Curious Hair wrote:
USA wrote:
If I had to make a prediction about what the real vibe shift will be towards its “shut up and play the hits”. Don’t try and subvert my expectations, don’t try to enlighten me as the audience, stop appealing to new markets at the sake of your traditional base…just give me what you know I’ll like and what I always liked before (pre-2013 or whatever).
And in that light Metallica is truly the perfect NFL halftime show.
I would say Green Day more so than Metallica, which, even as the most commercially successful metal band, is still a metal band and thus unfit for mass consumption. A set of "When I Come Around," "Welcome to Paradise," "Holiday," and "Good Riddance" hits all the nostalgia endorphins for Gen-X and millennials, is nominally subversive without actually being threatening, and no one will be able to complain about People Who Annoy You.
I only brought up Metallica because they originated out of the Bay Area and I have argued for many years when you factor influence, earnings, and longevity....they are the biggest American band of all time. Not my favorite, but outside of the Eagles....Metallica is really fucking huge. And is Spaulding pointed out...they are still among top grossing touring bands (when they tour).
It won't happen, though. Metallica does not fit the target Audience. The halftime show is a TV spectacle aimed to draw-in people NOT watching the game. In terms of THAT target audience, as you suggested Green Day makes more sense. Our 24 year-old daughter wont' even be bothered for the commercials, but you bet her ass she watched Kendrick Lamar and she was at the edge of her seat the year of Rihanna. THAT's what they're going for.
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This Ends in Antioch wrote:
brick (/brik/) verb
1. block or enclose with a wall of bricks
2. Proper response would be to ask an endless series of follow ups until the person regrets having spoken to you in the first place.
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