Usher Hints at Super Bowl Halftime Opening Song (Exclusive)

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ET exclusively spoke with Usher as he prepares for his Super Bowl halftime performace and the release of his new album, 'Coming Home,' which is out now.
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Rehearsals are all done. You're set. Everything is locked. Will there be any last minute changes?
Oh no. They're not going to let that happen. No. No, no, no, no. You trying to figure out that first song?
Trying to figure it out. You said, yeah.
Yeah would be perfect. It just, boom, you come out of the box.
So what's in the running? Daddy's home.
You say daddy's home. DJ on. DJ. Baby tonight. My way. My way. My way.
You might have some songs. I can tell you you're missing one. That might be the opener.
But I'm not going to tell you anything else. You don't have to call.
You don't have to call.
Here in Vegas, the odds-on favorite for first song is OMG, his collaboration with Will.i.am.
Usher also teasing this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A Super Bowl shout out to historically black colleges and universities.
So will we see some kind of flavor? I can't give you everything.
Well, I'm just asking. I'm just saying in terms of all of the marching bands that were doing tributes is the reason why I'm saying that.
Usher celebrates 30 years of hits at Apple Music's Super Bowl 58 halftime show Sunday on CBS.
After the big game, his Usher Past, Present, Future tour kicks off August 20th.
And today, the 45-year-old dropped a new album, Coming Home.
The entire album is intended to remind you of romance and love and this journey that we are on.
You're in a happy place, but now you've come up with some songs that are still like, risk it all.
Yeah.
Maybe I will risk it all.
That are still like, you're telling stories.
Yeah.
Back to Sunday. Pre-game, it's Reba McEntire with the National Anthem,
Andra Day with Lift Every Voice and Sing, and Post Malone will perform America the Beautiful.
He talked to Apple Music One about his collab with Taylor Swift on her new album.
She hit me up and said, let's do it, and I was like, hell yeah.
Yeah, so you just rolled in the studio and hung out and it was a good day?
Yes, sir. It was amazing.
Yeah, beautiful. Can't wait to hear it.
Oh, me too.
