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
People generally like JT, he's had a lot of hits (both solo and with a group), he's a modest singer but a very good performer, and he's had decades of experience entertaining huge crowds. That he had all of that going for him and was still pretty indifferently received indicates something was not firing right, technical or otherwise. Not enough spectacle? Played it too safe? The fundamental thin-ness of pop without enough distractions (costumes, explosions, choreography)? Something like that. Doesn't help that as much as I like a lot of his stuff, very little JT is particularly exciting, let alone rousing. Probably why stuff like Mirrors and the Trolls song did so well. They're more conventionally anthemic, though that is probably too strong a word.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
agree with all that ^ but everyone remember "we" exist in a bubble, no matter who you watched it with. 90% of norm women/kids absolutely loved it, 75% of norm men rolled their eyes and wanted "real" music and 25% of norm men did the whole "i can't believe i'm going to say this but i think the guy is very talented and seems like a cool dude" thing to contrast the eye-rollers.
― alpine static, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
the scores of millions of people who loved it aren't in yr twitter timeline
we had about 15 kids (12 and under) watching it and they were all like "this is weird / lame" "i dont like this who is this" and then 'cant stop the feeling' came on....
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 5 February 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
my 1 year old girl was rocking back and forth the whole time, my 3 year old boy paid no attention at all
I think y'all are on to something here
― frogbs, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
I tried to convince my 3 yr old to watch cuz "there are people dancing, you like people dancing" she was non-plussed and demanded we watch whatever she wanted to watch.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
― maura, Monday, February 5, 2018 2:28 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
Vocals sounded weird/bad to me but I was unclear if it was on purpose or a bad mix or what
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
Usually in these sorts of situations where I assume there are scads of professionals working on it when stuff sounds weird to me I just think its me and not that it's bad or mistake
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
What are you going to believe, your ears, or science?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
I assume all terrible sounds are aesthetic choices
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
man of the woods title track is some looney tunes shit, what the f was he thinking
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 06:01 (six years ago) link
eheh, exactly !Why not for a cartoon ost or something but on an album (and more so a supposedly "serious/spiritual/whatever" album)...
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 08:48 (six years ago) link
I got suppli-yiii-yiiiiieees
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
"supplies": because "Carry Out" wasn't bizarre and strained enough a metaphor
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
how many jt songs are extremely strained metaphors. i relistened to 20/20 the other week and as far as i can tell it's almost all of them
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
lol i forgot about "carry out"
― dyl, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
i relistened to 20/20 the other week
congrats: if you can prove you finished it I'll nominate you for a Nobel.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
da lex on j-tim.
https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/is-justin-timberlake-losing-his-way-1.701958
― scott seward, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
what i wrote on lex FB. which is probably totally wrong but i kinda would have liked to see all-in faux-cowboy JT for some reason. i think it was that village people handkerchief that made me wish for it:
Scott Seward "if he really wanted to get woodsy he should have made a big pop-country album with huge nashville hitmakers handing him hooks for days and a smash duet with t-swift that premiered AT the halftime show. would have been the biggest seller of the year in the u.s."
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
i agree with you there. somewhere along the way whatever message he meant to come with got muddled.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
"say something" isn't horrible; maybe shoulda just done an album of duets with Stapleton if he wanted to be in this lane?
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link
i can't imagine Timberlake's voice over a country-ass country song
― vicious almond beliefs (crüt), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:50 (six years ago) link