Anonymous #1 5w

Metallica

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Anonymous OP 5w

Suggest someone who isn’t lame.

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Anonymous OP 5w

Yeah because Metallica is such a crowd pleaser compared to Bad bunny. I don’t even dislike them but seems like you’re living in a personal bubble dude

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Anonymous #2 5w

Metallica isn’t lame but go off

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Anonymous #1 5w

Metallica not a crowd pleaser? Wtf are you talking about. Metallica is so much more widely known than bad bunny. Ive literally never met anyone in my life who listens to bad bunny.

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Anonymous #1 5w

Metallica also originated in san fran and are going into their 45th anniversary. Perfect oppurtinity for the league to bring them on the world's biggest stage but nah lets go with another hip hop r&b artist that no one fucking listens to and half the country has never even heard of

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Anonymous #3 5w

For a Super Bowl? That’s a lame choice. Really, metal doesn’t fit in the Super Bowl lineup, unless it was a hard rock kind of band. Shaman’s Harvest, would go hard though…

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Anonymous OP 5w

I think you’re kinda proving my point here man. “I’ve never met anyone in my life who listens to bad bunny” yeah it sounds like you live in a bubble. He’s the 2nd most streamed artist globally on Spotify rn

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Anonymous #1 5w

Why do we have to get a mid halftime show because this guy has global appeal?

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Anonymous #2 5w

Metallica isnt metal?

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Anonymous #1 5w

There hasn’t been a rock halftime show in 15 years and there hasn’t been a country one in 23. Just mix it up

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Anonymous #1 5w

And you're all proving my point. Defending this guy with your lives for know reason. I dont live in a personal bubble I litterally just told you ive never met anyone in my life who listens to the guy. Its just another desperate attempt from the league to gain younger viewers instead of appealing to the people who have been watching for years already

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Anonymous #3 5w

It’s mid in your opinion. He has hundreds of millions of fans. I don’t really even like his music but obviously they’re just trying to draw a large audience to watch the Super bowl. They’re not gonna have Creed play the Super bowl halftime no matter how awesome it would be

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Anonymous #1 5w

But why though, the people who are gonna watch the halftime show are probably only watching the halftime show so how does this help their number go up

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Anonymous OP 5w

Lmfao at “defending this guy with my life” I’m literally sitting on my ass in bed typing on a touchscreen iphone dude I’m the furthest thing from defending anyone with my life

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Anonymous #1 5w

They dont need to draw audiences to the super bowl. Its the largest tv event every year and thats not changing any time soon. They need to change it up. Its been r&b or hip hop for more than a decade straight at this point and becoming exhausting

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Anonymous #3 5w

Dude I don’t fucking know I’m just stating what I feel like is the obvious here. I don’t know why you guys have your panties in such a bunch about a 15 minute concert anyway

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Anonymous OP 5w

It’s called “garnering viewership.” None of the genres you mentioned have that level of popularity, appeal, and influence. You’re a tool complaining about this on the internet, when a normal person who’s ambivalent says “Huh, another pop artist, I might skip out then.”

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Anonymous #1 5w

Because the concert doesn’t have to be skippable but it almost always is

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Anonymous #2 5w

I’m definitely skipping, I just think it’s odd that there’s been a 2 genre stranglehold on the halftime show for most of its existence

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Anonymous #3 5w

Read my previous remark, and fuck off.

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Anonymous #3 5w

It hasn’t though dude it’s been R&B/rap artists the past 4 or 5 years but before that it pretty rarely was. I don’t know what makes you think they ever went for the most “awesome” artist and not just what they thought would be most culturally relevant

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Anonymous #2 5w

Read MY previous remark, the superbowl is the most watched tv event regardless of who is the halftime performer. This is about diversity in genre. There are so many people tired of the same shit every year. We havent had a band perform, I dont believe, since Coldplay in 2015, which was 11 goddamn years ago. Almost every performance in those years has been weak

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Anonymous OP 5w

Maroon 5 did perform a few years ago

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Anonymous OP 5w

It was Maroon 5 in 2019 which was 6 years ago

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Anonymous #3 5w

I forgot about that, still though its been a lot of single artists and maroon five still falls under that hip hop r&b genre

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Anonymous OP 5w

Have you ever listened to Maroon 5 dude lmfao

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Anonymous #1 5w

I mean what genre would you put it under

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Anonymous OP 5w

I’d say they’re more pop than hip hop

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Anonymous OP 5w

They’re like the definition of pop rock

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Anonymous #1 5w

I mean The Rolling Stones and The Who weren’t exactly super culturally relevant when they performed

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Anonymous #1 5w

Still kind of the same vibe in my opinion. Idk I just think the dropped the ball with Metallica they have history in san fran and despite what you may think do still have a very large fanbase and are widely recognized, more so than bad bunny.

