Madonna, BTS, Justin Bieber and Shakira Join Forces for Blink-and-You’ll-Miss-‘Em Moments in a Cluster-FIFA of a Halftime Show

The FIFA World Cup Final halftime show faced a logistical challenge: fitting Madonna, BTS, Justin Bieber, Shakira, Gustavo Dudamel, Chris Martin, and the Muppets into an eleven-minute window. Variety reports that the solution was ambitious if necessarily compressed—each performance lasted just long enough to register before giving way to the next act, turning what might have been a full concert experience into a rapid medley of back-to-back appearances by some of music's biggest names.

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