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Who do you think would be good Superbowl Halftime performers?
- Thread starter Richland123
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Would you guys want a band that you considered to be good to play at the Super Bowl? I wouldn't. I'd like to think they wouldn't resort to such blatant commercialism. Just like I wouldn't want to see any of my favorite bands play in a church. Nothing against church, it just wouldn't be appropriate for Black Sabbath, for example, to play there.
Thankfully this topic no longer concerns me. Now that the NFL has deserted my hometown yet again I've finally got to the point that I just don't care enough to watch. The constant penalties and bad officiating started it, Stan Kroenke finished it off.
On topic, I think Alice in Chains and Adele with Heart would cover most age groups and genres. AIC is still an active band with decent sales on their new stuff and plenty of past hits. Heart puts on a great show every time and are already very familiar playing with AIC. Adele is a good performer with mass appeal and plenty of hits. I'm not at all familiar with rap or RnB so insert your favorite into that lineup and I can't think of many problems with some variation of those performers.
On topic, I think Alice in Chains and Adele with Heart would cover most age groups and genres. AIC is still an active band with decent sales on their new stuff and plenty of past hits. Heart puts on a great show every time and are already very familiar playing with AIC. Adele is a good performer with mass appeal and plenty of hits. I'm not at all familiar with rap or RnB so insert your favorite into that lineup and I can't think of many problems with some variation of those performers.
Fat Steve
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Not sure if you noticed while watching the game (you did watch the game, right?), but from about 4 minutes into the first quarter until halftime, the announcers kept saying "tune in to the half time show in just a few minutes!". They repeated that about every 3 minutes or so. One of the viewers at the party I was at commented "what the hell? Why do they keep saying that?". One of the wives answered "It's for all of the wives and girlfriends that don't watch football. If they think the halftime show is coming up in just a minute, they wont keep nagging their husbands about how boring the game is."
In answer to your question, they put a concert in the middle of a worldwide-televised sporting event, in order to keep the folks that may not be into football (but are forced to watch it anyways) happy. They don't care about our self-righteous indignation about how the performers aren't playing live. They don't care about that fact that it's a pay to play commercial. They don't care that it's pop acts up there. They enjoy the show.
I hope that didn't come off as snarky. It's more of a response to the thread in general. Your post just provided a launching board for my rant.
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As much as I had not nice things to say about ghost in your thread about them I'd rather see them five years in a row than anything I've seen in the past five years.Ghost would be my pick for next year's show.
I always wanted to see the Beastie Boys do halftime. But now for sure the Foo Fighters and my personal favorite Queens of the Stone Age. 3s and 7s is always amazing live
