Superbowl Half Time show...

[TCLGirls]

...is so painful to watch...especially that chick singing sweet child o' mine.

[Jakez]

They always suck, I think when they're picking someone for a halftime show they think "who has gotten the most exposure and made the most popular and annoying songs this year?".

[Scott McD]

They need:

[selena]

I like some BEP songs, but that was not even close to the best halftime performance.

And Fergie should be bitch slapped for trying to sing Sweet Child.

[TCLGirls]

The NFL should try to get some rock bands that also have some mainstream appeal like AC/DC

[lauralace]

has got to be the worst halftime show I've ever seen since I started watching back in the 80's :/

[Caligari]

utter shite all the way around, worst sb halftime ever

[Spunky]

Not a huge fan of the BEP anyways,kinda sucked

[Scott McD]

Originally Posted by lauralace

has got to be the worst halftime show I've ever seen since I started watching back in the 80's :/

Apart from the shitty vocals, i thought the actual show looked pretty good!


Edit: Did Usher even attempt to sing ?

[PromoterX]

That chick was cute in her pleated miniskirt!

[NaughtyVisions]

Originally Posted by selena

And Fergie should be bitch slapped for trying to sing Sweet Child.

And swaying/dancing like Axl does...it was like she was attempting to impersonate him.

[Supz]

That was just terrible. Thank god for Slash

[SuzzyQ]

Originally Posted by Supz

That was just terrible. Thank god for Slash

Thank god for the volume control on the tv. That was painful to watch.

[stephane76]

Originally Posted by TCLGirls

...is so painful to watch...especially that chick singing sweet child o' mine.

good article:

Black Eyed Peas Vs. Tron: A Super Bowl Contest No One Wins
Posted Sun Feb 6, 2011 6:17pm PST by Chris Willman in Stop The Presses!


As it turns out, there are far, far duller ways to pass the time at a half-time show than counting the wrinkles on classic rockers. Like counting the times in just the past few months we've seen the Black Eyed Peas on television doing pretty much this same schtick they did at the Super Bowl. If you want to make sure you have the least anticipated Bowl half-time in modern history, a sure bet is to book a group that would show up to play a supermarket ribbon-cutting.

We all know why this happened. The Super Bowl's producers spent the last few years trying to avoid any chance of another wardrobe malfunction, after the Janet 'n' Justin fracas, resulting in a succession of post-50 superstars like Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and the Who. But the Bowl honchos were apparently susceptible to the criticism that this made them appear old and out of touch. So when they reversed that trend and booked the Black Eyed Peas this year, it was clear they were out to court the youth audience and avoid age malfunction.

But there might not have been this uneventful a Bowl intermission since the Up With People era of no-name half-time shows. Come back, AARP-rockers... all is forgiven.

What could the Peas possibly do that we hadn't already burned out on? Bring out the Tron dancers, as it turns out. If you felt like Tron Legacy missed a bet by not having Jeff Bridges lead a war platoon's worth of boogying hoofers at the climax, Super Bowl XLV made up for that missed opportunity.

Also, Usher did the splits. We can only imagine the legions of seamstresses employed to make sure those pants could survive nuclear fission.

Otherwise, it was been there, seen-and-heard that. Special guest star Slash, playing lead guitar while Fergie sang "Sweet Child of Mine"? That was a yawner back when they did it on the U2 tour a couple of pop eons ago. Dancers with boxes on their heads? That conceptual gambit isn't any fresher now than it was when the Peas brought out the box-heads on multiple TV appearances last fall.

The live-or-Memorex questions that typically fly after a halftime show were rendered moot here. The Peas' hits usually involve more shouting than singing, anyway, so staying on pitch was not going to pose many problems except in a handful of Fergie moments. When Will.i.am sings nowadays, it's through the most blatantly distorted AutoTune in the first place, so the real question is how faithfully his vocals' robotic nature could be replicated just as robotically. Usher's singing was clearly less live when he came out to perform "Oh My God," but the camera angles made it tough to tell if he was even pretending to sing, before he pulled off the leap-and-spread stunt that was his cameo appearance's sole raison d'etre.

Still, the cast of seeming thousands on the field was more fun to watch than the usual fake fans brought in to cheer the oldies acts. Initially appearing all in white, they appeared like the universe's most enthusiastic cult, before scattering across the field like schools of fish and switching on their Christmas lights.

It all seemed like a commercial for something, following directly on the heels of an ad for a product having to do with "the cloud" that featured animated versions of the BEPs. But what were they selling? Was it "love"? (Or "LOIE," as the lighted platforms seemed to spell it out, possibly due to a short-out from one of those dancing black lights?)

As Steve Martin tweeted after halftime: "I learned so much about love during the halftime show. Andthen at the end when it said, 'The Beginning,' I thought 'Wow.' Just. Wow."

Ah yes?in lieu of the obvious soda deal, this was all a commercial for The Beginning, the BEPs album that currently sits at No. 26 on the sales chart, after just nine weeks of release. That's right: This week, the Black Eyed Peas are less popular than the Black Keys (see: chart position No. 20).

Way to anticipate that youthful zeitgeist, Super Bowl producers! For 2012, we can only hope for P. Diddy and some swing-dancing Star Wars stormtroopers.

[The Demon]

Originally Posted by TCLGirls

...is so painful to watch...especially that chick singing sweet child o' mine.

I felt bad for slash. He was the only positive to come out of that show and they butchered his song.

[The Demon]

Originally Posted by TCLGirls

The NFL should try to get some rock bands that also have some mainstream appeal like AC/DC

Sorry, we are currently experiencing the "pussy" generation. It was either Black Eyed Peas or Justin Bieber.

[TheLegacy]

I am really surprised they didn't have Katy Perry or some good rock band playing - ZZtop, ACDC etc. but agreed it was a useless show that even the cast of Glee should have performed and would have done a better job