more importantly....Bad Bunny said yes, while Taylor did not.
What / Who is "Bad Bunny"?
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The NFL was also under the impression that Taylor needed them which is a rather gross miscalculation.
TXAG 05 said:LMCane said:FL_Ag1998 said:
Bad Bunny is the guy who'll be playing the Super Bowl halftime show while I get up to get more snacks, use the bathroom, and see what else is streaming on the other channels.
I second the motion~!
this is an effort by NFL to
1. expand inroads with hispanics
2. shoot the middle finger at MAGA
Im sure it has nothing to do with the fact that he is one of the most popular acts in the world right now. I don't know any of his songs, but even I know that.
While normally I don't like the fact I can see ignored poster's content when they are quoted, in this case I laughed and laughed and laughed
Can honestly say I never heard of Bad Bunny until it was announced he was doing the Super Bowl. Does that make me cool?
I have come to realize that my taste in music means I am pretty isolated and on an island when it comes to pop culture's music.
I'm ok with that after listening to the link above.
I have come to realize that my taste in music means I am pretty isolated and on an island when it comes to pop culture's music.
I'm ok with that after listening to the link above.
This is more my speed.
Lathspell said:
Prince was the last great half time performance. Everything else has been shades of "meh".
The Dre, Snoop, Eminem and Fiddy show from a few years back was pretty good. Correct on the rest -- "meh".
I don't know who they can get to appease old-timers and the "only watch commercials" crowd. They've done a lot of resurrection, err reunion shows with 70's and 80's bands and have run out of pop icon chicks.
The obvious answer here is Nickelback or Creed.
HtownAg92 said:Lathspell said:
Prince was the last great half time performance. Everything else has been shades of "meh".
The Dre, Snoop, Eminem and Fiddy show from a few years back was pretty good. Correct on the rest -- "meh".
I don't know who they can get to appease old-timers and the "only watch commercials" crowd. They've done a lot of resurrection, err reunion shows with 70's and 80's bands and have run out of pop icon chicks.
IMHO - music is too fractured now to appeal to any large cross section.
With streaming people now listen to what they want and not what is pushed by radio.
Anyone new and hot I may have heard their name but I probably have never heard their music. I barely know Beyonce or Taylor music for example. Have no clue who this Bad bunny is.
Speaking for the old timers someone like Billy Joel could still be a good choice and has broad appeal (went to his concert last year with my daughter who is mid 20s).
The last AWESOME halftime was Prince.
Tom Petty was decent but I'm a huge biased fan.
Katy Perry was entertaining to me and left shark ruled - I had been to her concert with my daughter.
Everything else since then has been meh.
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Zombie Jon Snow said:HtownAg92 said:Lathspell said:
Prince was the last great half time performance. Everything else has been shades of "meh".
The Dre, Snoop, Eminem and Fiddy show from a few years back was pretty good. Correct on the rest -- "meh".
I don't know who they can get to appease old-timers and the "only watch commercials" crowd. They've done a lot of resurrection, err reunion shows with 70's and 80's bands and have run out of pop icon chicks.
IMHO - music is too fractured now to appeal to any large cross section.
With streaming people now listen to what they want and not what is pushed by radio.
Anyone new and hot I may have heard their name but I probably have never heard their music. I barely know Beyonce or Taylor music for example. Have no clue who this Bad bunny is.
Speaking for the old timers someone like Billy Joel could still be a good choice and has broad appeal (went to his concert last year with my daughter who is mid 20s).
The last AWESOME halftime was Prince.
Tom Petty was decent but I'm a huge biased fan.
Katy Perry was entertaining to me and left shark ruled - I had been to her concert with my daughter.
Everything else since then has been meh.
Billy Joel would be fun, but he's got health issues
As part of the cool counter-culture crowd, I've never heard of him.
I also have no idea what Taylor sings but have heard of her and respect her business talent. I assume I've heard one of her songs before but don't know.
No one will ever top Prince. That's an objective fact.
