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The Black Eyed Peas Halftime Ear Violation

Written By : John Hawkins

It was funny to me how many people HATED the Black Eyed Peas halftime show. Funny because they’ve ALWAYS sucked. You people are just figuring this out now?

These guys have the worst lyrics of any band in the last 50 years. In fact, I imagine that the legions of talented unsigned bands that are out there must have watched that abomination and hoped that there were no sleeping pills in their house.

The reviews of the halftime show were immediately and deservedly harsh. For example, here’s the original post on Wikipedia,

The Black Eyed Peas are currently playing at Super Bowl XLV.

This then transformed to The group performed at the Super Bowl XLV Halftime Show where a lack of post-production effects has revealed their stage show to be of inferior quality to a high school talent show.

Come on, that’s unfair! High school talent shows don’t have a band that looks like they were dressed by Michelle Obama and legions of dancing condoms covered with Christmas lights to compliment their performance.

Predictably, the comments on Twitter were SCATHING,

Why won’t the Black Eyed Peas just tell us what their demands are so we can end the torture??!?! — rumpfshaker

Black Eyed Peas are now #2 on iTunes. Who saw that performance and said, “Wow, I’d like to hear that multiple times.”? — deppisch

I’m afraid if the Superbowl is being broadcast into space, aliens will interpret this Black Eyed Peas performance as an act of war. — Eugene Mirman

Granted, everything about the show wasn’t terrible. Fergie was wearing a hot outfit and Slash from Guns’N'Roses made a brief appearance to play a little Sweet Child O’ Mine, which was at least a reminder of what a more talented band sounds like.

Look, I don’t want to call the Black Eyed Peas performance a war crime against humanity that should lead to a trial at the Hague — but, that’s mainly because I don’t believe in sending Americans to the Hague. Besides, Will.I.Am’s manager punched out Perez Hilton once, which is such a service to humanity that they deserve a little leniency.

Last but not least, let’s face it. The world’s not a fair place. Someone as incompetent as Barack Obama is President, The Black Eyed Peas got to play the Super Bowl, and Arianna Huffington is now worth $300 million dollars. That’s the breaks, brother, and we just have to roll with it…and buy earplugs to keep the repetitive lyrics of the Black Eyed Peas from giving us brain damage.

Blablabla

Amen brother. One of the few places I have seen honest enough to call these losers on their performance.

Anonymous

Watch Gladstone’s takedown of “I Got A Feeling”. I had to watch that instead of the Half-time show to make myself feel better.

Anonymous

And how about the little praise to the dictator obama? I bet a large majority of people at that game rolled their eyes when obama was mentioned in the performance. Hell, I bet obama rolled his eyes…..I mean how many complete losers can you have in your cheer club before you start to regret it?

http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

Yeah, I was half-watching the show with the sound turned down, but my ears pricked up when I heard them sing for Obama to educate the kids and create jobs. Did those morons just beam in from the year 2008? I’m surprised they didn’t symbolically sacrifice a goat to him or something.

Kingfisher

I heard them sing for Obama to educate the kids and create jobs.

It’s amazing how four morons with no singing skills can become the prime halftime entertainer.

http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

“It’s amazing how four morons with no singing skills can become the prime halftime entertainer.”

Just as amazing that one moron with the right connections, but no experience or skills aside from “community organising” and reading speeches, can become the President of the United States.

http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

Yeah, I was half-watching the show with the sound turned down, but my ears pricked up when I heard them sing for Obama to educate the kids and create jobs. Did those morons just beam in from the year 2008? I’m surprised they didn’t symbolically sacrifice a goat to him or something.
http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

Yeah, I was half-watching the show with the sound turned down, but my ears pricked up when I heard them sing for Obama to educate the kids and create jobs. Did those morons just beam in from the year 2008? I’m surprised they didn’t symbolically sacrifice a goat to him or something.
http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

Yeah, I was half-watching the show with the sound turned down, but my ears pricked up when I heard them sing for Obama to educate the kids and create jobs. Did those morons just beam in from the year 2008? I’m surprised they didn’t symbolically sacrifice a goat to him or something.
http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

Yeah, I was half-watching the show with the sound turned down, but my ears pricked up when I heard them sing for Obama to educate the kids and create jobs. Did those morons just beam in from the year 2008? I’m surprised they didn’t symbolically sacrifice a goat to him or something.

Good Ol Boy

To be completely honest, I walked out to smoke cigars with my boys before the BEPs even got started.
That said, I was bemused when the women-folk joined us outside, and were trashing the halftime show. I mean, this was the (inexplicable) target audience that the NFL was trying to entertain, and they thought it was too terrible to watch. That’s bad; as in some executive is going to be looking for a new line of work today bad. What were they thinking?

