BLACK EYED PEAS AT HALFTIME, WHAT WAS THE NFL THINKING ?

[gregg75]

Could they possibly have made a worse choice for halftime? Where is Justin Bieber when
we need him? Could Joan Rivers have done a better job?

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[ansky212]

The superbowl halftime shows are always terrible. It's tough to bring in the "right" act because of the diverse audience. Acts like Justin Bieber will only appeal to 14 year old girls, while The Who only appeals to 60 year old men.

 

[mescutia]

I haven't watched many Super Bowls -- [pause for startled gasps] -- but the only good halftime show I've seen was U2's set several years ago where they opened with "Beautiful Day", with Bono starting the song from somewhere in the crowd.

The superbowl halftime shows are always terrible. It's tough to bring in the "right" act because of the diverse audience. Acts like Justin Bieber will only appeal to 14 year old girls, while The Who only appeals to 60 year old men.

I guess the NFL decided to offend as many people as possible this year, then. Hence the (c)rappers.

 

[KeithE4]

I wonder if they'll ask John Mellencamp to do the halftime show next year, since the game is in Indy? He might be considered too old, though. Anything's better than what we've been subjected to the last two years.

 

[justpassingthough]

I thought they were terrible and I'm over their music. They've become the kind of all consuming infectious that makes me wish music had never been invented. I do acknowledge their contribution to music, though, as they were instrumental in orchestrating the shift from hip hop dominanance to electro that has happened over the past 2 or 3 years.

Oddly, my 55 year old father came to me this morning and said he thought they were outstanding, and much better than "old, lame acts like Bruce Springsteen and the Who".

To each their own, I guess.

 

[gregg75]

I think I've only liked one PEAS song. Watch for the NFL to do a complete 360 next year
.............they'll go the other way and have something like Travis Tritt or Kenny Chesney.
WOOO HAAA!

 

[hubcity]

Actually, every time they show up on TV, they're underwhelming, but I think they got their legs cut out from under them last night.

- The sound mix was *awful*. Vocals way up, totally overwhelming the backing track. The Peas should have spent the next hour slamming the sound guy's hand in a car door. The best singers in the world wouldn't have sounded good with that mix.

- Things that just plain didn't work. There's supposed to be a whole "V" in "love"...

- Too big a stage. There was so much going on around them that it swallowed them whole, and when they were the only people on the stage, it made them look insignificant. (The Who were also victims of that.)

- Uninspired camera work. It spent too much time really making them look insignificant.

I think they were aiming for something akin to the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony, and came up wide of the mark. Don't get me wrong; the performance itself wasn't very good either, possibly because they knew things weren't going well and stiffened up. Even so, multiple failures of staging, audio quality and camera blocking made it far worse.

 

[Mark Giardina]

Okay dumb question time. Why do we need half-time Super Bowl shows?

During the regular season half-time shows are hardly if ever shown. Instead the network goes back to their studios where their team of experts; be it Howie, Terry, Jimmy, Marino, Cower, Shannon, discuss the game.

Spending all that money to hire a band or act only adds to the price of a ticket for the Super Bowl. I know its all about making money, but what about giving someone a little break who may want to actually go to the Super Bowl in person by cutting the price of a stadium ticket? That could be done by eliminating the Half Time Show.

 

[hubcity]

Okay dumb question time. Why do we need half-time Super Bowl shows?

During the regular season half-time shows are hardly if ever shown. Instead the network goes back to their studios where their team of experts; be it Howie, Terry, Jimmy, Marino, Cower, Shannon, discuss the game.

Spending all that money to hire a band or act only adds to the price of a ticket for the Super Bowl. I know its all about making money, but what about giving someone a little break who may want to actually go to the Super Bowl in person by cutting the price of a stadium ticket? That could be done by eliminating the Half Time Show.

Actually, the halftime show is all on Bridgestone's dime, and the musicians involved do it for nothing (except for the in-kind value of promotion...which, in this case, may have backfired.)

 

[KeithE4]

Okay dumb question time. Why do we need half-time Super Bowl shows?

During the regular season half-time shows are hardly if ever shown. Instead the network goes back to their studios where their team of experts; be it Howie, Terry, Jimmy, Marino, Cower, Shannon, discuss the game.

Spending all that money to hire a band or act only adds to the price of a ticket for the Super Bowl. I know its all about making money, but what about giving someone a little break who may want to actually go to the Super Bowl in person by cutting the price of a stadium ticket? That could be done by eliminating the Half Time Show.

The halftime show is for the networks, not the people in the stadium. Many of the folks in the seats are going to the john, buying food & beer, etc., and aren't watching the show.

It's used to keep the interest of the wives/girlfriends of the guys watching the game interested, so that they'll see the ads. If the sideshows were eliminated, then those (mostly) female casual fans/non-fans wouldn't bother to watch, and the ratings would tank. The NFL and the networks want as many eyeballs as possible, and the game itself only attracts a large subset of the entire viewership.

So, the NFL absolutely will not bring in college marching bands or return to the bad ol' days of Up With People. Those days are long gone.

 

[landtuna]

And it turned out to be a great game.

This was one of the worst games I've ever watched. Not one of the worst Stupor Bowls, one of the worst football games. These two teams are supposed to be the league's finest yet they continually made mistakes and dumb calls. The Steelers QB couldn't throw a pass and the Packers couldn't catch one.

