Cant get the bbcode to work but I took this one during the prince tribute:
https://m.imgur.com/a/hxxmU
Dont know how it look on tv but there were some purple led lights in each seat and we were instructed to turn them on qhen the prince tribute started. It looked beautiful from my view.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 5 February 2018 06:55 (six years ago) link
I thought the halftime show was fine, I guess I never understand what ppl expect out of it. it was weird how the knives are out for Timberlake, felt like the thinkpieces were half written before the thing even happened, especially since they went up so quick
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 February 2018 12:41 (six years ago) link
My favorite description of JT was as the only member of N*Sync that did not look like he was actively struggling to count dance steps. That said, I saw a JC Chasez solo show (before he was apparently shamed into retirement) that was awesome.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:27 (six years ago) link
Watching the performance just now, it looks like he really didn't do much singing and when he did it sounded a kinda off. The Prince tribute didn't really work either, especially when he tried to sing along. It all seemed a bit flat.
Yeah, I've just watched it and mostly agree. Pretty bad vocals. As for the show in general, nothing special but it was ok/showbusiness as usual, I guess.Funny that it's been 16 years since "Justified"... He's as relevant as MJ in 98 (16y after "Thriller"), isn't he ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
still disappointed that the other members of N*Sync never came out. how do you do 50 songs in 20 minutes but not find time for "Bye Bye Bye"
― frogbs, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
also this is my tired 31-year old ass talkin' but there was a whole lot of "I thought that one was Bruno Mars" last night
― frogbs, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
his outfit was something else, though : shirt with animals/the wild pictures, camouflage suit, geeky bandana...
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
xp had the same experience. For some reason I now casually misremember every Timberlake song I passively enjoy as being by someone else
― Evan R, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
I have one nice thing to say about his latest album : I find the funky part of "Filthy" alright, now (not the parts where his vocals go up at the end of each phrase though).The stadium rock part is still awful.
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
when i first heard JT was doing it i didn't know about a new album and my first response was: why?
he just doesn't seem currently hot or legendary which is what they usually go for. and it seemed like they should have had other people singing with him. other than prince. even katy perry brought out lenny and missy. he's not gaga or springsteen.
― scott seward, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
It was a monument to underachievement.
Oooof.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
https://scontent.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/27540477_1927375237576119_5343099423332664354_n.jpg?oh=1eae5fbcc0ef741fc8bde8873843738f&oe=5B183222
― scott seward, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
ahah, yeah, that kid seemed kinda lost there !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
main thing i got from the halftime show is that jt's band is awesome
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
would i could hear they sounded great
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/justin-timberlakes-super-bowl-halftime-show-meh-personified/
― scott seward, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
it was definitely kinda meh.
i enjoyed pink though.
― scott seward, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
The disrespect. pic.twitter.com/3lCCjkYjQc— The Athlete's Plug™ (@TheAthletesPlug) February 5, 2018
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
the most over the top moment last night was the intro song/video by some country singer i'd never heard of. it was like nashville gaga.
― scott seward, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
oh wait i do know carrie underwood i just didn't recognize her.
― scott seward, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
what's a super bowl without ludacris?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldvl33e44PI
― scott seward, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
performance was pretty meh, the sets and staging were very cool, though. but
he's not gaga or springsteen
he's a bigger star / more qualified to do this w/o guests than gaga!
― alpine static, Monday, 5 February 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
i don’t get the shoe photo
― maura, Monday, 5 February 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
creased his incredibly rare brand-new Jordans! (sneaker heads don't crease their shoes)
You can’t crease the Jordan IIIs, bro. This is a huuuuuuuge violation https://t.co/mwlBHHU6kk— tristan walker (@tristanwalker) February 5, 2018
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 5 February 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
I thought it was fine/boring, it lacked the bonkers charm to me anyway of the Katy Perry one...his outfit was so dumb, male pop stars are so boring.
The Prince thing was weird just cuz like..what was the point? It was in Mpls? Prince did a good halftime show once?
