LeBron James among the many confused by Maroon 5's Super Bowl halftime show
The Super Bowl LIII halftime show is complete. Now it’s time for millions of viewers to react. And, well, let’s just say early reviews have not been kind to Adam Levine and Maroon 5.
Travis Scott and Big Boi made appearances. But Maroon 5 dominated the spectacle. And that made many unhappy.
LeBron James’ confused response pretty accurately summed up America’s feelings:
Soooooooo…… This halftime show though. That’s all for Travis or nah?!?!?! 🤨
— LeBron James (@KingJames) February 4, 2019
LeBron followed up his initial reaction with an absolutely amazing GIF:
Me next year at halftime show! NOT!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/lcUAqJgWNM
— LeBron James (@KingJames) February 4, 2019
Other social media users had Adam Levine jokes:
Maroon 5 and Adam Levine out here performing at #SuperBowl halftime like “Tom Prichard…how we doing? Let’s get another round of Jall-a-peeno poppers for the boys.” pic.twitter.com/XFDkJH10tD
— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) February 4, 2019
Halftime performance only thing scoring less than the Rams in the first half 😂
— Stephanie Snowden (@YouGotSnowd) February 4, 2019
As a pretty boring white guy, I really gotta say wow, Adam Levine has really lowered the bar
— matt the electrician (@MattTheE) February 4, 2019
Adam Levine's pitch is all over the place. This man judges other people's singing for a living
— Todd in the Shadows (@ShadowTodd) February 4, 2019
so sick of imagine dragons smh pic.twitter.com/sfJUOnGkFr
— nick (@nick_pants) February 4, 2019
JJ Redick is singing his ass off
— Niko (@NikoReg_) February 4, 2019
.@adamlevine is rockin' a grandma couch print on his tank top 😭😭 #SBLIII pic.twitter.com/jYdofkTRGz
— Yahoo Sports NFL (@YahooSportsNFL) February 4, 2019
Maroon 5 minutes too long.
— Maximiliano Bretos (@mbretosESPN) February 4, 2019
That halftime show…. pic.twitter.com/eZYCtgqriu
— Damien Woody (@damienwoody) February 4, 2019
They invited Adam Levine to the barbecue and it’s not going as planned. He brought the potato salad with raisins in it.
— Martellus Bennett (@MartysaurusRex) February 4, 2019
A few astute observers made a good, historically literate point when Levine stripped off his shirt toward the end of the show:
I thought they outlawed nipples on the halftime show
— Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) February 4, 2019
Super Bowl halftime nipple rules feel inconsistent
— Katie Nolan (@katienolan) February 4, 2019
Oh so dudes can show nipple on the super bowl halftime show ok
— Elika Sadeghi (@steakNstiffarms) February 4, 2019
Those tweets, of course, were in reference to the infamous Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.
There were other comparisons to past halftime shows as well:
Never speak ill of Bruno Mars ever again
— Pablo S. Torre (@PabloTorre) February 4, 2019
Bring back Left Shark
— Hemal Jhaveri (@hemjhaveri) February 4, 2019
Every year everybody says the halftime show was terrible. This year everybody will be right.
— Grant Paulsen (@granthpaulsen) February 4, 2019
Among the others who might have outdone Maroon 5: Utah Jazz point guard Ricky Rubio:
Ricky Rubio with the halftime performance 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/RUMWYNhL06
— Def Pen Hoops (@DefPenHoops) February 4, 2019
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