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

[SweetSue92]

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.

I know a lot of people our age feel that way. I have concluded I'm just not a nostalgic person....I never want back what I had, I'm just happy to be where I am. Which is strange, I know this

 

[Blaster]

It just kills you to believe a black man was POTUS.

I voted for him in 2008. He was disappointing.

 

[1srelluc]

Genius English Translations – Bad Bunny, Jowell & Randy & Ñengo Flow - Safaera (English Translation)

[Intro: Randy Nota Loca & Jowell] / Bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla / Ayy, yo, yo, yo / Yo, yo, yo, yo, yah / Lalalalalalala (Blow, blow) / Lalalalalalala / [Refrain: Randy Nota Loca

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Family friendly?

Yes, so that your panties get wet
Get horny and versatile
More slutty than Betty Boop
The one who got horny, mami, was you
I stay killing with the U
***** with dick, dick with ass (Push it in)
Pu-***** with dick, dick with ass, yes (Push it in)

 

[gtopa1]

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.....

Same as ever; to thine own self be true.

Simple really.

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

My thought during the whole thing.

I'd prefer Macedonian myself. But I don't speak that either.

Frankly it was a very BORING even; twerking is soooooo yesterday.

Greg

 

[1srelluc]

I'd prefer Macedonian myself. But I don't speak that either.

Frankly it was a very BORING even; twerking is soooooo yesterday.

Greg

LOL....I guess there was a reason NBC did not provide CC for it's non Spanish speaking audience for the HT show..

 

[gtopa1]

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.

I only ever watch the highlight reels and frankly even IT was BORING!!! lol


Rugby bloke here though.

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

LOL....I guess there was a reason NBC did not provide CC for it's non Spanish speaking audience for the HT show..

Evidently the words were obscene in places; I still think the women looked like trollops, and the blokes looked sleazy. Dem base I suppose.

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

Genius English Translations – Bad Bunny, Jowell & Randy & Ñengo Flow - Safaera (English Translation)

[Intro: Randy Nota Loca & Jowell] / Bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla / Ayy, yo, yo, yo / Yo, yo, yo, yo, yah / Lalalalalalala (Blow, blow) / Lalalalalalala / [Refrain: Randy Nota Loca

genius.com

Family friendly?

Yes, so that your panties get wet
Get horny and versatile
More slutty than Betty Boop
The one who got horny, mami, was you
I stay killing with the U
***** with dick, dick with ass (Push it in)
Pu-***** with dick, dick with ass, yes (Push it in)

One way ticket to HepC and Aids.

Greg

 

[Mac1958]

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

The Trumpsters MADE it a big deal. Just like the Dems made mountains out of molehills in the past.

This stuff would be funny if it were not so goddamn destructive.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

I voted for him in 2008. He was disappointing.

Sure you did.

 

[Blaster]

Sure you did.

I sure did.

 

[Zincwarrior]

A little while ago, why?

Get specific. How many year ago? Ten? Twenty?

You're not their target audience. Neither am I.

 

[Hafar1014]

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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Progressives believe change is always good just because its change but never consider how destructive their beliefs are

 

[Correll]

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.

So, this "change". What is the "change" and is it a change for the GOOD, or a change for the worse?

Is it acceptable to discuss? You seem to have an unstated premise that the change has to be accepted and any discussion of it is taboo.

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....

SYMBOLIC MEANING?

Nothing wrong with symbolic meaning. And really, considering the cultural importance of this event, seems to me the question should be asked,

WHAT WAS THE MEANING THAT WAS TO BE EXTRACTED?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Then don’t listen to it. Who cares. I remember La Bamaba and The Macarena were huge hits that Americans loved without all the xenophobic hyperbole around them.

Shakira,
Despocito
Glria Estefan

 

[ThisIsMe]

His American culture.

American culture is Puerto Rican Spanish speaking?

 

[ThisIsMe]

Culture being sex traffickers and pedos

I wouldn’t say the Puerto Rican culture is defined that way. They are good people. I have no problem with them, but if you watch the videos of the crowd from the SB, almost nobody was enjoying the half time show. Likely because they couldn’t understand it, also because they knew it was an overtly political statement designed as a jab towards them.

 

[JohnDB]

 

[Montrovant]

I wouldn’t say the Puerto Rican culture is defined that way. They are good people. I have no problem with them, but if you watch the videos of the crowd from the SB, almost nobody was enjoying the half time show. Likely because they couldn’t understand it, also because they knew it was an overtly political statement designed as a jab towards them.

I saw a video of the show taken from the stands, and you could hardly see anything for long stretches. That halftime show was very much designed for the TV audience, rather than the stadium audience.