Next upon the stand will you please extend a hand to yet more nonsense
So I've blown off the quotes because I've either fried, out, or both all week. Thinking about the Super Bowl halftime show. I thought it was awesome that the Who got their turn to do the show a couple of years ago, and it was... less than impressive. So they went with a younger artist (but not that much younger; the Black Eyed Peas have been around in some form or another for a long time) last year and pretty much everyone agreed it was lousy. So this year was Madonna, and and I actually watched a lot of the show on YouTube just to decide if it was any good. And really, I can't tell.
I don't like big dancy extravanganza "shows." I like bands playing live music with cool lights and the occasional smoke bomb or other thing for effect. So having a hundred guys carry Madge out like an Egyptian goddess just isn't my thing. And of course, she danced around and lip-synched and ran four or five songs together like the Who did two years ago, and I read articles that said she sucked and others that said she did this big symbolic thing that was brilliant or something and all I really got out of it was that halftime of a football game is a really shitty time to do a mini-concert. Even Springsteen fucked it up.
I wish the NFL would just get over itself and stop trying to turn the Super Bowl into a multimedia extravaganza and just play football. In the entire time I've been watching football-my first Super Bowl was XIII and we're now up to XLVI-I've seen one halftime show that was in any way memorable. That was U2 at Superbowl XXXVI in 2002, and it was a perfect marriage of musicians and moment-I think only U2 could have blended the big stage and the post-September 11 moment and blended it into something transcendent for 11 minutes. If no one minds, I'll say a short prayer that for at least the next CC Super Bowls, we have nothing as traumatic as 9/11 to react to.
So anyway, I suppose this is just a long-winded way of saying, "Fuck the Super Bowl halftime show." I don't blame the artists for doing it, but I don't see the point. Maybe next year, we'll have a shorter halftime. And maybe I'll throw in a quote that has nothing to do with the post
"The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life."
-Pete Townshend
I don't like big dancy extravanganza "shows." I like bands playing live music with cool lights and the occasional smoke bomb or other thing for effect. So having a hundred guys carry Madge out like an Egyptian goddess just isn't my thing. And of course, she danced around and lip-synched and ran four or five songs together like the Who did two years ago, and I read articles that said she sucked and others that said she did this big symbolic thing that was brilliant or something and all I really got out of it was that halftime of a football game is a really shitty time to do a mini-concert. Even Springsteen fucked it up.
I wish the NFL would just get over itself and stop trying to turn the Super Bowl into a multimedia extravaganza and just play football. In the entire time I've been watching football-my first Super Bowl was XIII and we're now up to XLVI-I've seen one halftime show that was in any way memorable. That was U2 at Superbowl XXXVI in 2002, and it was a perfect marriage of musicians and moment-I think only U2 could have blended the big stage and the post-September 11 moment and blended it into something transcendent for 11 minutes. If no one minds, I'll say a short prayer that for at least the next CC Super Bowls, we have nothing as traumatic as 9/11 to react to.
So anyway, I suppose this is just a long-winded way of saying, "Fuck the Super Bowl halftime show." I don't blame the artists for doing it, but I don't see the point. Maybe next year, we'll have a shorter halftime. And maybe I'll throw in a quote that has nothing to do with the post
"The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life."
-Pete Townshend