Sharkman Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 I figured someone was going to comment about it, so I decided I would get things started. It was widely reported that she would not be actually singing live, due to all the problems that could happen and all sorts of things that could go wrong. It's much safer to have a singer sing along to a pre-recorded song. Unfortunately, Rhianna delivered one of the most forgettable halftime performances in the past twenty years or so. You could go to just about any high school or college in this country and found someone who could have danced and pretended to sing as well as Rhianna did. There was nothing, in my opinion, that was "WOW" about this uninspiring performance. But, that's just my opinion. 2 Quote I rock; therefore, I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Fraser Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Same reaction. I hope they sold a lot of parkas. But, great game, & I hate football, so that says something. 1 Quote Scott Fraser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Great game! I try and catch the Super Bowl and a few playoff games even though I no longer follow football. I could do with or without the 1/2-time show. Just glad Rhianna and the others didn't fall off the platform during the highwire act...😎 1 Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Was not impressed with the halftime show truthfully. However I was very impressed with Chris Stapleton's rendition of the National Anthem last night. He did a super job on that. 3 Quote dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 +1 DBM, while Chris Stapleton was singing and playing the National Anthem on his Fender Jazzmaster, the camera focused in on one of the Eagles players who had tears falling from his eyes. Very moving, and Chris did an excellent job. 😎 2 Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EscapeRocks Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 I like Rhianna, and I also thought her halftime show was bad 3 Quote David Gig Rig:Roland Fantom 08 | Roland Jupiter 80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EscapeRocks Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Not 5 minutes after halftime did all the Oompa Loompa memes begin showing up everywhere. 2 1 Quote David Gig Rig:Roland Fantom 08 | Roland Jupiter 80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 On 2/12/2023 at 11:25 PM, Scott Fraser said: But, great game, & I hate football, so that says something. I know, right?! As for Super Bowl Half Time shows, I'm beginning to suspect that breaking past forgettable mediocrity to memorable awfulness is the goal. 3 Quote Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Fraser Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 At the risk of sounding like my parents in the 60s, I feel sorry for kids now, growing up with this as the popular music of their impressionable youth. They will look back from their older years & realize they have no melodies to hang on to. 3 1 Quote Scott Fraser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfergirl Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 https://youtu.be/xyHudZm_6TE Rihanna may not have been good, but Justina Miles was awesome. 1 Quote Jennifer S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEB Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 It was okay. It is what it is. It's canned. It has to be. Trying squeeze a massive production in such a short time period in a crazy high RF interference environment like that has to be pre canned. I don't mind the music. I'm retired now but for the last 10 years as a keyboardist this was my primary genre. All music has gone downhill since the passing of Rachmaninov. I like working in front of young crowds. It helped keep the energy levels up. 1 Quote "It doesn't have to be difficult to be cool" - Mitch Towne "A great musician can bring tears to your eyes!!! So can a auto Mechanic." - Stokes Hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Motif Max Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 Just watched it (not much of a football guy so I didn't actually watch the Super Bowl). I think that the mic was live, but there were plenty of tracks running for harmony vocals and lead doubling. Lots of pop singers do that now. Maybe some live Auto-Tune on the mic, like is also becoming common. But there were enough differences in the lead vocal from the studio recordings that I do think that the mic was live, just run through some effects. I just saw a show last week that had the same type of thing going on, mostly backing tracks but the actual vocalist was live, routed through a Macbook with some effects applied and the usual extra vocal tracks present. Also thinking the drummer used a lot of triggers playing samples - that solves a lot of issues with live mic'ing in a noisy environment. Not sure on the rest. But I have also heard some surprisingly high-definition live performances that can be partly attributed to heavy lifting by the tech/sound crew. Take a lot of large modern churches now - running live Waves plugins and such, all IEM's, triggers, etc. You can get a decent result in a bad environment with no monitors and less acoustic sounds. As far as the music, I think this one went too far into trying to squeeze as many pieces of different songs as possible into the 13 minutes, instead of focusing on making a smaller number of songs really good. 1 Quote Yamaha: Motif XF8, MODX7, YS200, CVP-305, CLP-130, YPG-235, PSR-295, PSS-470 | Roland: Fantom 7, JV-1000 Kurzweil: PC3-76| Hammond: SK Pro 73 | Korg: Triton LE 76, N1R, X5DR | Emu: Proteus/1 | Casio: CT-370 | Novation: Launchkey 37 MK3 | Technics: WSA1R Former: Emu Proformance Plus & Mo'Phatt, Korg Krome 61, Roland Fantom XR & JV-1010, Yamaha MX61, Behringer CAT, Kurzweil PC4 (88) Assorted electric & acoustic guitars and electric basses | Roland TD-17 KVX | Alesis SamplePad Pro | Assorted organs, accordions, other instruments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane hugo Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 That setup would've been awesome in an arena, but the first couple of minutes just vanished in a stadium. 1 Quote http://blip.fm/invite/WorkRelease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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