I guess I am old, I did not understand one word of the halftime

[doc03]

show or what it was supposed to be, just noise.

[brewens]

1. Roger that. Rap doesn't go well with crowd noise. The days of my classic rock heroes doing the

show are long gone. It was nice while it lasted though.

[WarGamer]

63. Can't understand why Metallica has never been invited.

[brewens]

70. I've seen James and Kirk do the Anthem at games. Baseball and hockey at least. Metallica would

be cool.

[ChazII]

2. Closed Caption

The words didn't always make sense. I am getting old, too.

[Demovictory9]

76. here is the original...

[ChazII]

90. Thank you!

This is a wonderful act of kindness and I appreciate it.

[Judi Lynn]

96. Also, you can take the titles of the songs you posted, and look them up

with google in a search for each one's lyrics.

It's amazing how much they actually communicate, isn't it?

Thank you.

[True Dough]

3. Well, doc

Did you try "sparking up" first???

[nini]

5. Lol

😀

[Delphinus]

31. Ooh,

*that* is good!

[nini]

4. Rap legends

Loved it. I’m a huge fan of Snoop. 🙂

[WarGamer]

64. Reminded me that Tupac left us much too soon...

Did appreciate Dre/Snoop paying homage singing California, though...

[nini]

114. Compton was top billing

I wasn't paying too close attention at first then realized the buildings were all Compton based.

It was well done. I enjoyed it.

[radius777]

134. +1. These are heros of gen-x, hip hop legends,

and fitting to start with Dre and Snoop being that the game was hosted in LA.

Dre, Snoop, 50, Mary J, Eminem ...

These artists are all 'real' hardcore legends who made their way up from the bottom - not corporate confections like most of what music is today.

[Hoyt]

6. Grew up on folk and 60s music. But I admire good musicians. Enjoyed it.

[zeusdogmom]

7. Think I am old, too. (actually i am 😄)

That was one boring half time show. I’d rather listen to the normal old guys blathering away about what I just watched in the 1st two quarters.

[BlackSkimmer]

8. Pure 90s OG. I loved it!

[USALiberal]

22. OG?

[Lemonwurst]

30. OG Original Gangsta (nm)

[JustAnotherGen]

51. I actually started dancing

I'm 49 - that was my crew

[malaise]

80. THIS

And I’m much older than you. Young folks keep me up to date.

[BlackSkimmer]

95. I'm a bit older, but I was dancing too!

All my faves.-

[Demsrule86]

86. I loved it too.

[tavernier]

9. I thought it was interesting

But I think Snoop had to pee because he kept grabbing his wee wee

[demmiblue]

10. I thought it was awesome.

50 was a little lackluster, but I was moving with it the whole time. My dog was like . Lol!

[farmbo]

11. Yeah but they had three cherry 1963 Chevy convertibles

So I was all in.

[MLAA]

28. Beautiful cars!

[doc03]

33. The cars were the only thing I could relate to. The rest was just chaos. nt

[vercetti2021]

12. I listened to most of these songs in the 90s and 00s

I sung all of them as they were played

[YDogg]

17. It lit up our house.

We're oldish but not yet deadish.

[vercetti2021]

23. Exactly!

All of us sung

[doc03]

48. Are you serious? That stuff was from the 90s. That's what we would call the

golden oldies, my gawd. Where was I? My radio is stuck on The Bridge and the 60s.

[vercetti2021]

50. Yep I'm a millennial boomer now

90s is old classic to us

[BlueSpot]

56. LOL - you can't be a millenial boomer!

[Sympthsical]

13. Just to make you feel older

As a Millennial, I was watching and thinking, "Hey, I remember this stuff from when I was young!"

So . . . there's that . . .

I was wondering if this is how my parents felt whenever they dragged out the Rolling Stones for things.

[uponit7771]

18. +1

[Volaris]

25. If that isnt enough, think on this:

Em is eligible for the rock n roll hall of fame 2022, because it's been 25 years since the release of his first commercial album.

[Sympthsical]

29. I think I was more surprised by Mary J Blige

I see Mary J Blige, I click. But then I wondered when "No More Drama" came out.

2001.

Whut?

[Autumn]

38. I was a Stones fan when younger, their halftime was just sad. This one I enjoyed.

[snowybirdie]

14. Michael Bechloss

just tweeted the first SB featured college marching bands. I say bring that back.