I also have no idea what Taylor sings but have heard of her and respect her business talent. I assume I've heard one of her songs before but don't know.
No one will ever top Prince. That's an objective fact.
yeah i heard that recently - very glad i got to that show last year with Stevie Nicks it was awesome. Two headliners in their own right.
agreed. We saw him in Houston and felt the same way
boy09 said:LMCane said:FL_Ag1998 said:
Bad Bunny is the guy who'll be playing the Super Bowl halftime show while I get up to get more snacks, use the bathroom, and see what else is streaming on the other channels.
I second the motion~!
this is an effort by NFL to
1. expand inroads with hispanics
2. shoot the middle finger at MAGA
Perpetual victims
"Communism is when brown person I've never heard of performs halftime of a football game."
CC09LawAg said:
The obvious answer here is Nickelback or Creed.
You joke, but Nickelback was at HLSR in 2024 and they were awesome.
Like others said, Dr Dre/Snoop was really good, and I thought Lady Gaga did a good job too.
Based on the timing of the event as the first Super Bowl post 9/11, it's hard to top U2 in 2002. With the list of victims names on a giant screen during MLK and Bono wearing revealing the US jacket were really special moments that still get to me almost 25 years later. A band that really understood how to deliver precisely what the moment needed.
Beautiful Day
MLK
Where the Streets Have No Name
Beautiful Day
MLK
Where the Streets Have No Name
Oh I'm not joking at all - the older crowd is happy and it's almost like a meme culture concert for the younger crowd.
I think it'd be a home run.
I think it'd be a home run.
Bruno Mars is my all time favorite.
We've had a bit of a lull since the Snoop/Dre/Eminem show. I didn't particularly enjoy Kendrick. Rhianna would've probably done a lot more had she not been pregnant. I was really excited for Usher but I thought his was a little flat.
I bet Bad Bunny will put on a good show. I'll be interested to see what he does for us gringos that don't speak Spanish.
We've had a bit of a lull since the Snoop/Dre/Eminem show. I didn't particularly enjoy Kendrick. Rhianna would've probably done a lot more had she not been pregnant. I was really excited for Usher but I thought his was a little flat.
I bet Bad Bunny will put on a good show. I'll be interested to see what he does for us gringos that don't speak Spanish.
CC09LawAg said:
Oh I'm not joking at all - the older crowd is happy and it's almost like a meme culture concert for the younger crowd.
I think it'd be a home run.
I bet either of them would be a blast. We need another wardrobe malfunction to get us a run of older, tamer acts.
If you haven't watched the Nickelback documentary you should check it out.
Usher was an odd pick to me. I didn't think he was remotely relevant anymore when they announced him. Hell, I never thought he was that relevant in the first place.
I'm not even a big Bruno Mars fan but he was SO good, guy puts on a fantastic show.
re: Bruno Mars.
He disappeared from the planet at some point. Buddy told me it's because he got himself into major debt at the casino where he is apparently the house act until he pays it off?
He disappeared from the planet at some point. Buddy told me it's because he got himself into major debt at the casino where he is apparently the house act until he pays it off?
YouBet said:
Usher was an odd pick to me. I didn't think he was remotely relevant anymore when they announced him. Hell, I never thought he was that relevant in the first place.
Usher was HUGE 20 years ago. He wasn't my cup of tea, but he was very relevant. The NFL doesn't pay artists to do the Super Bowl so the selection of acts in modern time is basically someone that has a huge tour coming up that they want to promote. In Usher's case he had a Vegas residency and new album to promote. It still wasn't the most relevant pick, but the list of artists in any given year willing to put in the time and take on the pressure of doing your most viewed performance ever for free is pretty slim.
cajunaggie08 said:YouBet said:
Usher was an odd pick to me. I didn't think he was remotely relevant anymore when they announced him. Hell, I never thought he was that relevant in the first place.
The NFL doesn't pay artists to do the Super Bowl so the selection of acts in modern time is basically someone that has a huge tour coming up that they want to promote.
Wait, what? They don't get paid?
