What you "young turds" are missing about halftime show

[MADem]

156. I am an OLD fart and I thought it was great.

Whining about what it was like "back in the day" is crotchety and foolish. Life goes on. We don't make buggy whips any more.

I would wager that even Dancing Mick Jagger in the full flame of his youth forty years ago couldn't keep up with the aerobic input required by Beyonce to do that number for more than a minute and a half. What she did takes TALENT.

The kids nowadays want The Full Package. They want singing, dancing, a huge Ziegfeld-style floor show, and lots of bells, whistles, lights and firecrackers. They like their singers to look good, too. This isn't Kate Smith's music industry anymore. Showmanship rules. Some pimply "old turds" with long greasy hair, hunched over their guitars pursing their lips in self-important fashion, while some acid-tripping drummer bangs senselessly on his kit just doesn't appeal to today's youth. They want music they can MOVE to, not music to get stoned by.

And your suggestion that all genres of music cannot somehow coexist, that Beyonce somehow "edges out" the stuff you like, is equally silly. Basically, she appeals to the wider demographic, and that's why she got the Superbowl gig, but that doesn't mean people have to stop listening to Mozart.

You don't like her undeniable talent? Go poop during the halftime show. Let the dogs out. Make a cup of tea.

You're really being condescending to youth by first, calling them all young turds (despite the fact that one person--one single person--crafted the "old turd" meme here, that is no excuse to take that hurtful phrase created by a single person and flip it to disparage a whole cadre of people who are -- like it or not--the future of humanity), and second, by suggesting that they are somehow stupid because you don't share their taste in music. These young kids also like someone like Adele, who doesn't do what you disparagingly and inaccurately call "stripper moves" and whose talent is so profound that she (like Beyonce) can also sing a capella. Or perhaps you missed Beyonce's press conference?

You're generalizing about the younger generations like they are stupid, you're smart, they know nothing, and you know it all. Great way to encourage them to cut our social security and medicare when they start filling the halls of Congress!

So turn on your college radio, alt rock and "anything played by actual musicians." Let the kids enjoy their stuff. If you think about it, you sound a lot like the Lawrence Welk fans who used to criticize that "crap" you listen and love to as "not actual music."

Time marches on. Learn from the past, and don't be a jerky and intolerant geezer. Live and let live.