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The pregame showed a good path forward. The marching bands along with some local artists was very entertaining. How they missed on this was mind-blowing. The Super Bowl was in New Orleans, which is known for having great music.
I donāt quite understand the NFLās relationship to Jay Z and ROC Nation. But I have heard chatter that once this relationship started, the halftime shows became more like what we saw on Sunday. I think the last really entertaining halftime show for me was Bruno Mars.
Once you are done putting down everyone's taste in music, maybe you could get back to this show which was pretty much just his personal vendetta against Drake. That's frankly sad and uninteresting no matter who the singer or what the genre. Overall, pretty low energy, the crowd isn't into it, the visuals aren't that great, etc.
I would rather watch the tOSU Marching Band than the shows that have performed lately for the Super Bowl.
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LOL! Playing the victim now? This whole thread is an opportunity for out of touch oldenheimers to crap on rap music. Nothing more. Well, except for some of these oldenheimers to extend said criticism to other perceived societal and political issues. But, one post after proclaiming you couldn't understand anything that was said, and passive-aggressively critiquing the substance by claiming kids told you that you wouldn't want to know what was said, you're now accusing me of "putting down everyone's taste in music."
Go sell this nonsense somewhere else.
I've already commented that having Kendrick as the lead/sole performer wasn't the best choice, because his vibe isn't the high energy, flashy stuff that catches eyeballs and ears at a halftime Super Bowl performance, with the masses as the audience. As I've said, I'm taking issue with the folks who are going beyond "it's not my cup of tea" and otherwise legitimately critiquing and commenting on the performance to ignorantly bash Kendrick and rap, generally (and some are extending that criticism further). "I couldn't even understand him! This isn't even considered "music"! This is why we have violence!" And so on.
And, no, it wasn't pretty much a personal vendetta against Drake ... that was only a smart part of his performance.
I was going to correct somebody and say Pulitzer-Prize winning Kendrick, but you've made the point for me. Sara Ganim has a Pulitzer Prize, too. Being kind I'll just say I'm not that impressed by some of the committee's choices.
How many rappers have even entered the contest? You have to enter, even for music. The committee doesn't just find you on iTunes and give you an award. I'm guessing most rappers aren't that worried about the Pulitzer.
This post was fine until you showed up.
And if you don't understand that almost every detail of this performance was a shot at Drake, you're not as in touch as you think you are.
The post? Or the thread? If the former, my post was fine. Thanks. If the latter, the thread was just old white guys bathing in their slop of saying the show stank, and they hate rap (and implying other things, which eventually came out). After I appeared, it was just old white guys bathing in their slop of saying the show stank, and they hate rap (and implying and outright stating other things). And me.
So, it appears much of nothing changed.
And, as I said, there were elements pointed at Drake, but the overall theme was something different. Uncle Sam Jackson slapped you across the face with it, in case you weren't catching on ... and you still didn't get it, apparently. That's a you problem.
Actually, I stated how I drew my conclusion. If I wanted to live to a ripe old age, I would sing country, not rap. Call it what you want, I call it fact. By the way, incessant name calling is not nice on a board.
What other things were implied? I mean you pulled the race card but who else did?
The question was, what's the murder rate of rappers. You didn't know. You threw out a generalized thought based off nebulous info you used to fill in the blanks of ignorance and preconceptions. No one cares about your post hoc rationalizations.
If YOU became a rapper, you wouldn't be at any greater risk of being murdered. Unless you're telling us that you grew up in a violent area, with violent acquaintances ... maybe in or around a gang? Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) isn't looking over his shoulder wondering when he's getting popped. There are plenty of rappers, past and present, who haven't died yet, who will change those statistics ... as I stated. So, your career as MC PassiveAggressive will be filled with sunshine and rainbows, and you can die peacefully of drug/alcohol abuse and addiction like many other musical artists. Kendrick even cautioned us about it in Swimming Pools (Drank). Give it a listen. Great tune. Great message.
