Vapid Super Bowl Performance

[350125g0]

If you are a musician and player (or any kind of artist for that matter) I am frankly surprised you need to ask that.

Why won’t you answer the question, though? It’s really simple? What does it mean to be “legit”? Break it down for us simple young folk.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

WOW. Hard eye-roll here, bud.

Is there any more of an Ultimate Boomer Move than to demand recognition and gratitude for things they grew up with but didn’t personally have a hand in building or creating? If there is, I’d LOVE to see it.

Shots fired!

 

[Rolling Thunder]

WOW. Hard eye-roll here, bud.

Is there any more of an Ultimate Boomer Move than to demand recognition and gratitude for things they grew up with but didn’t personally have a hand in building or creating? If there is, I’d LOVE to see it.

Even funnier is that those bands are FOR boomers and not made of them. Yet they still take the credit.

Edit: boomers were known as the Me Generation until they got older and rebranded themselves.

 

[Basslice]

Why won’t you answer the question, though? It’s really simple? What does it mean to be “legit”? Break it down for us simple young folk.

OK, but I would guess you have access to the same online resources I do:

Definition of LEGIT

 

[Root 5]

Canada says "you're welcome" for the Weeknd... ;-)

 

[Ric5]

For the first time in decades, I didn't watch a bit of it, not even a commercial. Felt strangely liberating, don't feel like I missed anything. And yeah, who the (bleep) is this Weeknd dude? Who cares? Sheesh.

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ya I skipped 100% of the superbowl as well ... but those who saw it said the halftime show was not good

 

[bholder]

ya I skipped 100% of the superbowl as well ... but those who saw it said the halftime show was not good

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you! hehehe

 

[Basslice]

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you! hehehe

Blasphemy. Must be from one of them countries where Football = Soccer.

p.s. before you all get your knickers in a bunch I am actually kidding!!!

 

[350125g0]

OK, but I would guess you have access to the same online resources I do:

Definition of LEGIT

right, I can look up words in a dictionary, too. But how, in the context of music, do YOU define legit? What does that mean to you? There seems to be a disconnect here between what you think I am asking versus what I am actually asking. How do you define one artist as being legitimate over another? What are your criteria?

You opened this can of worms when you started this thread to disparage the work of a musician who isn’t to your taste. I want to know, are things only legit because you like or understand them?

 

[Slough Feg Bass]

I watched. Thought it was very cool that the Weeknd used Happy House from Siouxsie & The Banshees. I was very surprised to hear a vintage goth nugget as part of such a mass media showcase.

 

[Rip Van Dan]

I wish they would just go back to inviting some good college brass bands and do some cool stuff like that.

I had to laugh at this because I was in college in 1969 at San Jose State and I was in their Marching Band as a member of the color-guard twirling these 10-ft. long poles around. At that time the 49'ers were still playing at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco and requested us to be the half-time entertainment at their game against the Colts. We worked up a special program and performed it flawlessly.

About a week later we got a call from the Oakland Raiders organization. They were about to play their AFC championship game against the Kansas City Chiefs. They had seen out entire half-time performance on TV and they wanted to know that if they won the AFC and went to the Super Bowl, if we would be interested in being the half-time entertainment there in New Orleans. Our answer, of course, was yes, but the Chiefs beat them and went to the Super Bowl instead. I've never forgiven the Kansas City Chiefs for that slight and every since then I've always cheered for anybody who was playing against the Chiefs.

And just in case you didn't hear...Tampa Bay wiped the floor with the Chiefs!

 

[jerry]

Leave the lawn chairs out, the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame is coming up, just sayin'...........

 

[bolophonic]

To the "Get of My Lawn", or the, "You Are an Old Fart" gaslighters: I didn't listen to top 40 or pop when is was in my 20's or anytime since. I have never been a fan, but I'd say a few times a year a tune will stand out to me.

I’ve been into obscure, abrasive, underground music for my entire life, but every once in a while I’ll hear a top-40 hit that I cannot shake. I remember being a total gross-out punk rocker when the Macarena came out and I was like, “welp, I’m just gonna have to embrace this one.”

 

[Quinn Roberts]

Counterpoint: As far as the Stones goes, didn't Mick once sing about not being able to "**** all night" because he didn't "have enough jam"? And Shakespeare was dropping barely-subtle innuendo and hard c-bombs in his plays hundreds of years ago, so "crudeness" isn't even close to a modern phenomenon.

Well certainly that would be some of the "darker/cruder" lyrics I mentioned. That being said, the song "Some Girls" (to the best of my knowledge) wasn't a single (though an odd song to name your album after) and certainly didn't/couldn't chart when it was released. I guess my point comes down to can a hit from someone like Weekend hold it's own substance-wise to a song like Satisfaction or Sympathy For The Devil. Personally, from what I've read (lyrics) and heard, I have to say no. Only time can tell though I suppose.

Zombie Jaco Pastorius playing "A Portrait of Tracy" with his tongue, backed by a children's choir, I guess.

We could at least get a hologram Jimi with today's technology!

 

[Basslice]

right, I can look up words in a dictionary, too. But how, in the context of music, do YOU define legit? What does that mean to you? There seems to be a disconnect here between what you think I am asking versus what I am actually asking. How do you define one artist as being legitimate over another? What are your criteria?

You opened this can of worms when you started this thread to disparage the work of a musician who isn’t to your taste. I want to know, are things only legit because you like or understand them?

Not taking troll-bait this time. Figure it out. You seem like a smart person.

 

[Mrmatt1972]

The irony of all this is it is pay to play for the superbowl 1/2 time show. The NFL doesn't spend a dime. It shows.

 

[Quinn Roberts]

I haven’t seen the ad, don’t need to, don’t care what he says “now”. He’s said enough in the recent past to tell me all I need to know. He’s NOT from the heartland, no matter how much $$ he spends to pretend he is.

From hearing him in recent years it sounds like he identifies more with the outback than the heartland. Should be doing ads for Subaru.

 

[JoshS]

"Ohhh I'm too cool from what the rest of 'Merica is doing! I'll throw in my 2¢ cause im sooo Coool!"

Umm yeah, so...
1) It is a show you stream. There haven't been new episodes in a while, AFAIK.
2) I wasn't the one watching it yesterday. I ate pizza, drank beer, and fell asleep in the 3rd.

Otherwise, thanks for your own 2¢ on how I might, or in this case might not, spend my time. I guess. (?!?)

 

[GregC]

I wish they would just go back to inviting some good college brass bands and do some cool stuff like that.

Ha, while I might personally enjoy it, that would be ratings poison. It is a TV show...

 

[Zooberwerx]

Vapid Super Bowl performance...are we talking about the actual game or the halftime entertainment as both qualify?

In a fit of frustration, I found "The Birds" on Turner Classic Movies. Through experimentation with the remote's "Last" button, I found I could flip-flop back 'n forth to the point it appeared that Patrick Mahomes was being pounded and bloodied by a flock of seagulls, not the Buc's defensive line.

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