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You are here: Home / Sports / Super Bowl XLV: The Directors’ Cut

Super Bowl XLV: The Directors’ Cut

by Imani Gandy (ABL)|  February 6, 20118:03 pm| 46 Comments

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This is pretty rad




Here’s your “WTF!! Black Eyed Peas?!” Open Thread.

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  1. 1.

    wobblybits

    February 6, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    They did this song at the World Cup…the SB doesn’t get it’s own special song? :)

    ETA: I like this song but it has been played and overplayed to death.

  2. 2.

    Wag

    February 6, 2011 at 8:11 pm

    Got that Tron thing going

  3. 3.

    Garbo

    February 6, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    Looks more Lite Bright to me.

  4. 4.

    BD of MN

    February 6, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    I’m guessing the choreographers approved of the China Olympics opening ceremony?

    And I guess I’m officially old since I do not recognize this song…

  5. 5.

    Violet

    February 6, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    I’m not like this halftime show very much. The visuals are okay, but the audio…meh.

  6. 6.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    February 6, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    Mostly good, but the Tarantino thing? With the exception of Kill Bill, QT is known for his dialogue, marked by a few short, intense scenes of violence- and even KB has a decent amount of dialogue.

  7. 7.

    Comrade Luke

    February 6, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    These “fans” cheering for the Black Eyed Peas remind me of the alien toys in Toy Story.

  8. 8.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    February 6, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    Oh, shit. Fucking Guns ‘N Roses have commandeered the stage. Chinese Democracy, bitches.

  9. 9.

    Napoleon

    February 6, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    OK, Love and Roses is a little better, and at least Fergie is easy on the eyes.

  10. 10.

    wobblybits

    February 6, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    WTF Slash? The lust of my life? Why oh why?

  11. 11.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    February 6, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    Not too bad, I wonder how would John Ford, Francis Ford Coppala or Martin Scorsesee would have done it?

  12. 12.

    Napoleon

    February 6, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    Duh, Guns n Roses

  13. 13.

    S. cerevisiae

    February 6, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    Slash! that was a surprise.

  14. 14.

    cleek

    February 6, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    The Black Guy Pees…

    is that some band or something?

  15. 15.

    Violet

    February 6, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    The dancers on the field are kind of cool.

  16. 16.

    wobblybits

    February 6, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    Is this like a Best of…?

  17. 17.

    BD of MN

    February 6, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    unless one of their electric costumes short circuits and someone bursts into flames, this is going to be completely forgettable…

  18. 18.

    debit

    February 6, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    At least they did a better job with the sound this year. I’m still cringing on behalf of the Who.

  19. 19.

    Batocchio

    February 6, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    The Herzog bit was especially clever.

  20. 20.

    Nerull

    February 6, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    They get a female vocalist to sing it and still can’t hit the same pitch as Axl.

  21. 21.

    Garbo

    February 6, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    Can we acknowledge that some artists can manage in the studio, but not live? Sometimes a little lip sync is a mercy.

  22. 22.

    wobblybits

    February 6, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    @BD of MN: True

  23. 23.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    February 6, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    @cleek:

    Hahhaha…Joe Montana FTW!

  24. 24.

    Wag

    February 6, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    I prefered Prince’s phallic guitar or U2’s emotional 2002 performance

  25. 25.

    asiangrrlMN

    February 6, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    I actually like this song, but…just go, please. Way out of tune, Fergie. Gah.

    ETA: They do THIS abomination? And, death to the vocoder!

  26. 26.

    13th Generation

    February 6, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    So this is what passes for popular music these days?

    Hmmm..

  27. 27.

    wobblybits

    February 6, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    My ears are bleeding

  28. 28.

    Xantar

    February 6, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    @debit:

    Really? You think so? I was coming here to say that the sound mix is doing no favors for the Black Eyed Peas. I’m not a fan, but when the sound makes their voices sound like they’re right next to you and you can barely hear any instrumentation, any song is going to sound awful.

  29. 29.

    wobblybits

    February 6, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    @Wag: agreed on both parts. I’m hitting the wine now to make it go away or at least dull the pain

  30. 30.

    Garbo

    February 6, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    No one puts Baby in the corner.

  31. 31.

    Napoleon

    February 6, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    I actually like their song selection.

  32. 32.

    Violet

    February 6, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    @Wag:
    Prince was my favorite halftime performer in recent years. His phallic guitar was hilarious.

  33. 33.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    February 6, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    How many covers can they do?

  34. 34.

    Nerull

    February 6, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    I got stuck listening to a top 40 station at work a few weeks ago for a few days – apparently all the songs that were really annoying were by these guys.

  35. 35.

    13th Generation

    February 6, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    Hey,anybody seen motoka_chan today, I’m surprised she’s not all over this SB shit..

  36. 36.

    Wag

    February 6, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    “The time of my life?”. WTF?

    Nobody puts Baby in a corner

  37. 37.

    gwangung

    February 6, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    @Xantar: Makes me wonder who’s in charge of the sound, the artist’s engineer on the field or the monkeys in the network booth (and how much of the sound is being chopped off by the confines of the broadcast band).

  38. 38.

    Polish the Guillotines

    February 6, 2011 at 8:24 pm

    That was a great half-time show. In theory.

  39. 39.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 6, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    The Super Bowl halftime show has always been a display of wretched excess, even with superstar performers. I think the last time I actually enjoyed the show was the Sting/Gwen Stefani duet a few years back.

  40. 40.

    debit

    February 6, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    @Xantar: I said better, not good.

  41. 41.

    Warren Terra

    February 6, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    Oh well, it was nice of them to find employment for seemingly every dancer in Texas. The music was so-so, at best, and the spectacle frankly wasn’t that good, but you cant criticize the amount of effort. Also, the black-eyed peas are big Democrats (I saw them in Copley Square in Boston, election night 2004) and they sang about stimulus and finding jobs … On Fox. I think maybe their dancer-full-employment program was part of that.

  42. 42.

    pablo

    February 6, 2011 at 8:38 pm

    Auto Tune….The end of talented singers!
    The show sure expended a lot of energy, signifying nothing!
    I sure hope Murdock is paying the going rate for Fox commercials, cause there sure are a lot of them.

  43. 43.

    jg

    February 6, 2011 at 9:07 pm

    little known factiod:

    will.i.am did the Samurai Jack theme.

    plus BEP are O-bots and large progressives…go easy.

  44. 44.

    JD_PhD

    February 6, 2011 at 10:27 pm

    They sucked on Idol last year and so this is no surprise.

  45. 45.

    kansi

    February 6, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    @Warren Terra: Yeah, everybody at the party was mocking their outfits and staging, when I asked if anyone was listening to what will.i.am was saying in the song lyrics. Message definitely not being heard.

  46. 46.

    Comrade Mary

    February 7, 2011 at 12:10 am

    I liked the Herzog bit best.

    Also: Herzog brings us Jackass for intellectuals.

    Now you see I will be flying down this hill to end in the muddy, swirling river. I ride this shopping cart, and it is not meaningless transport. The rich use for consumption, with tomatoes and steak; the poor for production with collections of bottles and cans, and the artist for chaos, with the artist himself inside and these angry unknown rodents. We will see how it happens. Please light us on fire now, so we have the poetry. Push me, Kinski, now!

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