The half time show.

[Mrh182]

Correct me if I'm wrong...but the show has the Black Eyed Peas play...which I guess is a form of "hip hop" (not like a 50 cent)....they had Alicia Keys..which could be considered R&B or Pop....they had Earth Wind and Fire...which I guess could go wherever you want it to..maybe disco or something...and they had Macca play half-time...rock and roll...overall I think they had a wide range of performances to please everyone

 

[Lex]

There was a halftime show?

I was watching a football game.

Everything else was a "commercial."

 

[Lars the Red]

sure if they sing the same songs that made them famous in the first place. the funny thing is people keep ripping hip hop, but it keeps on growing and outselling most of the "main stream" music.

My point being that you may not like certain artists, but that does not mean the whole genre of music sucks. There are things in all music that I like and dont like.

Right Clif, 'out selling mainstream', just like Grunge did, and died. Or Disco did, and died. Or 80's syntho did, and died. Or 80's hair/metal did, and died.

There is really so little that Rap/Hip Hop has to offer the world, it makes it hard to not lump it all together as music that sucks.

Hip Hop is dead music walking simply because of the complete lack of skill necessary to do it. I can take a 70 year old man and work with him on it and eventually make him tolerable. I can't do that with real music needing vocal talent. Half of Hip Hops intrigue is that fact that anyone can 'sing along' with it. You don't need any skill to talk. I think the other half of the fans just like the opportunity to spout off vile lyrics and try to pass them off as 'how the real world is'. What a crock.

Give me Earth, Wind and Fire, the Ohio Players, Brothers Johnson, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, quality black performers with style, skill, and their own styles of bling. Guys that brought the style. All we have now are baggy pants, underwear out the top, moronic gold chains, sideways hat wearing followers that steal half of the tracks to make their 'music', because they don't have the talent to create it.

So come on and call me a racist, but before you do come to my house and check out my blues collection. Music is about style, not race.

 

[clif]

Right Clif, 'out selling mainstream', just like Grunge did, and died. Or Disco did, and died. Or 80's syntho did, and died. Or 80's hair/metal did, and died.

There is really so little that Rap/Hip Hop has to offer the world, it makes it hard to not lump it all together as music that sucks.

Hip Hop is dead music walking simply because of the complete lack of skill necessary to do it. I can take a 70 year old man and work with him on it and eventually make him tolerable. I can't do that with real music needing vocal talent. Half of Hip Hops intrigue is that fact that anyone can 'sing along' with it. You don't need any skill to talk. I think the other half of the fans just like the opportunity to spout off vile lyrics and try to pass them off as 'how the real world is'. What a crock.

Give me Earth, Wind and Fire, the Ohio Players, Brothers Johnson, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, quality black performers with style, skill, and their own styles of bling. Guys that brought the style. All we have now are baggy pants, underwear out the top, moronic gold chains, sideways hat wearing followers that steal half of the tracks to make their 'music', because they don't have the talent to create it.

So come on and call me a racist, but before you do come to my house and check out my blues collection. Music is about style, not race.

who said anything about race? My point was about a form of music and by the way 50 cent is not hip hop. Rap and hip hop are two different things.

Just because you dont like hip hop doesn't mean you are racist, it is just the fact that there are good things and good people that make music that get lumped altogether uneccessarily. Crouch grabbing, bad lyrics, and bad dancing is common in all forms of music. Again it doesnt mean the whole line of music is bad. I dont like much of the music made today, but then again there are some very talented people who dont get much play because some clowns give the music a bad name.

 

[coloradosun]

Give me Earth, Wind and Fire, the Ohio Players, Brothers Johnson, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, quality black performers with style, skill, and their own styles of bling. Guys that brought the style. All we have now are baggy pants, underwear out the top, moronic gold chains, sideways hat wearing followers that steal half of the tracks to make their 'music', because they don't have the talent to create it.

So come on and call me a racist, but before you do come to my house and check out my blues collection. Music is about style, not race.

African Americans are credited with creating the Blue's, Jazz and Motown. Any of these classifications were associated with the struggle to get ahead.

Hip Hop and Rap are designed to tear people down. There is not one single positive message associated with either. As a caucasian myself, I am disappointed that the masses, white urban and suburban kids, are subsidizing this garbage. We live in a new market where "trash talking" sells more than "inspirational". I am not talking gospell music but at least put in some positive lyrics so that the ones that are down can have something to look forward to in life instead of tearing others down.

I am not a racist either, in my collection are several black artists that no one would recognize their names. All Jazz artists, who are actually artists.

 

[Azlen]

This is the writeup the halftime show got over on Studio Briefing. I pretty much agree with the assessment.


The Super Bowl's halftime show, which went out of its way to present wholesome entertainment, was generally drubbed by critics, who called it uninspired and boring. Medkeisha Madden in the Detroit News remarked that Paul McCartney, who headed up the show, "didn't flash a mammary gland, a la Janet Jackson, but more jaded viewers might have preferred that than the boredom they endured." David Bianculli in the New York Daily News described it as "your father's Super Bowl halftime show." But the New York Times observed that the 63-year-old McCartney had an unenviable assignment. "It's just what no rock musician dreams of," it said, "a guarantee that he'll be innocuous."

