I enjoyed it. My 18 month old son sat on my lap and watched the entire thing, not moving and not saying a word...which I think is pretty funny.

Dude looks a lot younger suddenly.

pretty good!

its hard to do a "great" performance in a 13 minute tv spot but prince pulled off his best effort. i've seen him do better and i've seen him do worse, this was good though. i was surprised with the foo fighters song and he sounded really good doing it. didn't much care for the snippet of all along the watchtower but proud mary was really good. i think the twins are uber-lame and super corny. i thought that woman in the white dress looked silly running cross the stage...kinda reminded me of the spooky woman who dresses up in white sheets and dances around at the park. or a bad grace jones impersonator.

but we didn't watch for them, we watched for prince and prince was cool. i still hold the u2 halftime show as the best i've ever seen but this was up there. go ahead with your bad self, prince. thanks for putting me in my place.

Shit was awesome. My parents and I were goin' nuts in the living room.
AND THE SYMBOL STAGE, MAN!

Not the best show he's ever put on, sure, but it didn't need to be. It was just good ol' typical Prince proving to people why he's one of the greatest performers of all time. It's so effortless to him.

Mach said:

Agreed, completely. Was the Foo Fighters song possibly an appreciation thing for their Darling Nikki cover?

The band did great. His second guitar had me worried for a bit, though.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

you know you want them too. you can dance under them before bed while you're wearing your fam jams!

I thought it was good and very WOW-ish...and uh VEGAS.All the lights and stuff.I loved the TWINZ and I do think they shouldve shown the marching band more...I wasnt feelin the guitar 2 much tho...It sounded distorted 2 me,but over-all AWESOME!Im sure hes made an impact! Oh and I loved his hair more with the do-rag off...very slick n sexy

and another thing...I was SOOOO nervous you wouldve thought I was per4ming.Im sittin here like..."so its raining...what about his hair and makeup...omg is he gonna fall...is a twin gonna fall...can they like close the top of the stadium up...."I was goin nutz!!!


he ended up lookin madd sexy in the rain and nobody fell!!!
And the fact that they played Purple Rain was just uhhh CRAZYCOOL!

ALSO-the Twinz are so cool 4 not falling...heels,1000's,and rain!They looked HOT!And I was feelin the GIANT symbol that changed colors...and Im sittin there tryna figure out if the doves were real...

When I saw the rain throughout the first half, all I thought about was how
this was going to affect P's hair...My wife called the do-rag during the 1st
Quarter.

Was I the only one who thought that there was a malfunction with the pyrotechnics during the opening blast? I thought: They blew up Prince.
I envisioned him on fire like Mike and his Pepsi commercial.

Congrats to Prince for pulling off a GREAT performance in less than desirable
conditions!

sallysassalot said:

i thought that was Tamar.

That was a great show!! I'd say about a 8.5/10

PR was really good and in the rain gave it a dramatic feel that was amazing.
The stage was really cool.
Watchtower/best of you were really good also.
The only thing I didn't like was the wussy version of Let's Go Crazy.

Overall it was a great performance.

PleasurePrinciple said:

doves on a stick!

Prince

The Band

The Twinz

The Show


& now may a world tour start soon

There are snapshots you take along the journey thru "this thing called life" that you pull out every so often when you need a good smile..
Prince singing "Purple Rain" in the rain at the Super Bowl wil always be one of those moments for me...
An amazing performance and something to remember for us all....

Great performance plain and simple. Prince did a great job with the terrible conditions

Why have I never heard of Don Mischer before?! Who is this man?!

Adisa said:

Instruments tend to go out of tune after dark/bad weather, but he still kicked ass! It's the only reason I watched the game

Really really good. Maybe not as satisfying to the the converted masses because face it, how many times have we heard the trio of songs from PR. But to the unwashed out there who only notice Prince when he does something large it was brilliant. Biggest show in the land, driving rain, and Prince goes out and plays an electrifying, virtually flawless performance.

I really did think as I saw the rain come down in the first half that he was going to switch things up and do an acoustic set or something. But the man has balls and risked being electrocuted to death to bring us the funk. So extremely mad props for that!

It was great to see him play

.....buuuuut.....


Guitar work was ...Im sorry...horrible..sounded to much like he relied on the distortion and whammy bar work for his chops. The man is usually incredible and on point. I know the factors of the rain and weather could mess any musician up though. Again though great to see the man in action and that stage was incredible. Would be neat to see that stage be the one used in an upcoming tour

By the way, I posted the following self-created odds on 2/2 (see the former sticky with the pre-Super Bowl analysis) and I wish I would have put money on these rather than the real game . (I took a bat on the over/under). In bold are the ones I got right:

Okay, gambling fans. Here are the sport’s book odds for Prince's performance on Sunday.

