Have the Super Bowl Halftime shows gone downhill? - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Hawkee · 02-03-2020, 04:14 AM

Every year when the Super Bowl is played next to the actual game itself I've noticed that the halftime shows of the Super Bowl have lost it's appeal and I can't figure out what they have done to them. Take for instance ever since U2 starred in their first solo halftime show in 2002 I noticed that every halftime show has one singer now sing a concert now rather than a whole list of singers. Is this because the NFL now wants solo halftime shows in the Super Bowl now? I remember when in the 80's and 90's when the halftime shows used to be big affairs in the Super Bowl and had singers such as Billy Joel Ray Charles Queen Latifah Aretha Franklin Elton John Garth Brooks Michael Jackson George Michael and other singers it was fun to watch and each halftime show would be themed too. But I think ever since the famous Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction scene in the 2003 Super Bowl halftime show I think they have learned that solo shows cost less than group halftime shows. But if they had more well known singers such as Taylor Swift Seal and Al Green to groups like Santana and The Beach Boys it would improve the halftime shows and make it a hit in Super Bowl ratings
Bestie

JamesG · 02-03-2020, 04:29 AM

What are you talking about downhill? J-Lo and Shakira got a lot of praise for this one.

opus · 02-03-2020, 02:13 PM

Loved when Shakira tossed in some Zeppelin 'Kashmir'

AB · 02-03-2020, 04:44 PM

A variety of singers/entertainers would be better, something that appeals to more people. I didn't care much for J-Lo & Shakira but then I'm not the target audience. It felt like watching a strip club show to me, something that would appeal to a large male audience which I understand, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. I may stop watching the half-time shows from now on. But hey, this is just one woman's opinion.

Wawwie · 02-03-2020, 04:49 PM

J-Lo sure is hot stuff for a woman of 50 years old, but her gyrating on that pole was a bit much.

DadTheKing · 02-03-2020, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by LaBestia

Every year when the Super Bowl is played next to the actual game itself I've noticed that the halftime shows of the Super Bowl have lost it's appeal and I can't figure out what they have done to them. Take for instance ever since U2 starred in their first solo halftime show in 2002 I noticed that every halftime show has one singer now sing a concert now rather than a whole list of singers. Is this because the NFL now wants solo halftime shows in the Super Bowl now? I remember when in the 80's and 90's when the halftime shows used to be big affairs in the Super Bowl and had singers such as Billy Joel Ray Charles Queen Latifah Aretha Franklin Elton John Garth Brooks Michael Jackson George Michael and other singers it was fun to watch and each halftime show would be themed too. But I think ever since the famous Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction scene in the 2003 Super Bowl halftime show I think they have learned that solo shows cost less than group halftime shows. But if they had more well known singers such as Taylor Swift Seal and Al Green to groups like Santana and The Beach Boys it would improve the halftime shows and make it a hit in Super Bowl ratings
Bestie

I agree with you Bestie. Superbowl half time is not what it used to be. Also they try to fit in their politics. JLO had children in cages. This is just sad. Almost as sad as JLO trying to out hootchie cootchie Shakira. I had to turn the channel. Also, why don't the NFL get some country artists to perform? Do we really need foreigners performing at Americas greatest game? At the Superbowl I want to see 100% America. My favorite part was the tribute to the flag with the Medal of honor winner. What was your favorite part?
DTK

Bonniegirl · 02-03-2020, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by AB

A variety of singers/entertainers would be better, something that appeals to more people. I didn't care much for J-Lo & Shakira but then I'm not the target audience. It felt like watching a strip club show to me, something that would appeal to a large male audience which I understand, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. I may stop watching the half-time shows from now on. But hey, this is just one woman's opinion.

I agree!! Not my cup of tea!! Even my Hubby, who enjoyed looking at them,

he didn't care for the singing / the music genre !

Bonniegirl · 02-03-2020, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by opus

Loved when Shakira tossed in some Zeppelin 'Kashmir'

That was cool!!

A shame it wasn't really Led Zeppelin performing at Halftime though!

Wawwie · 02-03-2020, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by DadTheKing

Do we really need foreigners performing at Americas greatest game? At the Superbowl I want to see 100% America.

J-Lo was born in New York. She is 100% America.
Shakira was born in Columbia, but she is an AMERICAN citizen now... 100%.

I suggest you get your facts straight.

MIKEPR · 02-03-2020, 05:52 PM

I really don't care as I'm only watching the game itself.

Plus if you must remember you're not the only one watching and if you don't like a certain artists, they are plenty that do.

Get over it. There was a time when the HT show consisted of only marching bands.

opus · 02-03-2020, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by DadTheKing

I agree with you Bestie.

You do? Wow! First time for everything….

TSMIV · 02-03-2020, 06:39 PM

It was trashy and gross. Crotch shots and pole dancing is scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Bonniegirl · 02-03-2020, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Bonniegirl

That was cool!!

A shame it wasn't really Led Zeppelin performing at Halftime though!

Oh no on second thought Led Zeppelin aren"t Americans, they are from England , those darn foreigners wouldn't suit Dad the king !