So this is the equivalent of when someone tells a photographer they don't want to pay them, but they'll get paid in 'exposure' because the person wanting the freebie has a huge following?
CC09LawAg said:cajunaggie08 said:YouBet said:
Usher was an odd pick to me. I didn't think he was remotely relevant anymore when they announced him. Hell, I never thought he was that relevant in the first place.
The NFL doesn't pay artists to do the Super Bowl so the selection of acts in modern time is basically someone that has a huge tour coming up that they want to promote.
Wait, what? They don't get paid?
So this is the equivalent of when someone tells a photographer they don't want to pay them, but they'll get paid in 'exposure' because the person wanting the freebie has a huge following?
Yup. Its exactly like that. I think the NFL pays Roc Nation (halftime producer) which helps cover the cost of building all the stages and hiring all the choreographers and what not. But the star performer doesn't get a cut outside of EXPOSURE
CC09LawAg said:cajunaggie08 said:YouBet said:
Usher was an odd pick to me. I didn't think he was remotely relevant anymore when they announced him. Hell, I never thought he was that relevant in the first place.
The NFL doesn't pay artists to do the Super Bowl so the selection of acts in modern time is basically someone that has a huge tour coming up that they want to promote.
Wait, what? They don't get paid?
So this is the equivalent of when someone tells a photographer they don't want to pay them, but they'll get paid in 'exposure' because the person wanting the freebie has a huge following?
Pretty much, except in this case there actually is exposure.
fig96 said:CC09LawAg said:cajunaggie08 said:YouBet said:
Usher was an odd pick to me. I didn't think he was remotely relevant anymore when they announced him. Hell, I never thought he was that relevant in the first place.
The NFL doesn't pay artists to do the Super Bowl so the selection of acts in modern time is basically someone that has a huge tour coming up that they want to promote.
Wait, what? They don't get paid?
So this is the equivalent of when someone tells a photographer they don't want to pay them, but they'll get paid in 'exposure' because the person wanting the freebie has a huge following?
Pretty much, except in this case there actually is exposure.
fig96 said:CC09LawAg said:cajunaggie08 said:YouBet said:
Usher was an odd pick to me. I didn't think he was remotely relevant anymore when they announced him. Hell, I never thought he was that relevant in the first place.
The NFL doesn't pay artists to do the Super Bowl so the selection of acts in modern time is basically someone that has a huge tour coming up that they want to promote.
Wait, what? They don't get paid?
So this is the equivalent of when someone tells a photographer they don't want to pay them, but they'll get paid in 'exposure' because the person wanting the freebie has a huge following?
Pretty much, except in this case there actually is exposure.
Yep, their streams and album sales go way up after their halftime show performance.
Choosing an artist whose catalogue is entirely in a language that the overwhelming majority of viewers don't speak is just annoying.
The league is trying so hard to globalize.
The league is trying so hard to globalize.
Every year people swear off the NFL. Every year since Prince, people swear off the half time show. If you're over 40? At some point just accept the world doesn't revolve around your taste in music. Bad Bunny isn't my cup of tea, but he'll probably have a better show than the las 4 or 5.
Tailgate88 said:
Well I am not a fan but this video has nearly one Billion-with-a-B views so apparently lots of people are.
My girlfriend is Costa Rican. Her daughter is 17. This summer, I had to listen to this song seemingly endlessly.
Zombie Jon Snow said:HtownAg92 said:Lathspell said:
Prince was the last great half time performance. Everything else has been shades of "meh".
The Dre, Snoop, Eminem and Fiddy show from a few years back was pretty good. Correct on the rest -- "meh".
I don't know who they can get to appease old-timers and the "only watch commercials" crowd. They've done a lot of resurrection, err reunion shows with 70's and 80's bands and have run out of pop icon chicks.
IMHO - music is too fractured now to appeal to any large cross section.
With streaming people now listen to what they want and not what is pushed by radio.
Honestly, this. Even when I was a kid I never understood why people wanted someone else to pick their songs for them when you can just repeat the Master of Puppets album endlessly.
