Bruno Mars Super Bowl Performance Stuns Audience! ‘Treasure’ Singer Rocks With Red Hot Chili Peppers

Bruno Mars' performance at the Super Bowl stunned audience, particularly those who thought that he couldn't rock it out with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Bruno Mars started the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show by performing his hits "Treasure," "Locked Out of Heaven" and "Runaway Baby." Then the punk band Red Hot Chili Peppers joined him on stage and ramped up the intensity.

According to MailOnline, it didn't matter that Bruno Mars was not dressed to rock with his "gold jacket and signature quiff" when he performed "Give it Away" with Red Hot Chili Peppers lead Anthony Keidis.

TIME writer Isaac Guzman was so impressed with the performance that it even dared to agree with the NFL hype that it was the "concert of the year" when a young artist "without huge name recognition" is pitted against a rock institution.

He said that even one of the commentators commented that "there were a lot of doubters" whether or not Bruno Mars can pull it off. "Once Mars was done, though, doubters should have been few," Guzman wrote in an article published on TIME on February 2.

Bruno Mars' performance started out as a seeming tribute to the 60s and The Platters when he sang "Locked out of Heaven," then he asked the stunned audience, ""Who you rockin' with - you rockin' with the best!"

Thereafter, Bruno Mars Super Bowl halftime performance seemingly transformed into James Brown as he belted "I don't want to hurt you baby, I just want to work you baby." Then a topless Anthony Keidis emerged along with bassist Flea and the rest of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and they all performed to the delight of the stunned audience.

Nerves definitely did not show as Brunno Mars earlier admitted at the Rose Theater in Time Warner Center that he was anxious about performing with the Red hot Chili Peppers, according to MailOnline.

But he did have one assurance: "I ain't scared."