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