Or, you know, the football game that surrounded it?
I did. Thoroughly enjoyed Beyonce's half time performance at the Super Bowl. The game was good too, but it takes a lot to get me to care about football games that don't have the UW Huskies in them.
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I was putting my son to bed down the hall, sitting outside his door while he fell asleep. I saw the half time show from like a 70 degree angle to the TV in the living room. It looked really cool with the disappearing and reappearing ladies, but my wife said it was racy when I asked her about it (because seeing it from 70 degrees I really couldn't get the details). I did like the audio portion of it just fine.
Some nerds and I were playing m:tg and the sporting event was on.
It was okay. The outfits were hilariously skimpy but that's part of the convention I think. (Kylo: Is saying "outfit" as grating for you as when people talk to me about "skits"?) It was hilarisympathyinducing how little that one member of desinty's child wanted to be there.
Then we made jokes about power outages for a while and used social media to spread them. My favorite was "it's too bad the Chargers weren't playing tonight."
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I saw the game, was pretty uninterested. I was watching with a few friends at their house. The half time show was pretty good. Beyonce...is an attractive woman.
I was also expecting Jay Z to drop down from the heavens. Pleasantly surprised to see Destiny's Child fly out of the floor instead.
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I don't know if I would have called the outfits "racy," necessarily, but you could definitely call them provocative. But I feel like that's pretty much the whole point considering that it is a half time show and Beyonce's an entertainer. There was nothing that was outright nasty or inappropriate, I thought.
I don't really find the word "outfit" grating, considering that I consider "outfit" a pretty neutral term. Being on a hip-hop dance team we usually referred to what we would wear for performances as 'outfits' since 'costume' carries a different sort of connotation. I don't know if I follow you about "skits," though, unless there's another meaning or context in there that I'm not aware of. And yes, it was super hilarious to see how disinterested Michelle was in being there. But I can't really blame her, since she would routinely get shafted in their songs anyway. The camera panned away from her in her short solo in Independent Women, and she just plain gave up on the dance moves during Single Ladies before unceremoniously walking away. The Spice Girls did a waaaaaay better reunion for the Olympics Closing Ceremonies.
The social media explosion that happened during the halftime show and then the subsequent blackout was one of the most hilarious things I'm glad I got to see live. There were jokes on jokes on jokes. I think my favorite one was when someone finally made a SuperbowlLights twitter and the first tweet was, "My bad, guys."
I was also initially disappointed that Jay Z didn't make an appearance, especially during the first song that Beyonce did (Crazy in Love) since he has a verse on it. But the reasoning became much more apparent over the course of the show: it was an all female show. All of the musicians, backup dancers, and performers otherwise were all female.
All in all, I thought it was a good show. Definitely better than the Black Eyed Peas a couple years ago (or was that last year?) My sis is a big fan of Beyonce and she loved it, so that was good too.
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I missed the first few minutes of the show, but what I caught was pretty good. No joke, I'm a big Beyonce fan, so I think my expectations might've been a little high. I was pretty bummed they didn't do Say My Name, unless I missed that?
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Yeah, Say My Name is such a good song. I seriously still listen to it sometimes. I don't recall them doing that.
I don't think they did Say My Name. The only throwback Destiny's Child songs they did were a really short section of Bootylicious and then also Independent Women, IIRC. They also collab'd on Single Ladies where Kelly and Michelle got to sing half a line each before leaving.
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I'm afraid I was watching Downton Abbey, so I didn't catch it. Half-time shows and football usually aren't my thing, anyway.
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