[Irish_Dem]

41. That would be so great.

[a kennedy]

43. I second that.....AND THE PACKERS WON THE VERY FIRST SUPER BOWL eh??? 😅 😅 😅

[lpbk2713]

15. Is the game back on?

I always turn off the TV for a half hour after the second quarter ends.
SB halftime shows always suck.

[milestogo]

34. I agree.

I can't remember the last time I enjoyed one.

[LiberatedUSA]

73. Lady Gaga's was great. N/t

[CrackityJones75]

82. I mean Prince was amazing

[11 Bravo]

127. Greatest. Halftime. Show. EVER!

[CrackityJones75]

129. Yup

[uponit7771]

16. It was all American classic full of legendary artist.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. I Thought It Was Fine

Not my style of music, but I thought it was all pretty good & fun.
The huge number of dancers was cool.

[FloridaBlues]

20. I was hoping for more Mary J songs.

[radius777]

135. +1. Her segment wasn't great, considering

she had more hits in the 90s that she could've done. 'Real Love' was a monster hit back in the day:

[beaglelover]

21. Prince's crown as best SB half time show is safe!

[WarGamer]

65. I'd say the top 20 is safe.

[Etherealoc1]

24. Loved it and the response from the

crowd was epic.

[Skittles]

72. and I am enjoying the response of rightwing hacks

yes INDEED

[WhiskeyGrinder]

26. It was a solid show but yeah I guess you're old.

[Lemonwurst]

27. I'm old too, but Hip Hop needed to be there

It’s way past time, given how many young African-American athletes are in the NFL.

As a musician, I appreciate hip hop as poetry melded with music as a viable art form.

Fine if not everyone favors it, but for me there’s something about the beat and the dancing that makes me glad young people seem a bit more discerning about what counts as entertainment vs. what was dished up to us as flower children.

[luvs2sing]

37. Very well said!

I can’t personally relate to it, but I enjoy it and recognize it as a legitimate art form.

[Skittles]

71. I didn't like hip hop and rap at first, the beat seems often monotonous

but then when I started actually listening to the lyrics I found a lot of it very and clever indeed

[PatSeg]

106. I can appreciate it as poetry,

but I find the redundant beat annoying and for me, it is hard to listen to. I have hearing problems and one of the hardest things to listen to is rap. Lyrics set to a harmony tend to be easier for me to retain.

[Skittles]

119. yes that is what stops me from being a true fan

I have misophonia, and repeated noise drives me nuts....I can listen to a song or two but that's it. Actually, that is pretty much true of all music for me, I've never had the patience to listen to an entire album.

[PatSeg]

120. Too much repetition makes me anxious and irritable

That is true of some overly simplistic pop music as well. The worst is probably having a neighbor who plays very loud music with the bass cranked up where all you hear is the beat, but no melody or lyrics.

[Skittles]

125. have you ever noticed when a neighbor plays music too loud

it's never GOOD music

what are the odds

[PatSeg]

126. Yes and I think it must be a conspiracy!!!

I had neighbors who played really loud music, but it was my friend above them who got the worst of it. She was so stressed out that she frantically tried to find the radio station they were listening to so at least she could hear something besides the bass! To make matters worse, we both had young babies at the time.

[moonscape]

130. Even if it's good music, when it's coming

from the outside it’s noise.

[petronius]

32. I recognize the names, and their importance, but no one there is on my current playlists

And honestly, I prefer it that way - always glad for a chance to give a heartfelt "Meh!" to a national event...

[SYFROYH]

35. It was for the Gen X crowd (which I am).

And it was awesome. The neighborhood set was perfect.

The only thing I wanted was for Ice Cube to make a surprise performance.

Mary J Blige was incredible.

[vercetti2021]

36. That and millennials

I grew up listening to these artists in the 90s

[I_UndergroundPanther]

53. I am an eldergoth.

Wasen't into the rap stuff however I like eminem.
I have a cd that has metal artists collabrating with rappers,I love it. Its the soundtrack to the film Judgement Night.

90's had a huge amount of all kinds of music so many flavors .

[badhair77]

49. I'm a boomer and I loved it.

Lot of moving going on here.

[Jspur]

58. It was also for the older millennial crowd who were 80's babies

that grew up to these music artists.

