Super Bowl Halftime Show

The Black Eyed Peas were the main 2011
Super Bowl halftime entertainment.

Ok so I'm still fighting my sickness but decided to press on anyways and blog today. A huge trending topic the past few days has been the Super Bowl halftime performance by the Black Eyed Peas on Sunday night in Dallas. Many people felt that it was one of the worst halftime shows in the history of the Super Bowl. Here's what I think.

Yes, it was not a very good performance in my opinion. Fergie seemed to be largely out of it and her rendition of Sweet Child of Mine with Slash was atrocious in my opinion. She tried to much to be like Axl Rose on it and it was just not that good at all. Also throughout the whole performance the band seemed to be yelling rather than singing a lot of the time.

Now in retrospect this was just the Black Eyed Peas being themselves for the most part. The show and spectacle that came with them was up to standards with their normal concerts. The guest appearances by Slash and Usher were to merely raise the effect of the performance and if the music didn't come off so bad it probably would have been a major success.

Why did the music come off so bad? Who knows it could have been a number of things but honestly I think this poor halftime show proves a point and that is maybe that we have reached a point to where digital editing has too much of an impact. Not saying that the Black Eyed Peas recordings are digitally enhanced in any way but sometimes things like this make people wonder. I know they are all talented but this performance was really bad. Is it because they are just not that good of live singers? You be the judge.

In the end if I was the NFL, stick with a true band for the halftime show. Some of the best halftime shows have been put on by guys like Tom Petty, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, etc. I know people want to hear these pop icons all the time but in my opinion put an act up there that is the total package, like a rock band.

At least that way you can avoid a debacle like what happened Sunday night. Maybe it was just not the Peas night but nevertheless it was not a very good halftime show and it raises a lot of questions about the Peas and their musical practices, at least in my mind that is.

Until next time keep on rocking away music lovers,
JAS

Photo taken by Craig O'Neal, Flickr/Creative Commons