THUD: THE BLACK EYED PEAS SHAT ON 222,000,000 EYES

Luckily there was a Mythbusters marathon on at the same time as this was. I shudder to think the people who paid obscene amounts of money to be there being subjected to that shit.

Then I point and laugh at those people.

I don't know, I think Fergie is rather attractive.  Aside from the pants peeing and all that.

Some crackpot at Bleacher Report (which honestly will print anything written by anybody) ranked it as the best halftime show in the history of the Super Bowl. The longer the comments go, the funnier they get.

Out of tune, out of sync, and serious mic issues(aka LOUD, and Fergie's was barely on at first). Just awful. One of my friends on facebook said with all sincerity it was the best of the last 5 years, which isn't saying much, but no. When I heard the guitar from "Sweet Child O' Mine" I turned to my friend and said, "Slash must be rolling in his grave!". Then Slash rose from beneath the stage, to which I could only say "Axl must be rolling in his grave!".

On the plus side, the light-up suits were pretty cool. They must keep them safe when they're... jogging at ni-oh nevermind.

Fergie ain't too shabby to look at.

Was I the only one wondering about John Spartan and the Three Seashells during the entire thing?

Didn't Slash say he didn't want to see GnR music featured on Glee because it wasn't "cool"? If so, I have news for him.

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One of my friends on facebook said with all sincerity it was the best of the last 5 years, which isn't saying much, but no ...

Wrong. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band remains the gold standard. This was garbage.

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Wrong. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band remains the gold standard. This was garbage.

I like Bruce and all, but Prince might wanna disagree with that statement.

Prince was very, very good. So was Tom Petty. So was U2.

I think those are the four I've really enjoyed over the last decade. (Although I'm not sure if "enjoyed" is the right word for the U2 performance, considering it was also a de facto 9/11 tribute.)

Can I start the campaign for next year's half time show starring Bjork?

My major complaint was they seemed to be piping the mics through my TV but not the background music. It created a weird & hollow not-quite-a cappella effect. Which made the not-good singing all the more obvious. I kinda liked the outfits and surrounding production though. And poor Xtina needed subtitles.

 I 'd say Prince was the best, and the Stones second.  Until halftime I thought Fergie was hot. That was such a horrible performance, she is now fugly to me. I have no respect for Slash.

ugh, I saw clips and my first thought was 'when did Daft Punk and 90s Michael Jackson have kids?'

then Fergie started singing and I swear one of the 7 seals of the apocalypse cracked

I'm sorry I missed Christine Aguilera's mangling of the National Anthem. Guess she's not very good without backup vocals and/or Pro Tools huh?

I'm not a fan of Floptina's recent output, but that woman can truly sing.  Her problem has always been that she sings like she's got something to prove.  She does 50 million runs in every song as if every performance is to stave off elimination on American Idol.  I could give her a pass on forgetting the lyrics if she wasn't so damn screechy.  

Halftime needs Beyonce!  

I cannot fathom how acts so dependent on production as the Black Eyed Peas could ever be seen as viable live acts. You might as well get Daft Punk and have them play mandolin medleys.

As for Fergie, I'd definitely hit. 

You say this like it would be a bad thing. I imagine this would be approximately one thousand times more listenable, even in a massive stadium surrounded by thousands of people, that whatever that was at the half-time show. I like to imagine smoke rising from the vocoders backstage as they overheat.

I'm surprised the the article I wrote led to THIS discussion. So weird. I love it!

They need to bring back Up With People.

Honest question - Who is the halftime show for? Nobody at the game gives a shit (I would guess), people at home use the time to fill their plates/empty their bladder/make love/ walk the dog/chat amongst themselves, the acts themselves don't really benefit (You think there was even one person who went on Amazon or woke up Monday and went to the store just to buy the Black Eyed Peas CD?). Is it an attempt to get non-football fans to watch the entire game [i]just[/i] to see the halftime show?

It's for ratings.  Michael Jackson's halftime show had higher ratings than the first half of the game in '93.

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Honest question - Who is the halftime show for? Nobody at the game gives a shit (I would guess), people at home use the time to fill their plates/empty their bladder/make love/

Oh, I'd love to hear that conversation. "Hey hon, it's half-time.  Up for a roll in the hay?"

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Originally Posted by Raspberry Leper 

Honest question - Who is the halftime show for? Nobody at the game gives a shit (I would guess), people at home use the time to fill their plates/empty their bladder/make love/

Oh, I'd love to hear that conversation. "Hey hon, it's half-time.  Up for a roll in the hay?"

We'll do it doggy style so we can both watch the highlights.

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We'll do it doggy style so we can both watch the highlights.

Until Rapistburger shows up on screen and makes everything awkward.

Easily the worst halftime show I've ever seen. Black Eyed Peas just cant sing, not one bit. Terrible choice for a performer at the super bowl halftime show. I think I'd rather have been a hot college girl and run into Rapistberger in a dark alley than have to watch that shit.