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In Reply to: RE: The NFL has to move past geezer rock. posted by dark_dave56 on February 08, 2021 at 06:22:08
Last year's Super Bowl drew about 100 million viewers. They weren't all on Social Security, yelling at the kids to stay off their lawns.
I don't know if I like The Weeknd or not. I didn't watch the half time show (switched over to Air Disasters, which was the United Flight 232 episode) and have never heard any of his music.
But I remember Super Bowl IX in New Orleans and Pete Fountain was the half time act. I had no idea who he was and it all seemed ridiculously corny to my 19-year-old mind. My dad liked Pete Fountain, so there you go.
The NFL has to hire artists who are popular now, regardless of whether they're any good or not, regardless if they're still shaking their asses to same sad songs 40 years from now. Regardless of whether old people on their way off this mortal coil like them.
My nieces and nephews watch the Super Bowl and they're all in their 20s. There are more of them than there are of us. Time to pass the torch.
And The Weeknd, whoever he is, still beats the hell out of Up With People.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
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...and I've had a few of my colleagues that attend the Stupor Bowl regularly--regardless of who is playing. In recent years (pre-Covid), they have spent $5-10K for a ticket (and they buy at least two), thousands more on air-fare, hotels, bars and restaurants, and merchandise--so $30+K for a weekend.
I'd never do it. I went to the last AFC Championship game that the Steelers played at home. I got the tix for free, but still spent ~$2K over the weekend. It was a blast being there, but I recorded the game so I could actually watch it when I got home. There's a big difference between the experience of being there, and actually seeing the game.
If I'm spending that kind of money, I want Fleetwood Mac, or the Stones on-stage--not some garbage I've never even heard or heard of. I don't want to hear the national anthem "interpreted" (aka, butchered) by some chick I have no clue about--other than she wants to be famous. I'd rather hear a 6 year-old daughter of a veteran belt it out--however badly.
"The phone don't ring, and the sun refused to shine. Never thought I'd have to pay so dearly, for what was already mine, for such a long, long time."--Warren Zevon~"Accidentally Like A Martyr"--1978
"I've had a few of my colleagues that attend the Stupor Bowl regularly--regardless of who is playing. In recent years (pre-Covid), they have spent $5-10K for a ticket (and they buy at least two), thousands more on air-fare, hotels, bars and restaurants, and merchandise--so $30+K for a weekend."
If they're academic (college) employees or pensioners, it seems that they're overpaid. Maybe that's one reason why college tuition is so expensive.
There is no, none, zero, chance that I'll ever spend thirty thousand dollars (that's $30,000 - for folks in south Chicago) on a weekend just for fun.
On the other hand, you make some good points. I wanted to hear the national anthem and the expected political antics. Unfortunately, I missed it all because I was setting up the grill for burgers - and came back inside just as one team or the other was doing something or other, so channel-surfing ensued. I say "unfortunately" because I do like to be firsthand informed about the drivel which is often presented. I also, fortunately, missed the half-time show. I expected glitzy lip-sync'd simplistic drivel, and apparently, wouldn't have been disappointed.
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"So it is written, so it shall be."
The Super Bowl, including the halftime act, is for the hundred million people not in attendance. That's what the network sell ads for.
And you, me, your colleagues...we're old. Our generation is dying off. There are fewer Fleetwood Mac fans every year and more fans of The Weeknd and whoever it was that sang the national anthem.
Which has been butchered by many, including people our age. I highly doubt that Stevie Nicks or Mick Jagger could have done any better. I like Stevie but she sounds like a billy goat.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
Edits: 02/08/21
I think NOT! STILL the reigning Queen Of Rock.. (but second to Janis)! I will ALWAYS love my Stevie!!! Especially in a beautiful Holly Harp dress!
I've got a couple of her albums...but she's going on 73 and does sing like a billy goat.
I used to eat at her Fajita Roundup...
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
Edits: 02/08/21
'used to eat at her Fajita Roundup'
I think the entire band did ... those are the rumors anyway
regards,
...when the lights go down, so does Stevie.
Bob Christgau said she was unhealthy both as a sex object and as a role model.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
I should have capitalized rumors
why would Christgau know what he says he knows?
never mind
regards,
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