Super What? (yawn)
There was a time when I enjoyed the Superbowl. Not for the football – sorry, not a sports nut, though I do find an aesthetic beauty to the slow-mo replays. But I liked the artistry in the amazingly-overpriced commercials (with a good dose of schadenfreude when the commercials bombed and all that money just went down the drain). And I enjoyed the halftime shows – which used to be spectacles of an amazing sort.
Until, of course, the incident. Which I saw when it happened, and over and over again in the years that followed, and…oh, wait, I’ve already weighed in on that, haven’t I? Well, anyway, the band that will be playing, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, I’ve already seen live. They were awesome. But with what this represents…well, TV Jab said it best:
“The Super Bowl half time show still seems like it will never live down the 2004 incident with Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake – which has apparently ruined the chances of current pop music EVER being on the Super Bowl stage again…In an interesting side note, Tom Petty is a very vocal opponent of corporate sponsorship of music events. I’m sure he’ll be thinking about that when he steps on The Bridgestone Corporation stage and plays to 40 million people in January.”
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