They need to build a wall around the football stadiums !

opus · 02-03-2020, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by DadTheKing

Do we really need foreigners performing at Americas greatest game?

Oh man, next years performers are really going to make you hot blooded.....

TMC · 02-03-2020, 09:51 PM

Jennifer Lopez and Shakira exorcised the demons of Maroon 5 with energetic Super Bowl halftime

J.Lo and Shakira's co-headlining halftime performance was so entertaining, high-energy and memorable that it took less than 10 hours for their halftime show to surpass last year's much-criticized Maroon 5 halftime in the number of YouTube views. "I've written repeatedly in the past about what a thankless gig the Super Bowl halftime show is," says Daniel Fienberg. "Most people are only paying attention to make fun of it and to complain about how Prince did it better. But if ever there were a year to make a risk-free appearance nestled between the commercials and football on TV's most-watched night of the year, it's this year, because the chances of anybody outside of the Adam Levine Extended Family looking back on 2019's Maroon 5 performance with anything resembling positivity is low. Most Super Bowls, you have to rise to the level of 'Slightly less good than Prince,' but for Super Bowl LIV, it was probably enough to be 'Slightly better than Maroon 5.' To their absolute credit, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira came far closer to the former than the latter." Fienberg adds that it didn't matter if there was lip-syncing: "That halftime show was just pure fun, unless you want to acknowledge that it's righteously and wonderfully political for two Latinx singers to have shared and dominated the stage on TV's biggest night, especially when one of them sang — or 'sang' — the chorus of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the U.S.A.' while draped in a magnificent Puerto Rican flag boa/robe."

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J.Lo and Shakira's halftime displayed pride in their Latin roots and didn't hesitate to be political: The co-headliners "were out to defy the notion of their work, and the global populace they were said to represent, being reduced in any way," says Spencer Kornhaber. "This was an extravaganza that burst at its sparkly harness, and it would have been too much if every part weren’t dazzlingly done. Casually featured were the two Spanish-speaking rappers of the moment and maybe millennium: Bad Bunny (whose shimmering trench oddly fit the outer-space motif in the night’s ads) and J. Balvin (working psychedelic Nintendo-character leisurewear, as is his prerogative). They updated Cardi B’s Spanish/English classic of 2018, 'I Like It,' which itself updated a Spanish/English classic of 1967, 'I Like It Like That.' J. Lo’s family figured in (with her 11-year-old daughter, Emme, of viral singing fame), as did Shakira’s Lebanese heritage (including with immediately memed ululation). The stars shouted 'gracias' and 'thank you'; they sang a song to Africa; they flashed the flag of Puerto Rico. And they played politics."
J.Lo burned the halftime show to the ground -- and gave the Oscars the middle finger: "Exploding like a cannon-blast out of a fire torch, Lopez blazed across the Super Bowl Halftime Show stage, ensuring that her landmark year was punctuated not just with an exclamation point, but one blinking in blinding neon, so that the testament to her talent could be seen from space—which, arguably, it was Sunday night," says Kevin Fallon. "The energetic, dance-heavy set from Lopez and her co-headliner, Shakira—mesmerizing in her own right, if overshadowed by the scope of Lopez’s star power and her post-snub redemption narrative—seemed to pay tribute to the gig as a hallowed platform. More people watch the Super Bowl Halftime Show than anything else airing in the world in any given year, and the two Latin entertainers raised the level of their game to meet its stratospheric reach."
The use of a cage was a subtle statement about the border crisis
Shakira and J.Lo didn't reinvent the Super Bowl Pepsi Halftime Show wheel, but it also didn’t do anything especially stupid or misguided
Here are the best Twitter reactions to the halftime performance, from Jeb Bush to Lady Gaga
Every Super Bowl halftime show since 1993, ranked