Chano Leal

One must possess class to recognize class, the superbowl producers are so champagned filled celebrating the fact that they pulled off the madoff of the sports world, next scheduled gig for the black eye peas is a national tour of the Chucky Cheese Arcade’s.

abcxyz

I feel for anyone who watched that crap. I recorded the game on tivo, started watching it almost three hours after it started and got done just in time for the real thing to finish. Skipped past the commercials and the “atrocities” at half time.

Don_cos

I usually enjoy the commercials and a least find the half-time show good enough to not fall asleep. If this one is a taste of the future I just may adopt your strategy.
Don_cos

I usually enjoy the commercials and a least find the half-time show good enough to not fall asleep. If this one is a taste of the future I just may adopt your strategy.

President Friedman

I guess I will consider it a point of pride then that I can’t name and wouldn’t recognize a single Black Eyed Peas song. Maybe it’s just me (I’m more of a college football guy) but the entire Superbowl was kind of ‘blah’ this year. Half of my NFL-obsessed buddies who throw superbowl parties didn’t even bother this year. I watched the first quarter, wandered back to the bedroom where my wife and daughter were watching Pawn Stars, and didn’t go back to finish watching the game until the 4th quarter. And I didn’t miss much.
President Friedman

Also, I don’t know if it’s just the fact that due to DVR I never watch commercials anymore and am no longer impressed by them, or if this batch of Superbowl commercials were just incredibly unimaginitive and boring, but I was not impressed with what is usually one of the highlights of the game (at least not with the ones I saw during the first quarter… I skipped past the ones in the 4th quarter).

Anonymous

Not you, they were just bad. Even the one where Roseanne got hit by the log was spoiled by struggling to place a shockingly old and fat Richard Lewis. That and it looks like we’re in for a bumper crop of stupid alien movies this year.

President Friedman

Also, I don’t know if it’s just the fact that due to DVR I never watch commercials anymore and am no longer impressed by them, or if this batch of Superbowl commercials were just incredibly unimaginitive and boring, but I was not impressed with what is usually one of the highlights of the game (at least not with the ones I saw during the first quarter… I skipped past the ones in the 4th quarter).
Anonymous

The whole Super Bowl was borderline nauseating. I shudder to think how much taxpayer money Government Motors burned on advertising and product placement. The commercials were bad, and obviously undersold judging by the avalanche of in-house Fox promos. All the music stunk. Good game, but the Super Bowl as spectacle took a serious hit this year.
Rhondasmo

I agree that particular performance was not great but to say they have the worst lyrics in 50 years says more about you… do you even dance? Are you capable of feeling alive? If you answer no to these questions I don’t think you should comment about the BEP’s from a lyrical angle. You seem old and tired.

President Friedman

Asking if someone dances is sort of an odd question when we are talking about lyrics. Do you even listen to songs? You seem shallow and dumb.
Don_cos

says more about you… You seem old and tired.

So not liking a musical act that you do like make one a non dancer, not alive, old and tired? I’d say that your comment says as much about you.
StanW

Calm yourself, Fergie. BEP is not for everyone. If you like them, that’s fine. But some people have different tastes.

And BTW, what does dancing have to do with Lyrics?

Mahatma

stannie, is your favorite music anything performed by the cast of Glee?

Anonymous

Do you have anything to add about the halftime show?
StanW

I told you to piss off, Vega.

D-Vega

Still crazy after all these years, Stan?
StanW

Still a pathetic jerk after all these years, Vega?

http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

“to say they have the worst lyrics in 50 years says more about you… do you even dance?”

Do you dance to lyrics? I always thought people danced to music. Well, no wonder I’m not that good at it, then.
Anonymous

Touchy-feely crap won’t work here. Best to troll someplace else.

D-Vega

Agreed. This is was one of the most over-produced steaming piles I’ve seen. But what else do you expect from a Super-Bowl show?

The are going to go the most poppy non-threatening garbage, of which The BEPs are the paragon.

The BEP market is not even the football demographic. I thought they were going to do an assortment of people with songs instead of the same crappy songs of theirs that people were sick of 2 years ago.

My suggestions:
- Kings of Leon
- Justin Timberlake (just Justin, no Janet)
- Metallica (before they go to the retirement home)
- Foo Fighters
- Red Hot Chili Peppers

President Friedman

Kings of Leon would be good. So would a White Stripes reunion.

The last Superbowl haltftime show I gave two squirts bout was when Tom Petty did it a few years back.

D-Vega

Petty does know how to rock. I remember that performance. Also ZZ Top. I mean, no offense to them, but why ZZ Top? You can practically get anyone to do the show.