The Steelers couldn't do anything right in the first half and the Packers couldn't do anything right in the second.

The Pack looked like crap and they have only to thank the Steelers for giving them the game.

What a fookin' fiasco!

P.S. The only thing worse than the game was the halftime "entertainment". Thankfully, the audio setup wasn't working some of the time so we couldn't hear the noise.

FOX's coverage was excellent. Yet again, they have totally outclassed CBS and NBC.

I'm rapidly getting to the point where I will not watch any live sport on Fox. The continuous bombardment of stupid sound effects and the over-the-top drumbeat of their various bumper music makes me hit the mute button hundreds of times during a broadcast. Their NASCAR broadcasts are even sillier.

And I really doubt the average viewer needs the constant over-analyzing that Aikman and Buck did yesterday. Geez guys....take a breath. Keep your mouths shut during the obvious. This isn't a Spanish-language soccer game.

 

[MarcB]

I like a couple of the songs by The Peas including Boom Boom Pow and The Time (Dirty Bit), but after last night's performance - pfft.

 

[flashback]

i didn`t see the black eyed peas peformance.

i did watch the who last year and was very dissapointed by their peformance.and i am a big who fan.instead of going through as many songs as fast as they could they should have done a few songs right.

 

[firepoint525]

Fergie should go solo. She doesn't need the BEP. They need her a lot more than she needs them! Her talent is wasted on them!

And I could have done without their "remake" of "I've Had the Time of My Life." :

 

[BRNout]

And it turned out to be a great game.

This was one of the worst games I've ever watched. Not one of the worst Stupor Bowls, one of the worst football games. These two teams are supposed to be the league's finest yet they continually made mistakes and dumb calls. The Steelers QB couldn't throw a pass and the Packers couldn't catch one.

The Steelers couldn't do anything right in the first half and the Packers couldn't do anything right in the second.

The Pack looked like crap and they have only to thank the Steelers for giving them the game.

What a fookin' fiasco!

P.S. The only thing worse than the game was the halftime "entertainment". Thankfully, the audio setup wasn't working some of the time so we couldn't hear the noise.

FOX's coverage was excellent. Yet again, they have totally outclassed CBS and NBC.

I'm rapidly getting to the point where I will not watch any live sport on Fox. The continuous bombardment of stupid sound effects and the over-the-top drumbeat of their various bumper music makes me hit the mute button hundreds of times during a broadcast. Their NASCAR broadcasts are even sillier.

And I really doubt the average viewer needs the constant over-analyzing that Aikman and Buck did yesterday. Geez guys....take a breath. Keep your mouths shut during the obvious. This isn't a Spanish-language soccer game.

Oh please, let's not get into the technical merits of the game - perhaps I should have used the word 'dramatic' because it went down to the wire. And, no, it wasn't "piss poor". 3 turnovers by the Steelers and none by the Packers hardly qualifies as that. Again, it wasn't that bad.

As far as the pbp goes, Aikman and Buck didn't bother me a bit. I thought that they did a fine job. CBS, in particular, comes off as amateurish and I have gotten to the point of constant annoyance with their graphics. That stupid wipe that they use for each and every cutaway with the swooshing sound and cheap-o "NFL on CBS" graphic lends an amateurish quality to the broadcast. And the pbp announcers always sound listless. And NBC has one team, which is just okay. No, FOX is the best at it right now.

I swear, it's unbelievable to read all the bitchin' and moanin' here today! It's as if this is a real-life version of Coffee-Talk with Linda Richman. :

 

[TheBigA]

This is the problem when you get a current band to do this. They really only have a couple of hits that have wide recognition, and those two or three songs are mainly built around a catchy riff or chorus. So after you get all those bits in, what do you do for the next 8 minutes? The answer: Covers. So you do Guns n'Roses and The Time of My Life, and invite Usher to fill some more time.

It really showed to me how weak they are musically. I've seen them before, and they usually do a full stage show, filled with all that space-age imagery. But the whole thing was dwarfed in that venue.

 

[MarcB]

And I could have done without their "remake" of "I've Had the Time of My Life." :

Maybe so, but it's a popular song. A Facebook friend of mine who is a professional DJ (in addition to doing Weekends and Fill-ins on Country 92.5) told me whenever he plays "The Time" by The Peas everyone is out doing their own thing on the dance floor from Ages 8 to 80 and all ages in-between.


We just started playing "The Time" at the club I work at. The first time I played it, it didn't get much of a response except for a few people singing along to different parts, but each time I or my boss has played it, it's becoming more and more popular. We've got the group that invented a line-dance for the song and they line-dance every time we play the song and we've got the others that shake what their mama gave them, and we got others still who do fist pumping and grinding to it.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Worst Super Bowl halftime show I've ever seen.

 

[Silkie]

Short answer: They weren't thinking - unless Black Eyed Peas and Christine Aguilera were the cheapest thing going.

As for Aguilera, just sing and leave the embellishment to the rest of the amateurs who also have no business in the music industry.

 

[visaman]

I like a couple of the songs by The Peas including Boom Boom Pow and The Time (Dirty Bit), but after last night's performance - pfft.

The only song of theirs that I like is "My Humps", I wonder why THAT one was missing? :