Was it just the lateness of the hour (UK time), or was the Coldplay/Bruno Mars/Beyonce “gig” – especially the ending with the montage of past performances – really rather good?
Grateful if those who saw/have seen/will see it can put me right, or otherwise.
I watched it, but I’m not really the right person to ask: lots of people dancing in unison isn’t my bag.
I thought Coldplay put on a reasonable show, and gave some credence to the voices on here proclaiming them to be a live act. Uptown Funk – not my cup of tea, but it seemed to go down very well, and Bruno Mars is basically made for this sort of thing.
I don’t really get Beyonce. She’s released a handful of absolutely superb singles, but I sort of get the impression she could stride onstage, fart into a bucket and we’d still be deluged with articles heralding the way that “Queen Bey” has “changed the game”. New single sounded extremely dull to these ears, but I suppose the politics were on point. Hopefully no attempt to censor the internet this time round.
It wasn’t exactly Prince 2007, but nor was it the Blues Brothers debacle. My favourite moment was the look on Chris Martin’s face as he found himself strutting down the runway between Mars and Beyonce: “Please god, don’t let this become an impromptu dance-off”.
I would also add that it’s a disgrace that Limp Bizkit STILL haven’t been invited to play the only stage that truly befits their powers.
I thought it was pretty good. The montage was well done and probably done because Coldplay are so deathly dull to look at you had to give the folks in tv land something better to see. But it was good. My alma mater’s marching band were on top form and great to see them rather than the usual Stanford.
Can’t comment on the game, only recently found out who played and I think I know who won. Over here you compare it to something called ’rounders’ I think.
I thought it was appalling. The sound was terrible, everything was over rehearsed and contrived (including the “crowd” on the pitch), Coldplay seemed the opposite of a good stage act based on that, only when Beyonce appeared did the excitement er rise a bit.
Terrible game too.
Lady GaGa was hugely impressive though.
Wasn’t she? I think she pitched it just right – not too strung out and warbly like Christina/Whitney, but still with a bit of emosh. Good old Gaga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyqkN3zezso
Nice flypast.
And then there are probably those who felt it wasn’t rehearsed enough. My sense is that if it’s spontaneity you’re looking for in single song performances from the top middle of the road acts of the day, the once a year nachos wings and beer snack fest drawing the largest annual tv audience in a very big country of (very big) tv viewers probably isn’t your best source. Maybe try the MTV awards.
Rentacrowds have been a staple for some time now. Who among us has already forgot the Stones and their stage ten years ago? I thought it was much better than Britney, Aerosmith and NSYNC. THAT was disappointing.
Sorry to respond to my own post, but seeing the performance again just now – blimey, Beyonce is giving it some Malcolm X/Black Panthers moves…
Saluting Tommy Smith and John Carlos. Mexico, ’68 summer olympics. Rudy Giuliani has called it ‘an attack on police’, the reactionary douche. B’s bandolier arm decorations were brilliant, too.
When I see things like this, I turn into Danny out of “Withnail and I” bemoaning “They’re selling hippie wigs in Woolworths, man. The greatest decade in the history of mankind is over. And as Presuming Ed here has so consistently pointed out, we have failed to paint it black”.
Clodplay at half-time? What’s wrong with a meat pie and the 50/50 raffle draw?
I’m interested by the premise of the question.
Highly accomplished performers capable of delivering a communal singalong slash energy fest at a major sporting slash media event.
Why wouldn’t they be “really rather good”?
What were you expecting, Hatfield & The North?
And why not?
You’re probably wondering what Frankie Boyle had to say about it:
“Literally dozens of men there whose job it is to wrestle cunts to the ground and they fuck off just when Coldplay come on”
I haven’t paid much (visual) attention to Coldplay previously, but that ‘chimp-singing’ thing of Chris Martin’s grates awfully quickly.
I’m still upset and annoyed that after years of using Roman numerals, when they finally got the chance to use a really simple Roman number they didn’t use it. It should have been called Superbowl L.