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!