Prince will impress the world, once again, with his awesome guitar playing. (1:10)

The Prince/FAMU marching band pairing will be universally praised as beyond awesome. (1:5)

Prince will announce a tour within a week of the Super Bowl performance. (10:1)

Prince will miss the performance due to traffic, having Hugh Grant come in once again and save his ass by performing a monologue from “Four Weddings and a Funeral”. (200,000:1)

Prince will play “Let’s Go Crazy” or “Purple Rain” (3:1)

Prince will play a new, original song. (5:1)

Prince will play a Hendrix cover. (7:1)

Prince will play a Foo Fighters cover. (20:1)

Prince will play “Jughead”. (10,000,000: 1)

Prince will perform with Billy Joel on at least one song. (2:1)

Prince will perform with Beyonce on at least one song. (5:1)

Prince will propose to Beyonce on stage, causing a nasty altercation with Jay Z. (1,000,000:1)

The Twins will dance spasmodically and without rhythm, ruining what is otherwise a flawless performance. (1:20)

Prince will re-unite with the Revolution. (20:1)

Prince will re-unite with Tony M., TC Ellis, or Scrappy D. (100,000,000:1)

Justin Timberlake will be a surprise guest, ripping off Prince’s shirt at the end of a highly charged “U Got the Look”. (1,000,000:1)

Prince will stop playing mid-song, introducing Larry Graham who will come out and ramble on for about 20 minutes about the Greek origin of something. (500,000:1)

Chatboards on multiple Prince and non-Prince sites will positively glow about the performance. (2:1)

“The Very Best of Prince” will move into the Top 100 on Amazon’s charts, from its current spot of #472. (2:1)

Prince will mention or display the number “3121” in some way. (3:1)

Im soooo glad Ps hair didnt fro out with all the rain. Cant wait to hear all the fooligines at work tomorrow talkin about that"scarf" on his head.
Was his suit made out of gortex, because that beaotch looked great in the rain! He was such a class act for performing in that freekin hurricane, I was so scared hes was going to take a spill. Once again PRINCERULES!! That stage rocked as corny as it was.

gottaletitgo's post made me realize...

there was absolutely ZERO '3121' content tonight! not even a reference or a logo or anything! think he's finally starting to move on to the next thing, or just showing restraint cuz he was a guest at someone else's party?

Revolution said:

Amazing how he held up in the weather. Just like a true professional would. Even if he didn't do new music or unkown material to the average man, us true fans could never be disappointed in a performance from him. He has now proven to the world and they now know what a musical genius he is.

Gotta feel sorry for whoever does the half-time show next year. Prince really raised the bar with this one.

Sure, it wasn't as great as some of his other performances, but it's the best ever as far as Superbowl performances go. It's gonna be really hard for anyone to top this one.

This year's superbowl halftime show was the best!

Anx said:

i thought about that. some might be like good, but i find it sad cause it deserves recognition but it's whatever i guess.

GottaLetitgo said:

Have you seen the comments on Okayplayer yet?

You'd THINK it was a fan site.
[Edited 2/4/07 20:01pm]

NY Times on Super Bowl Show
Prince’s Performance Lacks Controversy
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By KELEFA SANNEH
Published: February 5, 2007
A brief concert in the middle of the Super Bowl, on a temporary stage, designed to thrill a captive audience with nothing in common except a love of sport or spectacle, or both. How could that ever be a good idea? Then, just when it seemed time to give up on that quaint ritual known as the halftime show, along comes Prince.

Prince performed a medley of his hits Sunday night during halftime. Appropriate to the weather conditions, “Purple Rain” was among them.
His performance last night at Super Bowl XLI will surely go down as one of the most thrilling halftime shows ever; certainly the most unpredictable, and perhaps the best. “Dearly beloved,” he whispered, intoning the famous first words of “Let’s Go Crazy.”

What followed was a dizzying demonstration. He navigated a smooth course through a jumbled-up set built from bits and pieces, hits and covers. “Let’s Go Crazy” ended with an ad-libbed call-and-response, after which Prince was joined by a marching band.

Soon came “Proud Mary” by Creedence Clearwater Revival. That gave way to a piece of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” which melted into “Best of You,” the 2005 hit by the Foo Fighters. He ended the medley by modifying a favorite line from the Foo Fighters’ song: “I’ve got another confession, my friend/I ain’t no fool.”

Somehow, it all made sense, or maybe it made something better than sense. The heavy rain made the smoke and lights seem mysterious, instead of merely ridiculous. And there was a sneaky thrill in watching Prince steal the field from guys three times his size, if only for a few moments.

At one Super Bowl gathering, at least, Prince’s extravagant guitar solos, seductive facial expressions and strutting stage manner made boozy viewers whoop and wonder in equal measure. Who knew a Super Bowl halftime show could be this delirious?

No doubt National Football League officials were pretty pleased, too. They know that the halftime show is still haunted by the specter of 2004, when Justin Timberlake enlivened an otherwise unmemorable show by baring Janet Jackson’s breast. Somehow, Timberlake’s role has been largely forgotten, but Jackson’s career has still not recovered. And compared with the controversial Jackson, Prince must seem like a pretty safe bet.

Would that last statement have made any sense at all 20 years ago? In 1987, Jackson was best known as Michael’s effervescent younger sister, and Prince was perhaps the most polarizing pop star in the country; the sexually frank lyrics of his “Darling Nikki” had helped spark a national debate about explicit lyrics.

Yesterday’s command performance was yet more proof that Prince has made that familiar journey from pariah to American treasure. He has a catalog of hits that everybody seems to love (even the players, who normally take little interest in the halftime show, were quoted praising Prince), and he sings and plays and moves as well as he ever did.

Best of all, he does not carry himself as a pop-star emeritus. Did you see his face during the first verse of “Purple Rain,” when he tossed his bandana into the crowd? He looked as if he were getting away with something.