Beyond the Big Game, the Super Bowl is renowned for being the year’s biggest commercial platform – with surprises now a common trend.
This year was no different, thanks to State Farm and Drake.
The rapper made an unannounced appearance in the insurance firm’s new TV spot – which aired during the match between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs.
Drizzy flexes his acting muscles as…well…“Drake…from State Farm.”
From The Vault is back this week with yet another stellar Super Bowl moment.
Today, we journey back 30 years to the day Whitney Houston belted ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at the 1991 game and unleashed what would become for many singers the blueprint for how the US National Anthem should be tackled.
With the US and Iraq at war for the months preceding the festivities, the prospect of hearing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ resonate through a packed stadium was always going to be emotional for many an American. And Houston more than delivered on that note with a heartfelt, intense, and vibrant rendition of the famed anthem.
In just over two minutes, she managed to inspire optimism and togetherness thanks to her inimitable vocal prowess, striking stage presence, and that luminous smile.
Often imitated yet never duplicated, her version of this song is considered the absolute gold standard, with almost every vocalist since building their incarnation of the track around hers… to varying results.
Few will remember that the Buffalo Bills were up against the New York Giants on that fateful day. Yet, three decades on, the whole world is still raving about this game-changing performance. As such, we’d be inclined to say that the true winner was Whitney.
His fans may be opening their hearts and wallets in shows of support for the embattled Country star (as we reported here), but the industry at large is moving in the opposite direction.
As we previously posted , the 27-year-old saw backing snatched from his own record label as well as radio and television stations following the surfacing of a video that showed him drunkenly referring to his friend as the ‘n-word.’
And if distancing themselves from Wallen wasn’t enough, now his management team have joined the chorus of entities severing ties – one of many moves his sister suggests is just another nod to how cancel culture has negatively impacted the world.
Years on from their historic stint in The White House, Barack and Michelle Obama continue to operate on Higher Ground.
It’s apt then that the power couple has named their production company as such.
That Grape Juicereported that The Obamas had inked a lucrative deal with Netflix and now they’ve lifted the lid on the six projects they have incoming.
Despite just releasing her latest single, ‘Up,’Cardi B could have some more new music on the way.
The music superstar sat down with Apple Music‘s Zane Lowe in a new interview where she talked about her plans for a second album and revealed how many songs she has recorded for the project.
With excitement at a feverish pitch for the ‘The Equalizer,’ the CBS series incarnation of the 80’s show and 2014 movie of the same name.
Starring EMMY and GRAMMY-winning superstar Queen Latifah, the show – co-created by executive producers Latifah, Richard Lindheim, and Michael Sloan – is set for kick off February 7 (after the Super Bowl).
Ahead of its premiere, see an extended trailer inside: