BACKSTAGE: Jay-Z and Beyoncé share a big hug after her Super Bowl halftime-show success, and the singer celebrates with her Destiny’s Child mates on camera and in a gushing personal note.
BACKSTAGE: Jay-Z and Beyoncé share a big hug after her Super Bowl halftime-show success (top left), and the singer celebrates with her Destiny’s Child mates on camera (right) and in a gushing personal note (bottom left). (
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Beyoncé puts a lot of power into her shows — but not that much!
Everyone from football fans to a former NFL great had pinned the Super Bowl blackout on the “Single Ladies” star’s fierce halftime performance.
“Beyoncé literally killed it at the Super Bowl,” tweeted late-night host Jimmy Fallon.
Even her husband, rap mogul Jay-Z, couldn’t deny that Beyoncé’s show — which involved a sparkler-spewing guitar, actual fire, and plenty of special effects — may have been too hot to handle for the grid.
“Lights out!!! Any questions??” he tweeted once half of the New Orleans Superdome went dark.
But NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and local utility officials insisted the outage wasn’t her fault.
And an Oct. 15 memo prepared for the Louisiana Stadium & Exposition District says tests on Superdome electrical feeders showed they had “some decay and a chance of failure.”
Entergy New Orleans, which supplies the stadium with power, and the structure’s engineering staff “had concerns regarding the reliability of the Dome service from Entergy’s connection point to the Dome,” the memo says.
Plus, stadium brass noted, the halftime show was powered by generators, not the in-house system.
That didn’t stop the rumor mill.
“Beyoncé blew the electric in the Superdome twice, I’m told, during her rehearsals during the week,” ex-NFL QB Boomer Esiason said on his WFAN radio show yesterday.
The controversy over the 34-minute outage did nothing to dim Beyoncé’s star power, evident in a dynamic performance that helped erase memories of her lip-syncing at President Obama’s inauguration.
After the show, Beyoncé’s makeup artist snapped a tender shot of her hugging Jay-Z backstage, and posted it on Instagram.
And she was just relieved that the show itself went off without a glitch.
“All the hard work, five months of preparation and it was really great,” Beyoncé told “Extra.”
“So beautiful, it really was a magnificent night for me and the girls.”
The diva also released dates for her “Mrs. Carter Show World Tour”: It begins on April 15 in Belgrade, Serbia, and ends on Aug. 3 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. With