Bulletintube
Feb 12, 2024
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Going into the Super Bowl Halftime Show, Usher didn't really have anything to prove
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The opening song, "Caught Up," found him echoing the flashy vibes of Vegas, with an (over)abundance of background performers
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As was previously reported, some of Usher's notable collaborators were also on deck to showcase his bona fides
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If the show was kind of all over the place, Usher's ultimate point still stands – the man's got a lot of hits, and no real challenger to the current title of King of R&B
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"I took the world to the A," he chanted a few times, referencing the city where he spent many of his formative years as an adolescent. Indeed
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He began with dance-centric hits with indelible opening lines, took a brief spoken interlude to acknowledge God and his mother, then offered a sprinkle of the ballad “Superstar” before being joined
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