2025 Superbowl Halftime Show: Kendrick Lamar's Message to America
Author: Jalysa Combs
2 additions to document , most recent 10 months ago
| When | Why |
|---|---|
| Feb-10-25 | Superbowl Stunt |
| Feb-10-25 | Text |
This photo comes from the article 'What Was Kendrick Lamar's Symbolic Message During Super Bowl Halftime Show?'
Article: https://www.newsweek.com/kendrick-lamar-symbolic-message-super-bowl-halftime-show-2028856
This year at the 2025 Super Bowl was a moment to remember. So many great things happened especially the Eagles winning! Fly Eagles Fly. But the most monumental moment I thought of was Kendrick Lamar's performance during the halftime show. He wasn't just a performance but it was a message to America. What made this so much more powerful was that President Trump was attending. So not only was it a message to America but a message to the President of America. There was so much historical and political symbolism.
The first most noticeable symbolism of the Super Bowl was of Samuel L. Jackson dressed up as Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam is one of the most well-known symbols that represent America. Uncle Sam depicts the federal government of our country. During Samuel’s commentary, he states the music as being too loud and ghetto, as a way of “sanitizing America”.
While that represents America, the clothing colors the dancers were wearing represent the American flag. Something many may not have spotted was the dancers all coming out of a clown car. As they come out of the clown car together, they all become separated based on their colors. The message says as if though we all come from the same place, we will always be separated. The Reds together, blues together, and whites together which can be broken down into the understanding of race as well as the political divisions in this country. They mainly stay that way until they come together to form the American Flag
Added February 10, 2025 at 7:14pm
by Jalysa Combs
Title: Superbowl Stunt
Added February 10, 2025 at 7:16pm
by Jalysa Combs
Title: Text
To end this off I want to mention something that wasn’t shown on TV during the halftime performance. There was a performer holding up a Palestinian and Sudanese flag to support Gaza and Sudanese. If you search through the internet, there are videos of this person waving the flag around while dancing with the other dancers. It is reported that no one else knew he was going to do this so this may have been a stunt on his own. He was eventually detained and taken away from the performance where he later got arrested. He thankfully does not have charges against him but he is banned from all NFL events in the future. I find it weird how we didn’t see this on TV. It was as if it was trying to suppress the message that people in Palestine and Sudan need our help.
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