World Cup 2026: Ranking 10 options for halftime show with Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and Shakira all on list
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The final will be in New Jersey, so could Bruce Springsteen be the choice?
With crushing inevitability, Gianni Infantino confirmed on Wednesday that our greatest fears had come true. A set-piece soccer match will involve a halftime show. Next summer's World Cup final will see the best artists that Coldplay and Infantino can drag to MetLife Stadium take to the stage for just long enough that players halfway through their eighth game in a month can cool down. What's that you can hear over the sound system? Why it's "22," hamstrings twinging.
No one wants this. Camilla Cabello's recent experience in the Champions League pre-game suggests few in the stands are really going to care. No one sat through the pinnacle of Lionel Messi's career in Qatar, his every effort desperately repelled by Kylian Mbappe and the rest of the France side, and thought, "This needs Post Malone."
And yet still, it's happening. All that can be done is to make the best of it.
