Sponge Bob was good.....
That was the highlight for me, seriously! Game sucked, commercials sucked, half-time show sucked. So disappointing!!!!
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That was the highlight for me, seriously! Game sucked, commercials sucked, half-time show sucked. So disappointing!!!!
Yes! to Outkast, they would be so great with Missy.
Queen (with Adam Lambert) need their own show, they could even have a hologram of Freddie
Every year i'm back to wondering howTF they haven't had a SB half-time show yet in their career. Crazy.
Yeah, I've got tickets to the first stop of their North American tour this July! But they have toured with other lead singers in the past.
She is so smug and out of touch. He very often is too so they make the perfect insufferable pair.
The Super Bowl half time show is a thankless job these days. It's amazing anyone agrees to do it. They only have a few minutes to perform and then it will be criticized down to the tiniest detail. There isn't any one performer or band that everyone likes, so it's impossible to please the audience.
SpongeBob was in the show as a tribute to his creator who died in November. Apparently his fans petitioned to have him be part of it.
There was a petition to have Maroon 5 play the Spongebob song Sweet Victory. It got over a million signatures
No, I don't know much about SpongeBob but apparently one of the cartoons was a parody of the Super Bowl half time show. That was the clip they used as a tribute in response to the fan petition.
Was just looking it up...he wasn't from GA. What's even funnier is that apparently they didn't even use a clip from the actual show, they used a meme that someone created that went viral last year. The whole usage of it was weird but makes sense now that I see the mashup from the meme. The meme creator now wants credit. Just a mess.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...super-bowl-halftime-show-anthony-trucco-vgtrn
This Guy Says the Super Bowl Fully Ripped Off His SpongeBob Meme
He mashed up "Sweet Victory" and "Sicko Mode" in a viral tweet last fall.
By all accounts, Sunday night's Super Bowl was trash. The game was boring as ****, the commercials were lame, and the halftime show was mostly an excuse for Adam Levine to show off a bunch of tattoos he almost definitely just picked off some shop's wall at random. To add to it all, those millions of die-hard SpongeBob fans didn't get to see "Sweet Victory" live on stage, though the NFL did try to throw a little nod their way during Travis Scott's set—by, uh, fully ripping off some guy's meme.
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Or at least he says that's what happened. The halftime show introduced Scott's performance with a video mash-up of "Sweet Victory" and the intro to "Sicko Mode." But as the Daily Dot points out, the NFL wasn't exactly the first to do it: A guy named Anthony Trucco had already tweeted out an unmistakably similar video last fall, and he's got some serious beef with the Super Bowl for allegedly biting his idea.
For comparison, here's Trucco's original (and impeccable) tweet, which went viral back in September:
And here's the SpongeBob-referencing section of the Super Bowl halftime show:
Now, sure, it doesn't take some musical genius to dream up the idea of splicing the horns in "Sweet Victory" to look like they're playing the synths from "Sicko Mode," but come on. It's not hard to imagine some halftime show producer seeing Trucco's tweet and thinking, Oh, great, that's an easy way to appease all those petition signers without making Maroon 5 actually sing "it's sweet, sweet, sweet victory, yeah." Let's do that!
Trucco was, understandably, pretty bitter when he saw the halftime show and took to Twitter to call out the NFL and CBS for giving him "no credit. No payment. No nothing." Of course, it's just a mash-up video, and Trucco doesn't own the rights to SpongeBob or to Travis Scott's music, so he isn't going to try to sue or anything. He just thinks it's, you know, pretty lame that he didn't at least get a nod for what he made.
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"I am not seeking legal credit or reparations for the use of my creation," Trucco told the Daily Dot in a statement. "It wouldn’t have taken a lot of work for one of the parties that I mentioned [in my tweet] to acknowledge the inspiration for the Super Bowl set. I want to make it very clear that I am in no way upset or angry at anyone… I hope that the NFL and associates will do the right thing and reach out."
It doesn't sound like anybody has responded to Trucco's request yet, but if he doesn't hear from the NFL in the next couple of days, he might want to consider starting himself a Change.org petition—the league seems to actually pay attention to those.
OMG so happy to get some context on the random Sponge Bob thing!! The funny thing was, we were at a bar/restaurant so we couldn't hear it well. I was looking up at the screen and when it switched to SpongeBob my immediate thought was that someone had hacked the feed! I was like "OH WOW!!!" it never occurred to me that it could be intentional ha!
Because they are both raving egomaniacs who feed on attention and adulation.
I was going to say because they are both fame-ho's, but I like bag-mania's explanation much more.