[Amishman]

88. I'm of that generation and didn't like it, but it's not my taste in music

As I said in another thread, the move of picking one style and going all in is probably the right move. Just rotate the genre each year

[radius777]

136. +1. Would've been great if Tom Morello

could've played his guitar alongside them - having based alot of his guitar styling on (particularly West coast) hip hop.

[Jerry2144]

39. I watched

The Puppy Bowl for the halftime. Much better choice. Too bad they didn't give the countdown timer like they used to. I missed the refs making that bad call and failing to flag the offensive pass interference/facemmask that gave the Beagles the touchdown. Thank goodness for rewind on the taped show. The game is definitely fixed

[LiberalFighter]

40. It is the abnormal inflection on the words that make it difficult.

[Deuxcents]

42. I watched. I feel that genre disrespects women..

But, I am getting old, too.

[Irish_Dem]

44. As I get older, the more I have no idea what young people are talking about.

My daughter and one of her friends were recently talking on and on about a problem one of them had with her air tag, which somehow had something to do with her dog.

I finally told them to stop the train, and tell me what the H an air tag is.

And what the H it had to do with her dog.

Frustrating.

[WHITT]

45. Well

Mary J Blige is talented, but as to the rest, all hiphop/rap is derivative of Tupac Shakur, and he's been dead more than a quarter century.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

102. So tell me you don't understand the history of rap without telling me you don't understand.

That's just not true. I mean, just for starters, you are ignoring Sugerhill Gang and The Last Poets. Not to mention a lot of other groups before him, people contemporary to him that did different styles, and new artists after.

Was he a huge influence on those that came after? Of course. So say all is derivative of him is just wrong.

[WHITT]

115. Except

I mean, just for starters, you are ignoring Sugerhill Gang and The Last Poets.

I'm not ignoring them, they just didn't have the widespread popularity and crossover early on.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

117. Yes, but derivative means coming from.

Everyone is derivative of those two.

Additionally, your statement doesn't take into consideration the other regional styles of rap that developed at the same time as Tupac and were different.

[Act_of_Reparation]

103. LOL

You can't be serious.

[kimbutgar]

46. Rap is poetry speeded up

Sometimes I close my eyes and listen then I get the lyrics.

[alphafemale]

47. You are definitely old

That was a fantastic show that finally FINALLY! did not do Boomer music. Again!

The torch was passed to the music anyone under 60 listens to.

Finally!

[bahboo]

52. boomer here...in the music ed biz my entire life...

I dug it. Thought Snoop could have brought it more...but loved Kendrick, Eminem and of course, the great Mary J Blige...agree that most, including me, couldn't understand most of the lyrics. Too much ambient noise...

[Demsrule86]

87. And Eminem took a knee!

[msongs]

54. the first top 5 rap hit...

[panader0]

83. I always thought the first rap was beatnik poetry with bongo drums in smoky coffee houses

with reefers out back.

[Whiskeytide]

55. I liked it a lot. Especially since I suspect Tucker ...

… Carlson and his fans were having shit fits about it.

[Jspur]

57. I'm 38 and you have been old for a long time

and it's just now that you realized it. All of these music artists that performed tonight I have listened to them since I was a teenager. Which goes back over 20 plus years ago. You had to have been in your 40's when all these artists came out which is why you don't understand them. I can say I'm getting up there in age now since I don't care about the music teenagers and young 20 something year olds listen to today.

[Dial H For Hero]

59. I'll take Benny Goodman, The Beatles, Queen, or Aerosmith over any rap number ever written.

The latter is like fingernails on chalkboard.

And yes, I realize I'm old and my tastes are old fashioned.

[tinrobot]

60. Snoop was throwing signs on top of Tam's. You didn't have to hear it.

Besides, I was too busy dancing.

[KentuckyWoman]

61. Yeah, I'm not much for rap either.

But the show did fill up the field nicely and was fun to look at.

[WarGamer]

62. I like Snoop, Dre, 50 Cent and Eminem...

But didn't like the performance.

First, the stage was set up to be viewed by only half the stadium.

Two, the audio mix was off... none of their voices were clear.

Three, Dre and 50 Cent don't have the same kind of power they used to...

The pre-game singers were A+++ though.

I give Shakira/JLO a much better grade from 2020.

