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What Went Wrong During the Super Bowl by Elliott Mathews

Something went wrong during Super Bowl LV on Sunday. It wasn’t that the Kansas City Chiefs got seven flags in the first half alone. It wasn’t that Patrick Mahomes completed practically zero passes. It wasn’t even that the Buccaneers won. No, this was different. This was a Super Bowl halftime mistake reminiscent of the Left Shark Disaster of 2014: the blue building.

If you are like the vast majority of the American population, you watched at least some of the Super Bowl on February 7th. If you watched the whole thing, you saw the Buccaneers rout the Chiefs in an extremely ugly game of football. You also would’ve seen The Weeknd’s halftime show performance. Overall, the show was well-done, if a little bit dizzying and/or blinding. But there was one thing which went wrong.

At the beginning of his show, The Weeknd walked out onto a tiered stage covered in small buildings with neon color-changing outlines, which were blue at this point. After he sung his first song, the outlines of all of the buildings changed to a shade of gold.

Except one.Throughout the entire show, one building remained a garish shade of bright neon blue. Even as the buildings around it shifted through a psychedelic range of bright colors, this building remained steadfast in its appearance. When all of the buildings turned off at one point during the show, the building stayed sky-blue. Was this a mistake, or was it on purpose? Why was one building unable to change its color?

We may never know.

Image Source: Entertainment Weekly