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Art is in the eyes and/or ears of the beholder. So nobody gets to tell me Iām out of touch or ignorant or too old and too white to have my own opinion.
I do not enjoy rap, and it doesnāt matter who is performing it. I personally donāt regard it as āmusic.ā To me, it is the distracting garble of someone reading a script overtop of some background noise. Too often the words cannot be understood. Iām not willing to work that hard to hear some message in which I have no interest.
That is the personal opinion of one old white guy. And I believe this thread started with someone asking folks about their opinion of the halftime show.
For those that like it, knock yourself out. Just donāt expect me to listen to it.
I do not enjoy rap, and it doesnāt matter who is performing it. I personally donāt regard it as āmusic.ā To me, it is the distracting garble of someone reading a script overtop of some background noise. Too often the words cannot be understood. Iām not willing to work that hard to hear some message in which I have no interest.
That is the personal opinion of one old white guy. And I believe this thread started with someone asking folks about their opinion of the halftime show.
For those that like it, knock yourself out. Just donāt expect me to listen to it.
No one cares if you don't like it. As you said, you're entitled to your opinion regarding art. You aren't entitled to call it "not music." It's not your type of music that you like listening to ... but it's music. I mean, you CAN say it's not music. But it's just a stupid and flat out wrong statement. You can say the world is flat, too. Whether you like that music or not? You're not wrong (or right) about that - it's your preference. And, yes, you're an old white guy acting like a stereotypical old white guy.
I think people really enjoyed Snoop Dog/Dr. Dre/50 Cent. And I don't recall many complaints about Usher or Rhianna- they were both somewhat entertaining for me. Lots of people loved Prince. And it's pretty much universally agreed that Whitney Houston did the best National Anthem of all time. So now it's only about race if certain people choose to try to make it about race. But in reality it's actually about shitty music performed poorly.
It was only a few years ago that the celebrity worshippers were telling us that Drake was the "greatest", but now they moved on to some other shiny object, and try to pretend that we are lame fools for not buying into it. Years from now are we going to find our that Kendrick likes to piss on underage girls, or hosts "freak offs", or something worse? The whole thing was weird to me, from bringing someone's ex-girlfriend from 13+ years ago on stage to glorify a gang-related dance move, to taking the biggest opportunity in one's career to broadcast drama, as if Kendrick can't stand on his own two feet as a musician without the Drake nonsense. This is why a big chunk of people only heard of him for the first time now, after 20+ years of performing! And if the NFL ends up getting dragged into any courtroom drama over this, then they deserve whatever it costs them.
Regardless, it's OK if someone enjoyed this year's show, but that doesn't make you any smarter than the rest of us, and it's also OK if someone didn't like the show.
Coming from someone who in the recent past posted 50+ times a day on the current events board, but didn't want to spend $50/yr to go to premium, and is the first poster to cry to the moderators if someone posts anything that you think is even the least bit political, it's interesting that you are the only one to make this political. Not only that, but you ONLY seem to post on the football board when the topic is borderline political. Should I cry to the moderators?
Have pity on poor old PeePee the multiple bans disbarred Whale shark of the small mind... after all, he was ALL IN as a shark on Musk defaulting.
He is left as the clown of the Penn State board.
Strike 1. Strike 2. Strike 3. Yer out!
You tried ... multiple times in one post ... and you failed ... all those times. Impressive.
The show was terrible.
But to each his/her own. But what was really disturbing was giving prime television real estate to air gang-related grievances/accusations.
The NFL should be embarrassed.
"Gang-related grievances/accusations" .... Bahahahaha!
We should have had Dueling Banjos play throughout halftime to appease some of the posters in this thread. Yikes.
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Whatever the hell a Pulitzer is worth these days. Until many return theirs, itās worthless, just like what was presented at Halftime.
U2 was good, and they had the backdrop of 9/11 to add lots of emotion to their performance. I still stand by my comment that Prince is the best SBHT show and I'll die on that hill. Everything fell into place to make his show unreal!
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