My opinion: Best opening sequence to a Super Bowl Halftime Performance ever!

For me the best Superbowl performance ever. Just such incredible detail in every visual which I feel like Madonna is the quintessential expert at visuals. She looked phenomenal with multiple costume changes and she truly looks like she’s enjoying every second.

The sheer logistics aspect of coordinating and putting together this 10 mins performance was simply mindblowing.

Best Superbowl ever!!! I love Madonna. Thank you for reacting to her ❤️

More people watched her performance than the superbowl that year!

Johnny: "I'm not gay..." Me: *disappointed* LOL 😝

I loved every bit of it! Best SB performance ever!

Good, honest, review…and you’re right Madonna can do anything she wants!🙌🏽

Oh man that dude at 4:39! What he does with that leg is CRAZY!

Before the show Guy Oseary Madonna's manager tweeted that the show was dedicated to Dame Elizabeth Taylor. Elizabeth Taylor died the previous year and both Madonna and Elizabeth were life long advocates for HIV education and research and LGBT rights. The intro is inspired by Cleopatra's entrance into Rome in the movie Cleopatra starring Dame Elizabeth Taylor. Madonna's superbowl halftime show is the only in history were more people watched it than the game. 110 million for the game 120 for her.

Such an icon. Madonna!

I love that you're a thoughtful straight man who appreciates the gay aesth😂etic that permeates Madonna's work. I'm a Gen X gay man, and Madonna has been the soundtrack to my life. She has been a consistent and tenacious supporter of the LGBTQ community for 40 years, even when it wasn't so acceptable. Recently, she added a another concert date in Tennessee to her world tour specifically to speak out against the growing bigoted and extreme anti-LGBTQ laws being passed by far right extremists there, and to support those in our community who are being targeted. I'm so grateful for Madonna's continued support of our community, and for all of our friends and allies.

I really enjoy your reactions to madonna. Always on point

The best halftime show

I think many people do not appreciate the brilliance of this show is that it incorporates everything we see in High School, College, and Professional Football 1/2 time shows: Cheerleaders (male and female), pom poms, and marching bands.

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The best 👑🫶🏻 No one is better than Madonna !!!

Great reaction! I just love that entrance! Thanks for keeping it real and thanks for posting! ✌🏻❤️✌🏻

Give me all your love is great song. MDNA Tour performance is bomb!!!

Her opening is how Cleopatra came to Rome to see Julius Cesar to introduce his son.

“it’s so amazing gay, i love it… i’m not gay but it’s just fucking great” AWESOME!!! i hope the 2023 tour comes to NZ or Australia

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As soon as you start posting your Madonna Tour reactions on Patreon, I'm signing up.

Perfection

It's been said that the number of viewers who tuned in the halftime show outnumbered the total viewers of the entire game. That's because she is Madonna.

Love your reactions and you uave great taste in music 😁

Some more live Kylie please bro?! Kylie and madonna so need to team up some day soon👌💯👑👑🎤🎤

Best Super Bowl half time EVER! Goosebumps.

And you should react to the Virgin Tour and all of her Live Aid performances,

Overall, it's wildly impressive and among the best SB performances ever (at the time, it was the highest watched tv broadcast worldwide, but other SB performances have since bested it) but there are elements that didn't age well, in particular, the guest appearances... are any of them aside from Nikki even relevant now? And that only illustrates how iconic Madonna's career is... that even younger artists she gave a spotlight too have faded faster than she has after 40 years in the business. I am not a fan of Gimmie All Your Luvin' so I'll politely disagree with you on that. I wish she would have chosen something else from her back catalogue that would have kept the party going... maybe Hung Up, Ray of Light, Express Yourself, which only gets a small sample from C Lo, or even something really old like Into the Groove. If the set could have taken another ballad, then I would have picked Frozen. Anyway, overall, it's really good, even if all the football references are a little on the nose for me. As for it being 'super gay'... agreed. Madge knows her fan base and when she started off as a dancer and eventually a musician, a lot of her friends, supporters and colleagues were gay. Her connection to the queer community was organic and real, not manufactured like some other artists after her. For me, the word I would use for this is CAMP. And M, thank you for those oiled up centurions at the beginning. I bet she had fun hand selecting the models. lol.

This, the Oscars "Sooner or Later", and the Met Gala "Like a Prayer/ Dark Ballet/ Hallelujah" are her best out of concert performances, with the BBMA Prince tribute coming a close fourth. Do look at the Met Gala video.

Gimme All Your Luvin... it's a bit contrived. But she did what needed to be done and no one quite does what Madonna can. In concert she's charismatic AF, and people are magnetised to her.

Although I am really attached to the dancers from Blonde Ambition and the Girlie Show, Madonna always has the absolute best dancers. Those guys are athletes! The dancing on the bleachers and the man playing Mercury/ Hermes on the wire is absolutely nuts! Madonna has danced and toured so hard man I know she had sustained injuries over the years and still people want her to stop! Those knee drops can’t be good for your body!❤❤

Thats why we love her, her music is loved by everyone, gay, str8, mixed etc, awesome lady and empire 👍💪🏼

It was the best most watch Super Bowl Halftime Show of the last 20 years.

Great Job ✨🙌🏼👏🏼

Iconic!

Madonna on her own is pure magic… Whenever other artists are featured, it turns into a cringe fest.