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Anonymous #3 5w

Maroon five was also a few years out of their prime when they performed in 2019. Now that yall reminded me of that I remember questioning why they were performing now

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Anonymous #3 5w

Ok sure dude if you go back 15 years you can find an example of an artist past their prime who performed at the Super bowl. I think you get my point

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Anonymous #1 5w

Maroon 5 is another example of that I thought

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Anonymous #1 5w

Because Adam Levine had gone out on his own before they performed in the Super Bowl in 2019

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Anonymous #1 5w

I dont think it really matters how currently popular the artist(s) playing at the superbowl is. Its still going to be the most watched event of the year regardless. Again I just think they dropped the ball with Metallica. If you're excited for bad bunny then you do you, but I think its just another attempt by the league to draw younger viewers, which really isn't necessary

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Anonymous OP 5w

Well at that point you’re just moving the goalposts so far so you can be right. Maroon 5 is not a hip hop/R&B band. I understand Metallica has a large fanbase but you’re being willfully ignorant to act like no one knows who Bad Bunny is

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Anonymous #1 5w

I never said no one knows who bad bunny is but most of the people who watch the nfl are an older age range and most likely havent heard of him. Metallica is defintley more widely known than him

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Anonymous #3 5w

Alright dude. Still think you understand my point. They’re just trying to get someone a lot of people will like. No artist they could ever pick would please everyone

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Anonymous #1 5w

I know what you're point is ive been saying they dont NEED to lick someone that is most liked to garnish more viewers because they dont NEED to garnish more viewers. 125 million people watch the super bowl on average annually and that number goes up every year

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Anonymous OP 5w

I did, you want divorced dad music, that isn’t popular and nobody gives a shit. Bunny’s an international artist, which helps that international viewership. Why do you think games are in Brazil, Ireland, France, and Germany? You’re mad about “genres” when in reality, if you were in charge of the bowl performance it would be the objectively worst because you wanted to put some shitass band out there. I’m really hope you aren’t an employer or a boss. You would make a shitty one.

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Anonymous OP 5w

Welcome to the world dude, if they have 125 million viewers they’re thinking about how to get 150, 200, 300, a billion, etc. All those people are dollar signs. I don’t make the rules, that’s just the way it works

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Anonymous #2 5w

Metallica is popular and you're the only one in this comment section just being genuinely hateful for no reason lmfao. Ive said so many times that the nfl doesnt need to garnish viewership for the superbowl because half the country tunes in every year and its the most watched event on tv every year. Idk how many times I have to type this out before one of you actually reads it

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Anonymous #1 5w

Theres such a small number of those people that tune in JUST for the halftime show though. They should be concerned with generating a good show that people talk about after for being good instead of trying to appeal to younger audiences that dont watch football. The only time ive heard people talk about the halftime show after the game for the past few years is about how bad its been

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Anonymous #1 5w

That’s true, and I get that. I just would like to see a modern halftime show that’s more in line with my music taste, as someone who prefers rock and country to pop and rap

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Anonymous OP 5w

There’s such a small number of people who care enough to even pay attention if it’s not someone they like. It’s a marketing tactic to attract fans who aren’t already watching football. Same reason they push all the Taylor swift shit so hard on social media. Again it’s not like any of this shit is my decision but I don’t see why how this is hard to understand

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Anonymous #1 5w

I do understand it man ive said that multiple times now lol. I guess i'm more just yelling at the clouds because it annoys me and thousands of other fans that already watch the game that they dont appeal to us and rather people who dont even care about the actual game itself

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Anonymous OP 5w

Have you been eating paint?? Last year (Kendrick was the largest artist): 126 million Probable estimation for Bunny (lower end): ~180-190 million, internationally. Latin America (his main demographic) which the NFL has been DYING to break in to.

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Anonymous OP 5w

Metallica is Metal and metal is globally kinda niche compared to someone like bad bunny

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Anonymous #2 5w

Metal doesn’t fit but Spanish pop does?!

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Anonymous #4 5w

Metallica is not metal they started that way but they arent metal anymore

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Anonymous OP 5w

All of their biggest hits are metal and that’s what they’re known for what the hell would you suggest them if you didn’t want them to play that

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Anonymous #5 5w

For an international market that the NFL has been CLAWING to get in since at least the 80s while American viewership sits in the 160 million range? Yes, Bunny is popular, Metallica hasn’t been relevant since at least the late 90s. Get pissy, I don’t care. Why the hell else are we doing international games, NFL has their sights on making itself as big as the premier and major soccer leagues, that’s their main rival for years. The viewership he’d bring in ALONE would make those numbers jump.

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Anonymous #4 5w

I swear this is just shitty rage bait dude, I think we’re arguing with either a bot, or someone who’s just discovered Metallica and made it their personality. I’d wager it’s some 16 year old kid.

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Anonymous OP 5w

Bro if you care about the actual game so much you should know the halftime show is and always has been a marketing tactic to get an even broader audience to turn the Super bowl on and be invested in it. If it was about football and the football fans, they wouldn’t stop the biggest game of the year for thirty to forty minutes to have a 15 minute concert. I honestly think the whole thing is stupid to begin with but I’ll be the first to say I’m not the target audience and I don’t really care to be

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