Super Bowl XLVII halftime show last song, Beyoncé told the crowd, "Thank you for this moment. God bless y'all". Beyoncé's performance was acclaimed by critics. Randall Roberts of the "Los Angeles Times" commented that Beyoncé's performance at the half time show "reconfirms her skills as a live performer, silencing anyone who might have wondered about them in the wake of a certain revelation." David Rooney of "The Hollywood Reporter" wrote: "Continuing in the vein of Madonna in 2012, [Beyoncé] steered the Super Bowl halftime show away from dad rock to embrace girl power." Melinda Newman of the website HitFix commented: "In a Super Bowl half-time
Cheap at Half the Price previous experimental albums in that it featured a collection of short songs and instrumentals in a "tongue-in-cheek pop vein". He also played a "cheap" Casio-101 on all the tracks and sang for the first time. AllMusic described Frith's singing on the album as "strange[ly] high-pitched", and the songs as "pop-like ditties" with a "simple and repetitive" structure. Leonardo Digital Reviews said most of the tracks had a "happy-go-lucky" feel to them. The lyrics on "Cheap at Half the Price" are politically oriented, set during US President Ronald Reagan's first term of office, with socialist commentaries on, amongst other things, dogs