It Was Just a Halftime Show. The Meltdown Reveals How Dumb We’ve Become

[WEATHER53]

How do you know 70% disapproved? You certainly didn’t conduct a poll so that would make you a cuck repeating something you heard from the media right?

Paid Slade back in action
Present your countering information doofus

 

[WEATHER53]

The dude won 3 Emmy’s. He is popular. Super Bowl typically chooses the most popular acts to perform. It isn’t rocket science

Grammy’s

 

[WEATHER53]

The dude won 3 Emmy’s. He is popular. Super Bowl typically chooses the most popular acts to perform. It isn’t rocket science

Well it ain’t Emmy’s either shit for brains paid poser

 

[Slade3200]

Oh and they became a state when? Its a nation retard

It’s a nation owned by the USA. I was there last year. American flags flying.

 

[Mack The Finger]

Trump makes him look like a saint

I don't really give a F...but you are right.

I did't vote for OMB but I like what he is doing.

Like blowing up a dope runners boat.

I wonder how man LIBs would have died on that run and how thier LIB parets would take it.

They are only trying to feed thier famlies.

 

[Slade3200]

Paid Slade back in action
Present your countering information doofus

I’m responding to a claim the responsiblity to prove the claim is on the person stating it

 

[Slade3200]

Grammy’s

There ya go. Thanks for helping my point

 

[Slade3200]

Well it ain’t Emmy’s either shit for brains paid poser

Can’t respond to my point? No surprise there

 

[IM2]

That is what our country has become ever since Obama became President.

Our country has been this way since July 4th, 1776. It's time the racists stop blaming Obama for the division they created.

 

[theHawk]

The author laid this out perfectly. Many of you on both the right and the left played your parts perfectly. You operated as programmed and never once thought for yourselves.

The conservative backlash wasn’t really about music. It was about discomfort with change and the refusal to admit that not everything is designed to feel familiar anymore. The progressive overpraise wasn’t really about art either. It was about signaling moral alignment and extracting symbolic meaning from something engineered to be disposable. Both reactions inflated the significance of a spectacle precisely because triviality does not feed engagement.

That’s the part worth lingering on. We now live in an ecosystem where boredom is intolerable and neutrality is suspicious. Everything has to be a fight. Every cultural artifact must be processed through a partisan lens or it feels wasted. A halftime show cannot just exist. It has to offend, affirm, threaten, or redeem.

The saddest part is how joyless this all feels. The Super Bowl used to be a night where people argued about commercials and laughed at the excess of it all. Now it’s another venue for pre-scripted outrage, another excuse to perform allegiance. Nobody looks happy doing this. They look committed.

The problem with last night wasn’t the halftime show. It was the hunger to turn a forgettable performance into a referendum.

It Was Just a Halftime Show. The Meltdown Reveals How Dumb We’ve Become.

It was just a halftime show. The predictable outrage and performative praise said far more about our addiction to being angry than about the music.

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It’s not like it was the first alternative Super Bowl halftime show.

In Living Color did it back in 1992:

 

[IM2]

Both sides don't have anything to do with this. The problem comes from just one side and it's time to to stop both siding this

 

[IM2]

It’s not like it was the first alternative Super Bowl halftime show.

In Living Color did it back in 1992:

Yawn! That wasn't done because racists caught a case of butthurt because of who was performing.

 

[airplanemechanic]

FWIW, I said this to my daughter just this morning.

I said, people my age reminisce about the 80s and want it back. I don't; the internet is generally amazing, and so are cell phones for the most part.

Sue, the internet and cell phones have torn us apart, not helped bring us together.

When I was little, if you wanted to call your friend you had to pick up your land line and dial it, and hope that either they or their mom or dad was home to answer the phone. That was only to call and ask if they were done with their homework so you two could go play outside together, and whose football you would use that day.

