{"id":87679,"date":"2015-02-02T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=87679"},"modified":"2015-02-02T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T11:09:09","slug":"katy-perry-spectacle-wows-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=87679","title":{"rendered":"Katy Perry spectacle wows Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katy Perry used a giant tiger, Lenny Kravitz and backing dancers dressed as sharks to wow the crowds with her Super Bowl half-time performance.<\/p>\n<p>The US singer rattled through a medley of hits during a 12-minute concert that also included a guest appearance from rapper Missy Elliott.<\/p>\n<p>It ended with Perry singing Firework as actual pyrotechnics exploded above her.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Guardian, the result was a &#8220;high-octane show [as] notable for its surreal camp as for its tunes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87681\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Perry-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87681\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Perry-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The singer marked the occasion by having Roman numerals tattooed on a finger\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The singer marked the occasion by having Roman numerals tattooed on a finger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Perry-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-87682\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Perry-7-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Perry 7\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times said she &#8220;held her own, navigating a handful of her smashes and three wardrobe changes in a performance that resisted bad mood&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87680\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/perry-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87680\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/perry-4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Backing dancers dressed as sharks also made an appearance\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Backing dancers dressed as sharks also made an appearance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Even if you weren&#8217;t a fan of Perry&#8217;s music, you had to be impressed with her spectacle,&#8221; agreed USA Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy Perry used a giant tiger, Lenny Kravitz and backing dancers dressed as sharks to wow the crowds with her Super Bowl half-time performance. The US singer rattled through a medley of hits during a 12-minute concert that also included a guest appearance from rapper Missy Elliott. It ended with Perry singing Firework as actual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,6],"class_list":["post-87679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}