February Football Half-Time Fiasco

 Well another "Big Game" come and gone...and a bit of a disappointment, this one was, too (I don't want to use the term "Super B__L" term and risk getting the NFL's Legal Team after me!).

The game was "OK", but since I really didn't care about either team, there wasn't any real emotional connection.

There were a few good new advertisements, but there certainly weren't any ground-breakingly interesting ones.  Certainly there were none that we'll still be talking about next month, let alone next year at this time!

And then, of course, we had the half-time show. Putting it bluntly: It sucked!

While I do try to keep an open mind and I'll admit we don't have a stereo TV (nor a flat-screen digital, for that matter), but from a pure "quality of the production" stand-point, that was a horrible show.  I suspect the sponsor of that debacle is re-thinking their investment in next year's 15 minute stadium spectacle.

The instruments were drowned out by crowd noise and the over-pumped vocals to the point where, for most of the time, it was an a cappella performance...and a poor one at that. Case in point, when the camera cut to the line of horn players blowing up a storm, there were no "horn" sounds at all. The musicians instruments seemed to have had no amplification! The performance by Slash was another example...his guitar was no where near as loud as the singer's voice.

The artists' voices, on the other hand, came across flat, dull and (sometimes) off key. I suspect this was due in part to the fact they couldn't hear their accompaniment, and in part because they were singing louder than normal to try to get above the crowd noise.

As for the glowing people, while an interesting tableau, it didn't seem to have any real connection to the (non-existent) music nor the words of the various songs being sung.

I like (some) of the Black-eyed Peas', Usher's and Guns & Roses' music...but last night's half-time show was not one of their better performances. I suspect we won't see a thread here 5 or 6 years from now, wistfully reminiscing about how great this performance was (remember the recent discussion of U-2's Super Bowl performance).

I listen to a lot of different music, but I won't be listening to that performance again. :-)

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