The half-time show at the Super Bowl is arguably the most interesting part of the entire game. Increasing each year with ever more ridiculous set pieces and an growing "wow" factor, viewers can expect to see world-famous musicians, strobe lights, bombastic pyrotechnics and dancing galore. As if you prove this point, shortly after arriving on the stage on a giant mechanized tiger and dancing with shark people, Katy Perry ended the show by rising above the crowd while riding on a shooting star, as you do. However, Nintendo fans will have had their gaze diverted by something very familiar attached to the end of her microphone.
Yes, you saw that right - it appears that Katy Perry used a Wii remote wrist strap to ensure she didn't drop her microphone while singing her hit Firework. The Wii remote wrist strap has reliably saved countless televisions from destruction during intense sessions of games such as Wii Sports Bowling, so it isn't too much of a stretch to see how this was a rather creative application of the accessory.
Debate has been raging back and forth on Twitter as to whether or not that's actually a Wii remote wrist strap, so we included a stock wrist strap picture for you to decide.
What did you think of the half-time show? Was that actually a Wii wrist strap on Katy's wrist? Sound off in the comments below.
[source theverge.com]
Comments 30
That's actually a stock picture of the original wrist strap, not the newer model which Perry seems to be using.
............
..........ok
Yes it was the wiimote strap.
Finally a great halftime show that Katy, Lenny, and Missy just nailed!
I also noticed this and thought it was probably a smart use of the strap.
The special effects were great and the overall show was solid - but it was weird. That whole beach scene? And since when have Lenny and Missy been relevant artists? Odd stuff...
Worst half-time show I've seen so far. So bad that it made me fall asleep.
What is to say this is a Wiimote strap? There are countless similar straps available.
@SuperWiiU I don't know, man, do they all have the notch cut off of the corner of that plastic part?
Best halftime show in quite a while imo, more lively and entertaining than the last few heh. Loved the crap sharks (Viz reference there) during California Girls
@ejamer Lenny is one of the greatest guitarists of our time... Missy Elliot? Well, she was big for like a month or two, at least until the new hip-pop act appeared the following month. Also, as for the beach scene? Yeah, the NFL still aims to please as wide an audience as possible if you notice it was closely followed by the all-bikini clad army of California Girls. Fun for the WHOLE family!
@SuperWiiU really? Did you even watch the game? Because by half time, it was still one heck of a game... What game were you watching? Everyone was talking about the game during half-time! HOW could you have fallen asleep?!
The game was pretty great. Slow start, but fantastic finish to the half and then the entire second half was thrilling.
@Platypus101 I enjoyed seeing both Lenny, and Missy too actually... but it just felt weird and out of nowhere. As one of the people watching with me commented, even when Missy was at the peak of her popularity she didn't rate a Superbowl halftime, how she got on 15 years later is a mystery.
I thought the halftime show was really good, and the game itself was a memorable one that football fans will talk about years from now.
Side note: I thought this must be the year for sentimental commercials.
Was watching the game w/ about a dozen people, yelled out "Look, Katy Perry is singing into a Wiimote!" when they first showed that closeup. Everyone agreedw/ me, we even called in the kids from the other room, and they all thought it was funny.
The game itself was great, half of Seattle is still probably screaming "I can't believe he passed!" Was my first thought when I woke up at 5AM.
The half time show was one of the better ones as well. She probably got the idea for that wacky beach scene while she was on Sesame Street showing her cleavage to Elmo. Heres Sherly Crow w/ the originsl set-up.
http://youtu.be/yUcWNz4YXlA
Apparently she fears the wii remote will fly out of her hand and reveal get lip syncing
All jokes aside, did she even put the strap on?
My roommate and I thought that looked awfully like a Wii Remote wrist strap haha.
I nailed it! I told my wife that that was a Wii strap,
The dancing sharks were just too funny!
It's the version 2 wrist strap that she has. Looks exactly like it.
The sharks were strangely fun.
Definitely a Wii Remote strap, but the picture attached to this article is of the first version. The one Katy Perry was wearing is the latest version where the clip locks into place. Update the photo!
Funny how when I saw her "riding the shooting star", I was thinking about Nintendo and Rosalina for some strange reason......... and now, a Wiimote wriststrap. What are the odds...
@GraveLordXD
Narcolepsy
Definitely a Wiimote strap.
I use the one with the clip on my underwater camera.
@mjc0961 I remember reading last year that all recent super bowl musical bits are pre-taped to avoid a disaster. Apparently it was a big deal for red hot chilli pepper fans that they lip synced last year.
I thought the show was ok, but honestly I would have liked to see Lenny kravitz as the star with just Katy perry as a guest. I've always thought kravitz doesn't get enough credit.
I'm also not sure of how well people's memories are, but I can assure you all that no halftime show will ever be as bad as the black eyed peas!
I loved the Missy Elliot and Lenny Kravitz performances. That's all I have to say about that.
Yep, it's the newer model of wrist strap.
I only saw the very end of the Super Bowl... the whole spectacle is becoming way too much like the Roman Empire's Circus Maximus for me. I'd rather listen to artists who don't use tons of bass and tech to pretend they're otherworldly. (Yeah, yeah, I know, I sound like a hipster, but there's a difference between people who rely on computers and machines to buff up their work, and people who don't need those things to sound not just good, but incredible.)
That show was so bad; the only actual artist there was Lenny Kravitz, who you could only hear for the last 2 seconds out of the five that he performed. The floor tiles were literally more impressive than her- the whole thing looked like an acid trip. It's good to hear that she had at least one ounce of style- or however much a Wii remote strap weighs.
Definitely looks like the Wii remote wrist strap
Be even funnier if that was the microphone from Sing Party for Wii U and she was just Lip Syncing. Oh wait, this isn't Christina Aguilera.
All I want is somebody to explain to me what in the hell happened at the end of the game?! I've heard Pete Carroll try to explain it, I've heard former head coaches try to explain it but it still makes no sense to me. You have beast mode but you throw the ball? IDIOT!
Show Comments
Leave A Comment
Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...