Super Bowl Entertainment Showcases Degenerate State of American Culture

scottfactor.com ^ | 02/08/2011 | Gina Miller

[KC_Lion]

I sure do miss super bowl 4, (I wasn't even around to see it!)

[falkayn]

Those are not particularly black issues — there are plenty of useless white bums who depend on gummint instead of getting off their butts and working.

[falkayn]

Actually, it's more often the other way around -- in bad economic times, people start climbing over the backs of others (e.g. much of the motivation for Jim Crow was to try to restore something of the destroyed Southern economy by re-establishing de facto slavery).

[falkayn]

I’m just sick and tired of “Amerika Sux, and it sux worse and worse every day” pundits like the goofball who wrote that screed.

[Rappini]

Couldn’t agree more. The difficult part is stopping it.

[wbill]

Superbowl Entertainment is like lite beer.

They try to make it appealing to everyone, so it doesn't taste like anything at all.

I'd have thought that for a game played in Texas, they'd have a good Texas band come in. ZZ Top comes immediately to mind, but then again, I like them.

[wbill]

This singer is one who does the vocal gymnastics. ....Neal Boortz calls this "Urban Yodeling". Appropriate, I think.

FWIW, I can't stand it either.

[notdownwidems]

Nice try noobie...I’m assuming you are a liberal ‘pin-head’

[csmusaret]

With all the focus on the entertainers, FOX is getting a pass on the most poorly produced Super Bowl telecast in recent memory. I am no fan of Joe Buck but I am not talking about the announcing. The game broadcast really was sub standard.

[SkyPilot]

So, here comes the National Anthem, sung by Christina Aguilera. First of all, I have long hated the trend of singers nowadays to do these wild vocal gymnastics that take the notes of a song up and down and all around.

Black Teen Told to Sing the National Anthem More Traditionally

There are already charges being thrown around that criticism of they way Aguilera sand the anthem is "racist." Yes, she is white, but she was parroting the "African-American" style of singing, which has many names, one of which is "the runs." You don't sing notes, but vary the pitch constantly to bring more "soul" to the song.

A few years ago, they had some black singers sing the anthem this way, and it came under much criticism. It was so annoying....."Oh say//ssssay....say....saaaaaaay can you......you....YOUUUUUU..... see....seeee...sseeeeeee!"

I find it annoying and contrived, but then again, here comes the "racist" charge.

Next, the Black Eyed Peas were loud, stupid, obnoxious (lighted TRON suits.....really?) and overbearing.

[Billk]

Pure GARBAGE and insult to anyone with a reasonable I.Q.

[texmexis best]

Christine’s vocal gymnastics were nothing more than musical cliches hot glued together at the last moment without any thought given to the performance and to the meaning of the words.

She was off key twice.

Her performance was awful.

[discostu]

I don’t think Aguilera’s flub was any proof of degeneracy in the culture, pretty much the only thing it proved was that Whitney Houston was right, at some point the realization that over 100 million people are watching will burst into your mind and you’ll probably freak out, pre-record and lip sync. When something puts the zap on your head you’re lucky if you can remember your name forget the lyrics to some song.

As for BEP, they are what they are. I think they’re stupid, but what the heck. I think Deep Purple tends towards the stupid too, the only real difference is I enjoy Deep Purple’s stupid.

[WXRGina]

I don’t know why, but I have a feeling you did plan or at least hope to have a reason, to write about the super bowl entertainment.

No, I didn't. I'm not a liar.

[WXRGina]

I’m just sick and tired of “Amerika Sux, and it sux worse and worse every day” pundits like the goofball who wrote that screed.

I'm the "goofball" who wrote that "screed," and you can tell your story walking, pal. You are clearly thick in the head, since it's quite apparent that you don't understand the first thing about the meaning of my column.

Take a hike.

[The Great RJ]

Not that I dislike our National Anthem, but it is difficult to sing and more often then not butchered by the performers at sporting events. I would rather see a simple dignified instrumental version performed at these events even it it was recorded rather than have to grit my teeth listening to a badly performed vocal version.

I played in both high school and college bands and frequently played at sporting events various arrangements of the Star Spangled Banner including one by John Phillip Sousa. However, I recently happened on an arrangement of the National Anthem by the Band Master of Custer's 7th Calvary that is short, dignified and would be wholly appropriate for these events. The CD is available here

[falkayn]

As one commentator put it, most singers who try to perform it end up sounding like they swallowed a demonically possessed cat.

[subterfuge]

You’ll notice these hacks they call singers dwell on the low notes and fluctuate around that range (to put it mildly) then they scream out the next notes in the higher range, and so on. They can’t sing the in-between register so they muddle around at the high and low ends.

I guess you just can’t tell the celebs to just “shut up and sing” anymore.

[subterfuge]

You’ll notice these hacks they call singers dwell on the low notes and fluctuate around that range (to put it mildly) then they scream out the next notes in the higher range, and so on. They can’t sing the in-between register so they muddle around at the high and low ends.

I guess you just can’t tell the celebs to just “shut up and sing” anymore.

[Melas]

There are no instruments in their songs, there are only synthetically manufactured noises

They aren't really my cup of tea either, but I did take my daughter (32) to see them at her request. They most definitely have a band with instruments, who are all introduced towards the end of the act. And yeah, Fergie is smokin' hot from the good seats.