CNEWS -Pop superstar Madonna dazzled football fans and more than 100 million television viewers on Sunday when she performed during a glittery, spectacular Super Bowl halftime show.
Madonna, the first female Super Bowl halftime headliner since the notorious Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” of 2004, was carried, Cleopatra-style, into Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium by a cadre of muscled gladiators.
Wearing Egyptian regalia, complete with headdress, and spiked black boots, the pop superstar launched into her seminal hit “Vogue,” with lighting and other visual effects contributed by the Canadian performing troupe Cirque du Soleil.
Next came “Music,” which included LMFAO, followed by a cheerleader-themed “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” from Madonna’s latest CD. Madonna was joined by Nicky Minaj and M.I.A., with the latter proferring a fleeting obscene one-fingered gesture on-camera.
In a nod to the sport whose fans she was entertaining, the Material Girl performed much of her act on, or in front of, bleachers, with high school marching bands and drumlines augmenting the show, which lasted about 10 minutes.
After a mini-medley of her hits “Open Your Heart” and “Express Yourself,” Madonna closed her act decked out in a Gospel-goth black gown, performing “Like a Prayer” with Cee Lo Green before dropping out of sight in a puff of smoke