the stage that went a little out of control and ended with him hitting the camera that was filming him groin first?

3. When MTV produced the show for the first time in 2001, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige and Nelly were the guest performers in a show titled “The Kings of Rock and Pop.” Who were the co-headliners?

4. Beyonce headlined the halftime show at Super Bowl XLVII in 2013, but she came back three years later as a guest to steal the show from headliner Coldplay when she debuted what single from her concept album “Lemonade”?

5. Prior to the early ‘90s when pop and rock stars started showing up, the halftime show headliner was usually a university marching or this inspirational group, who appeared at five shows between 1976 and 1986.

Answers up after this mini doc about Prince’s iconic rain-soaked performance of “Purple Rain” at Super Bowl XLI in 2016. We Stan a legend.

Answers

1. Left Shark
2. Bruce Springsteen
3. Aerosmith and *NSYNC
4. “Formation”
5. Up with People

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