{"id":792198,"date":"2019-01-19T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=781711"},"modified":"2019-01-19T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:00:09","slug":"maroon-5-keyboardist-defends-bands-decision-to-play-super-bowl-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/maroon-5-keyboardist-defends-bands-decision-to-play-super-bowl-halftime-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Maroon 5 Keyboardist Defends Band\u2019s Decision to Play Super Bowl Halftime Show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maroon 5<\/a> keyboardist PJ Morton has defended the band\u2019s controversial decision to headline the Super Bowl LIII<\/a>. Maroon 5 have faced a backlash for aligning with the NFL after numerous artists, including Rihanna and Cardi B<\/a>, declined to perform at the Super Bowl<\/a> in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there are plenty of people\u00a0\u2013\u00a0a lot of the players, to be honest\u00a0\u2013\u00a0who support Kap and also do their job for the NFL,\u201d Morton\u00a0told People<\/em><\/a> in a new interview Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re doing the same thing. We can support being against police brutality against black and brown people and be in support of being able to peacefully protest and still do our jobs. We just want to have a good time and entertain people while understanding the important issues that are at hand. There was a lot to go into that decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morton officially joined Maroon 5 as a full-time member in 2012 after two years in their touring band. The keyboardist called the opportunity to perform at the Super Bowl a \u201clifelong dream,\u201d despite the controversy surrounding this year\u2019s game on February 2nd in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can get bogged down by those things, we\u2019re not focusing on the negative now [while] being aware, being open, and definitely not ignoring the voices,\u201d Morton added. \u201cBut we\u2019re definitely not focusing on the things that don\u2019t help, that are counter-productive. We\u2019re blocking out the noise. We\u2019re just doing what we do. We look to have a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the NFL finally confirmed<\/a> that Maroon 5 would headline the Super Bowl LIII halftime show with guests Travis Scott and Outkast\u2019s Big Boi. \u201cTravis is an amazing musician, and he has had an amazing year,\u201d Morton said of the band\u2019s special guests. \u201cBig Boi is Atlanta royalty. I went to Morehouse College so I was in Atlanta during the time when Outkast was really going. It was important to us to have an Atlanta legend a part of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maroon 5 keyboardist PJ Morton has defended the band\u2019s controversial decision to headline the Super Bowl LIII. Maroon 5 have faced a backlash for aligning with the NFL after numerous artists, including Rihanna and Cardi B, declined to perform at the Super Bowl in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. \u201cI think there are plenty of people\u00a0\u2013\u00a0a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 16:41:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}