No, WB, the music was bad. But since no one else has stepped in to expatiate the matter and you are apparently too obtuse to admit it yourself out of white liberal guilt, let me speak for the OP to guess what he is really just trying to point out more succinctly:
HALFTIME SHOWS:
2024 - Usher (Black) (after singing the "Black national anthem")
2023 - Rihanna (Black) (after singing the "Black national anthem")
2022 - Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, Mary Blige, Kendrick Lamar (Black, Black, Black, Black)
2021 - The Weeknd (Black)
2020 - Shakira, Jen Lopez, Bad Bunny, J Balvin (Latino, Latino, Latino, Latino)
2019 - Maroon Five (White), Travis Scott, Big Boi (Black, Black)
So you see, you really have to go back FIVE YEARS since the SB actually FEATURED white people! And at that, both of their guests were black. Since then, they've had four Latino artists and seven more black artists. Now they are singing a black national anthem. And yes, they squeezed 1-2 biological Caucasians in there as guests who were trying their best to ACT black. Worse, all of this crap is mostly rap and street trash music that few adult white people even like.
Now, before you go off on your white liberal guilt rationalization trip about my "racism" and "insecurity" and letting others have a shot and sharing, and more BS about not being afraid of other races and people different from you, let me predicate the conversation right here by assuaging your concerns because THAT IS NOT THE ISSUE AT ALL.
Again, if I may anticipate the OP and what others are complaining about, it is the obvious, undeniable fact of what is really going on here that your white liberal guilt doesn't allow you to see:
- The slow introduction of black culture as the "cool" thing to be.
- The centralization of black people and black culture over what used to be America.
Or do you think it is just an "accident" that 12 of the last 14 artists at the SB have all been non-whites? And at that, ALL of the music has been black or at least black-influenced? These are social infusions thrust upon us by the far left counterculture essentially replacing white people but you're just too dense to get it. If this were not the case, then we would find on average about a THIRD of the artists being non-Caucasian, not 86%. I don't mind at all a variety of musics and artists from all venues, but this is ridiculous. And I didn't even bother going back farther in history.
The point here is that folks (the majority of us by far) are just sick and tired of having race shoved down OUR throats. There is racism here but not by the people on this thread. Worse, we are regularly told by blacks with glee at how they LOOK FORWARD TO REPLACING US!
Smell the coffee fool. Worse, if left to their designs, once these people "take over" as the majority, if you think they will cut you the same opportunities and breaks, you are sadly mistaken. Once they are done literally stealing your country and culture from you right out from under your feet while you finger yourself telling you what a good, tolerant, broad-minded liberal you are, life in America will be hell on Earth for White people in terms of opportunities and treatment. Mark. My. Words. Dipshit.