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Coldplay was the main act of the event, but Beyonce’s performance is what it’s going to be remembered by. She performed her new song Formation and had us all gasping with amazement.

The British rock band opened up the show with Adventure of a Lifetime, Viva la Vida and Paradise, and those are some of their biggest and most known songs. The stage was a wonderful multicolored flower of lie pattern and the performance itself was very lively and fun but simply not suited for a Super Bowl half-time show.

Bruno Mars played it safe and came onto the field with his summer hit “UpTown Funk” with Mark Ronson. And let us be honest, we all have heard that song a million times by now. Compared with Coldplay, it was upbeat and funky, but it didn’t leave an impact as Beyonce’s performance did.

Beyonce stepped out dressed in black leather as an homage to Micheal Jackson, followed by similarly dressed dancers. Everything from the choreography to the lyrics to the expression on her face was breathtaking and mesmerising. It was a complete contrast to Coldplay’s colorful flowers and dancers. I don’t think the two should have been mixed together in one performance, it doesn’t make sense visually.

The show ended with Coldplay joining Beyonce and Bruno Mars in a confusing mixture of songs consisting of Coldplay’s Fix You, a cover of Purple Rain followed by images of James Brown, Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, celebrating previous Super Bowl shows. Maybe it all made more sense at stadium.

Somehow this particular combination of artists doesn’t work for a Super Bowl performance. Super Bowl half-time show is not Glastonbury of Coachella, it’s a fifteen minutes time slot designed to entertain football fans.