Katy Perry is wanting again on her 2015 Tremendous Bowl efficiency with nothing however love.
Perry, 40, shared a sequence of photographs from the massive day practically 10 years in the past on Instagram, captioning the carousel, “Joyful 10 yr anniversary Tremendous Bowl XLIX 😱 I’ll by no means forgive you, Left Shark.” Perry additionally took the chance to plug her upcoming Lifetimes tour. “Excited to do all of it once more on #THELIFETIMESTOUR!!!” she added.
Perry was confirmed as a performer at Tremendous Bowl XLIX in November 2014. To kick off the present, the singer rode out onto the field throughout halftime present atop a large prism steel tiger and instantly started singing her hit single, “Roar.”
She was quickly joined by Lenny Kravitz, who performed guitar throughout “Darkish Horse” and “I Kissed a Woman.”
Perry was additionally joined onstage by a pair of sharks, one in every of whom went viral for his personal, um, distinctive efficiency that evening. Because the infamous “Left Shark” later explained to NPR, “So there’s a set choreography. There’s additionally what’s known as freestyle choreography, or, like, you get to maneuver round or play your character as a dancer.”
The shark, actual title Bryan Gaw and one in every of Perry’s longtime back-up dancers on the time, added that he deliberately danced in a humorous method to make the most of the second. “I’m in a 7-foot blue shark costume. There’s no cool in that. So what’s the opposite possibility? Properly, I’m gonna play a unique character,” Gaw defined.
RJ Durell, Perry’s choreographer on the time, additionally spoke to Leisure Tonight concerning the efficiency. “The sharks got two predominant targets. One, carry out Katy’s trademark strikes to the ‘Teenage Dream’ refrain, which they each did completely; and two, to have a great deal of enjoyable, and convey to life these characters in a cartoon method, giving them a Tweedledee/Tweedledum-type persona,” he mentioned.
“Clearly, that was portrayed with the overzealous shark on the correct hitting exact dance strikes, whereas the left shark was enjoying up the extra goofy, fun-spirited sports-fan mascot sort, who was simply blissful to be on the Tremendous Bowl.”
Perry introduced her first tour in seven years on Monday, January 27. Tickets for the U.S. leg of the tour went on sale on Friday, January 31, and the tour will start on Could 7 in Houston, Texas.
The singer will briefly pause the U.S. a part of the tour to move to Australia in June earlier than she returns for July reveals in Arizona and California. Her seventh studio album, 143, was launched in September 2024.
