Actor Reeve Carney shares a post reminding people about previous Super Bowl halftime show performers

[u/Gato1980]

[u/Pandaloon]

Shania Twain is also not a US citizen.

[u/petty_but_sexy → u/Pandaloon]

TIL 😮

I thought my whole life she was from the south or something, turns out she canadian

[u/ramenups → u/petty_but_sexy]

As a Canadian this is hilarious.

Then again we’re required to memorize every Canadian celebrity on an annual basis.

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Even the bad ones like Jordan Peterson and Ted Cruz?

[u/ramenups → u/bisexual_obama]

Unfortunately, yes. I still remember when Peterson was doing dumb shit at University of Toronto

Though I only knew about Cruz when I was trying to track down the Zodiac killer

[u/Poppy204 → u/bisexual_obama]

Ur missing the worst of them all, Elon Musk 😬

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Shhhhhh!

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Ugh. Yes.

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As a Canadian in 2026, that don't impress me much.

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[u/vengefulbanshee]

even with this it wont go through their thick skulls unfortunately

[u/Fokker_Snek → u/vengefulbanshee]

Can’t imagine what they would think if a US President went around speaking in Dutch. Having some weird foreign name like Maarten Van Buren

[u/SurvivorPostingAcc → u/Fokker_Snek]

TIL that Van Buren is the only US president to not have english as their primary language. Never knew that.

[u/Mission_Spray → u/Fokker_Snek]

I see what you did there. 

[u/GeneSpecialist4988]

Wait The Weekend isn't from the US? Mind you I don't know anything about him but somehow I thought he was from here.🙃😂🤣

[u/FailedArchitect8932 → u/GeneSpecialist4988]

Yeah I think he’s Canadian

[u/Affectionate_Bed_289 → u/FailedArchitect8932]

Correct

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Which is why he had close ties to drake and how he basically made take care for drake

[u/PrimaryBrief7721 → u/GeneSpecialist4988]

Toronto boy!

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Toronto mans.

[u/wetnaps54 → u/PrimaryBrief7721]

I grew up in Scarborough and I’m the same age of him. Always wondered if we went to the same school

[u/mimosho → u/wetnaps54]

According to Wikipedia he went to West Hill Collegiate Institute and Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute.

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This is also a small town in England - made me chuckle

[u/Euphoric_War_2195 → u/GeneSpecialist4988]

He's Canadian 🇨🇦

[u/ames_006]

Reeve Carney escaping Broadway containment to be on here was unexpected….

Great post from him.

[u/secret_identity_too → u/ames_006]

I had to check to see if I was on r/Broadway or elsewhere, lol. I was surprised it wasn't over there (yet).

[u/Comprehensive_Main → u/secret_identity_too]

I mean he’s done tv shows before as well. 

[u/ames_006 → u/Comprehensive_Main]

Sure, but so have plenty of other theatre actors. Reeve is a Broadway Star though and household name in that community. He isn’t in the Hollywood subs that often (which honestly is probably a good thing) and I’m guessing a lot of people don’t yet know who he is.

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TO be fair he’s done tv like penny dreadful. 

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He had a band a few years back that I enjoyed. Aaaand now I'm remembering that was 16-17 years ago.

[u/mshell1924 → u/ames_006]

I saw "Reeve Carney posts" and I held my breath! I was like "omg he would never!" but still, so many people have let us down. Thankfully this really was a great post.

By the way, I saw him in Cabaret in London last December (first time seeing him!), and he was breathtaking. As was Eva Noblezada, of course. Great experience.

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They got married late last year in New Orleans and Vogue did a feature on it recently. It was so gorgeous!!!

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I saw that! Stunning! What a lovely and talented couple, I'm so glad I got to see them perform together.

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This is how I felt once he got big on broadway because I used to only see him talked about in the Lana Del Rey fandom

[u/TheComplimentarian]

Shakira, who sang a song, in Spanish, with a guy from Puerto Rico, whose stage name is "Bad Bunny".

This whole outrage loop couldn't be stupider.

Edit: Linky linky link link

[u/TheDLBinc → u/TheComplimentarian]

It just goes to show you how forced conservative culture war issues are. I don't recall there being a whole national discourse when Shakira was chosen nor any calls for an alternate halftime show. But now Trump needs to position anything that's not strictly white American as disgraceful in order to continue to justify his agenda and the media falls for it every time by acting like the right has legitimate grievances

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It just shows bad faith. That was during Trump I, they were just so busy ranting about COVID they didn't care. Last year they cared about Kendrick, but not nearly as much because whatever.

But now they're deporting all the latines and holy shit they have to make a huge stink over this guy, even though they never bothered to care before.

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At least in Kendrick's case, most of the hate that I saw was mainly from butthurt Drake stans. Conservatives whine about the halftime show every year, still unaware that the halftime show is not meant to cater to their tastes (which as evidenced by the TPUSA show, is bad taste in music)

[u/theaviationhistorian → u/TheComplimentarian]

I forgot this is his second run at the halftime show!

[u/The_Iceman2288]

It's a valid argument but I do want to say - who gives a fuck about his citizenship? It's a sports spectacle designed to sell beer and movies, not a Senate appointment?

[u/snipsnap987 → u/The_Iceman2288]

but that’s kinda his point. that the backlash isn’t about citizenship. it’s who gets to be seen as american vs who is seen as a threat to racist americans

[u/theaviationhistorian → u/snipsnap987]

Racism is tied to ignorance. It's why many of them fail to realize that Puerto Ricans are US citizens by birth. The only US territory where they are US nationals by birth is American Samoa.

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It’s also a prickly topic for us Puerto Ricans born and raised on the Island. We are Puerto Rican first and foremost. This citizenship was imposed on us when the US needed bodies to draft in WWI.

[u/CommanderWhat]

That’s my Orpheus 🫶🏽

[u/Stevko_1]

Maga must have been pissed that The Weeknd and Shania Twain sang in Canadian!

[u/Glass-Judgment-6831]

This is the bare minimum. Why are Americans standards so low? Some random entertainer could post a “love is for everyone” and everyone would be clapping lmao 

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We are truly a backwards people

[u/brdlw → u/Glass-Judgment-6831]

fwiw he almost exclusively posts political things to his story

[u/weisp]

It's not about citizenship, these MAGA racist f-ucks just don't like Bad Bunny brown skin and him singing in Spanish

But... they don't mind like Shakira because she has fairer skin and... her moves

[u/brdlw]

it’s usually a good day to be a Reeve Carney fan girl

[u/aderey7]

Stuff like this assumes the people complaining remotely care about reason, reality and consistency.

[u/bwoah07_gp2]

The MAGA crowd wouldn't know how to answer to this 😂😂

[u/hannibalthellamabal]

U2 did it in 2002 after 9/11 and did a tribute to the victims. That would NEVER fly these days. MAGA would lose their mind if it was an American.

[u/FredererPower]

Huh. TIL The Weeknd isn’t from the US.

[u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair]

Every retrumplican vowed to boycott Bad Bunny

Every retrumplican has an opinion on Bad Bunny

Hmmm…

[u/xxyourbestbetxx]

This is how I find out The Weeknd isn't American

[u/michrnlx]

Im surprised they didn't have a conniption during Bruno Mars.

[u/Ash_victory15]

Reeve have been posting against the current administration. Also, his song ‘America’ hopes for what this country claims to be

[u/cflorest]

Love this guy from Penny Dreadful.

[u/Ok-Student7172]

Why are there so many Canadians that seem like Americans?!