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Re: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] They won't be loved: Maroon 5 play it safe with dullest halftime show of all time

by Crime Time Tamil on February 04, 2019

I agree, the halftime show left a lot to be desired. And I like Maroon 5

Mary

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From: SHARON ceegee2006@yahoo.com [Reality-TV-Fanatics] <Reality-TV-Fanatics@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Feb 3, 2019 10:11 pm
Subject: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] They won't be loved: Maroon 5 play it safe with dullest halftime show of all time

LOL I don't care I like the Maroon 5 The rap singer didn't understand a word he said and I can usually understand rap

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/wont-loved-maroon-5-play-safe-dullest-halftime-show-time-020340915.html

They won't be loved: Maroon 5 play it safe with dullest halftime show of all time

Lyndsey Parker 1 hour 37 minutes ago

When it was first announced that this year's Super Bowl halftime performer would be Maroon 5 — a choice so bland, it made 2016's halftime headliner, Coldplay, seem like GG Allin by comparison — the news was met with a collective yawn. But it wasn't long before Adam Levine and company found themselves at the center of the biggest halftime show controversy since Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's "Nipplegate" debacle 15 years ago.

Maroon 5's decision to play the Super Bowl — at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, one of the American capitals of black music (and specifically hip-hop) — didn't sit well with some detractors, who saw the move as a snub against ex-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (who is currently suing the NFL, claiming team owners conspired to keep him out of the league for protesting police brutality against people of color). Nearly 115,000 people signed an online petition urging Maroon 5 to drop out, and celebrities ranging from Amy Schumer to Meek Mill to Ava DuVernay blasted the band. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters actually asked the band to take a knee during their halftime show, and Kaepernick's attorney, Mark Geragos, accused Maroon 5 of "crossing the picket line."

Maroon 5 could have silenced their many haters and doubters with a spectacular performance – just as Gladys Knight, who'd also caught flak for appearing at Super Bowl LIII, did with her gorgeous national anthem performance earlier in the day. But Maroon 5 didn't do that. Instead, they played it safe with what just might be the most underwhelming and instantly forgettable halftime show of all time.

There was a rumor that Levine might honor Kaepernik, possibly by kneeling, during the halftime show. He didn't. There was a rumor that Christina Aguilera might show up during "Moves Like Jagger." She didn't. There was a rumor that rapper Travis Scott would propose to his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, onstage. He didn't. There was even a rumor that Maroon 5 would pay tribute to a hero the entire nation can get behind — SpongeBob Squarepants creator Stephen Hillenburg, who died in November — with their beloved SpongeBob theme "Sweet Victory." (Another online petition, begging the band to perform that song, actually gathered more than 1.2 million signatures.) Maroon 5 could have had SpongeBob characters parade out for the finale, and viewers of all political persuasions would have loved it — but they didn't do that either.

Twitter was mad. And understandably so.

The most exciting thing that happened during the entire show was when Levine stripped bare to the waist and wiggled his chiseled, tatted-up torso like a Chippendales dancer — but that just seemed desperate, pandering and downright embarrassing. Scott's heavily CBS-censored "Sicko Mode" and Big Boi's "I Like the Way You Move" brought a little fire (Scott literally, via a cheesy, flaming-comet not-so-special effect), and Maroon 5 played all the requisite wedding-band hits ("Harder to Breathe," "This Love," "She Will Be Loved," "Sugar," "Moves Like Jagger," "Girls Like You" — the latter sans duet partner Cardi B). But it was not nearly enough in a post-Prince/Beyoncé/Gaga age

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Posted by: Mary Landers <maryeland@aol.com>

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