Taylor Swift takes revenge on Kanye West, making him unable to perform at the Super Bowl?

The Super Bowl is the final match of the National Football League (NFL). It is the most watched sporting event of the year in the United States, attracting billions of viewers worldwide.

All sports have breaks between innings. However, concerned that halftime would cause many viewers to turn off their TVs, organizers teamed up with college bands to organize a marching, singing performance to entertain the stadium audience, called the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

At first, the repetition of familiar performances bored audiences. At its peak in 1992, viewership dropped 22 percent during halftime. They tuned in to Fox for comedy, and set the countdown clock for the return of the game.

To keep viewers on the Super Bowl, it needed a performance so compelling that viewers wouldn’t change the channel. And the NFL be.t on Michael Jackson. The organization spent about $1 million to have the artist perform for the 27th game in 1993. As a result, the King of Pop’s performance had 133 million people tuning in to watch.

Since then, the Super Bowl halftime show has always invited A-list artists to perform. They will perform for free during the 15-minute break. In return, the NFL will invest heavily in their appearance, covering all the costs of producing the stage. Gradually, appearing in the "diamond" time slot has become a certificate of success for the artists.

There are many stars who have had the chance to reach this stage but missed it for many reasons.

Recently, a status posted by Kanye on the X platform, which was deleted by the owner immediately after, is causing a stir on social media. Specifically, he wondered why he had never been invited to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime Show for many years, and finally "finalized" 3 main factors, one of which was Taylor Swift.

In recent years, Taylor Swift's fanbase has grown at a dizzying rate, making Swifties one of the most powerful fan clubs in the world music industry. Kanye is famous for making offensive and "teasing" statements towards the female singer for no reason. Therefore, he is often the focus of gossip not only from Swifties but also from the general public.

A series of social media scandals have dragged Kanye's reputation and name into the mud. It is undeniable that the rapper has contributed and dedicated a lot to the global music industry and music lovers, but Hollywood has run out of patience with him. Now, the "musical genius" is buried in a myriad of scandals, netizens call him "the most annoying person in showbiz".

In retrospect, the assessment that the Taylor Swift movement prevented Kanye from taking the stage at the Super Bowl Halftime Show is somewhat true. However, the root cause of the current situation is Kanye. It all started with the mic snatching from Taylor Swift when the "country music princess" was giving her acceptance speech for the MV of the year at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The male rapper declared that Beyoncé deserved to win more for her MV Single Ladies. This public "bullying" moment "ignited" a war between the two artists for more than 15 years.

The National Football League certainly cannot afford to risk Kanye performing on television, watched by hundreds of millions of people. He is currently a bad example to the public, and just one "disruptive" move by Kanye could have a negative impact on the image of the League and the Super Bowl.

Kanye once condemned Taylor Swift for... singing and dancing to the song Not Like Us at the recent Super Bowl Halftime Show. "If the issue of culture and race is so important, why do we let Taylor Swift sing along to a diss that degrades a black man? Kedrick is being exploited by people like this and so am I."

The feud between Taylor and Kanye will continue to be an endless loop if the rapper cannot learn to control his emotions, actions and words - as one of the greatest figures in the world of entertainment, with a voice that influences a certain audience. Taylor Swift is still on the journey to reach new heights in her career, while Kanye is stuck in the two fields he is best at - music and fashion.

Besides his "arch-rival", Kanye also gave two reasons for the Super Bowl "avoiding" him: Former President George Bush and the fact that he wore a MAGA (Make America Great Again) hat. The online community erupted in fierce debate not because Kanye implicitly admitted to supporting Mr. Trump but because he reminded of Hurricane Katrina, which swept through an entire black community in New Orleans - the darkest moment of George Bush's presidency. In the context of boycott culture becoming more sensitive than ever, Kanye's career could easily "disappear", sooner or later.

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