It’s a rule, you don’t get to play the Super Bowl Halftime, if you ARE great, only if you WERE great. Prove me wrong.
Prince was great at the Super Bowl. Typically, the Super Bowl tries to get the biggest acts they can. The biggest acts these days don’t become even bigger acts. You’d have to go back a lot of years to find an act that was big enough for the Super Bowl, and still had good years ahead of them. Zeppelin 1973. Beatles 1966. Pink Floyd 1977.
It’s good though, a benchmark low is good to set. Almost anything would be better than what we just watched.
Muse is an example of a top band with hits ahead of them. But they might not be famous enough here in the US.
The Decemberists had the #1 album last week, Amos Lee is #1 this week. Iron & Wine is #2 this week. Any of those, or all of those, would be better.
How about they have a contest - whoever sells the most records the week of the superbowl, gets to play at the superbowl. It would be good all over, because this Black Eyed Peas thing was just so awful. It’s a free market solution.