• One of Katy Perry's Dancing Sharks From Her Super Bowl Halftime Performance Did an AMA

    The Northeastern and Northwestern sections of the United States wake up in different moods this morning, but for the rest of us without a stake in the fight, we have been left with some interesting images from the Super Bowl. Many will remember Darrell Bevell's terrible call on the goal line to call quick slants when Marshawn Lynch could have punched that in, but Katy Perry's halftime show had some interesting visual pieces that will make forgetting Bevell a little easier. One of the most iconic members of her halftime show were the two sharks that flanked the "Roar" singer as she sang "California Gurls" with a playful, tropical backdrop of palm trees, beach balls and, infamously, two dancing sharks. One of the sharks just did a brief Reddit AMA -- which is below -- and answered a few of the burning questions fans have for the veteran of the Katy Perry crew.
  • Katy Perry Gets "XLIX" Tattoo Commemorating Super Bowl Halftime Performance [PHOTOS]

    Katy Perry delivered a roaring set during last night's Super Bowl Halftime Show, and she commemorated it with some new ink. Still glammed up with her slicked-back ponytail and fur coat, she continued the festivities into the wee hours of the morning, posting a photo on Instagram of a tattoo artist inking "XLIX" into the inside of her ring finger to celebrate a job well done at Super Bowl 49.
  • Super Bowl XLIX Prop Bets: The Music Times Guide to Winning Them All

    The Super Bowl has superseded several real holidays to become perhaps the largest American spectacle of the year. Millions of NFL fans love watching the game, and millions more simply enjoy the parties, commercials and halftime show. Then there is the betting community: The true sports nuts who cannot imagine watching games without betting on what color Gatorade will be poured on the winning coach. Prop bets are one of the most unique traits of Super Bowl Sunday, but they can be tough to predict. In order to better serve our readers, we here at Music Times have decided to help you out with some of them for Super Bowl XLIX.
  • Seattle vs. New England: Spotify Compares and Contrasts Music Listening in Super Bowl Competitiors' Hometowns

    Music Times made an attempt several weeks ago to predict the winner of the Super Bowl based on quality of albums coming out of the regions represented in the AFC and NFC Championship Games. So far so good: Seattle is facing New England, as we predicted, but will the Seahawks triumph? Who knows? Not Spotify. The music streaming service did use its numbers-tracking technology to create two playlists of songs representing the performers that listeners in the respective regions listen in far greater numbers than their foes on the opposite coast.
  • Katy Perry Talks Rumored Taylor Swift Beef, John Mayer Relationship, Childhood, Lenny Kravitz & More Ahead Of Super Bowl Halftime Performance

    With the Super Bowl just days away, Katy Perry graces the cover of Billboard magazine ahead of her halftime performance. When she takes the stage at the University of Phoenix stadium on Sunday, she will perform for 12-and-a-half minutes for an audience of about 100 million TV viewers and 63,400 attendees. The cover story follows Perry through rehearsals, where she dishes on her childhood, her home life, her relationship with John Mayer, her rumored beef with Taylor Swift, and her thoughts on all things Super Bowl XLIX-related, among other topics. Here's what we learned:
  • Charli XCX Records Japanese Versions of 'Boom Clap,' 'Break The Rules' [LISTEN]

    Even though Charli XCX's great new album Sucker was released in the United States on Dec. 15, it doesn't come out in Japan until Feb. 8 for whatever reason. As a special treat for her Japanese fans who have been forced to wait so long on the album (the ones who haven't illegally downloaded it, anyway), XCX has recorded Japanese versions of two of the album's singles as bonus tracks: "Boom Clap" and "Break The Rules," which you can check out below. In true J-Pop fashion, these versions find XCX singing mostly in Japanese, but switching over to English for some key phrases (apparently there's no Japanese translation for "boom clap").
  • Katy Perry & Lenny Kravitz's "Leaked" Super Bowl Song Surfaces Courtesy Of Tim Heidecker [LISTEN]

    Katy Perry's Super Bowl song featuring Lenny Kravitz has leaked. By song, we mean fake song, and by leaked we mean purposely released as a joke. The song actually comes from Tim Heidecker, the Tim and Eric franchise comedian, who is known for his Super Bowl halftime show "leaks." As Billboard notes, last year he dropped the unintelligible "Abracadabralifornia" ahead of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Super Bowl halftime appearance, and in 2012 he leaked a "Madonna" song that featured a terrible impersonator scatting and singing vague things about football.
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