With girls, if you wanted to tell a girl you liked her, you either had to get up the balls to tell her to her face, or at best, pass a note in class. But you were NOT going to text her "hey baby, sexy ass" or some other disrespectful comment that you would never tell a girl to her face because you know damn good and well she'd slap the shit out of you if you did.

The 80's were an awesome decade, we hung around at arcades, had hair the size of the Hindenburg and drove around in Trans Am's and Camaros and had birthday parties at skate rinks with all our friends. The best video game we had for the most part was Atari. By the time my parents got me one, the first Nintendo was out. I will never forget, at my friends house, I was in her bedroom in May of 1989 playing Duck Hunt on Nintendo. I'll never forget us wrapping ourselves up in her pink bedspread and killing an afternoon. Back when a parent would trust her daughter with a boy in her bedroom to not do anything other than play Nintendo. Just like they said they would. I was in 4th grade and she was in 5th. I don't think I saw her again after that, as we moved away. To this day I still miss her. She was my absolute best friend from pre-Kindergarten until I moved away at the end of 4th grade.

I would KILL to have the 80's back.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

FWIW, I said this to my daughter just this morning.

I said, people my age reminisce about the 80s and want it back. I don't; the internet is generally amazing, and so are cell phones for the most part.

But what I DO miss is the feeling of us all being Americans in the end. We might have disagreed, even vigorously so, but we didn't need to make EVERYTHING a battle. Even down to the halftime Superbowl show.

However, to be fair:

My fellow conservatives have now taken their place in the battle, but the Leftists truly did start it.

I don't know how to go back.....

Sure you know how. You just don't like it.

 

[ThisIsMe]

The author laid this out perfectly. Many of you on both the right and the left played your parts perfectly. You operated as programmed and never once thought for yourselves.

The conservative backlash wasn’t really about music. It was about discomfort with change and the refusal to admit that not everything is designed to feel familiar anymore. The progressive overpraise wasn’t really about art either. It was about signaling moral alignment and extracting symbolic meaning from something engineered to be disposable. Both reactions inflated the significance of a spectacle precisely because triviality does not feed engagement.

That’s the part worth lingering on. We now live in an ecosystem where boredom is intolerable and neutrality is suspicious. Everything has to be a fight. Every cultural artifact must be processed through a partisan lens or it feels wasted. A halftime show cannot just exist. It has to offend, affirm, threaten, or redeem.

The saddest part is how joyless this all feels. The Super Bowl used to be a night where people argued about commercials and laughed at the excess of it all. Now it’s another venue for pre-scripted outrage, another excuse to perform allegiance. Nobody looks happy doing this. They look committed.

The problem with last night wasn’t the halftime show. It was the hunger to turn a forgettable performance into a referendum.

It Was Just a Halftime Show. The Meltdown Reveals How Dumb We’ve Become.

It was just a halftime show. The predictable outrage and performative praise said far more about our addiction to being angry than about the music.

www.mediaite.com

I think he’s wrong about republicans. I think they thought it a slap in the face for someone to come to an iconic American event and perform, basically, only to his culture.

 

[Rawley]

The author laid this out perfectly. Many of you on both the right and the left played your parts perfectly. You operated as programmed and never once thought for yourselves.

The conservative backlash wasn’t really about music. It was about discomfort with change and the refusal to admit that not everything is designed to feel familiar anymore. The progressive overpraise wasn’t really about art either. It was about signaling moral alignment and extracting symbolic meaning from something engineered to be disposable. Both reactions inflated the significance of a spectacle precisely because triviality does not feed engagement.

That’s the part worth lingering on. We now live in an ecosystem where boredom is intolerable and neutrality is suspicious. Everything has to be a fight. Every cultural artifact must be processed through a partisan lens or it feels wasted. A halftime show cannot just exist. It has to offend, affirm, threaten, or redeem.

The saddest part is how joyless this all feels. The Super Bowl used to be a night where people argued about commercials and laughed at the excess of it all. Now it’s another venue for pre-scripted outrage, another excuse to perform allegiance. Nobody looks happy doing this. They look committed.

