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  • Katy Perry Shows Us How To Rock A Super Bowl Half-Time Show

    The Super Bowl’s half-time show is usually reserved for people to refill their glasses of alcohol and get more food from the kitchen, but Katy Perry went all out in her performance prompting people to sit down and watch the spectacle.

    The record-breaking performance was seen by 118.5 million viewers, making it the most-watched half-time show ever, surpassing last year’s show by Bruno Mars. The entire University of Phoenix Stadium was lit up with thousands of tiny lights that were passed out to those who attended Super Bowl XLIX. Perry kicked off her massive 12-minute set by making a grand entrance atop a gigantic animatronic lion.  The 30-year-old pop star sang her chart-topping hit, Roar, as she made her way through a hundred glowing orbs while wearing a fiery dress made by Jeremy Scott.

    When Perry shifted to Dark Horse, the stadium was fitted with 3D mapping technology, transforming the humongous stage into a massive chessboard complete with dancing pieces. Perry shocked everyone when she bought out Grammy Award-winning rocker Lenny Kravitz to do a rendition of her first hit, I Kissed a Girl. After that explosive bit, Perry shifted into a beach ball-inspired dress to sing Teenage Dream.

    The family-friendly performance got a splash of color from the bright set pieces that included dancing sharks and lip syncing palm trees.  A group of girls in vintage bikinis joined the chart-topping singer as she performed California Girls.

    The biggest surprise of the night happened when Missy Elliott came out to perform her 2001 hit, Get Ur Freak On. Perry joined the influential female rapper wearing a blinged-out football jersey. Perry hyped up the Super Bowl crowd while dancing to Elliott’s biggest hits like Work It and Lose Control.

    After Elliott left the stage, Perry revealed yet another costume change to match her emotional performance of Firework. Perry was lifted off the field and was flown across the stadium in a sparkling shooting star as real fireworks exploded above the sky of the open stadium. “Thank you and God bless America!” Perry cheered as her performance came to a close.

    To celebrate her monumental half-time show, Perry decided to get a special Super Bowl tattoo on her finger. “I thought it would be appropriate to draw blood tonight…XLIX,” she captioned the photo.

  • Dubai Fireworks 2014 Breaks Guinness World Record

    On Wednesday, Guinness World Records announced that Dubai’s firework show on New Year’s Eve broke the record set by Kuwait in 2011.

    The main attraction, which covered 58.4 miles of the Dubai coast, took place at the world’s tallest building in Palm Jumeirah.

    United States’ Pyrotechnic Company, Fireworks by Grucci, designed, organized and operated the display. Better known as “America’s First Family of Fireworks,” the company has lit the skies for other commemorated events including: seven U.S. Presidential Inaugurations, the Olympic Games in Beijing and the Centennial of the Statue of Liberty.

    As a “city obsessed with superlatives,” those in charge wanted to make the display something to remember.

    According to the Christian Science Monitor, the “Organizers had promised that the fireworks would form a flying falcon, a sunrise and the United Arab Emirates flag.”

    As the largest pyrotechnic display yet, it incorporated more than 500,000 fireworks at a cost of $6 million. Roughly two-hundred technicians were involved in using 100 computers to synchronize the fireworks.

    Kuwait’s 2011 show involved 77,282 fireworks and lasted an hour long, however, Dubai’s firework performance lasted only 30 minutes.

    Sources say that, “Enough fireworks were launched in the first minute of the display to break the previous record.”

    Dubai is known for breaking other world records as well. It is home to the tallest tower, the largest man-made island and the busiest airport site in the world.

    As of recently, maybe they’ll become the go-to-spot to one of the best New Year’s Eve firework displays.

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