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Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show Lineup Announced (2022)

ShawnHill1 said:
Of course you would think it's "junk"...you're not a fan of "urban" music.
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That certainly points out the tendency to think that anything but our favorite music is, thus, bad music.

I can't stand more than one Sinatra or Benny Goodman tunes at a time... they just do nothing for me and are, thus, annoying. But they are not bad... just like coriander in food there are things in music that are unappealing. But that does not make them junk.
 
Count me in as another one who did not like the rap-fest of the 'halftime show.' Even Mary J. Blige alone would have appealed to a wider audience, and I like her music. Or having Stevie Wonder crash the show...dream on.

Speaking of, why hasn't the Super Bowl done a country-themed halftime show since Shania Twain in *2003*? Imagine Lady A, Florida Georgia Line, Kenny Chesney, Dan & Shay, etc. all on the same stage doing a 20-minute show! Add Darius Rucker and Jimmie Allen for diversity's sake. Since the Garth fever of the '90s, country music has appealed not just to cowboys in rural Wyoming, but to young suburban types in their 20s and 30s. Garth Brooks alone would be worth the cost of the chips, salsa, mozzarella sticks, and chicken wings - and he has NEVER done a Super Bowl. Weird.

At least the days of Up with People are a thing of the past, albeit some folks miss it. With 100,000,000 people watching, you need to appeal your halftime show to the masses...albeit not every American likes to listen to rap music.
 
installLSC said:
Yep the Communations Act of 1934 still states, if a station accepts any advertising for a political race, they must accept any advertising for that race that can afford their rates--and isn't allowed to censor the commercials
47 U.S. Code § 315 - Candidates for public office
I guess the stations involved can refuse any advertising for that Senate race, but what station would?
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I seem to understand the opposing candidate needs to be offered a similar time slot, but what would be the equivalent of the Super Bowl?
 
crainbebo said:
Speaking of, why hasn't the Super Bowl done a country-themed halftime show since Shania Twain in *2003*?
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It's not as though they're excluded. Mickey Guyton sang the anthem this year. Eric Church sang it last year. Luke Bryan in 2017.

My sense is that country singers would rather watch the game than work. Also country shows tend to be less visual than pop shows.
 
crainbebo said:
Count me in as another one who did not like the rap-fest of the 'halftime show.' Even Mary J. Blige alone would have appealed to a wider audience, and I like her music. Or having Stevie Wonder crash the show...dream on.

Speaking of, why hasn't the Super Bowl done a country-themed halftime show since Shania Twain in *2003*? Imagine Lady A, Florida Georgia Line, Kenny Chesney, Dan & Shay, etc. all on the same stage doing a 20-minute show! Add Darius Rucker and Jimmie Allen for diversity's sake. Since the Garth fever of the '90s, country music has appealed not just to cowboys in rural Wyoming, but to young suburban types in their 20s and 30s. Garth Brooks alone would be worth the cost of the chips, salsa, mozzarella sticks, and chicken wings - and he has NEVER done a Super Bowl. Weird.

At least the days of Up with People are a thing of the past, albeit some folks miss it. With 100,000,000 people watching, you need to appeal your halftime show to the masses...albeit not every American likes to listen to rap music.
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Fun fact: The first contemporary act headlining a Super Bowl was in 1989 with New Kids on the Block. Before that, it was Up With Peopla and the like. No 70s pop, no disco, etc when those were performed by (at the time) current
 
ShawnHill1 said:
Of course you would think it's "junk"...you're not a fan of "urban" music.
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Besides, rap isn't as filled with reality-show stars :D to an extent that country music sadly is.

crainbebo said:
Count me in as another one who did not like the rap-fest of the 'halftime show.' Even Mary J. Blige alone would have appealed to a wider audience, and I like her music. Or having Stevie Wonder crash the show...dream on.

Speaking of, why hasn't the Super Bowl done a country-themed halftime show since Shania Twain in *2003*? Imagine Lady A, Florida Georgia Line, Kenny Chesney, Dan & Shay, etc. all on the same stage doing a 20-minute show! Add Darius Rucker and Jimmie Allen for diversity's sake. Since the Garth fever of the '90s, country music has appealed not just to cowboys in rural Wyoming, but to young suburban types in their 20s and 30s. Garth Brooks alone would be worth the cost of the chips, salsa, mozzarella sticks, and chicken wings - and he has NEVER done a Super Bowl. Weird.

At least the days of Up with People are a thing of the past, albeit some folks miss it. With 100,000,000 people watching, you need to appeal your halftime show to the masses...albeit not every American likes to listen to rap music.
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Can't people just enjoy hip-hop on network television even once? For years, television executives have force-fed Carrie Underwood down our throats in award shows, theme songs, Christmas specials, etc.
 
gr8oldies said:
Fun fact: The first contemporary act headlining a Super Bowl was in 1989 with New Kids on the Block. Before that, it was Up With Peopla and the like. No 70s pop, no disco, etc when those were performed by (at the time) current
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New Kids on the Block were actually in the 1991 Super Bowl, but their halftime-show was aired on a tape delay due to the ongoing Gulf War. Gloria Estefan performed at the next Bowl, with the show aired live on television, but not without In Living Color luring viewers away from the halftime show.
 
And now we sink into racist dog whistles and tired tropes. Not sure who had the over/under on that.

So let’s talk culture. Would that be Snoop, who works with Habitat for Humanity? And Shriner’s
Hospital. Oh and the youth football league he founded. That culture? Is that ok with you?

Or perhaps the endowment Dr. Dre funded at USC. Or the album royalties he donated towards bringing a performing arts center to Compton. Or perhaps the donations to help provide food and medical supplies during the pandemic.

Or maybe Mary J. Blige’s contributions to Save the Music, the AIDS Foundation, Stand Up to Cancer and the Trevor Project, among others?

Or the Marshall Mathers Foundation? Or is helping disadvantaged and at-risk kids not to your liking?

Culture? You want to talk culture? There’s your culture.

So what’s your next racist bit of nonsense?
 
Speaking of Mary J Blige, I thought she was supposed to be at the super bowl this year, and not even a signal trace!? I would've watched her performance
 
landtuna said:
Or its "culture".

And just in passing, how many "urban" music performers got murdered last week?
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Are you still running the linen service for the KKK?

Super Bowl halftime shows are designed as spectacle. This years performance was fine even if one doesn't like those artists. It was far superior to the Janet Jackson--Timberlake debacle. There is no act that will please everyone when the audience is over 100 million people...
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
And now we sink into racist dog whistles and tired tropes. Not sure who had the over/under on that.

So let’s talk culture. Would that be Snoop, who works with Habitat for Humanity? And Shriner’s
Hospital. Oh and the youth football league he founded. That culture? Is that ok with you?

Or perhaps the endowment Dr. Dre funded at USC. Or the album royalties he donated towards bringing a performing arts center to Compton. Or perhaps the donations to help provide food and medical supplies during the pandemic.

Or maybe Mary J. Blige’s contributions to Save the Music, the AIDS Foundation, Stand Up to Cancer and the Trevor Project, among others?

Or the Marshall Mathers Foundation? Or is helping disadvantaged and at-risk kids not to your liking?

Culture? You want to talk culture? There’s your culture.

So what’s your next racist bit of nonsense?
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Meanwhile, Jason Aldean wore blackface and bragged about maskless crowds in the midst of the pandemic.

Also, Carrie Underwood's husband supports Canada's "freedom convoy".

And Morgan Wallen...enough said.
 
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