One of my good friends has such a skewed sense of the Missoula social scene. Of course it is just not the Super Bowl where people say that things just aren’t the way they used to be. Compared to shows of the past, the halftime show on Sunday was good. Don’t begin to tell me that Bruce Springsteen standing on stage singing his old songs topped the last two shows. She sang good songs that everyone knew and the surprise guests (Minaj, LMFAO, Cee-Lo, M.I.A.) added a lot to it. The Black Eyed Peas killed it last year with a show that was full of pyrotechnics, cool effects, and #1 songs but people still critiqued it to no end. Now I realize these acts were awesome at one time but by today’s standards they belong in retirement homes. Do you realize what some of the past shows have been? In order of the most recent, here are the past six shows after the Black Eyed Peas performed in Super Bowl XLV: The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Prince, The Rolling Stones, and Paul McCartney. If you seriously think that Madonna this year and the Black Eyed Peas last year paled in comparison to shows of the past, you suffer from the “back in the ol’ days” syndrome that I discussed earlier. When I talk to people my age and they tell me that the halftime show just blew this year, I want to pick their brain a little. But don’t say that they sucked compared to previous years. Even if you paid your undivided, sober attention to each commercial and were still unhappy with them, then fine, you are entitled to your opinion. Or maybe you were just too drunk to comprehend what was going on. Or perhaps you were distracted with everything that was going on around you and turned to the commercial half way in…I know this happened to me a lot. Chances are that the party you were at was too loud for you to pick up on everything in the commercial and you missed something that actually did make the ad funny. Just because you watch a commercial and don’t laugh your ass off does not mean it was a bad commercial, or that it failed compared to commercials of the past. It seemed to me like the same old people had the same old critiques and criticisms, mainly “The commercials sucked this year and the halftime show sucked this year.” I hear this every single Super Bowl.
The Super Bowl this past Sunday really seemed to drive this point home to me.
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