SB Halftime show

[6GRILLZNTN]

I suspect we - the majority of the membership here at SMF - are not the target demographic for SB halftime entertainment any more...

Used to be rockers like Springsteen, McCartney, The Stones, U2, Prince, or Tom Petty...

Hell I can remember when the feature act at SB halftime shows was a college marching band - not some pop music act.

Just shows ya how old we're gettin'. The music that geezers like me listen to isn't relevant to most people under the age of 40.

Red

That's because the music we listened to was Actually"music"! The Who, The Stones, Zepellin, etc. The Crap they play now is just trash.

A fellow Geezer!

 

[gmc2003]

That's because the music we listened to was Actually"music"! The Who, The Stones, Zepellin, etc. The Crap they play now is just trash.

A fellow Geezer!

I remember my parents saying basically the same thing about Rock-n-Roll. LOL


Chris

 

[Gonna Smoke]

...wasn’t very impressed with Brady as a commentator. I’m a huge Brady fan but I just think he was talking about himself and things they use to do a little much.

Funny, I thought the same exact thing...

 

[Winterrider]

I thought Brady did alright for a first year commentator, but towards the end it was a bit much about himself. He will never be a Tony Romo, he is the best. He calls the plays before they run them. He has great football sense.

 

[Torch&Tone]

That's because the music we listened to was Actually"music"! The Who, The Stones, Zepellin, etc. The Crap they play now is just trash.

A fellow Geezer!

I remember my parents saying basically the same thing about Rock-n-Roll. LOL


Chris

For most all of history, music was about community, not consumerism, but once the media behemoths really got going on eliminating independent venues, labels, radio stations, record stores, and other opportunities for new music to really develop, it became just another bland, commodified, direct-to-consumer industry. Because shareholder value thrives on predictable, controlled revenue streams, not on art.

All would-be stars must now go through the same monotonizing pipeline/filter of autotune + mega producer (Max Martin, Jack Antonoff, etc) + streaming service & social media algorithms = maximum corporate profit. What new music style has really emerged in the last... twenty years? "Innovation" isn't about new sounds anymore, it's only about value capture: streaming platforms over physical sales, venue & festival monopolies (how soon will TicketMaster/LiveNation or IHeartRadio charge you $20 in fees just to see your daughter's piano recital?), and ever-more-tightly-controlled tools for promotion & distribution.

tl;dr - music stripped of context is boring but lucrative for the corporations in charge

 

[Colin1230]

Lady Gaga was good in the pre game show.

Our daughter and son-in-law, in their early thirties, have tickets to see Kendrick Lamar in St. Louis this summer. They thought the half-time show was the greatest thing ever. O k a y.

 

[bigfurmn]

I'm 45. I was watching the half time show for a few minutes and then thought to myself, what the F is this crap, I mean rap. Must be fine to leave work and drive to pick up dinner. Never turned the game on when I got home. Like a few people here, I haven't much cared for the NFL in the last decade or so. Might be because I follow the Vikings.

 

[Newglide]

I tried watchin the half time show but I just can't hear that fast.

 

[uncle eddie]

Hated Kendrick Lamar's half time show ...BUT... I golf with some young guys from work and they play rap a lot when we do golf (probably trying to aggravate me lol)...and, to my surprise, over time, I discovered I actually like some rap.

Old Kendrick Lamar is OK. I like Humble...it's a bit on the nasty side but not as bad as most.
Future - Mask Off is another good rap song IMO. Future has a cool voice.
Drake - God's Plan is another decent rap song. Watch the video - very cool.

I could go on but you get the point. Also - I am a musically inclined guy (choir& gospel choir) and there is hardly a genre that I don't like a song or three.

 

[chef k-dude]

Had paused the game at the beginning... fast forwarded through all that!

Ryan

Love the DVR. I always do that. And definitely skipped that crap.

Most young people have zero sense of music, and that was not "music". It can be called "entertainment" for some, but for those, they clearly have no idea what good music is...in my opinion. That's a form of chanting...sort of, or poetry for some. And I'm not talking old geezer rock era stuff, there IS some good newer music to be found out there but you have to search it out.

When I hear a great tune, say in a movie, I'll make a note on my phone then go explore their discography when I have the time on Spotify (On my PC, not phone). Within 30 seconds and a couple skip forwards I can usually tell if I like a song and want to hear more. Some bands/artists I can rip through their entire discography in short order and maybe rip/record a song or two; the rest, not my thing. Other artists I like much better, takes me longer to go through their collection and may come away with a dozen songs for my collection.

It takes that work to discover the newer good music out there. It will not be delivered to you on the radio (per se), TV shows and most pop feeds. Although if you let Pandora get to know you, it can throw out a surprise once in a while for you to follow to what could be great music you never heard of.

Halftime and most commercials were pretty lame again this year.

I saw a piece on entertainment TV about how this year almost all the new ads were featuring "celebrities" instead of that great quirkiness most of us are looking for. "Celebrities" are losing their luster on the people.

music stripped of context is boring but lucrative for the corporations in charge

Exactly right. For me, most bands I grew up loving started to become more and more bland and overproduced as they got money and fame. It used to really tick me off when I would save my money for an album (vinyl back then)...and that took a while as a kid...and I would finally get that album for the song I heard on rock radio, then the rest or most of the rest of the album just sucked and didn't align at all with that one song.

Then other albums were thick with great music that never made the radio...the radio played the songs people with zero music feel could tap their foot to and sing the never-ending repeating chorus. I also found out then that the "call in to get your favorite song played" was complete BS unless the song you requested was one of the same 12 they played all day on repeat...you were not going to be allowed to actually introduce a song to their audience you feel the radio was missing out on. I became a compilator pirate from those days on. Today is actually an outstanding time in music for people like me who will take the time to mine it and record it in real time on my PC.

The entertainment industry is one of the few with no returns for dissatisfaction even today. You can buy a lamp at Walmart and return it because it simply doesn't light the way you thought it would...try getting your money back on a music or movie purchase because once you bought it you realized it sucked!

 

[Rafter H BBQ]

I hear ya Keith! We put it on to record at my folks place for an hour then started the game. Skipped thru the commercials (which used to be really good back in the day, but crap now). Also, skipped over the halftime show… which honestly I can’t remember the last halftime show we watched. Heck, anymore I don’t know the folks anyway. Just my opinion… to each their own… but rap is definitely not my thing!

 

[ajbert]

They already played the SB? Not that I was going to watch it anyways. I quit watching when the players took a knee instead of standing. My cousin asked me why I was upset when I told him. I was in the Navy for a bit over 25 years. I told him I know people who could never hear the Anthem nor see the flag again. I know other who can never stand up during the Anthem and others who can never salute the flag. AND I knew others who gave everything to this country. I can truly say I haven't missed a thing since I stopped watching.

 

[Torch&Tone]

I quit watching when the players took a knee instead of standing.

People come up with sometimes truly heinous ways to disrespect the flag (and the Armed Forces), but the outrage in media is only ever proportional to how much it can advance powerful peoples' agendas, not the actual meaning. Calling out racism as not just bad but unpatriotic? Can't have that. Cutting the VA and military family support to keep sweetening the no-bid zero-accountability contracts to private industry? Or outright calling vets "losers" and "suckers"? Barely a blip.