The NFL and Pepsi never “formally” asked Adele to play the Super Bowl
Adele’s been pretty busy since releasing 25, her long-awaited follow-up to 2011’s break-up opus 21, last fall. She’s broken download and sales records while keeping the album off the digital shelves of Spotify (though she later relented), and has been on the Adele Live 2016 tour since February. Amid that flurry of activity, the artist says was also offered a chance to perform at the next Super Bowl halftime show, which she turned down on account of that particular spectacle not really being “about music.” (And she’s right, because it’s clearly about dancing and marketing.)
