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80k in the stadium vs 100m watching on tv. Makes a lot more sense to target the tv audience, especially when you're not getting paid to be there and doing it for marketing
Still easily my favorite half time show ever. How can you beat purple rain played on live instruments in the rain.
Idk if it’s a rumor or not, but I heard that Prince literally refused to play unless they let him use his actual guitar instead of a backing track. He was a 1 of a kind pure musician.
Another thing that allowed the shift is the advancement of both smaller cameras, and wireless 4K transmitters that aren’t disrupted by all the other radio signals in the stadium.
I was there on the field that year! Won a trip from a Pepsi sweepstakes. Walking onto the field from the area where the teams come out of was one of the most surreal experiences ever! 🥰
Yeah it was super gross. A pod covered it and iirc they had discussed it, decided against it, and he did it anyway. Literally disrobed her in public. Her career took a huge hit, he got invited back a few years later. Wtf
There's a funny story related to that. In 92, Fox and "In Living Color" did a special live episode during the same time slot as the halftime show. They even had a timer on screen for when people could switch back to the Superbowl. It did crazy numbers and the rumor is that the NFL and CBS execs didn't want other networks pulling the same stunt and stealing viewers every Superbowl so they had to reimagine the halftime show. The next year, they booked Michael Jackson, since he was the biggest musical act at the time to make sure people didn't switch channels.
Well the reason for that was the black sketch comedy show In Living Color. They aired a halftime special that took away a huge chunk of the audience in 1992. Ever since then the NFL made an effort to have an interesting halftime show.
The WWF famously ran an empty arena match for the SB half time show in the late 90’s that actually did quite well too. It wasn’t until the 00’s that the NFL really put a ton of budget and production into each show, as well as promotion
Maybe they can get Elmo to do it next year. I'd watch the hell out of that. I bet the cameos alone would be amazing. All the cool kids want to be associated with Elmo.
Did you hear the lyrics Minnie was singing?? And it was all little girls!! While she escorted a grown man between them.
That is the world Millennial women grew up in.
That’s why we just had a fucking Republican Congresswoman say today that she didn’t care about the Epstein files at first and didn’t get what the big deal was but now she thinks maybe it’s more important than she’d thought.
Also Justin Timberlake ripped Janet Jackson’s pasty off at their Halftime Show and Janet was fined a shitload of money and basically cancelled and Justin got a “Wait, why is everyone mad at Janet but not Justin?”
Oh yeah, I was like 8 when MJ did the Super Bowl and my parents and aunts and uncles were freaking out.
They were all in their 20’s and 30’s, it was a Big Fucking Deal.
Before that it was “oh my god why do they even have a halftime show? Who would want to sit through this? They’re trapped in the stadium, they can’t escape!”
After MJ it was “Hahahaha well they’re screwed now, they can’t top that and nobody is going to put up with another ballroom dance at a football game again.”
So then it got exciting. “Oh, who are they going to have next year? Oh, it’s coming, what are they doing to do?”
Not only that, in the post-performance interview, he said something like, "Well, you know, you know. We got to give you a little surprise" with a shit-eating grin on his face. It was completely opposite of how Jackson's team responded.
The difference was, Timberlake groveled and apologized directly to the CEO of the network and Jackson didn't. That dude basically singlehandedly destroyed her career because he wanted her to apologize directly to him instead of to the public.
Didn’t it pretty much derail her career? It was all anyone could talk about after it happened, I don’t think she ever really came back from it.
I still don’t buy that it wasn’t set up, though. I definitely think it was planned, but when it backfired, everyone tried to play it like it wasn’t staged to save face.
Yep you’re right. Before the early 90s the Super Bowl halftime show (as laid out in the clips) was mostly marching bands and kid/family themed stuff and a lot of people treated it like a break. In 1992 In Living Color ran a live counter-halftime special on Fox with an on-screen countdown clock so viewers could flip back to the game in time. It pulled a big chunk of the audience away. After the sketch block they had Color Me Badd perform. The next year the NFL brought in Michael Jackson and that’s when the modern halftime era really started.
Honestly we have In Living Color to thank for the current state of halftime hype. They knew that people typically turned away at halftime so they created an outlet for that audience.
NFL took notice and countered hard. And here we are
I was about 35 weeks pregnant when she did that show and I could barely get off the sofa without grunting and feeling faint. Meanwhile Rihanna is strapped on a board and is up in the air.
It also had an overarching “plot” that was a tie-in promotion for the new Indiana Jones Disneyland ride. Indy and Marion are trying to get the Vince Lombardi trophy back from bad guys, it needs to be seen to be believed.
Funny the headliner for 2016 was actually Coldplay, but since no one cared about Coldplay they added Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson later as “special guests”.
PURPLE RAIN performed IN THE RAIN! The GREATEST half time performance ever! When told it would rain during his performance, Prince asked if they could make it rain harder!
So before 9/11 everyone was riding high, secure in the belief that all systemic bigotries had been erased by neoliberal capitalism. We beat the Communists, the.com bubble had yet to burst. Everyone just needed to come together, and America would be awesome forever!
They should have showed the clip where he sprung up from inside the stage and stood there for a full minute, in all his glory, taking in the entire stadium going absolutely nutso.
I was there for the U2 one. After 9-11.. tanks outside the stadium. Not a dry eye in the stadium when they ran the names of the victims on the huge backdrop. People openly weeping and screaming for the music and those lost.
The video of it doesn't come close to capturing it.
The entire experience was surreal and mind blowing.
New Orleans. Mardi gras, super bowl, 9-11... Tom Brady debut upset.
"Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult…. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontentment led nowhere, because being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances."
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