Noel Gallagher Calls Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Performance ‘Absolute Nonsense’

Noel Gallagher was unimpressed by Kendrick Lamar’s record-breaking Super Bowl Halftime Show performance on Sunday night (Feb. 9).

“I had to switch it off. It was absolute nonsense,” the Oasis frontman said during an appearance on TalkSPORT on Tuesday (Feb. 11), specifying, “I didn’t watch it all, I just switched it off. There was like 300 people getting out of a car in the first two minutes.”

When asked about his favorite past Super Bowl Halftime Show performances, Gallagher explained that he doesn’t typically watch them. “I don’t like the halftime nonsense, it’s usually artists I don’t like,” adding, “I never watch it, I’m not interested it.”

Overall, the rocker doesn’t love the idea of blending music with sports. “Americans are taking over our sport, they’re taking over the Premier League, they’ll take over the Champions League, trust me, 20 years from now it will all be nonsense,” he said.

Lamar’s performance at the Ceasars Superdome in New Orleans is the most-watched halftime show performance of all time, with 133.5 million viewers, earning more views than the Super Bowl itself, which reported an average of 126 million viewers watching the Philadelphia Eagles claim victory over the Kansas City Chiefs with a final score of 40 to 22.

The star also made history as the first solo rapper to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show, and his performance featured several surprise guests including SZA, Samuel L. Jackson and Serena Williams.