 

[KingLouieLouie]

We should move this discussion to the Books, Music, and Video Games forum.....Everyone is always welcomed there.... Just beware of the moderator though!

 

[clif]

Hip Hop and Rap are designed to tear people down.

That is so far from the truth that it is laughable. Again rap and hip hop are two different things.

 

[coloradosun]

Hip Hop and Rap are designed to tear people down.

That is so far from the truth that it is laughable. Again rap and hip hop are two different things.

Define both for me, I cannot tell the difference. Call me ignorant if you wish.

 

[coloradosun]

This is the writeup the halftime show got over on Studio Briefing. I pretty much agree with the assessment.


The Super Bowl's halftime show, which went out of its way to present wholesome entertainment, was generally drubbed by critics, who called it uninspired and boring. Medkeisha Madden in the Detroit News remarked that Paul McCartney, who headed up the show, "didn't flash a mammary gland, a la Janet Jackson, but more jaded viewers might have preferred that than the boredom they endured." David Bianculli in the New York Daily News described it as "your father's Super Bowl halftime show." But the New York Times observed that the 63-year-old McCartney had an unenviable assignment. "It's just what no rock musician dreams of," it said, "a guarantee that he'll be innocuous."

The best halftime show was the one "In Living Color" did back in the early 90's. Give us a different one for TV and have the wholesome one done on the field. Comedy would be great, isn't that why we want to see the Super Bowl commercials. People at the stadium usually go to the restrooms or the concessions. The kids that surround the stage are all extras anyhow. That is how TV props it up.

 

[clif]

Define both for me, I cannot tell the difference. Call me ignorant if you wish.

here are some quotes that pretty much sum it up

Hip-hop is music, art, poetry, dancing, and life.
Rap music itself is just music, no culture behind it.

"Hip hop", at its core, is not a style of music. The term "hip hop" actually refers to the cultural movement that began in the 70s and 80s in the section of New York City known as The Bronx.

More recently, "rap" has been used to describe the aggressive, mass-market produced music of Nas or Eminem. But, as one online encyclopedia points out, "Not all music that has rapping in it, however, is actually rap music, and not all hip-hop music has rapping in it." Artists like Jurassic 5 and De La Soul typify hip-hop music, which is generally more multi-instrumented and less in-your-face.

There's Christian rap, Latin rap, southern rap.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

The best halftime show was the one "In Living Color" did back in the early 90's.

I remember the Oilers and the Packers joke. That was great!

 

[8ndkorner]

Give me Earth, Wind and Fire, the Ohio Players, Brothers Johnson, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, quality black performers with style, skill, and their own styles of bling. Guys that brought the style.
.

Tower of Power, Sam and Dave, Al Green, Wilson Pickett. I grew up with that music and THAT was music.

 

[marathon_mom]

It was no "Up with People" but it was a good show. A hundred times better than last year's debacle. It's amazing that you can actually entertain people without grabbing your crotch.

 

[Redsz]

This thread is funny. You can definatley identify the 'older' posters on ASFN.

 

[marathon_mom]

This thread is funny. You can definatley identify the 'older' posters on ASFN.

How old is "older" Mr Redsz?????? I though McCartney is a legend to all ages. Well, I guess by reading this thread that's not so. I do, however, think he should have some new stuff and not just oldies. Still better than the crap from last year, so I'm good.

 

[Redsz]

lol. Well not too old MM.

But I can identify the age group that is prominant at ASFN. Alot of the rap/hip hop debate is something I hear alot from the 'older' generations.

McCartney is definatley not one of my favourites. But he is quite a few years before my time.

 

[Gee!]

Im just trying to figure out when there was ever a rapper on the halftime show.



If you say Nelly, he just makes pop tunes. He is the plague.


Hip-hop forever!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gee!]

BTW, im 29 and been listening to hip-hop for 21 years.

 

[marathon_mom]

lol. Well not too old MM.

But I can identify the age group that is prominant at ASFN. Alot of the rap/hip hop debate is something I hear alot from the 'older' generations.

McCartney is definatley not one of my favourites. But he is quite a few years before my time.

No b-day listed on your profile. How old are you? I'm 37, does that qualify as older? Ok, be careful how you answer that!!!!!!! lol.

 

[marathon_mom]

BTW, im 29 and been listening to hip-hop for 21 years.

Dang! That's a loooooong time. I enjoy hip-hop but not a rap fan.

 

[Lars the Red]

BTW, im 29 and been listening to hip-hop for 21 years.

Really? So tell me, who were you listening to in '84?

 

[Gee!]

Really? So tell me, who were you listening to in '84?

"Jam On It" - Newculues

Hip-hop started in the mid to late 70's.

 

[Gee!]

"Jam On It" - Newculues

Hip-hop started in the mid to late 70's.

Ha ha .. I misspelled it.

Song: Jam On It ~~ 1984 ~~ 8:04
Artist: Newcleus

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Venue/9769/rap/j/jam_on_it_n.html

 

[Cardinal Bob]

Song: Jam On It ~~ 1984 ~~ 8:04
Artist: Newcleus

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Venue/9769/rap/j/jam_on_it_n.html

I remember that song...in fact, I have a 12" single of it still. Love that song!