I was happy to see the Texas boy lead Philly to the win. I watched part of the halftime show. They had some kinda karaoke show except it was a lip syncer instead of a singer. They got some big sissy named they called Justa Tenderflake to dance around and pretend to sing. You’d think with all that money, they coulda hired a professional singer. Maybe they ran short of funds this year due to some people boycotting the games. Maybe they can fix that kneeling thing and get some respect again. Then they can hire a man to sing. Or a woman. Wouldn’t that be something?

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Justa Tenderflake

It looked like a noisy chubby parade.

Pretty poor show for sure. I think one of the best, if not the best was Lady Gaga's halftime show last year. That coming from an old fart.

Jim

Karaoke is about right. I heard the opening beat and apparently it's a new song but I said he took that straight from his Bringing Sexy back song.

He danced but I think Bruno Mars was better. I don't see him as a current star able to lead the half-time show and he's not reached the top as seasoned stars who have done the half-time shows before.

There were major issues with the sound and mixing, and this isn't the first time at a Super Bowl this has happened. Can't they find good, competent tech/sound people for these things?


Justin Timberlake's Super Bowl Halftime Show Riddled with Disastrous Audio Issues

Looked like a sing and dance found on any cruise ship.

Perhaps they could just show a music video...just sayin!

Perhaps they could just play the game and quit?

flashguy

I didn't watch any of it, but I heard he summoned some dead artist that didn't wan't to be summoned.
Perusing my local net rag and an AP article states he wouldn't be summoning that artist (who hates him) to do a sing along.
Oops.
Timberlake Won't summon the Dead

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Originally posted by PASig:
There were major issues with the sound and mixing, and this isn't the first time at a Super Bowl this has happened. Can't they find good, competent tech/sound people for these things?


Justin Timberlake's Super Bowl Halftime Show Riddled with Disastrous Audio Issues

It’s nit an easy job to get done stationary. All that soundstage and gear had to be moved, on the fly.

^^^^^^^^^^

Pretty much dead on.

To set up front-of-house sound, stage monitors, ear monitors, wireless mic frequencies, lighting, staging, miles and miles of cabling, etc. for a spectacle like a half-time show would take all day (The Stones would take two days of set-up). And forget a sound check. Yet the Super Bowl folks can get a stage setup done in minutes during commercial breaks (same with the strike). How can they do this? Even if they preset a lot of the equipment, to get it all together in mere minutes rather than hours would be extremely unreliable. Lip syncing requires less technical challenges as a full on live set up. It is generally a better idea to lip sync than to take a chance on the set up described above in front of a large TV audience. One might be surprised on how many of past performances were pre-recorded and played with performers miming on stage.

They should just hire real bands, I don't recall The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, The Rolling Stones, U2, or Aerosmith having issues.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
They should just hire real bands, I don't recall The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, The Rolling Stones, U2, or Aerosmith having issues.

They didn't have issues because most likely, they mimed to pre-recorded tracks and did a decent job at it. This is old news to those in the live audio community. For instance, The Red Hot Chili Peppers were one of the few rock bands that admitted using canned music for the half-time show.

For reasonably perfect live sound (multiple sources of mics, amps, etc.) not only for those sitting in the stands and the onstage performers, but a completely separate audio mix for the TV audience, takes a LOT more time to line check than 3 minutes. The very experienced show producers obviously know this, which is why they basically require acts (including many of the anthem performers) to mime to canned music.

I’ve seen him live and he’s actually pretty impressive. One of the few guys who actually sings and has a real band on stage. Look up the performance with him and Chris Stapleton from the CMA’s. The Super Bowl wants a big show. Unfortunately that complicates live performances.

Not a Tenderflake fan, but I thought his omage to Prince, especially in MN, was a nice touch.

I'm not really a big fan of Prince, I enjoy some of his songs. But I think he was one of the few musicians who broke cultural boundaries. Seeing the town lit up in purple was pretty cool.

If you aren't a fan of Prince, who didn't party like it was 1999?

Yeah, the whole thing reminded me of...
https://youtu.be/FAfDDtNRlfQ?t=1m19s

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Originally posted by oddball:
^^^^^^^^^^

Pretty much dead on.

To set up front-of-house sound, stage monitors, ear monitors, wireless mic frequencies, lighting, staging, miles and miles of cabling, etc. for a spectacle like a half-time show would take all day (The Stones would take two days of set-up). And forget a sound check. Yet the Super Bowl folks can get a stage setup done in minutes during commercial breaks (same with the strike). How can they do this? Even if they preset a lot of the equipment, to get it all together in mere minutes rather than hours would be extremely unreliable. Lip syncing requires less technical challenges as a full on live set up. It is generally a better idea to lip sync than to take a chance on the set up described above in front of a large TV audience. One might be surprised on how many of past performances were pre-recorded and played with performers miming on stage.

On a typical day on a typical show we would start around 7 or 8 in the morning and finish in about 4 or 5 hours. On some of the larger shows that could take longer. You mention the Stones taking two days and I am not aware of any of their shows that took 2 days to load in but back in their prime it is possible. The last U2 tour took 3 days on the in and 2 on the out IIRCC. They had multiple sets so that the band could move city to city while the stages leapfrogged. One of the bigger tours that I spent any real time on on had us working right up until around 7pm when doors opened. After the first few weeks of doing it we got into our groove we pretty much had it all set up by 2pm but the first few weeks were long. That is for video and video is easy. the audio guys would do sound checks well past when we stopped.

I spent several years touring (including working Super Bowl halftime shows) and audio has it tough. Asking them to be perfect on a live event like this is hard. Yeah the majority of their gear is prestaged and they had been rehearsing the load in and strike for 10 days or so but trust me they have a much harder job than I guess most people think. And yes they can find good audio guys. I personally know and worked with about a dozen of the video crew that worked the show and they are some of the best guys in the business. I am sure that the audio guys were of the same caliber.

He should have lipsynced. From what it sounded like he was live.

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Originally posted by Dusty78:
I’ve seen him live and he’s actually pretty impressive. One of the few guys who actually sings and has a real band on stage. Look up the performance with him and Chris Stapleton from the CMA’s. The Super Bowl wants a big show. Unfortunately that complicates live performances.

I agree. I think he's pretty talented. I think trying to make a halftime show sound like a show that has the luxury of time to be set up is asking a lot.