[iemanja]

66. Mary J Blige was awesome

I liked Snoop too. I understood enough of it.

[WarGamer]

68. It was good... I like the diverse talent.

LOVE how in Miami they have JLO and Shakira and Snoop and Dre in LA...

[RockRaven]

67. I'm only very familiar with half of those artists, so even if I could understand most of the words

I didn't care much about half of it. And the part I did care about was more interesting for unfamiliar lyrics (due to the FCC and also changing sensibilities) than for the performance itself.

That said, there was a part of me which wanted to like it because Dre and Snoop are from Compton and Long Beach respectively and so doing a Superbowl (that the LA team is playing in) halftime show in Inglewood might have a certain poignancy for them that a random artist in a random Superbowl city would not have. All in all, though, meh. It was okay, but not moving. They rarely are though.

My favorite part, which was in some ways pointless or unimportant, was the way the aerial image of LA on the ground underneath the structures and dancers.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

69. That makes two of us...

I DJ online, and play music that was recorded decades ago. I've more than once made the joke "People ask me: Do you remember the 70's and 80's? Well, I sure as hell don't remember anything since then!"

But that said, I need to do what I often do best and be the turd in the punch bowl. I didn't watch the game (ex-football fan, and ironically, I was a Rams fan when I watched football), and I wouldn't have watched the Halftime Show if someone had paid me a million dollars.

I am more than a bit disturbed that the NFL, which claims (falsely) that they're taking women's issues and domestic violence seriously, allowed three singers with very disturbing histories of misogyny and homophobia to take the stage today.

Snoop has recently been sued on allegations of sexual assault, has a long list of calling women "bitches" and "hoes", and has called Gayle King a "dog-haired bitch", among many things in his rather checkered life.

Dr. Dre has been accused of beating Dee Barnes, Michel’le and Lisa Johnson - the latter two being mothers of some of his children.

Eminem is infamous for his use of homophobic and transphobic slurs in his music, along with the emotional abuse he inflicted upon his ex-wife - both directly to her, and in his lyrics ("Kim" and "'97 Bonnie & Clyde".), along with famously beating up a blow-up doll resembling his now ex-wife during a concert.

All three have also used their lyrics to attack the LGBTQ community more than once.

Look, I get it. Black History Month. Los Angeles. Hip Hop. But you couldn't have found singers with a far better track record when it comes to women and LGBTQ's? Knowing the disturbing history of all three of these performers, I was - and still am - deeply offended with giving them the spotlight on worldwide television.

Do better, Calvin, Andre and Marshall. Do better, NFL. Yes, I'm offended. Sorry, world.

https://msmagazine.com/2022/02/10/super-bowl-halftime-show-gender-race-violence-dr-dre-eminem-snoop-dogg/

https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/does-super-bowl-lvi-halftime-show-glorify-misogyny-1.17129364

[Demovictory9]

75. the link you posted, they have disavowed their prior behavior... that is something

[Demovictory9]

74. Hip Hop is the most popular music genre in the world, has been for years

that was a pretty good half time show

[DFW]

77. I must be not only old, but in a galaxy far, far away

Was there some big sports event back in the States yesterday?

[Meowmee]

89. Lol thanks for the laugh 😹

[DFW]

91. I looked it up. Sure enough. There was!

Shows you how much I am dialed into THAT scene!

[Meowmee]

101. I never watch football or most sports lol

But here it is hard to avoid knowing it is happening anyway if you watch any news. But my father watched it sometimes so I was sometimes watching it albeit not by choice😹 but I usually escaped it somehow.

[DFW]

107. Well, I do watch the news, but not in North America and not in English

The German media didn't report on it here, although their sports channels probably ran something on it. If so, it's nothing I would have seen.

[Meowmee]

128. Interesting...

I lived in France for a while but did not watch much news there as I recall or tv etc. I doubt they would report it there either except on sports channels. I remember some students approaching me at L’Institut Catholique to give me brochures about bringing back the monarchy in France 😹

[GoneOffShore]

118. I was far more interested in the Six Nations result myself

England beat Italy 33-0.

And a better match all round.

[Withywindle]

78. This is nostalgia for my generation! (Gen X)

All these artists were big in the 90s and early 00s when I was in my late 20s and 30s. I'm in my early 50s now. Just saying.

[malaise]

79. It was fabulous

- and I loved Eminem taking thee knee.