If you really wanted to do a Prince tribute just get Morris Day & the Time out there or bring the Revolution out as yr band (of course then you run the risk of getting yr ass handed to you onstage)
Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis spotted rocking out to Bob Mould on Saturday night is a zillion times more appropriate nod to "Minneapolis" (barf) then just yelling out the town's name a bunch.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 5 February 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
the prince thing was def shoehorned in but the lights and symbol outside the stadium were really cool. getting the time to play would have been all time but 99.9% of the viewers would have had no idea who that was.
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 5 February 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
I thought the halftime show was fine, I guess I never understand what ppl expect out of it.
it was weird how the knives are out for Timberlake, felt like the thinkpieces were half written before the thing even happened, especially since they went up so quick
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, February 5, 2018 7:41 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
right, it was pretty clear at least judging from my timeline that if you were one of the people who had been dragging him for the past couple of weeks, you also hated the performance. (there was a lot of “janet would have been better”, which, without commenting on whether that is true or not, says a lot about the reliability of the commenter). it was a pretty objectively tight performance, good song choices, good choice of prince song, all around solid
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 February 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
I think the new hipster poptimism means a real tribal sense of calling anything super mainstream either REALLY REALLY GOOD or REALLY REALLY BAD. It's almost like the old college radio vs mersh divide but recalibrated for a world where Rihanna is the Pixies
— whiney
nuance doesn’t get you retweet$
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 February 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
is this album his Smiley Smile
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
objectively tight? his vocal was often terrible and the opening bit’s sound seemed like it had been put through a melon baller. also the arrangement of “my love” was way too massive - obv it’s tv and a stadium but it just sounded like an awolnation remix of the original
― maura, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
the vocals were really bad, no presence at all
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
it just sounded like an awolnation remix of the original
lol and otm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
yeah good call ha
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
if you were dragging Justin Timberlake for the past few weeks I don't really see how a reheated clip show (the best-case scenario for most Super Bowl halftime shows, realistically) could be expected to win you over
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
I don't really see how a reheated clip show (the best-case scenario for most Super Bowl halftime shows, realistically)
that's what i'm saying, i just don't really understand what the point of complaining about the super bowl halftime show is, outside of the shark wackiness it didn't seem that far off from katie perry imo which everyone seemed to think was so great
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
complaining about things is americas actual pastime
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
maybe it should be the halftime show from now on
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
people thought Katy Perry was great?
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
i thought her halftime show was
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
she was pretty good but the shark made it
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
the show is always just as much about the spectacle as it is the performer tho so I include them all as a package deal
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
Katy was great. my memory is fuzzy but when she rode ... something? ... way up into the air singing Roar, I think? that was awesome!
― alpine static, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
^^^ lol i have an identical half-formed memory of that
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
xp maura I didn’t really notice how bad the vocals were, they sounded fine to me but there was some crosstalk at my watch party so maybe it warrants rescreening. everyone I watched with thought the choreography was solid tho, and I personally thought the song selection was on point. like UMS said above, I guess I just don’t know what people are looking for in a halftime show if that was bad
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 February 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
right, this is kind of the point of the halftime shows......?
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 February 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
oops that was an xp to this:
the show is always just as much about the spectacle as it is the performer tho so I include them all as a package deal― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, February 5, 2018 2:28 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, February 5, 2018 2:28 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 February 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
xxxp that nytimes piece was indeed probably written before the show, yet at the same time is pretty much otm. Especially when highlighting how Janet Jackson was vilified and JT can go about like nothing happened.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
I do find it weird when people get rockist about a Super Bowl halftime show. I think the Black Eyed Peas one was the only recent one I considered completely terrible.
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
The Who were pretty bad
― frogbs, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
i watched with a music savvy crowd on a tv with a nice soundsystemthat said the “it’s supposed to be background noise” argument is a ... strange one? jt’s voice and the mixing itself was bad, and it was noticeable even in the context of the telecast
― maura, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link