Dan Reynolds Reveals Why Imagine Dragons May 'Never' Perform at the Super Bowl Halftime Show

The Imagine Dragons frontman told SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show with Julia Cunningham why the sporting event is "a non-starter" for the band

If Imagine Dragons were to ever play the Super Bowl halftime show, they’d want to make sure they can bring the lightning and the thunder their way.

The band’s frontman Dan Reynolds appeared on a new episode of SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show with Julia Cunningham and spoke about how the “Radioactive” group has been in talks about performing at the sporting event. He admitted, though, that they would only be interested under certain conditions.

The topic came up when co-host Julia Cunningham shared that she was hoping for a lineup of Las Vegas-themed acts for next year’s Super Bowl LVIII in Sin City before Usher was announced as the upcoming halftime show headliner.

After explaining she envisioned a handful of Vegas icons such as Wayne Newton and bands from the city like The Killers and Imagine Dragons to take the stage, Cunningham asked Reynolds, 36, if that was ever discussed.

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“We did have talks about Super Bowl stuff with Super Bowl people,” the musician admitted.

Reynolds went on to share, though, that the rockers would only be interested in the future if there was a focus on them playing live, as opposed to the theatrics. “Until I know that we can perform in the way that we want and our instruments can be playing live, we're never gonna play the Super Bowl,” Reynolds continued. “And that's my honest answer to you.”

The vocalist added, “We have a very specific way that we perform and we've been really lucky to stick to our guns for this many years and perform in that way.”

Reynolds emphasized that he has “no hate on the Super Bowl,” but reiterated how committed bands like Imagine Dragons are at playing live. “If you're a band, it's just a different thing,” he added. “You gotta have live drums, you gotta have, you know, live guitar. And that's a non-starter for us.”

The next halftime show, presented by Apple Music, will be headlined by Usher in February 2024. The R&B superstar — who will wrap up his popular My Way Las Vegas residency by the end of the year — announced news of the career feat in September.

Super Bowl LVIII will see the second appearance from the hitmaker, who previously performed alongside the Black Eyed Peas when the hip-hop group headlined the halftime show back in 2011. Along with the performance, he’s confirmed to release Coming Home, his ninth studio album and first major release since 2016.

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Imagine Dragons focused on performing for much of 2022 and 2023 — having recently wrapped up their Mercury World Tour in support of their latest albums Mercury – Acts 1 and 2.

Reynolds is now turning his attention to his upcoming, touring LOVELOUD festival, which he founded in 2017 and aims to uplift the LGBTQ+ community.

The “Bones” singer — who was raised in a Mormon family in Las Vegas — recently spoke to PEOPLE about why he feels as if LOVELOUD is as important as ever.

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"In the last few years, there's so much legislature that is really scary, that's setting us back, that's creating more divides and a riskier place for our LGBTQ youth," Reynolds explained. "A lot of our youth feel fearful, fearful of going to school, fearful of being out in the world in so many places in the U.S., especially in heavily Orthodox communities."

He continued, “If our youth are not being celebrated in the same way that our heterosexual youth are, we're setting them up for a disastrous life. If they feel that dagger behind the back of, 'I accept you, but I don't agree with...,' whatever it is that's going to come after that, that's what's really hurting our youth."

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