[fightforfreedom]

81. When it comes to music I like people who can actually sing.

[Emile]

84. I think rap sucks! Nevertheless I understand some like it.

Give me harmony not talk!

[fightforfreedom]

93. I like all forms of music except for two.

Disco and rap. I almost went insane during the disco era. Men everywhere pretending to be John Travolta. It was creepy.

I can listen to rock, pop, jazz, classical, motown, country, I enjoy all of them. Disco and rap drive me insane.

[Emile]

94. I was in a store a while back and they were playing music to shoppers. A rap song

came on and this lady about my age (70's) was shopping. I said to her, that's my favorite song! I thought she would never stop laughing

[Demsrule86]

85. That was mostly from the 90s.

[kentuck]

92. Rap seems to be heavy on lyrics and theatrics and light on the musical side...

I have never really cared for the lyrics that much, either.

I appreciate good music.

[Act_of_Reparation]

99. "I appreciate good music"

Is the implication here that hip hop is not "good" music?

[kentuck]

104. I don't hear very much music with rap...

I hear lyrics, which are not very meaningful to me. Just my opinion.

[Act_of_Reparation]

105. Hiphop is based in dance music.

And dance music departs from the "traditional" structures and techniques associated with previous modes of popular music. I understand why people might not get into it (I am not a huge fan of the genre, either), but I would caution anyone away from questioning the authenticity of the genre. It's musical... but in a way a lot of people just aren't used to.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

108. There is a lot of music in rap.

Jesus. There were harmonies and chords and everything going on in the halftime show.

[Emile]

97. What the hell was all the cardboard boxes with guys jumping up and down with their hair died white?

Weird!

[Act_of_Reparation]

98. There's no "guessing" to it.

Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg are pioneers of a genre that exploded when I was in middle school. I'm forty now.

So yeah, my dude. You're old.

[TheFarseer]

100. Finally something aimed right at me.

If you were in HS or college in the 90’s, you probably loved that! If older or younger, not so much.

[Polybius]

109. As a Generation Xer who loved it, you prove the meme right:

[doc03]

110. How did you get my photo? nt

[Polybius]

113. Lol, there's also this meme:

[doc03]

112. I like a lot of today's soft rock music but I don't

get rap. I don't like rap at all I will just leave it there don't want to offend.

[dlilafae]

116. Love Eminem! Of course 'Lose Yourself' was my favorite...

... but I really enjoyed the show from the rest of the Hip Hop entertainers!

Doc03, Admittedly though, I did not initially understand that Eminem taking a knee had anything to do with Kaepernick. The salute would have been made clearer if all the artists would have knelt. ~ Everyone as individuals though, get to decide.

[maxsolomon]

121. You are old.

I'm 58 and I knew every song.

How old are you anyway?

[Dial H For Hero]

131. I'm 59 and I don't know any of those songs.

Mind you, I've only even heard of a couple of the performers.

[maxsolomon]

132. What did you listen to in High School?

You don't like rap much. I like everything except Opera and Polka.

[Dial H For Hero]

133. Broadway show tunes, classical, rock.

My favorites these days are swing, show tunes, and classic rock.

You don't like rap much.

That's putting it mildly.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

122. I don't think anyone can learn to appreciate a new genre of music, ...

... when it's played in a huge sports stadium.

Or appreciate an old genre either.

I hate the acoustics of big stadia. The sound "engineer" simply turns all the dials to "11" and calls it a job well done.

[Goodheart]

123. I'm not a rap fan, either, and I turned to one of our guests and said

"This music loses so much in this venue where I can't understand the words".

I was still entertained, though, by the spectacle of it all.

My attitude now is... OK, NFL, you got that out of the way, good on you, but now can we get back to things MOST people like?

[MissMillie]

124. I've never heard rap or hip-hop done slowly

So I think the speed of the lyrics can make it hard to understand, for everyone--not just older people.

I didn't understand hip-hop/rap lyrics 30 years ago.

I enjoyed Snoop and Dre, Eminem, and Mary J.

The rest didn't do much for me. probably because I was completely unfamiliar with it.

[radius777]

137. Dr Dre/Snoop's biggest hit 'The Next Episode' has 500m views

on Youtube. Hip-hop, once the poetry of the underclass, has come to influence the world.

[burrowowl]

138. K&R!