It's too the point where it feels like everything about the Super Bowl, from the lead up, to the pre-game songs, to the commercials, to the halftime show, has become this grandiose attempt at blowing us away with the ultimate in entertainment value. And it's suddenly come off as incredibly underwhelming.
I can't recall ever missing a Super Bowl. It's one of those events, like a foosballz MNC game or most Final 4's that I love to watch every year. As for the halftime shows, I may be different than most in that I also can't recall one, before last night, that I didn't enjoy. Regardless of whether it was an artist I was a fan of or not, the shows have always been entertaining to me. I even thought Maroon 5 did a decent job. (Yeah, I know)
So last night, they start with some lady I've never heard of singing God Bless America. When it was painfully apparent that this was going to get dragged out into a 2 hour Broadway production, I turned the channel. After watching an entire episode of Ridiculousness, I turned back and Demi Lovato, or whoever was singing the Anthem, was belting out, "The laaaaaaannnnnd of the freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....and the hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmme......click.....let's see if there's an Andy Griffith Show going.
I watch the SB as much for the commercials as anything else. Those days are long gone. Very little innovation and there may be 1/10th the humor as in years past. It's now 90% movie trailers, PSA's for women's inequality and lengthy diatribes for businesses I've never heard of. What happened Bud Light? Doritos? Where ya' at? You get one or two decent attempts nowadays, but there's too much crap to sit through to get to them.
Now the halftime show. What it comes down to is, we've digressed to the point the where no instruments are played and no one actually has a mic turned on. It was a glorified dance choreography with 600 people on stage. That was quite possibly the worst attempt at lip syncing I've ever witnessed. I was almost embarrassed for them. Shakira wasn't even making an effort to make it look real. I guess she thought that no one would pay attention as long as she was wiggling her ass. Same with J-lo. If I spread my legs enough times, that should keep everyone from noticing that I haven't sung one word. Granted, it's not a half bad strategy, but this is the Super Bowl. And both performers brought out their own Spanish speaking rappers who added exactly nada to the festivities.
Yes, I sound like the old curmudgeon talking about "Back in my day...." It's just that the whole production has gotten tired, repetitive and so over the top that again, it's totally underwhelming.
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