2010: The Who
2011: The Black Eyed Peas
2012: Cheap Trick (second on the list this year, they'll give em 2012 as consolation. I think they're still gonna throw in a dinosaur every few years, just to mess with us. Besides, in a year there might not even be a Super Bowl god forbid, they'll go with the cheesiest, most forgettable halftime band out of the lot)
2013: The Smashing Pumpkins (by 2013 1990s nostalgia will be cresting at an all-time high, so Mr. Corgan will succumb to the loads of money being thrown at him to suck it up, join his original bandmates, and play a monster Tonight, Tonight/1979/Disarm/Today Super Bowl set)
2014: Billy Joel/Jay-Z/Coldplay/Mary J Blige/Nelly (in 2014 the Bowl is in New York, so i think this one is gonna get ultra-gimmicky. They're gonna have two "New York icons" in Joel and Jay-Z, MJB to get the ladies onboard, Coldplay because Jay won't do anything without them, and Nelly because he's already a master at working his way into "gimmicky" Super Bowl spots)
2015: Lady Gaga (sorry Little Monsters, assuming her next 2 records don't tank worse than Madonna's "American life", you're gonna have to wait 5 years til Stefani Germanotta and her Monster Ball tour are billed "safe enough" to fill the biggest audience of any musical performance spot in the world. They're not gonna take any chances after NippleGate, but as in Hollywood, it's "one for the dinosaurs, then one for the kids", and I think Billy Joel will fill the dinosaur quota.)
2016: AC/DC (The last of the dinosaurs that have never played the Bowl. They'll be due for a new world tour in '16, and their music is so sononymous with football and male testosterone that it's a no-brainer they'll get it one of these years)
2017: No live performance, just a giant video screen Beatles montage flanked by Cirque de Soleil (One of these years, they're gonna completely drop the ball and give in to a record company sales push for a long dead-and-gone artist. Paul McCartney will do anything for a buck, but they've already been there and done that. Besides, before 2000 halftime shows really were this lame.)
2018: The White Stripes (By 2018, America will be indulged in an early-2000s nostalgia boom, and "Seven Nation Army" will be recognized as America's official sports national anthem, so they'll trot out Jack and Meg to give the drones their precious "ohhh-ohhh-AHHH-ooooh-ohhh-owwww-ohhhhh" song. Setlist: Fell In love With A Girl/Dead Leaves & The Dirty Ground/My Doorbell/Seven Nation Army. Pop culture cycles are funny.)
2019: Radiohead (By the end of this decade, Radiohead will be in "we're sorry we were pretentious pricks, but now we really need the money so we'll sell out in any way possible" mode and play the Super Bowl with a setlist highlighted by "Creep", the song they would be NOWHERE without, but have refused to play because "we're more pretentious than that".
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