Super Bowl Halftime (Public Board)

by JoFrance, Monday, February 10, 2025, 20:22 (196 days ago)

I don't watch much football, but I always watch the Super Bowl with my husband at home. I used to love the halftime entertainment many years ago but the past few years its gone downhill, big time. I'm sick of the rap crap and the weirdness of it all. There are plenty of talented people out there, yet Jay Z calls the shots apparently so its always rap. He has to go.

This synopsis is from Brave AI:

Jay Z Super Bowl Role

Jay-Z, through his company Roc Nation, has been in charge of selecting Super Bowl halftime performers since 2019 when Roc Nation entered into a partnership with the NFL. This agreement designated Jay-Z as the 'live music entertainment strategist' for the Super Bowl, and he has been responsible for choosing the artists who perform during the halftime show each year since then.

Despite this, Jay-Z did not perform at the Super Bowl himself, as he has rejected the idea of performing at the halftime show due to the selection process he found flawed.

The partnership between Jay-Z and the NFL has been controversial, with some fans blaming him for the perceived underwhelming performances and others criticizing the focus on hip-hop artists.

I didn't see that halftime performance by Kendrick Lamar as the type of entertainment the Super Bowl should have. Its out of step with just about everyone normal. I turned it off.

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Superb Owl

by Cornpop Sutton ⌂, A bad bad dude who makes good shine., Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 01:19 (196 days ago) @ JoFrance
edited by Cornpop Sutton, Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 01:46

Superb Owl is totally 1000% normie fodder. Since I am a disembodied brain floating in an aqueous solution I find it mundane.

The cheering for Trump and the booing of Taylor Swift was hilarious. The public boos Taylor Swift for being with the establishment left now and even tho she's an airhead she now personifies the opposition to normalcy. Trump was treated like an absolute hero. That alone is quite an advance.

The half time act IMO was quite INoffensive. Not being able to understand the message or lyrics supports that generous assessment.

"Uncle Sam"uel Jackon's cameos were extremely mildly humorous. Extremely mildly. I'm not certain what his pronouncements were supposed to mean except to be a voice of a "boomer".

Edit:

https://screenrant.com/super-bowl-2025-samuel-l-jackson-uncle-sam-kendrick-lamar-explained/

Oh, Ok. If I believe the writer (not certain) Samuel Jackson was essentially role playing an "Uncle Tom".

So the halftime performance plus the narrative is kind of saying that Murrica is racis'. Same old shit.

And the rapper was blathering something about a revolution but most revolutions have molotov cocktails and stuff so this was not convincing.

Superb Owl

by JoFrance, Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 19:23 (195 days ago) @ Cornpop Sutton

I knew they would cheer Trump but I was surprised they booed Taylor Swift. I thought it was because they thought she was a jinx on the Chiefs. KC played a lousy game. It probably was her endorsement of Kamala. She proved she's just an airhead leftie.

I saw a little bit of halftime and had no idea what was going on so I turned it off. I never saw Uncle Sam, but it wouldn't have changed my mind to turn it off. It was just more of the same old rap crap. Rap is a played-out genre and so is the racism schtick about Murrica.

Horrible half time show

by IT guy, Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 23:24 (195 days ago) @ JoFrance

And a bad game as well. I was glad to see Taylor's arrogant boyfriend lose.

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