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Monday, February 7, 2011
Super Bowl Halftime Destroyed By Peas
I am not a Football fan at all. Being Canadian I was raised and taught the almost religious teachings of the great sport of Hockey. Go Habs Go. But last night I guess the Superbowl was on almost every tv channel, it was tough to avoid it. So while scanning the channels I fell upon the famous Super Bowl Halftime show. Hearing such good things over the years about it I decided to take some time out of my life to watch it. Black Eyed Peas? I want my 12 mins back!! What a horrible show. Fergie sounded like a dolphin fighting for air out of water while getting ripped apart by wild wolves and that is a compliment. At the beginning the sound guys must have messed up because her mic wasn't on. Later into the show I wished they left it that way, it would have chanced for a much better halftime show. But as always luck would not be my friend after they fixed the mistake (wink wink) and turned her mic back on, unfortunately. Then low and behold all of a sudden the classic riff to Guns and Roses' Sweet Child Of Mine sounded from some unfamiliar location. The crowd goes wild, probably because they thought the Peas set was over with, but oh no yet again luck would not help us out. Slash rises from the depths under the stage and appears right when Fergie starts in on her rendition of Sweet Child Of Mine. I've lost all respect for Slash and will never forgive him for ruining that song for me. Her mimicking of Axl's voice was a travesty and should never be heard again. I can't believe how this woman can be called a singer with that cat scratch voice. The person who heard her for the first time and said "hey this talent can go places" should be thrown in a pit of hot lava and poked with hot daggers. Not only was Fergies singing bad but what was with the whole LED light show. The new movie Tron this year was a flop so there was no reason to praise it.Then up comes Usher, really Usher?? How many Football fans do you think listen to The Black Eyed Peas or Usher? None im sure and if they do they don't publicly announce it to the world. Usher don't even sing he dance's. The same damn moves since the 90's. Its sickening how horrible it was to watch this. There was nothing right about this Halftime show and it ruined me for next years show and the year afters. Thanks Black Eyed Peas for sucking so much and for making my point that the biggest new bands with commercial success these days have no talent. They just have the right marketing. Its a shame what is happening to today's music and it should be stopped. But continuing to buy these bands cds or mp3s is not helping with making them or music what it is today. Garbage!
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Can't say I enjoyed TRON: Legacy myself, and made the connection instantaneously with the outfits BEP wore on stage... and I will politely say that none of the singers' voices were up to par at all - even the woman from "Glee" who sang, as well Christina Aguilera.
ReplyDeleteI don't watch much TV these days, and sports shows I avoid like the plague, usually... this didn't help in trying to appeal to me, either.
*goes back to making music for upcoming shows...*
Dan K.