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Salon.com: New York Times music critic Kelefa Sanneh says Prince's Super Bowl performance will "surely go down as one of the most thrilling halftime shows ever; certainly the most unpredictable, and perhaps the best," and says it was "yet more proof that Prince has made that familiar journey from pariah to American treasure."

Let me get this straight - a skinny guy who looks like he stole Aunt Jemimah's 'do-rag plays Guitar Hero in the rain, and it's "the most thrilling halftime show ever"? K wanted to watch, as she's a Prince fangirl (one of those subjects I will never understand, and don't want to), and after staring in puzzlement at some of her initial squeeing, I took sadistic pleasure in making her watch the whole debacle. "You made your bed, now lie in it."

What is "unpredictable" about some has-been doing a DJ Trainwreck number on a handful of songs that weren't that interesting twenty years ago? Isn't that pretty much the established halftime formula these days?

And what was up with the purple guitar? In silhouette, it looked like Little Man Prince was playing with a gratuitously oversized Nightcrawler-themed double-penetration sex toy.

Kelefa Sanneh, today's Most Easily Impressed Person in the World!

Comments

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's because I was plenty drunk, maybe it was because I was watching the game at a dyke bar, but I thought Prince rocked. There's no rational analysis, but I also thought it was a great halftime show.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I wasn't nearly drunk enough to be impressed (then again, I pretty much hold all things Prince except Carmen Electra in a fair amount of contempt).

So some dude gets up and actually sings while playing air guitar. Whoop de damn do. I derived evil glee in the fact that His Diminutiveness was getting rained on. And the fact that he's done something to sandblast any evidence of aging off his face (comparisons to Casey Casem and Dick Clark may have been made)...

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Wellll, if you don't like Prince, it's going to be difficult to like a halftime show starring Prince.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

True. But I don't get where the breathless adoration Sanneh bestowed upon him had any real germination. So he didn't expose one of his dancers' tits or fall on his ass on a slippery stage... is the bar for greatness *that low* these days?

[angledge.livejournal.com]

No.... but it was a fun performance! Prince is just fun to watch. I thought the covers he picked were amusing, I like the song "Let's Go Crazy", I thought the purple guitar was hilarious, & ... I'm not gonna convince you.

And that's OK! We're all OK! Even Prince is OK.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

He was... fine. The TRON-themed marching band was sort of a weird add-on.

But "most thrilling ever"? "Unpredictable"? That's what bothers me. This woman is, apparently, the music reviewer of a very prominent newspaper, and for her to be so apparently *clueless* (imnsho) rubs me the wrong way. It's like she's got a weirdly-shaped agenda to push, regardless of what the reality-based community saw and heard.

You know, put like that, this sounds familiar...

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

I knew there was a reason we were watching X-Men.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

To quickly identify potential Germanic BAMF-styled schlong surrogates?

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

HA. And *Ha* again. Actually, it was to feed my daughter's Hugh Jackman daily minimum requirement. ;-)

And to avoid the Superbowl. ;-)

When the Superbowl was in Houston a couple of years ago... well, lets just say that was enough to last a lifetime for me.

Have I mentioned that I live across the street from Reliant Stadium?

Have I mentioned that I spent about a week wishing I didn't have to leave my apartment?

It was worse than Rodeo time and I *never* want to be out in *that* traffic.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I used to live on a secondary Mardi Gras parade route.

Also, I'm a football fan, and think that rodeo is more fun when the rider is being stomped by the animal.

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Not much of a football fan here. Bud Adams pretty much killed my interest. As for the rodeo, I grew up going every year when my dad got tickets from work. It was fun at the time, but has lost most of its appeal as I grew up and started understanding a bit more about what was actually going on.

I really hate C&W, too. :-)

[the-yellow-king.livejournal.com]

I have a mild liking for Prince, so I am biased. His guitar was tres idiotic. I have to agree that he definitely has been visited by the Plastic Surgeon Fairy.
Besides, every time I hear him I think of Jack Nicholson going wacky on the museum in Batman.

But WHAT THE FUCK was up with the two spastic 'dancers' that were with him on stage? Jesus please us, they looked like they were having weirdly sympatico epileptic fits. Who had the moronity to choreograph THAT?

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

And what was up with the purple guitar? In silhouette, it looked like Little Man Prince was playing with a gratuitously oversized Nightcrawler-themed double-penetration sex toy.

I had the distinct impression that was very deliberate. A nod to the wardrobe malfunction, perhaps.

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

My spawn made me watch the end of the game... only for her, I tell you.

In any case... I had to sit through that gawdawful production. I'd rather rent "Purple Rain" and fast forward to the music... it was more potent then.

Oh... and as an aside, one of my closest friends used to work for His Majesty closely. From all I am told, the guy is one insufferably arrogant ass.

Another reason, beyond that I hate his music, to not support him in any way, shape or form.

:::rummages for her #2 pencil to pop her eardrums to insure she misses this should she ever be witness to that train wreck again:::