This doesn’t appear to be a shocking choice, like Bad Bunny. Nevertheless he is not a white country singer, so I suppose MAGA is still going to be upset. This casual football fan has never heard a Jay-Z song from beginning to end so I’ll likely skip the Halftime Show - unless MAGA finds a reason to get upset about it and puts on an “alternative” Halftime Show like they did last year; then I’ll watch the Jay-Z show out of spite, like I did with Bad Bunny. And I liked the Bad Bunny show.
I’ve been saying since the Bad Bunny controversy, just have a Black drag queen read the Bill of Rights to a bunch of children. That would make MAGA clutch their pearls!
People need to have their musical horizons expanded, and particularly gridiron football fans, so, a good dose of Grammy-hopeful Let’s Paint TV guy at halftime would be the ideal choice for opening peoples’ minds aurally. Jay-Z would be all over it, maybe duet with him.
The halftime show has a tendency to alternate between current and “nostalgia” acts (although the did break the pattern with Kendrick and Bad Bunny back to back).