Oh, beautiful for guitar solos just destroying the American canon of patriotic songs. Among his beautiful vocals, his star-spangled jeans and his excellent licks, HER’s approach to “America the Beautiful” Sunday evoked Prince on several levels and, given the show’s legacy from the Super Bowl break, we consider this as the final compliment .
The singer’s version of the classic joined with Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan’s interpretation of the National Anthem and Amanda Gorman’s poem honoring pandemic heroes COVID-19 at tonight’s Super Bowl LV Kickoff show. The Super Bowl has nothing to do with competition, but if it was, SHE just gave the artist in the range Weeknd a spectacular run for his money.