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R&B star makes triumphant return with a bevy of his musician friends following his brief 2011 halftime appearance Usher headlined Super Bowl LVIII’s halftime show at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday with a career-spanning performance featuring some of the biggest contemporary R&B hits of the past 20-plus years. Usher kicked off the performance with “Caught Up” while a bevy of dancers and others performed gymnastics and turned the field into a dance party. The set included several…

It’s “America the Beautiful” but with a rock twist. During Sunday’s Super Bowl LVIII pregame festivities, Post Malone performed a soft, acoustic rendition of “America the Beautiful.” Sporting a brown blazer and light washed jeans, the rapper and singer sang the lyrics to the iconic anthem in a melodic tone. Singing through his grills, Malone displayed his vocal range as he also strummed along on his guitar. During his performance, cameras panned to Taylor Swift hugging Blake Lively in one of the Allegiant…

"It’s not about me: I’m the representation of this song, and I’m just honored to get to sing it,” singer says Reba McEntire helped get Super Bowl LVIII between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers underway with her rendition of the national anthem at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. McEntire’s emotive, affecting rendition lit up the crowd and moved some of the football players on the field to tears. As her voice reached a crescendo with “the rockets red glare” lyric, fireworks lit up…

Samsung‘s Galaxy S24 phones are better than their predecessors in several areas, but durability may not be among them. In a drop test on the Allstate Protection Plans YouTube channel, the new flagships performed worse than the Galaxy S23 lineup. The devices were unusable after just one drop on the screen from six feet (1.8 meters) high. The Galaxy S24 series may not be as strong as the Galaxy S23 Allstate Protection Plans is a YouTube channel best known for performing breakability tests on newly released smartphones. The…

The singer performed "Eenie Meenie," "Peaches," SZA's "Snooze," and more in his first official performance since postponing — then officially canceling — his Justice world tour in 2023 In June 2022, Justin Bieber was scheduled to perform two shows at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. But just before his grand homecoming, the musician indefinitely postponed the Justice world tour before canceling it in its entirety to focus on his health. He’s only been seen on stage twice since then, until last night…

It’s been five years since Justin Timberlake last toured, but over the last few weeks, he’s been easing back into performing with a couple of one-off shows ahead of his forthcoming album Everything I Thought I Was, out March 15. During those appearances, a recurring performance bit has emerged. Wednesday night, before performing “Cry Me a River” at New York’s Irving Plaza, Timberlake announced: “I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize… to absolutely fucking nobody.” “I’d like to take this opportunity to…

Reneé Rapp debuted on Saturday Night Live with a performance of “Snow Angel,” the title track from her first studio album, which came out last August. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9kjzTwkos Rapp spoke with Rolling Stone about the production of Snow Angel in an in-depth interview last summer, and has also explained the traumatic experience that inspired the song she performed Saturday. Trending ‘American Nightmare’:…

Megan Thee Stallion joins Rapp for "Not My Fault," which the duo wrote for the musical flick Reneé Rapp debuted on Saturday Night Live with a performance of “Snow Angel,” the title track from her first studio album, which came out last August. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9kjzTwkos Rapp spoke with Rolling Stone about the production of Snow Angel in an in-depth interview last summer, and has also explained the traumatic experience that inspired the song she performed Saturday.…

Don’t go for second best, baby! During Madonna‘s performance at Boston’s TD Garden Monday night, the singer performed her beloved single “Express Yourself” for the first time on her Celebration Tour. Before performing the song, Madonna held up a beer bottle and saluted the new year, saying she’d start the year with “gratitude” before she picked up an acoustic guitar. The singer thanked her kids who join her during the shows, describing them as “beautiful, talented, intelligent, opinionated” children. She…

Manifesting a 2024 filled with new music from Megan Thee Stallion. On Sunday, the rap star joined the telecast of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, where she performed a medley of her hit songs shortly after the East Coast midnight countdown. Backed by dancers dressed in purple that matched her own fit, the rapper ran through a fiery set, which included “Cobra,” “Savage,” “Her,” and culminated with “Body.” Purple streamers exploded and cascaded around them as she delivered the finale. She asked mid-set, “Y’all…