Super Bowl Music

Super Bowl music usually creates a lot of buzz (Thanks Janet Jackson). However, this year didn't really entertain. Faith Hill and Jennifer Hudson opened the sporting event with wonderful renditions of their respective tunes. (This was Hudson's first performance since the horrifying murder of her family.) It was great to see Hudson perform again. It was clear why she has been nominated for four Grammy awards. Hill was perfectly pleasant but nothing exciting or really worth mentioning here. 

The halftime show left something to be desired. I remember when the halftime shows were entertaining and brought the biggest names in music. (Thanks Janet for ending that.) Not that Bruce Springsteen isn't a big name in music. He is. However, if you notice, there was no one in the audience under the age of 40. My question is...who is audience for the Super Bowl? If they are only hoping to entertain my parents...then great job. Springsteen urged us at home to step away from the guacamole dip and put down are chicken fingers and turn our TVs all the way up. My question is why? Was it so we could hear his muffled lyrics? I was looking for something to like some chicken fingers to entertain me after his lackluster performance. 

I could not understand a word Springsteen was saying until his last two songs. He spent the first two minutes of his 12 minute set trying to pump up the crowd. Jumping on a piano and dancing his way into a camera man. When he finally started singing he was too out of breathe to sing. Luckily, his band has a million people to help cover-up Springsteen's lackluster performance. 

The glimmer of hope that made the halftime show worth watching was Springsteen's new hit single "Working on a Dream" It was the only song you could understand. Probably because he had his background singers right next to him on the stage and he is trying to sell his new album and tickets for his upcoming tour. 

I have never really been a Bruce Springsteen fan and this performance certainly did not help.

Hey Super Bowl, just because Janet Jackson messed up some years ago doesn't mean that you can only hire aging rock stars to perform.   

That's just my opinion. Let me know what you thought of Springsteen's performance and the rest of the music from the Super Bowl.