DB Explains Why "JT Was a Total Disaster"

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From The Daily Beast:

This one explains why Gaga, Beyonce, and Bruno really did do better...and why the Superbowl needs to change it up again. Some quotes:

1. "What’s inarguable is that after a string of jaw-dropping extravaganzas from the likes of Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, and Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake delivered the worst halftime show of the tradition’s recent pop-star era."

2. "It’s one thing when a cynical media is preemptively eager to drag a performance. From the unjust optics of Timberlake’s redemption for his part in the Janet Jackson nip-slip fiasco to the rumors that he’d be using a hologram of The Purple One against his family’s wishes, the lead-up to Sunday night’s show was mired in controversy. But it’s another when the abysmal end product merits the inevitable snark. Listless, muted, lacking any cohesion and spectacle, it was the Big Game’s biggest fumble."

3. "Starting underground in the arena’s hallway was an odd choice for kicking off pop culture’s biggest concert, starting with a whimper in cramped quarters rather than a bang from the greatest stage."

4. "As Ira Madison recalled in The Daily Beast, while it was Timberlake who literally exposed Jackson’s breast, he swiftly passed the blame onto her. She was blacklisted from TV and her music banned on radio stations, a cloud that hung over her career for most of the next decade while Timberlake’s fame skyrocketed, landing him right back on the Super Bowl stage." 

^^^SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK! It's not about "hating" Justin. It's about how he essentially ruined someone's career. Alot of younger monsters don't seem to remember how big Janet was (like Beyonce levels) and how Justin carelessly moved on while his mistake ruined her career. Imagine Zayne Malik ripping off Gaga's shirt, revealing her breast, embarrassing her comeback moment, radio and TV and Bradley Cooper backing out on A Star Is Born, and then Zayn Malik never apologizing and saying "Gaga should have had a better costume".

On Prince hating (he said he did) Justin Timberlake, and JT performing Prince despite Prince's family's wishes:

5. "Still, the constant pop-culture threat of these things is exhausting. Who are the people who desire these holograms? They are macabre and appropriating and disrespectful and, even excusing all that, cheesy as hell. It’s a baffling strategy if the idea is to amp up a live performance. “What would make the thrill and the crackling energy of a live show where anything can happen even more electric? I know! A computer facsimile of a human."

6. "It’s just as well, though, to remind us of how ludicrous we are as a society and selectively unforgiving and hypocritical we can be. We buried Janet for the nipple, but will we forgive Justin for the hate crime that was that Prince duet?"

 

TEA:

7. "Listen, we like Timberlake’s hits. He’s a charismatic performer. When that song from Trollscomes on while we’re at Duane Reade, we smile and sing along and fondly remember that time we spilled wine on ourselves while dancing to it at our sister’s wedding. But, momentarily absolving all his thinkpiece-fodder sins, the thing that ruined Timberlake’s halftime show was a naked lack of ambition."

8. "There was no political statement, sly as they might have been when Beyoncé performed with only women on stage with her when she sang “Formation,” and then had a dance battle of the sexes against Bruno Mars (that she killed, obviously), or when Lady Gaga opened her show with a patriotic medley saying “this is what America means to me,” and then proceeded to put on a freak-flag-flying-fantasmic-supernatural-LGBT-empowering spectacular. (And in the first weeks of Trump’s presidency, to boot.)"

9. "There was no feat of athleticism akin to the sense that Beyoncé, Gaga, and Mars trained like a Super Bowl player for their shows, expending every ounce of energy they had in them in their explosive sets. There wasn’t even a sense of superb musicianship, a la Prince or Springsteen, or any sort of regal ownership of the right to be on that stage, which Diana Ross, Paul McCartney, Madonna, and Michael Jackson had reigned supremely on before."

10. "I mean, for God’s sake, at least give us a Left Shark. Then again, maybe his entire performance was Left Shark."

 

 

 

 

[Wolf Boy 3,246]

CancelT(imberlake)

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5 minutes ago, ELEMENTALITY said:

TEA:

[slayo 7,664]

I love how Katy and Madonna's halftime shows weren't praised at all

[Jinzo 9,639]

Omg he is really getting ripped to shreds  deserved tho.

[LilMonst3r 5,531]

So glad the Patriots didn't make history while he did that horrible halftime show. Would have gone down in history.

[Retron 2,605]

What always shook me up about the "wardrobe malfunction" was that it looked like a planned thing. I mean, that's obvious, right? It wasn't just some accident. But JT didn't carry any of the burden, didn't lift a single finger in defense of Jannet. It's BS.

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 Ya'll done yet?

[PunkTheFunk 124,432]

[DOJA CAT 1,833]

2 minutes ago, slayo said:

I love how Katy and Madonna's halftime shows weren't praised at all

Well Katy’s was good but Madonnas (It was Good) Was a little sloppy though

[He8MyHeart 9,765]

I. Am. Loving. This. Omg.

[TheRoof 21,600]

4 minutes ago, slayo said:

I love how Katy and Madonna's halftime shows weren't praised at all

Madge's Vogue and LAP where great but in the middle........

left a lot to be desired  IMO.

and Katy was entertaining and with a lot of effects but the left shark steal the show after all 

 

[Arturo 40,746]

As someone who was too young to remember Janet when she was huge (I’m 20), the zayn malik comparison really struck a chord. JT really wasnt **** when that happened.

[Avenues 4,370]

Sad how only the left shark was mentioned 

[LateToCult 40,900]

Proof The Gays need to co-sign on the performer for it to be a success.