Videodrone: What Not To Expect From Prince’s Super Bowl Performance

noah | December 11, 2006 10:41 am

Today the NFL announced that Prince will play the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 4, and the AP story–which mentioned the Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” and Mick Jagger-bleeping of recent years–made us fondly recall Prince’s scorching performance of “Gett Off” at the 1991 Video Music Awards. The Purple One’s backless costume alone would probably make today’s seven-second-delay operators keel over.

Gett Off (Live at the Video Music Awards, 1991) [YouTube] Purple Rain in Miami? Prince to sing at Super Bowl [AP/ESPN, via Can’t Stop The Bleeding]

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