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Vapid Super Bowl Performance
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I DEMAND THAT ALL POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT BE TAILORED TO SUIT MY TASTES AND ERA
How do any of you not know who The Weeknd is? He has had multiple top 10 hit songs, won multiple grammy's, and was nominated for an academy award. He is incredibly talented. I primarily learned of him through my kids. Even if it isn't your style of music, how can any musician be so myopic that they wouldn't know who The Weeknd is? It certainly isn't my preferred music, but I will always check out new music. He had the number one song for most of the year. Blinding Lights is a great song with tons of throwback to the 80's, and to my understanding used a lot of vintage synth's and production techniques to get it "period correct".
He has a great voice, but I thought the halftime show last night was not very entertaining. Whoever was playing bass threw in some nice fills that are not on the recordings. Come on guys, broaden your horizons and listen to all kinds of music.
He has a great voice, but I thought the halftime show last night was not very entertaining. Whoever was playing bass threw in some nice fills that are not on the recordings. Come on guys, broaden your horizons and listen to all kinds of music.
I gave up on the NFL a few years ago...Haven't watched a game in years. Didn't even know who was playing. That is until it popped up on some of the things I read. But I have to say that others have lost hope as well because there isn't really that much discussion about it today.
He spent $7mil on that show? Why couldn't he spend $25 to get a haircut?
Get off'a my lawn.
Get off'a my lawn.
As far as advertising can be considered as such, the Jeep ad is brilliant.
The Weekend is good, and I've heard him do really exceptional live performances. Three problems i saw with the performance:
1. He's Canadian, they have their own football.
2. He put up $7 million of his own cash to produce the halftime show. The NFL is going to have a bake sale to produce the next Super Bowl.
3. His mic was too low. He's a crooner, and he was pushing his vocals in an unnatural way that indicated that he could not hear himself. It's even a weird acoustic choice to play at full volume in a near empty stadium, I bet it was very echoey.
4. No slacklining. How do you have a halftime show without slacklining? This is America!
1. He's Canadian, they have their own football.
2. He put up $7 million of his own cash to produce the halftime show. The NFL is going to have a bake sale to produce the next Super Bowl.
3. His mic was too low. He's a crooner, and he was pushing his vocals in an unnatural way that indicated that he could not hear himself. It's even a weird acoustic choice to play at full volume in a near empty stadium, I bet it was very echoey.
4. No slacklining. How do you have a halftime show without slacklining? This is America!
I was stuck on “wonder who thought-up naming their kid ‘The Weekend’” 
Full disclosure... FWIW- I’m not a pop-culture guy, at all, but I did DVR the game & watched (some of) the actual football bits...
Full disclosure... FWIW- I’m not a pop-culture guy, at all, but I did DVR the game & watched (some of) the actual football bits...
Incomplete, incomplete, incomplete, punt, incomplete, flag, incomplete, flag, flag, incomplete....repeat for an hour.
Chiefs, eh?
Chiefs, eh?
My grandson 13, thinks he's "okay not my main thing though." He's going through a Hawaiian reggae, Hispanic music thing right now so he's kinda all over the place, like his grandpa
He did like H.E.R.'s performance though!
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This 50 something punk rocker agrees. Also I think this was the first time that there was a really creative production for a superbowl halftime show. The visual were interesting and the camera work was finally decent. Frankly I hate Superbowl Halftime shows. I'm not even sure I thought Prince's was that good and I consider myself a big fan.
After finding out it actually was Springsteen via this thread, I did some googling. It turns out that is his very first commercial(!!!), that is his own 1980 Jeep CJ-5, it was filmed on 31 Jan, and he agreed to do it because of the message. Also, he supplied the scoring for the music.
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I can only explain for me. There is no quicker way for ANY song to get turned off instantly for either of the two following infractions:
1) The N-Word, regardless of who said it. It ain't cool and I find it highly offensive.
2) Any noticeable use of auto-tune, pitch correction in vocals.
That is just me. I am not asking anyone to agree or disagree with me. So it is no surprise that I don't know who he is. Not my kind of thing for reason #2.
Hey! You are welcome on my lawn!My grandson 13, thinks he's "okay not my main thing though." He's going through a Hawaiian reggae, Hispanic music thing right now so he's kinda all over the place, like his grandpa
He did like H.E.R.'s performance though!
Autotune is literally used on almost every single major label track produced. It is completely ubiquitous. You'd have to turn off your radio completely.
How cool is John Travolta? His 5 seconds onscreen stole the show for me
Last year we has to scoot our little kids out of the room due to the content. The Weeknd was a big improvement. I liked it.
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