Donald Trump was the attraction of the Super Bowl? Only for the first few minutes. Then Kendrick Lamar and steel came the show with a provocative performance.
Anyone still says that America’s artists would hold back with criticism of Donald Trump. Not so Kendrick Lamar. What the rapper delivered to the half-time show of the NFL final in New Orleans on Sunday may confidently be considered a majesty insult. Right at the beginning of the show, the 37-year-old made it clear that he does not only understand his appearance as a breakdown of break. “The Revolution is about be Televized, you picked the right time, but the wrong guy,” he complained for the first time. “The revolution is broadcast on television, it is the right time, but you chose the wrong man.”
Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson had already disguised the lamar appearance as ‘Uncle Sam’. “Salutations,” said Jackson. “I warmly greet. Welcome to the big American game”. However, he did not refer to the Super Bowl, the NFL final between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs, even if most spectators were there in the Superdome Arena. No, rather Jackson referred to the elaborate choreography of the half-time show-because it was highly political.
This half -time show was one of the best in history in every respect. A total work of art full of critical allusions to America of the present. An America that is socially deeply divided, devastated by fires and plagued by hate. Lamar provided the soundtrack and the right pictures. And he stole the show to the US President, who had the government business rest in order to stage himself in New Orleans as a folk tribun.
Lamar’s scenery builder had designed the stage as a playing field in the manner of the successful series “Squid Game”. With a choir of background dancers who were dressed in the colors of the American flag, but also reminded of the pitiful candidates of the Korean Netflix production, in which volunteers have a fatal game for money and influence.
Look at the “American game”, Jackson had gone into the microphone. It is the cynical game that Trump and Musk want to impose on this contemporary America with their radical pairing stake, freed from every rule and morality.
At another point in the show – Jackson spoke several times as a whitening narrator figure during the twelve -minute performance – he said: “America was once lovable and contemplative. Not now”. Lamar then rapped verses in which a “cultural divide”, that is, a cultural struggle, a division, spoke. To read easily as a criticism of the current state of the US society, in which Democrats and Republicans, Trump supporters and opponents of the President are irreconcilable.
Lamar himself was dressed in the blue of the Democrats to read a chain with an “A” around his neck, for America-also as a statement against Trump and his “Maga” movement. Look, said Lamar and Jackson with their appearance, we are black, we are the minority in this country, but we are loud. We are also ‘uncle sam’. The figure that is considered the national symbol in the American folklore alongside the Statue of Liberty. Originally an older white man with goat beard who advertises the US Army became an older black man with a grotesque cylinder that the stars of the US flag sparkled. Jackson embodied him with diabolical grin and visible fun of the provocation. What did all the white suprematists, “Proud Boys”, “Oath Keeper”, “Maga” supporter and other right-wing intellectors have thought in view of this?