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Usher is teasing his Super Bowl halftime show performance this Sunday and even dropping hints at possibly bringing special guests out on the big stage. The Hollywood Reporter was inside the room during Usher's press conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, where the singer revealed that he would incorporate elements of his Las Vegas residency, which includes him dancing and singing while skating.
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00:00There's been these fantasy lists that have been going out and people trying to figure out what song I'm going to perform first, middle, last, who's going to come on the stage with me.
00:07Usher is teasing his Super Bowl halftime show performance this Sunday and even dropping hints at possibly bringing special guests out on the big stage.
00:16THR was inside the room during Usher's press conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, where the singer revealed that he would incorporate elements of his Las Vegas residency, which includes him dancing and singing while skating.
00:27I thought about a few moments that were special in dance. I thought about some things that I had created here in Las Vegas, i.e. skating and doing things that I had not done on stage up until this point.
00:39Picking his set list may have been hard to narrow down, seeing as the eight-time Grammy winner has launched 18 top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and is celebrating his 30th anniversary of his self-titled debut, which was released in 1994 when he was just 15 years old.
00:55Definitely has been a challenge to squeeze 30 years into 13 minutes.
00:59As for a possible special guest making an appearance on stage with a superstar, Usher has collaborated with everyone from Beyoncé, Alicia Keys and Ludacris to Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj and Jay-Z, who's executive producing the halftime show for the fifth time.
01:14Usher noted,
01:14The singer previously performed at the 2011 halftime show as a special guest alongside the Black Eyed Peas.
01:31The Super Bowl will air live on CBS, where the Kansas City Chiefs will take on the San Francisco 49ers Sunday, February 11th.
01:37For more on this story, head to THR.com.
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