The Super Bowl is tomorrow, and the attendant media circus has already been underway for a while. The Super Bowl always has music-world implications, and it'll have more than usual this year, since it marks the long-awaited return of Rihanna. The game will also feature a whole lot of musicians taking paydays to appear in flashy, expensive ads. These days, though, a great many of those ads show up online before the actual game, and you can see a bunch of them before.
The most star-studded of those ads is probably the one for something called Workday, in which various actual rockers -- Ozzy Osbourne, Paul Stanley, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Gary Clark Jr. -- complain about corporate types referring to each other as rock stars:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2ID-1mzRAew&t=1s&ab_channel=Workday
You didn't think you'd get through the Super Bowl without a Jack Harlow sighting, did you? He's the star of a Doritos commercial that's also got Missy Elliott and Elton John:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GYPYfEVU62U&ab_channel=Doritos
Here's Diddy agreeing to make an Uber One jingle, with appearances from Montell Jordan, Donna Lewis, Kelis, Ylvis, and Haddaway:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mnySyKAoLpI&ab_channel=UberEats
Dave Grohl is in a weirdly long Crown Royal commercial where Donna Grantis, a former member of Prince's 3rdEyeGirl band, shreds her way through "O Canada":
https://youtube.com/watch?v=s_vMMu-Z28Y&ab_channel=CrownRoyal%28Official%29
Here's Sarah McLachlan and a wolf in an a Busch ad:
That viral photo a few weeks ago where Ludacris posed with the Undertaker and Kevin Hart and Julius Erving? That was for this DraftKings ad:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G7ngWuMGmN0&ab_channel=DraftKings
Meghan Trainor with her hand stuck in a Pringles can:
Metro Boomin drinking Budweiser:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dChVB7iKSg8&ab_channel=Budweiser
Jennifer Lopez counts, right? She's reportedly going to be in this Dunkin Donuts thing with Ben Affleck:
And here's Nick Jonas talking about a diabetes app and not doing anything that's even theoretically supposed to be funny -- a weirdly gratifying experience, after I had to watch all that other shit above:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RpYzhCYaEIM&ab_channel=Dexcom
As far as I can tell, that's it! Feel free to take an actual bathroom break now.
