Usher has criticized the idea his Super Bowl performance was “perverted.”
The singer has laughed off the reaction to his steamy collaboration with Alicia Keys at the halftime show when they reunited to perform their 2004 hit “My Boo,“ with people joking that the “Girl On Fire” hitmaker’s husband Swizz Beatz should be concerned.
“In no way anything done there should have been viewed as bad or in any way perverted or anything like that,” Usher told “The Breakfast Club.”
The “Love In This Club” singer insisted “no disrespect” was intended and explained that the intimate performance was more about “having fun” than anything else.
“No, it was literally about having fun because of a song that me and Alicia made many years ago. We celebrated because of the legacy of it, and [meant] no disrespect to anybody,” he added.
And Usher revealed he, Keys and Beatz — the latter two who have children, Egypt Daoud and Genesis Ali, together with Beatz also having three kids from previous relationships — have since shared some jokes about the performance and the amount of memes and innuendo after the show.
“Absolutely! We’ve laughed about it … it’s all love,” The “Burn” hitmaker said.
Beatz backed his wife Keys in the aftermath of the performance, insisting fans were focused on the “wrong damn thing.”
“Y’all talking about the wrong damn thing !!! y’all don’t see that amazing dress covering the entire stadium,” he wrote.
