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I didn't really enjoy the half time show. I thought Furgie Sucked, as allways. If it doesn't suck I can garenty it is fake. Oh god, I have heard so many bands do such a better job. But great show, great band, but I thought Furgie sucks. Also, Packer's won, :)! Yeah! What are your thoughts about this?
Three words: it, absolutely, sucked. OK, now I'll elaborate. It seems that groups like the Black-Eyed Peas have no real talent. What they seemingly have is only because of audio tuner, and computerized music. So they sing a few words, and dance a lot, and maybe their talent is in their dancing. A friend of mine said that he thought the NFL had been so eager to avoid another, "Wardrobe malfunction," that for years they've been hiring acts they feel are safe. but they've gotten accused of being out of touch with the current generation, who spends the most money, so now they've swung it back the other way: with Christina Aguilera doing the Antum, and the Black-Eyed Peas doing halftime, and both of them being terrible.
omg, don't even get me started on this...ugh! just ugh! the black-eyed peas...wow, they should stay with their electronic devices, thanks. and that guns and roses song was butchered lol. that is all.
Sweet child of mine has been done a long time ago for after i heard it played 24/7 by my brother back in 2008 when he was getting into the rock seen. Fergie, made it unbareable to hear. I didn't watch the half time. I didn't watch to super bowl for that matter. Quite frankly could give a fuck. However, I heard the clips on the radio and who ever was on the mixing board was aweful, and didn't have anything leveled right, Slash was performing and i don't like Slash to begin with. i think he's way to overrated and his guitar playing is some of the sloppiest guitar playing I have heard, and Fergie, I want to punch her in the throat. The black Eyed peas days are over. They were good back when their first album came out in 98, or 2000, and their album even in 2005 was awesome, but WillIAm has slacked, and even admitted to it. He said he would rather create singles and create music for the radio then make albums. So that's how producers are thinking now adays, isn't that sad?
Anyway, I'm glad I didn't subject myself to the super bowl this year. i heard usher didn't do very much, but dance... just aweful you guys... Just aweful.
the black eyed peas were good when they first started...and their album monkey business was awesome. it's ashame they're going downhill, and apparently don't care.
I am soooo over The Black Eyed Peas. And that one song is done to death. I hated it.
Also have to comment on Christina Aguilera doing the National Anthem. She did flub a line, but that wasn't what bothered me. I hate singers who want to make The National Anthem their own by singing it differently than the way it was meant to be sung. I rarely like the way people do it because they seem intent on making it their own. Just sing it the way it was meant to be sung, please! I actually prefer it when a brass or military band performs it.
I'm not even a viewer of football, but I just had to run to my tv set because I thought I heard a dying animal in our living room. The racket was Furgie butchering "Sweet Child of Mine." Bleah...Also, the dancers at halftime formed words like "Peace" and "Love"...where is there room for these messages at the Super Bowl? It's a sporting competition, a fight, may the best team win. Christina Aguilera has a fine voice, but I didn't hear her sing the National Anthem, and agree the anthem should be sung straight up, the way it's written, no personal takes. Zero stars out of five for this "entertainment".
Makes me glad we were making a drinks run at half time, to be honest.
I just got inside after grilling when the Anthem started, and yes, bleh.
Very very happy to have missed the butchery of Sweet Child of Mine. That album, Appetite for Destruction, has some very fond memories of my young fool days in high school, the sort of music you blare with the top down on the way to the beach.
I don't think they should mix sporting competitions and some big bands playing. Just in general, I think a band can't captivate an audience in 10 or 15 minutes, there has to be build up, people have to get into it, and that is regardless of the band's talent.
Just leave it for commercials or comedy or American idle style thing where they select random fans from the audience and have them sing something, don't hire overpaid questionably good artists to perform, I bet you these guys got millions of dollars for the performance.
I see nothing wrong, per se, with only being good in the studio, at least I enjoy B.E.P. sometimes, their first two albums were good and really good time music. I am sure they'd be awesome in the club, though I am getting too old for the club.
I think Fergy has some cool studio effects and samples on her albums, don't care for her voice at all though.
Over-all, the world is better off having had B.E.P. albums, but their contribution to music may be over, Ag, I dunno, she's just never appealed to me, I' a Britney fan (between the two of them).
Appetite .. an absolute classic, one of the best albums ever.