02-03-2020, 04:14 AM	#1
Hawkee Michael Fassbender Fanatic Moderator Forum Star Join Date: Jan 17, 2016 Location: California Posts: 10,877	Have the Super Bowl Halftime shows gone downhill? Every year when the Super Bowl is played next to the actual game itself I've noticed that the halftime shows of the Super Bowl have lost it's appeal and I can't figure out what they have done to them. Take for instance ever since U2 starred in their first solo halftime show in 2002 I noticed that every halftime show has one singer now sing a concert now rather than a whole list of singers. Is this because the NFL now wants solo halftime shows in the Super Bowl now? I remember when in the 80's and 90's when the halftime shows used to be big affairs in the Super Bowl and had singers such as Billy Joel Ray Charles Queen Latifah Aretha Franklin Elton John Garth Brooks Michael Jackson George Michael and other singers it was fun to watch and each halftime show would be themed too. But I think ever since the famous Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction scene in the 2003 Super Bowl halftime show I think they have learned that solo shows cost less than group halftime shows. But if they had more well known singers such as Taylor Swift Seal and Al Green to groups like Santana and The Beach Boys it would improve the halftime shows and make it a hit in Super Bowl ratings Bestie
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02-03-2020, 09:51 PM	#15
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 127,445	Jennifer Lopez and Shakira exorcised the demons of Maroon 5 with energetic Super Bowl halftime J.Lo and Shakira's co-headlining halftime performance was so entertaining, high-energy and memorable that it took less than 10 hours for their halftime show to surpass last year's much-criticized Maroon 5 halftime in the number of YouTube views. "I've written repeatedly in the past about what a thankless gig the Super Bowl halftime show is," says Daniel Fienberg. "Most people are only paying attention to make fun of it and to complain about how Prince did it better. But if ever there were a year to make a risk-free appearance nestled between the commercials and football on TV's most-watched night of the year, it's this year, because the chances of anybody outside of the Adam Levine Extended Family looking back on 2019's Maroon 5 performance with anything resembling positivity is low. Most Super Bowls, you have to rise to the level of 'Slightly less good than Prince,' but for Super Bowl LIV, it was probably enough to be 'Slightly better than Maroon 5.' To their absolute credit, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira came far closer to the former than the latter." Fienberg adds that it didn't matter if there was lip-syncing: "That halftime show was just pure fun, unless you want to acknowledge that it's righteously and wonderfully political for two Latinx singers to have shared and dominated the stage on TV's biggest night, especially when one of them sang — or 'sang' — the chorus of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the U.S.A.' while draped in a magnificent Puerto Rican flag boa/robe." ALSO: Super Bowl halftime producer Jay-Z and wife Beyoncé were captured sitting during the Super Bowl National Anthem J.Lo and Shakira's halftime displayed pride in their Latin roots and didn't hesitate to be political: The co-headliners "were out to defy the notion of their work, and the global populace they were said to represent, being reduced in any way," says Spencer Kornhaber. "This was an extravaganza that burst at its sparkly harness, and it would have been too much if every part weren’t dazzlingly done. Casually featured were the two Spanish-speaking rappers of the moment and maybe millennium: Bad Bunny (whose shimmering trench oddly fit the outer-space motif in the night’s ads) and J. Balvin (working psychedelic Nintendo-character leisurewear, as is his prerogative). They updated Cardi B’s Spanish/English classic of 2018, 'I Like It,' which itself updated a Spanish/English classic of 1967, 'I Like It Like That.' J. Lo’s family figured in (with her 11-year-old daughter, Emme, of viral singing fame), as did Shakira’s Lebanese heritage (including with immediately memed ululation). The stars shouted 'gracias' and 'thank you'; they sang a song to Africa; they flashed the flag of Puerto Rico. And they played politics." J.Lo burned the halftime show to the ground -- and gave the Oscars the middle finger: "Exploding like a cannon-blast out of a fire torch, Lopez blazed across the Super Bowl Halftime Show stage, ensuring that her landmark year was punctuated not just with an exclamation point, but one blinking in blinding neon, so that the testament to her talent could be seen from space—which, arguably, it was Sunday night," says Kevin Fallon. "The energetic, dance-heavy set from Lopez and her co-headliner, Shakira—mesmerizing in her own right, if overshadowed by the scope of Lopez’s star power and her post-snub redemption narrative—seemed to pay tribute to the gig as a hallowed platform. More people watch the Super Bowl Halftime Show than anything else airing in the world in any given year, and the two Latin entertainers raised the level of their game to meet its stratospheric reach." The use of a cage was a subtle statement about the border crisis Shakira and J.Lo didn't reinvent the Super Bowl Pepsi Halftime Show wheel, but it also didn’t do anything especially stupid or misguided Here are the best Twitter reactions to the halftime performance, from Jeb Bush to Lady Gaga Every Super Bowl halftime show since 1993, ranked

02-03-2020, 04:29 AM	#2
JamesG Freakshow Moderator Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 01, 2008 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 57,291	What are you talking about downhill? J-Lo and Shakira got a lot of praise for this one.

02-03-2020, 02:13 PM	#3
opus VB Forum Superstar Join Date: May 16, 2015 Location: VB Galaxy Posts: 32,830	Loved when Shakira tossed in some Zeppelin 'Kashmir'

02-03-2020, 04:44 PM	#4
AB Member Eternal Member Forum Icon Join Date: Dec 26, 2006 Location: The South Posts: 59,428	A variety of singers/entertainers would be better, something that appeals to more people. I didn't care much for J-Lo & Shakira but then I'm not the target audience. It felt like watching a strip club show to me, something that would appeal to a large male audience which I understand, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. I may stop watching the half-time shows from now on. But hey, this is just one woman's opinion.

02-03-2020, 04:49 PM	#5
Wawwie Member Forum Star Join Date: Jul 26, 2006 Location: New York Posts: 14,376	J-Lo sure is hot stuff for a woman of 50 years old, but her gyrating on that pole was a bit much.

02-03-2020, 05:52 PM	#10
MIKEPR Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Oct 29, 2019 Posts: 368	I really don't care as I'm only watching the game itself. Plus if you must remember you're not the only one watching and if you don't like a certain artists, they are plenty that do. Get over it. There was a time when the HT show consisted of only marching bands.

02-03-2020, 06:39 PM	#12
TSMIV Member Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 29, 2018 Location: Arkansas Posts: 696	It was trashy and gross. Crotch shots and pole dancing is scraping the bottom of the barrel.