{"id":117078,"date":"2024-02-12T21:01:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/12\/as-fans-complain-about-his-absence-justin-bieber-praises-ushers-halftime-show\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T21:01:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:01:23","slug":"as-fans-complain-about-his-absence-justin-bieber-praises-ushers-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/12\/as-fans-complain-about-his-absence-justin-bieber-praises-ushers-halftime-show\/","title":{"rendered":"As fans complain about his absence, Justin Bieber praises Usher&#8217;s halftime show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-12\/Getty_Usherhalftimearmsup_021224.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>L.E. Baskow\/Las Vegas Review-Journal\/Tribune News Service via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While many fans were upset that\u00a0<strong>Justin Bieber<\/strong>\u00a0didn&#8217;t perform as part of\u00a0<strong>Usher<\/strong>&#8216;s halftime show at the Super Bowl on Sunday, he was in the stands, and took to Instagram Monday to salute his longtime friend and mentor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LOVE YOU MY BROTHER,&#8221; Justin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C3QdEP9vBEM\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0next to a photo of Usher onstage. &#8220;NOONE CAN SING AND DANCE THE WAY YOU DO.\u00a0LOVE YOU FROM THE DEPTHS OF MY HEART. BROUGHT THE &#8216;A&#8217; TO THE WORLD, ONLY YOU BABYYYYYY.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fans responded by voicing their anger and disappointment that Justin wasn&#8217;t one of the guest performers, which include\u00a0<strong>Alicia Keys<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Ludacris<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong>\u00a0will.i.am<\/strong>,\u00a0to sing his Usher collab &#8220;Somebody to Love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t pretend like we weren\u2019t waiting for you to be on that stage,&#8221; one wrote. &#8220;Everyone definitely had their fingers crossed for a Justin appearance,&#8221; added another.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole night I was waiting for &#8216;I JUST NEED SOMEBODY TO LOOOOOOOVE&#8217; and I didn\u2019t have nobody to love,&#8221; one fan commented.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know what the bigger L was, the niners losing or you not showing up on that damn stage,&#8221; another complained.<\/p>\n<p>But Justin did perform in Las Vegas on Sunday, it turns out \u2014 he just didn&#8217;t do it onstage. He shared a fan&#8217;s video of him playing drums at the Vegas club Delilah after the game. The club\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/delilahlv\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a>\u00a0more video of the performance.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L.E. Baskow\/Las Vegas Review-Journal\/Tribune News Service via Getty Images While many fans were upset that\u00a0Justin Bieber\u00a0didn&#8217;t perform as part of\u00a0Usher&#8216;s halftime show at the Super Bowl on Sunday, he was in the stands, and took to Instagram Monday to salute his longtime friend and mentor. &#8220;LOVE YOU MY BROTHER,&#8221; Justin\u00a0wrote\u00a0next<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/12\/as-fans-complain-about-his-absence-justin-bieber-praises-ushers-halftime-show\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}