The Black Eyed Peas headlined, performing a medley of their songs, with Slash and Usher making guest appearances.

[2] A country music halftime show was originally in the planning stages before the Black Eyed Peas agreed to perform.

[6] The show also displayed a long list of other performers, including Prairie View A&M University's "Marching Storm" Band.

Her shoes, on which Wipprecht collaborated with Dutch shoemaker Rene van den Berg, were integrated with Luminex, a light-emitting synthetic fiber.

[2][17] Vince Cestone of Bleacher Report called the performance "uninspiring," and wrote that "The Black Eyed Peas were pathetic—or mediocre at best."

"[17] Nekesa Mumbi Moody of the Associated Press declared, "The Black Eyed Peas brought the youth, but little else," but praised Usher's part of the performance as a "brief exhilarating moment.

[19] When reviewing the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show in 2013, the Associated Press' Mesfin Fekadu retrospectively called the Black Eyed Peas' performance "disastrous.

"[14] In 2020, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone ranked the performance as the worst-ever Super Bowl halftime show.

[21] In 2021, Patrick Ryan of USA Today wrote that it ranks among the worst halftime shows of the 2010s, calling it a "futuristic eyesore".