Usher is teasing his Super Bowl halftime show performance this Sunday and even dropping hints at possibly bringing special guests out on the big stage. The Hollywood Reporter was inside the room during Usher's press conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, where the singer revealed that he would incorporate elements of his Las Vegas residency, which includes him dancing and singing while skating.
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00:00 "There's been these fantasy lists that have been going out and people trying to figure out what
00:04 song I'm going to perform first, middle, last, who's going to come on the stage with me."
00:07 Usher is teasing his Super Bowl halftime show performance this Sunday
00:11 and even dropping hints at possibly bringing special guests out on the big stage.
00:15 THR was inside the room during Usher's press conference in Las Vegas on Thursday,
00:20 where the singer revealed that he would incorporate elements of his Las Vegas residency,
00:24 which includes him dancing and singing while skating.
00:27 "I thought about a few moments that were special in dance. I thought about some things that I had
00:31 created here in Las Vegas, i.e. skating and doing things that I had not done on stage up until this
00:38 point." Picking his set list may have been hard to narrow down seeing as the eight-time
00:42 Grammy winner has launched 18 top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and is celebrating his
00:48 30th anniversary of his self-titled debut, which was released in 1994 when he was just 15 years old.
00:55 "Definitely has been a challenge to squeeze 30 years into 13 minutes."
00:58 As for possible special guests making an appearance on stage with the superstar,
01:02 Usher has collaborated with everyone from Beyoncé, Alicia Keys and Ludacris to Justin Bieber,
01:08 Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj and Jay-Z, who's executive producing the halftime show for the fifth time.
01:14 Usher noted, "I have definitely gone through a lot of ideas of who I would have go through
01:18 this moment with me." "I think I made it easy for myself when I decided to have
01:22 like features on songs that became hit records." The singer previously performed at the 2011
01:28 halftime show as a special guest alongside the Black Eyed Peas. The Super Bowl will air live
01:33 on CBS where the Kansas City Chiefs will take on the San Francisco 49ers Sunday, February 11.
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