Wildebrew, I've never much understood the point of the halftime show myself. And, I didn't so much care about the game, I only watched the Superbowl because I liked being in the company of a group of my friends.
Becky, hear hear about the national anthum. Like you, my problem wasn't so much that she messed up the lyrics, though you'd think her coaches would have prepared her better for it. Still, I can't imagine how nerve-racking it would be to sing in front of that many people. But even had she not messed up the words, I couldn't stand the way she sang it. Yes, she's got a powerful voice, and I admire that. But she was all over the place with it, doing what I call vocal acrobatics, and to me, the Anthum is one of those songs that sounds best when it's performed simplistically. Singing it as it was meant to be, as you say. And yes, bands do a much better job of it than most singers do.
Hmm, Black-Eyed Peas would probably sound good in a club, when the whole point is everyone dancing and not much else. Just not live like that.
when the black eyed peas sing their older stuff pre autotune, they're great.
as for Christina Aguilera, it was due to nerves that she messed up. she rehearsed beautifully, based on a video I saw earlier.
Being from
Texas, I was surprised that they didn't get a Texas band of some sort to do the show. ZZ Top kicks ass in concert and has enough recognisable songs to entertain all generations, I think. Either that or I'm just showing my ae. lol Anyway,the half time show completely sucked ass! I agree with what everyone else has said about the national anthom. Just sing the friggen song as it was meant to be. I love to sing it when it is sung and hate when they jack around with the melody.
The black eyed peas are awful, but the kids buy it and the band/record label are laughing all the way to the bank. Freaking Ke$ha is even worse. At least she didn't do the halftime show. ZZ top are amazing! Billy gibbons is an excellent guitarist. ZZ top did do a superbowl halftime show, in the mid to late nineties i believe. I'm not a fan of American football, but anyways...
Tom pettys halftime show was good as was princes and the stones etc. American music on the whole is suffering though and talent being regocnized by the mainstream media is hard to come by. Remember that the majority of tv stations, radio stations, venues, record companies, and production companies are owned by a small number of very large and powerful companies, like clear channel for example. If an artist doesn't fit the mold or the marketing executives don't think the kdis will shell out a ton of money for music, merch, concert tickets, etc, then that group is out more often than not. It's a shame, but, they have made music a fly by night throwaway product where image is more important than real talent and things that really give someone a lasting career where they can make a lasting meaningful mark on our culture. ffew, wow, sorry, didn't mean to rant there but as an indy musician and producer of indy artists, you tend to see the reality of what the music business has become on an almost daily basis.
Mike... i believe that's what your name is. But guitar God , I can't agree with you, anymore.
I forgot to say that I think it's silly for people to have a problem with artists making the national anthem their own. I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but so be it.
Ugh. I don't even like Hip Hop in general, whichis what they call R&B nowadays. And it's not merely because I think they've gotten lazy using synthesizers for their music (I actually like synthes as long as they're played well). But the fact that most of them feel the need to butcher their voices with things like AutoTunes and Vocoders. Makes you wonder how may of hem can actually sing worth a damn. Not many would be my guess. Oh I've nothing against AutoTunes when it's used ina song here and there but I agree with some in the music industry and outside who feel it's being used far too much, particularly in Hip Hop and dance music.
I actually like autotune myself, but I do agree that it can be used way too much and on some voices doesn't really need to be used. Nonetheless, there are some really neat things they can use with autotune. I like the black eye peas but yeah I don't think they would do well live. I unfortunately did not get to see the superbowl or the halftime show but I can imagine from the general consensus that it wasn't really all that great. As for making the national anthem their own, I generally agree with that statement. I mean I don't see anything wrong with a run here and there but when the melody is basically hidden in all the runs then no it's not worth it and not good at all.
As far as I'm concerned AutoTunes is used far too much in today's music. And I agree about the National Anthem. If you can't hear the melody then it's ruined. I remember being at a baseball game once where a guy played it on a saxophone. Well the melody was lost in all the extraneous ornamentation he added on, so as far as I'm concerned it sucked.
Yeah I mean if you are performing music that is not your own, and performing something that is so famous and has such important history attached to it, keeping the melody intact should be a no brainer. Improvising here and there to add your own flavor to something is fine, but, if you stray to the point where it's hard to recognize the piece of music in question, then you are not doing it justice.