It's hard to explain where my hatred of radio comes from. Even I recognize it's fairly nonsensical, but it's there regardless. For example, my current truck I bought brand new over a decade ago. Before I drove off the lot, the first thing I did was took off the radio antenna. Hate the look and never use it so off it goes.
Like you say, it's pretty damn easy to stay locked in your general wheelhouse essentially forever. I'm a case in point. I was doing it even before it was easy apparently.
Eliminatus said:Zombie Jon Snow said:HtownAg92 said:Lathspell said:
Prince was the last great half time performance. Everything else has been shades of "meh".
The Dre, Snoop, Eminem and Fiddy show from a few years back was pretty good. Correct on the rest -- "meh".
I don't know who they can get to appease old-timers and the "only watch commercials" crowd. They've done a lot of resurrection, err reunion shows with 70's and 80's bands and have run out of pop icon chicks.
IMHO - music is too fractured now to appeal to any large cross section.
With streaming people now listen to what they want and not what is pushed by radio.
Honestly, this. Even when I was a kid I never understood why people wanted someone else to pick their songs for them when you can just repeat the Master of Puppets album endlessly.
It's hard to explain where my hatred of radio comes from. Even I recognize it's fairly nonsensical, but it's there regardless. For example, my current truck I bought brand new over a decade ago. Before I drove off the lot, the first thing I did was took off the radio antenna. Hate the look and never use it so off it goes.
Like you say, it's pretty damn easy to stay locked in your general wheelhouse essentially forever. I'm a case in point. I was doing it even before it was easy apparently.
Yeah funny story on my side of that kind of thing. I think.....
I tuned out of radio in college 84-89. I made my own tapes and by the end of that time I even had a car with a CD player (1989 Mazda RX-& I got after graduation with my first real job).
So by 1991 I was not listening to any radio.
I had somebody tell me about this new band called Nirvana and their song "Smells Like Teen Spirit." I kind of scoffed and just shook my head no, I didn't know them and wasn't interested. they kept telling me I needed to hear it and I was like "whatever". In my opinion there had not there had not been any good music since Guns n Roses debut. Although I had heard of Pearl Jam actually and bought that one based on hearing Jeremy once.
But my thought was the song title (Smells Like Teen Spirit) sounded like a teen pop song and the band name (Nirvana) sounded like a boy band. So I dismissed it outright.
So anyway a week or so later I'm driving my parents car so I have no choice but the radio and this song comes on and I'm like Oh damn that's interesting.... kept listening. No idea who it was... I was like I gotta know who this is..... the lyrics never say the words of the title actually. But fortunately it was one of those few times where they said the band and song after it was over. And that's how I discovered Nirvana.
Eliminatus said:Zombie Jon Snow said:HtownAg92 said:Lathspell said:
Prince was the last great half time performance. Everything else has been shades of "meh".
The Dre, Snoop, Eminem and Fiddy show from a few years back was pretty good. Correct on the rest -- "meh".
I don't know who they can get to appease old-timers and the "only watch commercials" crowd. They've done a lot of resurrection, err reunion shows with 70's and 80's bands and have run out of pop icon chicks.
IMHO - music is too fractured now to appeal to any large cross section.
With streaming people now listen to what they want and not what is pushed by radio.
Honestly, this. Even when I was a kid I never understood why people wanted someone else to pick their songs for them when you can just repeat the Master of Puppets album endlessly.
It's hard to explain where my hatred of radio comes from. Even I recognize it's fairly nonsensical, but it's there regardless. For example, my current truck I bought brand new over a decade ago. Before I drove off the lot, the first thing I did was took off the radio antenna. Hate the look and never use it so off it goes.
Like you say, it's pretty damn easy to stay locked in your general wheelhouse essentially forever. I'm a case in point. I was doing it even before it was easy apparently.
My kids couldn't name a Katy Perry or Taylor Swift song, but can damn sure sing along to my 80's club tunes and Texas country. I don't think they've been exposed to anything later than early 90's in my truck.
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