Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIf you’d like to see what a challenge it was to stage an elaborate Super Bowl Halftime Show during a pandemic, look no further than the forthcoming Showtime documentary on the Weeknd’s dazzling performance during the 2021 game.The brief clip below shows just how much planning went into the performance, which was seen by an estimated 100 million viewers worldwide.Variety wrote in its review of the performance, “The Super Bowl Halftime show is the biggest stage on Earth for a musician, and the Weeknd made the most of his 12-odd minutes on Sunday night, delivering a tightly choreographed, technologically dazzling set that not only lived up to some of the most iconic performances of the past, it also touched on.
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