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		</div><h2><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span style="font-weight:normal;">Beyonce upstages Coldplay in Super Bowl halftime show</span></span></h2>
<h4>Media come for Coldplay, praise Bey</h4>
<p>There’s no question Beyonce just stole that Super Bowl halftime show from its headline act, Coldplay. According to usatoday, the only remaining question is, who didn&#8217;t see that coming?</p>
<h4> <img class="expand-img-vertical" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/162042e9737d96788213f2e5f2e214e9576c3869/c=0-220-2634-3732&;r=537&;c=0-0-534-712/local/-/media/2016/02/07/USATODAY/USATODAY/635904755530012882-508986132-79499140.JPG" alt="508986132 E SPO ACE FBN MUS USA CA" width="480" height="640" /><span style="font-size:x-small;"> Credit <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/columnist/2016/02/07/review-super-bey/79967754/" target="_blank">usatoday</a></span> Beyonce at Super Bowl 50</h4>
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<p>On one side, you have a woman whose just-dropped, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/02/06/watch-beyonc-gets-into-formation/79931826/">much-discussed </a><i><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/02/06/watch-beyonc-gets-into-formation/79931826/">Formation</a></i> proves why “fierce” is linked to her name, serving as a sizzling, sexy, super-charged break from a sport that assiduously markets its own fierceness. On the other, you have a popular but polarizing British band whose work has been described by other USA Today critics as “earnest” and “sensitive” — not exactly words one immediately associates with the NFL.</p>
<p><img class="gallery-photo horizontal" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/c93b2979073bfbaa08233d7c6ef5b470e10cda2a/c=526-0-3752-2426&;r=x513&;c=680x510/local/-/media/2016/02/07/USATODAY/USATODAY/635904760798222083-USP-NFL--Super-Bowl-50-Carolina-Panthers-vs-Denver.18.jpg" alt="Recording artist Beyonce, Coldplay singer Chris Martin" width="400" height="300" /><span style="font-size:x-small;"> Credit usatoday </span><span style="font-size:x-small;"><br />
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<h4><span style="font-size:small;"><b>Beyonce alongside Coldplay and Bruno Mas performing at half time during Super Bowl 50</b></span></h4>
<p>And in the middle, you have Bruno Mars — like Beyonce, a Super Bowl halftime veteran, and like her, a performer who seemed to know how to make best use of the stage he was given. In other words: dance, because no one in the crowd is going to be paying much attention to the lyrics.<br />
As for the headliners, well, to call Coldplay “divisive” is an understatement akin to calling the Super Bowl “somewhat oversized.” After all, how many other halftime acts go on <i>CBS This Morning</i> before the game, as Coldplay front man Chris Martin did, to confess that they no longer worry that lots of people don&#8217;t like them? It’s not exactly a rousing bit of self-promotion.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/aa6f3f507c029381e8c4f16b355d8cad31e6cb53/c=0-366-1704-1647&;r=x408&;c=540x405/local/-/media/2016/02/07/USATODAY/USATODAY/635904756169616982-508986074-79499136.JPG" alt="Beyonce, Chris Martin of Coldplay and Bruno Mars perform" width="540" height="405" /><br />
<span style="font-size:small;"><i><span class="credit">Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size:large;"><i><span class="credit"><span style="font-size:xx-small;">B</span></span><span style="font-size:xx-small;">eyonce, Chris Martin of Coldplay and Bruno Mars perform onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl 50 </span></i></span></p>
<p>Beyonce, Chris Martin of Coldplay and Bruno Mars perform onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show at Levi&#8217;s Stadium on Feb. 7 in Santa Clara, Calif.</p>

Queen Bey steals Super Bowl 50 half time show
