It’s a tradition. And this year will once again be a shower of stars. On the evening of February 13, 2022, Los Angeles hosts the Super Bowl, 56th of the name, in the brand new SoFi Stadium where the Rams (at home) and the Cincinnati Bengals. But apart from sport, it is obviously the traditional half-time show that will attract all eyes.
This year, the organizers offer a high quality hip-hop poster, with Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar and Snoop Dogg. This show, broadcast all over the world and attracting a much larger audience than just American football fans, is the occasion for a possible comeback for the “queen of hip hop”, who rose to fame at the beginning of this century.
The @Pepsi Halftime Show is just three days away… #PepsiHalftime #SBLVI@drdre @eminem @snoopdogg @maryjblige @kendricklamar pic.twitter.com/NiTUNKdTJS
— NFL (@NFL) February 10, 2022
If last year the Canadian The Weeknd had been able to bring teenagers in front of their TV, this time, therefore, the NFL obviously intends to seduce their parents rather, by bringing together legends of rap and RnB. Mary J Blige, now in her fifties, has already been scheduled (it doesn’t make us any younger) for half-time of the same show in 2001. But that year she was hardly used as a backing vocalist for the group Aerosmith.
This time, in 2022, she is leading the dance. The irony being that she planned to sing her hit which dates precisely from 2001 Family Affair. A production signed by a certain Dr. Dre.
Then will follow a tour for the diva with her fresh Good Morning Gorgeous, released on February 11, 2022. No longer necessarily queen of sales, but forever “queen of hip-hop-soul”, Mary J. Blige can count on cross-generational collaborations. From the Dr. Dre stable, she picks up rapper Anderson Paak for this very quiet Here with me. The youngest Dave East also poses on a lounge title, before we hear from Usher, another RnB figure lost sight of. He had also made the Superbowl in 2011.
And if Mary J. Blige had been able to program a title from this album tonight, we can easily imagine that it would have been her duet with DJ Khaled, a Amazing which seems cut out for stadiums.