Jermaine Dupri responded to the viral moment of his high white socks at the Super Bowl halftime show, saying that he was having too much fun in the moment to notice, and praised the choreography and Usher’s skating as a career highlight.
Music producer Jermaine Dupri is responding to his viral moment at the Super Bowl halftime show, when his socks were mocked on social media.
Dupri took the stage with Usher during the performance and was wearing high white socks with his black loafers. Many viewers poked fun at the sock choice.
But Dupri laughed it off, saying he was having too much fun in the moment to notice. He joked with Pharrell about the viral sock incident blowing up online.
“It’s really, really funny but, you know, them Louis Vuitton socks I had on — I don’t know what everybody talking about,” Dupri laughed with ET’s Nischelle Turner on Monday.
Dupri called sharing the stage with Usher and other collaborators an amazing full circle moment. He had wanted Usher to headline the halftime show for years.
“It’s amazing to be up there with your friends and to be up there with people that you basically started,” he reminisced. “When we first worked, [it was]the first time he ever had a No.1 record so to be up there was… definitely, definitely amazing.”
The producer marveled at the choreography and Usher’s impressive skating. He said the high-energy show embodied Atlanta culture.
“During rehearsal, when I finally saw the stage and everything… I feel like that was the most electrifying thing I’ve seen on TV in forever, because the floor was moving this way and he was sliding this way — for your eyes its crazy,” he marveled. “You don’t realize how hard that is — I mean, he jumped out in the skates and then took the skates back off and kept performing. That’s not easy!”
Despite the sock snafu, Dupri relished celebrating his decades-long music career through the performance. For him it marked a career highlight, not just a viral meme.
