Money. As I said, the half time show is sponsored.
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Usher Plays Super Bowl Halftime
- Thread starter TheBigA
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Money. As I said, the half time show is sponsored.
Why would they book an unknown nobody to "perform" at halftime, when sponsorships from Apple and formerly Pepsi allow them to book well-known acts and bring in millions from those sponsorships in the process? Regarding your comments about little-known performers being "probably cheap", according to one particular website, the Super Bowl generates nearly $67 Million in ticket sales alone (to say nothing of what they make from commercial ad sales) and the Super Bowl generates about $14 Billion overall in profits. That in mind, I don't think they need to worry about the costs of booking decent acts to perform. Keep in mind that when the Elvis Presto guy performed all the way back in 1989 (so 34 full years ago now) it was because the originally scheduled headline performer baled out a few days before The Big Game. Also, times were very different 34 years ago than they are now. If they tried to book a nobody to perform or to make it a "non event" as you suggest, organizers would be slaughtered.
In some recent years, depending on the teams playing and the performer booked, sometimes there was as much if not more interest and hype over the halftime show as there was in the actual football game. The year Beyonce performed, I remember seeing a bunch of internet memes indicating people were excited for the Beyonce concert that Sunday, which happened to be framed by a football game.
That's why they play the game. If it was about the sport, they'd do it for free. But everyone gets paid.
The game attracts the people, who get sold to advertisers. If you don't pay, you're not the customer, but the product.
The NFL doesn't decide who performs. The decision comes from Apple Music and Roc Nation's Jay-Z. Usher is buddies with Jay-Z:
Usher Opens Up About Special Call From Jay-Z After Landing 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show
The Grammy-winning singer also shared why he thinks he was “destined” to hit the coveted stage.
Supposedly Taylor Swift turned them down.The NFL doesn't decide who performs. The decision comes from Apple Music and Roc Nation's Jay-Z. Usher is buddies with Jay-Z:
Usher Opens Up About Special Call From Jay-Z After Landing 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show
The Grammy-winning singer also shared why he thinks he was “destined” to hit the coveted stage.www.huffpost.com
After nipplegate I believe the NFL has some editorial control.
“Supposedly” isn’t exactly what one calls a certainty, let alone the reason one might decline.
And let’s assume she did in fact decline a formal offer to perform for no reason other than she didn’t want to be part of the game. That’s precisely…pausing to count…it appears to be one person named here that is presented as “everyone.” Even taking “everyone” as obviously figurative, one person is not an everyone.
And let’s assume she did in fact decline a formal offer to perform for no reason other than she didn’t want to be part of the game. That’s precisely…pausing to count…it appears to be one person named here that is presented as “everyone.” Even taking “everyone” as obviously figurative, one person is not an everyone.
She did more for the NFL this past week than she would by performing at the SB
Taylor Swift did something the football world thought was impossible: She made the NFL even more popular in the US
Taylor Swift made the NFL even more popular in America. Her impact comes as the league's relevancy was already saturated in the US.
www.businessinsider.com
I didn't know he was this old, but I was watching some TV series where a group of young people had never heard of him.
It’s possible to keep some random thoughts from spilling out onto the keyboard.
It might have been "Children Ruin Everything" since the wife feels old among her co-workers. Or it could have been "Run the Burbs" where there are teenage girls. There are college students on "The Irrational". Maybe that's it.
There's nothing random about finding out Usher is someone so old there are young people who never heard of him.
There's nothing random about finding out Usher is someone so old there are young people who never heard of him.
Like really, this is meaningless.
... as most arguments and discussions about personal taste generally are.
Super Bowl LVIII pregame festivities headlined by Reba McEntire, Post Malone, Andra Day
Super Bowl LVIII pregame festivities headlined by Reba McEntire, Post Malone, Andra Day - Yahoo Sports
Usher will perform the halftime show at Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas
A good cross section.
Does anyone really understand the archaic Roman numeral system used for the Bowl games?
Even after 6 years of Latin, I have to go, “well, L is 50 and V is 5 and then…” until I can come up with the number I understand.
But so far, under Jay-Z's stewardship, halftime is a barrier non-rhythmic acts have yet to break. That's where the prestige and viewership are, not the anthem and a random patriotic tune.
I knew someone would find some way to complain
It's the American ... I mean, the RadioDiscussions way!
I may be. But artists like J-Lo, Shakira, Rhianna, The Weeknd, and the Dre/Snoop/Eminem/Mary K. Bilge/Kendrick Lamar have widespread appeal, and are not monolithic. Jay Z. is coming up on his fourth show. Let’s look at the preceding half century and do the math as to which types of artists were and weren’t included for years.