CBS adds secret performer for halftime show
- HOUSTON (AP) — Janet Jackson, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Kid Rock and Nelly apparently weren't enough for CBS' 12 1/2-minute Super Bowl halftime show.
Another act is poised join the MTV-produced extravaganza. Who that is will remain a mystery until the program, producers said Thursday.
The production will require 350 local volunteers to haul and assemble 70 pieces of the stage, which spans 120 feet. Then about 2,500 youngsters from area schools will pour onto the field to create a festival concert atmosphere.
Combs said that as big a deal as the halftime show has become, the musicians are just a sideshow.
"This is all about the players," he said. "We're here to fill some time while they get ready for the second half."
Does anyone care about this? Plus, who do you think CBS will bring on as a special mystery guest? Will it be some over-the-hill "diva" like Aretha Franklin? Will it be some incongruous musical act that all the hip-hop stars are going to pretend to respect like the Rolling Stones? Will it be the "triumphant return" of everyone's favorite wacko, Michael Jackson?
Who cares. They could bring all those people up and I still wouldn't care. Everyone tries to to create magic all the time and then they declare that something was amazing, and spectacular before anyone even has a chance to judge. This just in. Aerosmith, Kid Rock and Run D.M.C. getting together on an MTV stage sucks. Aerosmith, Britney Spears and N'Sync together on the Superbowl sucks. Throwing in Shania Twain doesn't do anything to make it not suck. Gwen Stefani can't make it any better either.
Pearl Jam and Neil Young? That's a pretty good match. Eminem and Elton John? Compelling. I am not sure what makes the matches special, but you can't force it. You will have to excuse me if I don't think P Diddy has the juice to create a magical moment.
So, who is the magical special guest? It doesn't matter. Janet Jackson, P Diddy, Kid Rock and Nelly have already guaranteed that there will be no magic during the 12 and 1/2 minute Superbowl halftime show.
UPDATE: More SuperBowl news, including plenty of pictures of the half-time show, are collected here at Blogcritics.org.
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - BRICKLAYER
Throwing Gwen Stefani and Shania Twain together...Mmmmmmm, yummy!
2 - Mark Saleski
i see that ms. tek's tattoo post is still workin' its voodoo over bricklayer.
3 - Mike
The mystery guest will be Van Halen.
4 - JR
Damn, I was hoping for Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller in the Goodyear blimp.
5 - BRICKLAYER
Yo Mark, the backshot is burned on my retinas. I have forbid myself from looking at that post more than once per day. I will be begging Mrs. Bricklayer to at least reconsider her zero tattoo policy for herself. Funny story: this guy who used to tattoo me (cool dude, great taste in music, but possibly a skinhead of the unsavory variety-he was always vague and skittish when I would question him on such things) told me about having to tattoo the rather rotund and pock marked booty of this gal, while her boyfriend loomed over his shoulder making these satisfied, animalistic grunting noises. He said he never wanted to turn around to see what that dude was up to!
Oh yeah, please add Sheryl Crow to the equation in my above post. As Gov Dean says: "Yeeeeeeaaaaah!"-I'm trying to teach that to Lil' Brick, and he's getting pretty good at it. He can say "Moo" too. And imitate the sound of a vacuum cleaner, a car, and a spray bottle. Yes, we are very, very proud.
6 - duane
Tell you what. How bout some football-related stuff during halftime instead all this MTV spillage? I can understand why the fans in the stands might need some half-time entertainment, but the TV audience does not. And its the TV audience for whom the half-time shows are being designed.
Remember the scene in Rocky IV when Apollo Creed gets James Brown to do "Livin' in the USA?" Apollo is dancing around, and Ivan Drago is looking around, his expression saying, "What the...? What does this have to do with boxing?" That's the way I feel when some teenaged girl comes up to show off her navel right in the middle of a football game. God, I feel old sometimes. Now, excuse me. I have to go shoo some kids off my lawn.
7 - bhw
I just pray that it's not The Boss. I'd just die.
8 - Dwaine AKA Scooter AKA D.J.
As a Philadelphian, I just want to say:
FUCK!!!!! THE EAGLES LOST!!!!!!(*sobs*) AGAIN!!!!
9 - J.G.
Ok, just saw the halftime show. And did I see correctly? Did justin Timberlake rip off Janet's top and expose her breast!??!
10 - Joe
What the heck happened with Janet and Justin at the end of the performance? Does anyone have that on TIVO?
11 - TK
Was that Janet's boob ?
12 - Geoff
Was that Janet Jackson's boob at the end of the half time show?
13 - jrocker
Just watched the 2004 haltime show... now correct me if I'm wrong but did Timberlake just rip a piece of Janet's costume off and bare a boob??? Halftime just got a bit more interesting!
14 - Moe-Cheeks
Boring? You must be kidding!Janet's breast with silver pasties flashed on national television was well the worth and hype!
15 - rg
Yes, he did, and yes It was.
16 - 5twenty9
i have janet's boobs
17 - TK
Try explaining that to a four year old !!! lol We couldn't... we just kept laughing.
18 - jrocker
With the Lingerie Bowl and now Janet's tit... Superbowl Sunday is alright.
19 - foghat95
looked like a boob to me
20 - hurray boobies
Is it online yet, though, because that's only way to be sure.
21 - TK
Something more interesting than Bennifer or Britney on the cover of US, IN TOUCH or PEOPLE !
22 - JoeSuff
Maybe Janets boob was the special guest? Now i have an unquenchable need to eat milkduds.
23 - Shaun
That was in fact Janets boob, I have it on the PVR and will dump it soon out to an mpeg. but that was her boob!
24 - Mad Hatter
you know that was planned from the start! timberboy wouldn't risk getting sued into the ground on that one :)
25 - John
Someone post a jpg from the halftime show so everyone can check it out please...