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02-07-2011, 01:41 PM
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Super Bowl and America's Pop Culture
I touched on this in the NFL thread but wanted to see if we could have a broader discussion about it. Was anyone else just repulsed by the whole event last night? I mean is this what we consider entertainment in this country? I'm not even referring to the game, which was a decent enough football affair. The game itself isn't the least bit important anymore.
The Black Eyed Peas halftime show was among the most horrendous musical events I have ever witnessed in my life. And it was totally representative of what popular music has become. Nothing has any melody, every voice is masked with auto-tuning. The commercials literally seem to BE ABOUT watching commercials. People are being convinced to buy things simply by the process of osmosis. I can think of a no more fitting venue for the unveiling of Trasformers 3 (god help us). I almost feel sorry for religious people in this country. One likes to imagine that Christmas is the most holy day of the year, but that is simply not true. Super Bowl Sunday is America's true religious holiday, our own annual pilgrimmage to our advertsing Mecca, where we worship flashing lights and cacophonic sounds.
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02-07-2011, 01:43 PM
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Look, I get that you're a Vikings fan, so let's be honest. You're just in a shit mood here because the Packers fans are going to be smug as hell for the next 8 months or so, and that's gonna make life miserable.
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02-07-2011, 01:57 PM
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02-07-2011, 02:04 PM
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and in the rest of the world, not a single shit was given that day. All I heard is that fergie took a good song, force-fed it hamburgers until it died of disgust and then proceeded to molest it in every way possible. I lost my respect for Slash for even participating in that abomination people call "pop music".
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02-07-2011, 02:06 PM
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I'm hearing a lot of people say the BEP's halftime show was horrendous... while I don't care for them I essentially had no opinion on their show other than "why is Will I Am wearing a clear plastic combover on his head?". Was it really that bad, and I just didn't notice it?
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02-07-2011, 02:08 PM
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I can understand why our European friends would not care. My broader point is this American popular entertainment seems to cater to the absolute lowest common denominater. And my theory is that is because a majority of our population is just mind-numbingly stupid and easily manipulated into liking whatever they are told to like. It's depressing.
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I used to say "sex, drugs, and rock and roll." As long as there's sex and drugs, I can do without rock and roll.
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02-07-2011, 02:25 PM
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02-07-2011, 02:28 PM
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While we're on the subject of America's Pop Culture, don't you just love it when South Park's predictions come true? (the thing I'm talking about is at 20:45)
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02-07-2011, 02:41 PM
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And I have just learned that last nights clusterfuck was the most watched television program in history. I don't even have the words.
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I used to say "sex, drugs, and rock and roll." As long as there's sex and drugs, I can do without rock and roll.
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02-07-2011, 02:59 PM
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It really wasn't that bad.
I'm not sure what you expected, but overall, the game was fairly interesting, the commercials were well produced and generally amusing, and the halftime show was tolerable, and certainly not the worst I'd ever seen. Then again, Super Bowl Sunday is really only a "huge" deal if you have a team in the game... otherwise, it's just a good excuse for me to spend half a Sunday sitting in an easy chair stuffing loaded potato skins in my mouth. Maybe you just need better Super Bowl food...
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02-07-2011, 03:01 PM
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I haven't met a single kid who likes today's garbage (I'm in an American public high school). I'm honestly confounded as to where they get their fan base.
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02-07-2011, 03:04 PM
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02-07-2011, 03:10 PM
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02-07-2011, 03:45 PM
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Here are a couple of examples. There are many, MANY more though. This is probably one of the best songs of the last few years. Too bad it is probably only known in the U.S. as soundtrack to twilight.
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Last edited by Reyson : 02-07-2011 at 03:48 PM.
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02-07-2011, 04:02 PM
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Thankfully I recently found a Internet Radio venture that sometimes seems to be reading my mind.
http://www.devilsnight.com/radio.htm You have to listen for about an hour to get a real feel for what their about, but you may become addicted.
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02-07-2011, 06:12 PM
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I only watch the Superbowl for the commercials and an excuse for eating copious amounts of snack foods. The commercials weren't the greatest but they weren't bad. I only started watching a couple of years ago anyways; it really doesn't hold any meaning to me.
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02-07-2011, 09:26 PM
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My brother was telling me that, in the 1950's, there was a psychologist who theorized that stupid commercials did a better job than funny commercials. The reasoning was that the stupid commercials made a company appear more lovable and foolish, and led viewers to lower their initial guard.
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02-08-2011, 12:51 AM
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The notion of the half time show? I don't give a shit, that gave us time to leave the bar, go outside, return the phone calls we ignored, take a piss, and so on. It's good it was terrible, because if they signed someone I actually enjoyed I'd not want to miss it.
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02-08-2011, 06:04 AM
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Not only did you have the Steelers who already have a large fanbase and the Packers who I believe have an even wider fanbase around my way you had the ravenous Ravens fans who only watched to "see the Steelers lose" and make rape jokes.
I missed the first two quarters, but I managed to catch the halftime show which at least served the purpose of giving me something to laugh at and make me feel better. Quote:
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02-08-2011, 07:36 AM
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Honestly, the best musicians I've ever listened to are always people with real fucking jobs who aren't in it for the money. Of course, that also means they can never make it big, but that's kind of the point, I guess.
I really should restart my psychobilly band.
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02-08-2011, 09:12 AM
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02-08-2011, 09:29 AM
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We were actually pretty experimental... though we only played for like a month. We wanted to be to Psychobilly what New Wave was to Punk, and we had a very sci-fi theme with our songs. We were alternating between calling the band "Raygun Diplomacy" and "Raygun Administration".
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02-08-2011, 09:34 AM
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I try to listen to "Garbageman" at least once a week. On the band name note, I was once listening to a show Lou Reed was hosting on satellite radio and he played something by a band called the "Space Shits", which I am pretty certain is the best name ever.
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I used to say "sex, drugs, and rock and roll." As long as there's sex and drugs, I can do without rock and roll.
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