Get ready for the Ole Miss halftime show
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Katy Perry is not anymore talented than Britney Spears. You could go to most of the high schools in America, hell in Mississippi, and find a clone of KP, that could do this.
Pretty good halftime show I thought. She must not be afraid of heights, and I kept waiting for a wardrobe malfunction ....
But I don't think Gameday in Oxford had any effect on her doing the SB halftime show.
But I don't think Gameday in Oxford had any effect on her doing the SB halftime show.
Night shift, I know, but...http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/sports/football/katy-perry-football-fan.html?referrer=&_r=0
I hate to tell a few of y'all, but Katy Perry pretty much nailed the halftime show just like she nailed Gameday in Oxford. Great move to bring Lenny Kravitz on stage. Could have done without the hip-hop number, but other than that it was about as good as a SB halftime show gets.
How old are you? About 14 or 15? The giant tiger was unique and out of the box, but the stage presence was awful and as well as the audio.
That was probably about the same quality show as Madonna or the Janet Jackson Super Bowl shows.
That is a really weird article to have been written 3 months after the game. I mean, look, KP is hot and I thought she did well in the SB. I thought she did well on CGD, although, I never like it when they use people that have no connection to the game. Same as when they did the Lone Survivor game for the Ala/MSU game. It just makes it a star production rather than what I love about CGD.
But, this article is really weird to be written 95% about her experience in Oxford. There was no segue to discussing the super bowl. It was written as though no one had any idea that Oxford had ever happened. Maybe this girl didn't think people were aware of it. Just odd. I expected it to be about the Super Bowl but mention her previous football experience in Oxford. I looked at the date expecting it to be written in October.
Again, just weird from a reporter.
But, this article is really weird to be written 95% about her experience in Oxford. There was no segue to discussing the super bowl. It was written as though no one had any idea that Oxford had ever happened. Maybe this girl didn't think people were aware of it. Just odd. I expected it to be about the Super Bowl but mention her previous football experience in Oxford. I looked at the date expecting it to be written in October.
Again, just weird from a reporter.
I laughed @ Matt Wyatts tweet, "what do you know, Katy and I have something in common. We both kissed a girl and liked it"
We will just have to agree to disagree on this patdog. If that's as good as a halftime show gets, then I'll never watch another one.
My issue isn't with Katy Perry. She's quite attractive and anyone is free to enjoy her music if they so choose. I am not a fan of her music nor am I in her target demographic (teenage girls). However, I prefer my musicians to do crazy things like play their own instruments and sing live and not require a choreographed dance number with every song. The big spectacle of the show means nothing to me without good music to go with it. If that makes me old then so be it.
The last 5 halftime shows have been terrible. I'm still not over Slash being on the same stage as Fergie.
My issue isn't with Katy Perry. She's quite attractive and anyone is free to enjoy her music if they so choose. I am not a fan of her music nor am I in her target demographic (teenage girls). However, I prefer my musicians to do crazy things like play their own instruments and sing live and not require a choreographed dance number with every song. The big spectacle of the show means nothing to me without good music to go with it. If that makes me old then so be it.
The last 5 halftime shows have been terrible. I'm still not over Slash being on the same stage as Fergie.
It's likely that the reporter wrote this a few months ago and it was running now because of the lead up to the Super Bowl. So at the time that it was originally written, it was relevant to the Ole Miss game. NYTimes and USAToday do this all of the time. Editors will have stacks of articles on their desks that they haven't run yet that may never run. If there is an opening for something, they check the stack, have the writer do a quick update, then send it through.
I had a journalism professor who won a Pulitzer for a story that he wrote 8 months before it ran. His editor just kept holding it and holding it until he needed another article one day.
I had a journalism professor who won a Pulitzer for a story that he wrote 8 months before it ran. His editor just kept holding it and holding it until he needed another article one day.
I thought it was pretty good. I mean it's a rock concert, in the middle of a football game, that included four costume changes, a giant tiger, Lenny Kravitz, Missy Elliott, and 2500 properly inflated glow balls.
God bless America in my opinion.
God bless America in my opinion.
That's all fine and good... But, go back and add more than a sentence that ties it to the Super Bowl. Not to mention that this article is just a complete regurgitation of various other ones out there. Complete with the CGD quotes and all. It is still very odd to have printed this article. Its not as though the NYT didn't have access to a million KP articles, most of which don't give a play by play of a game from October. I could understand what you were saying if it was clear they had gone back and edited it to add SB material. Or add a tag line of 'And this was the full KP experience from her time in Oxford in Mississippi' type sentiment.
It's a SB halftime show. It will be over the top and lip-synched. She's an average singer at best, which isn't much different than most pop/rock stars. But she is a good entertainer. If you're expecting much musically out of a SB halftime show, you're just asking to be disappointed. The Who and Tom Petty both sucked at it. And they're both very good acts.
You are probably right I have too high expectations. It's just that one of the most watched events in the world should be able to muster up some quality musical entertainment for halftime.
While the men were pulling the last of the meat off the smoker and polishing off another beer, the UM seemingly male fans were watching the halftime show like Elvis himself rose from the grave at Graceland and was performing. They were giddy because they heard that Katy freakin Perry was going to put her hand to her forehead and make that dumbass lank shark gesture.... During the Super Bowl halftime show... "To honor UM".
The level of grown *** men that are now idolizing another cookie cutter, generic, sound the same as the last, performer who's songs are geared toward teen age and early 20's females is hilarious. They should be totally embarrassed at themselves but they continue to idolize a female pop star.
If their gender confusion wasn't apparant before... It is now.
Personally, my opinion is it's a football game, not the 17ing Palladia channel. Don't get me wrong, I like a good concert and I like the Palladia channel, but for a football game, just take your normal 12-minute halftime and start the 3rd quarter. That said, I thought this year's halftime show was pretty entertaining, which is more than I can say for most of them.
don't know about those sharks.... they really needed friggin' lasers. that's all anyone could really ask.
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Did anyone notice that one of the sharks had no clue what was going on for a significant amount of time of the choreography? One shark was killing it. One shark was winging it. It was quite funny.
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