Tiësto pulls out of Super Bowl LVIII over “family emergency”
Tiësto was set to be the first official DJ in Super Bowl history
For the LVIIIrd Super Bowl in a row, there will be no official Super Bowl DJ. Tiësto was tapped to end the multi-decade streak of DJ-less Super Bowls, having been announced as one of the game’s musical guests alongside Reba McEntire, Post Malone, and Andra Day (not to mention Halftime Show performer Usher), but he announced this afternoon that he has unfortunately had to drop out of the game due to a “personal family emergency.”
The plan was apparently for Tiësto to drop beats during one specific hour of the game, which may have finally managed to turn football into something you can dance to (players dance all the time, and the referees can sometimes turn their penalty calls into voguing, but it’s rarely something that the fans can join in on), but now we’re just going to have to watch the game in perfect, solemn silence—as we have for the last LVIII years.
Here’s Tiësto’s full statement, via Deadline, which he initially shared on social media:
Me and my team have been preparing something truly special for months, but a personal family emergency is forcing me to return home Sunday morning. It was a tough decision to miss the game, but family always comes first. Thank you to the @NFL for the collaboration and looking forward to working with them to deliver something incredible together in the future !
Deadline notes that it’s unclear if there will be a DJ replacement for Tiësto, but—with days to go before the Big Game—maybe it would be safer for the NFL to just cut its losses and forget about ever having a DJ do DJ stuff during the Super Bowl. We flew too close to the sun. Mankind wasn’t meant for that much beauty.