Popjustice
  • Home
    • Briefing archive
  • Features
  • Playlists
  • Get Popjustice emails
  • About Popjustice
    • About
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Contact
    • General contact details
    • Submit music
  • Forum
Recent Posts
  • New Music Monday: Griff's Black Hole is super, and massive
  • New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
  • New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
Hello! In theory you should only be seeing this if you're using a mobile or tablet. How's the site looking? If anything's wonky click here and tell us so we can fix it. Thanks! x
Popjustice
  • Briefing
  • Features
  • Playlists
    • New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
    • Big Hit Energy
    • 21st Century Pop
    • 2018% Solid Pop Music
    • Full archive
  • About
    • About Popjustice
    • Contacting Popjustice
    • Send music
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Forum
  • The News

The director of Katy Perry's Super Bowl performance initially thought some of it was "awful"

  • December 22, 2015
  • Brad O'Mance

Katy Perry

In not-exactly-current-but-sort-of-inter­est­ing-anyway news, the director of the Super Bowl halftime show has said that he initially thought a specific part of Katy Perry's 2015 show was "awful" and "rubbish".

Having a chat with Billboard, your friend and ours Hamish Hamilton — who was meant to be promoting next year's head­liners, Coldplay — said the following words:

"There was one part of the Katy Perry show last year, which I was [like] "This is never gonna work, this is terrible. It's awful. No! Rubbish! What are you guys thinking about? That just doesn't work on tele­vi­sion!'," he mused.

Poor Lenny Kravitz.

But fear not: "And actually it worked really really well. Even before we got to Super Bowl Sunday, I realized [he means realised] that what I'd been saying was com­pletely stupid and com­pletely wrong."

So which bit was it Hamish? Tell us!

"I'm not gonna tell you what it was, but that's the beauty of it. All the creative [input] is fairly, heavily stress-tested before you get there. It just goes to show you can have opinions, but your opinion is not always right."

Surely it can't have been Left Shark?! Or the lion?! Or Missy?! Maybe it was the bit where the floor looks like it's tilting?

Let's have a watch of it again:

Halcyon days.

  • Katy Perry
Previous Article
  • The News

A bit of Little Boots' collaboration with RAC is now on the internet

  • December 22, 2015
  • Brad O'Mance
Have a read
Next Article
  • The News

Foxes' second album now has some 'cover art' and song titles etc

  • December 22, 2015
  • Brad O'Mance
Have a read
Further listening
Greatest hits
  • Halsey interview: "I don't believe people who say they're themselves all the time"
  • Robyn talks 'Body Talk': "I'm always going to feel like an outsider"
  • Patrick Wolf interview: "Bring a cushion"
Further reading
  • 1
    New Music Monday: Griff's Black Hole is super, and massive
  • 2
    New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • 3
    The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • 4
    New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
  • 5
    New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
  • 6
    New Music Friday: Baby Queen takes the throne
Est 2000. Still going.
Socials

 Spotify
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Instagram
 Soundcloud

'Quick links'

About Popjustice
Contact Popjustice
Sign up for the news­let­ter
Submit music
Est 2000
Twenty Quid Music Prize

Playlists

21st Century Pop
New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
2018% Solid Pop Music
The Sound Of Popjustice
Playlist archive

© 2020 Popjustice Ltd. Scrolled to the bottom now you're here
  • Privacy, Ts & Cs, cookies etc
  • Corrections

Input your search keywords and press Enter.