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Madonna 😍❤️

Why do people care that she lipped 3/4 of the performance. It’s a huge show. People need to stop hating

one of the Best Superbowl Amen ❤❤❤❤❤❤qq

I'll never forget a bunch of guys standing arms crossed expecting this to fully suck and Madonna and group utterly killed it.

"It's so amazingly gay, I love it. I'm not gay, but it's f#cking great." I felt exactly the same when I first watched this. Except for the "not gay" part cause, well, I am.

Would love to see your reaction to Vogue at the VMA's!

🎶Every record sounds the same🎶…10:07… the shaaade!!!

Ceelo was the only collaborator to be able to hold their own with Madonna. Nicki, LMFAO and MIA were more of the time. However, Vogue and Like A Prayer are the best choices for an opener and closer.

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I LOVE, LOVE HER! But to be honest, the vocals you’re hearing are a mix of the of the MDNA album + the MDNA live tour vocals. I still LOVE her though. You can’t physically do all those things she did without your voice taking a hit. Watch her in Blond Ambition Tour where they didn’t have the technology to mask that shit.

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When she sings *Like a Prayer* " i hear her voice, it's like an angel sighing"! The show was critically acclaimed, setting a Super Bowl halftime show record at the time of 114 million viewers, higher than the viewership of the game itself.

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I know you said you’re not gay but with all due respect, you’re very cute !

LMFAO,Nicki Minaj, Cee-Lo, MIA…. Not to throw shade, but I am so glad we’re out of that decade. I really wish Madonna did something else with that time in this set. I’m glad we’re out of that time period! Although there was an element of innocence still that I miss, it was a lull for me musically.

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What are some other great Super Bowl shows? I've watched the Prince one dozens of times - that's gotta be the best one?! Springsteen did his thing, the Dre one was epic..

You are Super Funny! 😀 LMFAO... never was into them and still don't care for their songs. They were so popular at the time and Madonna knew how to incorporate them to get the mass audience pumped (Did you hear the audience roaring cheer?). Don McLean sang "the day the music died". The day music died for me was when the aught began with the awful EDM music--Madonna's MDNA was part of the wreck. Did you catch the dancer's move in the background @3:58? Or the blurred screen @8:01? Supposedly the station was delayed in their response to blur M.I.A giving the middle finger.

The Party Rock guys were there for a current tie into something popular at the moment. Watching this live was amazing and the Party Rock worked then. We could cut them out now. Mr. Green was unexpected that is for certain. But, he gave a great performance. Madonna didn't sing all of this live. There is no way with all that choreography and set changes. The woman ran a marathon in 17 minutes, lol. Best half-time show for me ever.

at least your mentioned before the feathers went, that youre not gay xD haha

I wonder how do these entertainers pick their set list? They only have 13min to perform.😮

Rihanna's performance was so weak compared to this incredible spectacular spectacle. Awesome!

Yeah, that LMFAOwhatever moment was just the big thing atm so very superbowl I guess🥴

I absolutely love you and your great reactions to Madonna’s discography. Speaking of tours, I’d love to see you react to The Girly Show Tour, such an amazing tour. Aesthetically beautiful. I loved ( myself,as a gay man) that you acknowledged the really gay entrance, it was befitting a gay Icon for sure. Lol

You are 100 percent correct, Madonna’s career has been super gay since the beginning! 😊

Bast show

Super bowl Beyonce!!! Please 🙏🏻🙏🏻 saludos desde México

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Sorry but skipping a part of a 12 minute performance is a little odd hahahaha. This is definitely in top 3 superbowl performances

"So Gay".. Hmmm I would say that description fits better with Kylie's work (and others) than Madonna and it is certainly not the case here. The production values and commitment to storytelling are so sincere. Excess does not always equal camp, camp does not always equal 'gay' . This performance is a work of art

I like her a lot. If she sang she would be a monster. Sometimes she is also out of time with the playback.

Give Me All Your Lovin took way too long out of whole show & a song I personally can't stand. So many other classics that could have been used instead. But still a great show

The performance was amazing - but you know the whole performance was mimed right? The spoken word part of vogue was straight off the record.

You need to do Gaga’s!

like someone said before: .. I'm not gay....????

It’s good for a lip sync show. She trips. Not perfect but I think Gaga edges it out for musicality, singing, and raw energy.

Oh good, I know you’re not gay now, which means I can flirt with you more. 😆

Hi Johnny, hit me up if you come to Melbourne Australia.. you cute

I'm a huge huge madonna fan, I don't like every song she's done, it's impossible to please all the time

The best "Projections but as a lifelong fan of MUVA and all she stood/stands for, this was way to fluffy, very safe, unlike our Queen of Dance; Ms.Jackson. Sadly, WAY to much fluff. Trust me, I get it... Thank God! for "Like A Prayer".

Yes MADONNA knows her main target audience is super GAY 👌 👍 😍 🥰

I can hear her real voice for only one minute during "Like a prayer", maybe. Yeah a great show, elaborate costumes...she's the Queen. Of lip-sync.

I could do without the rapping.

The entrance was the only good part of this performance. I used to love older school Madonna, she was the best entertainer in the world but soon as she started ‘’singing’’ I was over it. Lip-sync Lip-sync, Lip-sync. It was disappointing garbage. When I watch a Super Bowl halftime performance, I want to hear LIVE singing. And then CeeLo appeared which made bad things go even worse. Great intro that turned into one of the worst Super Bowl halftime performances I’ve ever seen. Hard Pass.