Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, who had seemed to be avoiding questions about performing at Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show, said he “silenced all the noise and listened to myself” to decide to accept the controversial gig. “No one thought about it more than I did,” Levine told “Entertainment Tonight” Thursday in his only interview before the Super Bowl. The issue of players kneeling during the national anthem at NFL games has become a stand-in for larger cultural divisions. President Donald Trump has regularly weighed in on the issue against protesting players, using it to stoke a culture war and rally his political base. Maroon 5 and the NFL this week canceled the band’s pre-Super Bowl press conference, a tradition for the halftime show performers, in what appeared to be an attempt to steer clear of questions about the controversy.

Source: Huffington Post February 01, 2019 17:48 UTC