The problem with last night wasn’t the halftime show. It was the hunger to turn a forgettable performance into a referendum.

It Was Just a Halftime Show. The Meltdown Reveals How Dumb We’ve Become.

It was just a halftime show. The predictable outrage and performative praise said far more about our addiction to being angry than about the music.

www.mediaite.com

What was the "meltdown?"

Calling bullshit on an artist that doesn't have any songs in English?

 

[struth]

The author laid this out perfectly. Many of you on both the right and the left played your parts perfectly. You operated as programmed and never once thought for yourselves.

The conservative backlash wasn’t really about music. It was about discomfort with change and the refusal to admit that not everything is designed to feel familiar anymore. The progressive overpraise wasn’t really about art either. It was about signaling moral alignment and extracting symbolic meaning from something engineered to be disposable. Both reactions inflated the significance of a spectacle precisely because triviality does not feed engagement.

That’s the part worth lingering on. We now live in an ecosystem where boredom is intolerable and neutrality is suspicious. Everything has to be a fight. Every cultural artifact must be processed through a partisan lens or it feels wasted. A halftime show cannot just exist. It has to offend, affirm, threaten, or redeem.

The saddest part is how joyless this all feels. The Super Bowl used to be a night where people argued about commercials and laughed at the excess of it all. Now it’s another venue for pre-scripted outrage, another excuse to perform allegiance. Nobody looks happy doing this. They look committed.

The problem with last night wasn’t the halftime show. It was the hunger to turn a forgettable performance into a referendum.

It Was Just a Halftime Show. The Meltdown Reveals How Dumb We’ve Become.

It was just a halftime show. The predictable outrage and performative praise said far more about our addiction to being angry than about the music.

www.mediaite.com

What’s wrong with watching a football game and having it feel familiar?

 

[Crepitus]

The author laid this out perfectly. Many of you on both the right and the left played your parts perfectly. You operated as programmed and never once thought for yourselves.

The conservative backlash wasn’t really about music. It was about discomfort with change and the refusal to admit that not everything is designed to feel familiar anymore. The progressive overpraise wasn’t really about art either. It was about signaling moral alignment and extracting symbolic meaning from something engineered to be disposable. Both reactions inflated the significance of a spectacle precisely because triviality does not feed engagement.

That’s the part worth lingering on. We now live in an ecosystem where boredom is intolerable and neutrality is suspicious. Everything has to be a fight. Every cultural artifact must be processed through a partisan lens or it feels wasted. A halftime show cannot just exist. It has to offend, affirm, threaten, or redeem.

The saddest part is how joyless this all feels. The Super Bowl used to be a night where people argued about commercials and laughed at the excess of it all. Now it’s another venue for pre-scripted outrage, another excuse to perform allegiance. Nobody looks happy doing this. They look committed.

The problem with last night wasn’t the halftime show. It was the hunger to turn a forgettable performance into a referendum.

It Was Just a Halftime Show. The Meltdown Reveals How Dumb We’ve Become.

It was just a halftime show. The predictable outrage and performative praise said far more about our addiction to being angry than about the music.

www.mediaite.com

It's rare that I agree with you, but in this case I do.

 

[Fang]

People just be honest. The game itself sucked. New England never had a chance. Drake Maye played like crap. As NFL games go this one was boring. Then along comes the halftime show. More than half the NFL fans probably never heard of this guy. Most of the show was in Spanish so most people just sat there and watched without singing along. I was at a party so watching the alternate show was out of the question, not that I would have watched it even if I was home by myself. This wasn't New England vs Atlanta and overtime or Prince putting on an Epic show. This entire night was down on the list of great Super Bowl memories including BOTH halftime shows. If you loved one of the halftime shows, then good for you.

 

[Blaster]

What the heck, lets blame it on OBAMA, AS HE HAS NOT BEEN IN GOVERMENT FOR A LONG LONG TIME. (TEN YEARS)

He damaged the country almost beyond repair.