She was like, “Fatima, I’m an English woman, you have to be my street guide and let me know what we should populate these rooms with to make it make sense.” It was like if you can look at the city from an overhead shot, what would that look like and feel like? And that’s why they did the tarp on the floor, so that you really felt like we bought a block of Compton inside of SoFi Stadium. She wanted to just like, “What if we pull a street from Compton or pull the different popular places there that people go to,” like Dre used to DJ at Eave’s After Dark and Tam’s Burgers is where everyone would hang out and the Martin Luther King building was another one that that she put there. She’s based out of London and she basically did a tour of Compton and she felt like there’s parts of Compton that are so iconic. With five individual artists and these elaborate set pieces, what was your overall vision?Įs Devlin was the production creative on this. So there were definitely responsibilities and obligations to the culture and stuff that I felt like we were really trying to stay true to, but to get the response that we’ve gotten has just been so great. You go into it wanting to do the best job you can do and you go into it wanting to represent hip hop in such a major way because it’s the biggest stage I think it’s even been on. Jared Leto, Beanie Feldstein Talk New Gucci Love Parade Campaign (Exclusive)įirst off, what has it been like seeing the response to the show? After months of prep but only two and half weeks of rehearsal, Robinson tells The Hollywood Reporter about honoring Compton, combining six different performances (with a special appearance by 50 Cent) into one and the biggest challenges along the way to creating an instant classic. Her second Super Bowl, after having also choreographed the Black Eyed Peas’ 2011 performance, proved to be particularly special, with its home base at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium and the first hip hop artists to headline the iconic show. There will be debates that follow about whether all this powerful symbolism is more than glossy gesture politics, but given the brief they had, you can’t imagine them trying any harder to make this mean something.Fatima Robinson - famous for her choreography for the likes of Michael Jackson, Prince, Aaliyah, Rihanna, Britney Spears and the Oscars - was the mind behind the moves for Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI halftime show, starring Dr. You can’t do much in 12 minutes, in the gap between a football game, but everything you can do, Dre did. Yet this year it felt about more than great production values and Pepsi sponsorship.
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The Super Bowl half-time show remains the biggest gig in the world, with an unparalleled live TV audience not for nothing did Mary J Blige, who at 51 is one of the most decorated R&B singers of all time, describe this performance as “the opportunity of a lifetime”. But even they were emotionally overshadowed by Kendrick Lamar emerging from a row of cardboard boxes to perform Alright, the song that was heard at Black Lives Matter protests across the country, now being performed at the centerpiece event of a league that had told black athletes five years ago they had no right to protest against racism. Yet both those powerful moments did happen. There were rumors that there would be limits to how much restitution the NFL would allow: reporting in Puck said the NFL had rejected Eminem’s request to take the knee at the ceremony (something they later claimed to be false), and told Dre that he would not be able to include the lyric “still not loving police” in his performance of Still Dre. The choice of artists was enough for at least one police force, in Long Island, to encourage residents to boycott the ceremony. Now with five of the defining artists of 90s hip-hop and R&B sharing the stage, led by Dr Dre – who, as part of NWA, gave America’s music its most powerful statement against police racism – it could be argued the Super Bowl has regained some credibility among black fans. Since then the production has been taken over by Jay Z’s Roc Nation, with acclaimed artists such as the Weeknd and a celebrated shared performance by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira returning prestige to the slot. Mary J Blige at the Super Bowl half-time Photograph: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images
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