All of the above happened within less than five minutes, so maybe the halftime show earned the halftime break of its own that was inserted at that point. Surprise guests Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt, appearing as their respective characters Ted Lasso and Coach Beard, strolled the sidelines, just in time for Ted Lasso’s return next month. For some reason, Ted gave Justin Bieber a pep talk before Canada’s pop prince took the field with an acoustic guitar and a bushy beard for a performance of his stripped-down ballad “Everything Hallelujah”—a song whose vague expression of gratitude suited the event’s nonspecific, studiously apolitical agenda of uplift. (You could call it the Good Vibes Only Halftime Show, if only there weren’t so many preexisting bad vibes.) As TV cameras framed Bieber in closeup, I had to wonder what anyone in the stadium was getting out of his solo act. But Shakira and the Nigerian star Burna Boy brought the energy up with their World Cup anthem “Dai Dai” and the Ugandan youth dance crew Ghetto Kids. It was, in its pure exuberance, the show’s finest moment. New York’s PS22 Chorus were sweet enough, closing out the show with more Muppets and a new Coldplay track, “We Dance.” But there were so many people on the field by then, urging us in song to embrace that bland panacea love, it took me a while to spot Martin and his band in the background.
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