Don_cos

- Justin Timberlake (just Justin, no Janet)

I’d rather see (and hear) Janet.
Good Ol Boy

The NFL would’ve been much better served if they’d have given the money they spent the BEP to Slash, Axel, and the boys and had a one-time Guns-N-Roses reunion. Or Led Zepplin. Or Van Halen. Or just about any iconic rock band. Do NFL execs really clueless about who their fan base is?

P.S.- The Foo Fighters would be awesome; outstanding suggestion.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Shawn-Boyett/100001238012899 Shawn Boyett

You could start with letting the fans back on the field again so that we have more of a concert setting.

I got the greatest laugh in the world at watching the background of the people in the stands after they stopped singing. So many people were standing around, and no one was clapping. No one. They were looking at the stage wondering what the hell they just heard.

I mean, boxes on their heads? Are you serious?
http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

The Who were pretty bad last year too, maybe its just the venue.

D-Vega

I think The Who is over-rated anyway.

http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

HERETIC! They were the greatest rock and roll band of all time, but maybe you’re too young to appreciate that.

D-Vega

Maybe. I enjoy the Stones, The Doors, Aerosmith, Jimmy Hendrix and Led Zepplin though.
chano leal

C. Taylor you have never heard ROCK AND ROLL…..You were on pablum and soiling your pampers when the music died, and noooo, we are not talkin about, ” Buddy Holly……
the Stones, the Doors, Aerosmith, Hendrix, Zepplin, watered down rock & roll…..the Beatles, yep plain Blue Bunny Vanilla, with untuned instruments on stage.

http://twitter.com/glittzchick glam gurl

How did Timberlake get on this list?

I’m sure everybody will love my suggestion — Adam Lambert! And hell, yes, I’m serious. Plus the boy does a “Star-Spangled Banner” that’ll make your heart swell.

And if you can’t bring on Adam (who can actually sing — without autotune –) at least stay with the previous generation’s music, which really WAS music, not “dancing to lyrics.”
http://twitter.com/glittzchick glam gurl

How did Timberlake get on this list?

I’m sure everybody will love my suggestion — Adam Lambert! And hell, yes, I’m serious. Plus the boy does a “Star-Spangled Banner” that’ll make your heart swell.

And if you can’t bring on Adam (who can actually sing — without autotune –) at least stay with the previous generation’s music, which really WAS music, not “dancing to lyrics.”

Anonymous

I didn’t watch the game.
I’m not a football fan and thus could not give two sh-ts about the Superbowl or anything associated with it. Call me odd, I just never got the apeal.

But Hawkins is spot on about The Black Eyed Peas. “Fergie” is certainly not hard on the eyes, but the band itself is utter crap. Don’t get me wrong. I like pop music (I’m still a huge fan of the ’80s pop I listened to a teen for example) but TBEPs are substandard pop at best.

TR

Mahatma

Okay. Your odd.

Anonymous

Glad I changed the channel for that then.
Serfer1962

The National Anthem…I want it done with respect & competence and your interpetance leave at home…try the Cacus Cuties next time.
I quit watching the half ass, err half time idiotcy decades ago, well decade anyway. Yeah someone suggested a high school marching band. That will be cheaper, more entertaing and give one hell of a boost to rising talent.
Question, do they dig up these BEPs or just rob the rest home?
Kingfisher

The halftime show was pure BS. I was more interested in the lightshow so I muted my TV.

The Star Spangled Banner was also ruined by Christine A. Can’t anybody under 30 sing the S.S.B. correctly?

Toastrider

Many years back, Boys 2 Men did an interesting a capella version of it which I thought was pretty neat.

But yeah. I was watching the Puppy Bowl.
http://twitter.com/glittzchick glam gurl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IczgFvPvCQg

Paste this iinto your address bar and enjoy the NA the way it should be sung. You’ll have to excuse a few screams at the beginning, but they settle down — and this is epic.

http://www.conservative-compendium.com Brian Garst

I should point out that the LAT’s piece complains that BEP have lost their “socially-conscious” roots. Not a position I share. The brief foray into commentary they allowed themselves was head-smackingly stupid enough, we sure as heck didn’t need more.
http://twitter.com/SMAACKass SMACKDADDY

The BEP’s were an Awesome act!

But I agree about obama!
http://twitter.com/SMAACKass SMACKDADDY

The BEP’s were an Awesome act!

But I agree about obama!
Chano Leal

I know where you are coming from, I heard the gate post creak.
Its a forgone conclusion everyone has to be somewhere, and the one stage these MoFo’s have not earned the SUPERBOWL stage, now the gild is off the one last milestone for a B Group, or a B songstress. ” DUE TO THE INCLUSION OF THESE B RATE GROUPS, ON CENTER STAGE.
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I like the way you write baby!!! keep it up!! happy new year

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