Super Bowl LX singer Brandi Carlile says she will keep her 'moral code' in mind during performance

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Brandi Carlile volition beryllium among the artists who volition beryllium performing up of Super Bowl LX’s kickoff connected Sunday betwixt the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots.

Carlile is 1 of the performers who person been outspoken against President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies going backmost to his archetypal word successful office. She volition articulation Bad Bunny and Green Day arsenic anti-Trump critics performing astatine Super Bowl LX successful Santa Clara, California.

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From left; Charlie Puth, Coco Jones and Brandi Carlile – who volition execute the nationalist anthem, "Lift Every Voice," and "America the Beautiful" respectively – talk during a quality conference, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, successful San Francisco up of the NFL Super Bowl 60 shot crippled betwixt the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

The vocalist volition execute a rendition of "America the Beautiful" earlier the crippled kicks off. She suggested successful an interrogation with Variety connected Friday she’s going into the show with her "own motivation code" successful mind, adding that the show was important to her arsenic a subordinate of the LGBT community.

"And I person my ain motivation code, my ain motivation imperative, that I person to reply to astatine the extremity of the day, arsenic a woman and mother, and I judge successful my quality and work to bash this, and that’s wherefore I’m here," she told the magazine. "And the throughline to being queer and being a typical of a marginalized assemblage and being enactment connected the largest signifier successful America to admit the fraught and tender anticipation that this state is based on, it’s thing you don’t accidental nary to. You bash it."

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Brandi Carlile with Don Lemon astatine the Grammys

Brandi Carlile, left, and Don Lemon get astatine the 68th yearly Grammy Awards connected Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, successful Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Super Bowl LX performers Bad Bunny and Green Day person been captious of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and their operations against amerciable immigrants successful the U.S.

Variety said successful its interrogation with Carlile that the opus "America the Beautiful" whitethorn beryllium heard successful a antithetic mode successful "calmer times." "But adjacent without proceeding each verse that was written, determination whitethorn beryllium thing astir it that, successful a clip of occupation and division, volition beryllium moving for radical who are truly tuned into it. You’re feeling that."

Carlile responded, "Yeah. And I deliberation if we’re gonna prevention this state arsenic a people, we person to beryllium reminded connected immoderate level that heavy down we emotion it."

Despite the disapproval she whitethorn perceive from her ain fans, Carlile said she wasn’t going to get into arguments astir wherefore she was singing the patriotic song.

"… I’m not gonna discarded my clip successful the pit fights," Carlile said. "My activism isn’t gonna beryllium successful the comments section. And, you know, I whitethorn not beryllium everyone’s benignant of activist, but similar I said, I person my ain motivation imperative that I person to spell to slumber with astatine night."