Nah. She sounded on key to me. But she did use some weird vowels and was a bit overly nasal when she started. It cleared up by the second line, though.
If the topic was “Super Bowl Entertainment” there’s no comparison. I became a Lady fan yesterday! 
GaGa can sing! I’ve always ignored her, thinking she was all about her various personae and not really about the vocals. I was happy to be proven wrong. I also think it took her a bit to get into the acoustics - no blame assigned, acoustics in a stadium area are tricky. You need to hear your voice feeding back to you a bit before you know if you are hitting on key. I think that’s exactly what occurred with her.
I’m neither a Cold Play nor a Beyoncé fan, so the half time show did very little for me. I do like Bruno Mars’ energy and enjoyed his half time show two years ago probably more than anyone’s for quite some time. Beyoncé was shoe-horned into the program because she has a tour starting and they wanted the promotion for her tour. And it showed. She didn’t really fit with the rest of it.
On the positive side, at least we weren’t subjected to performers who hit their prime in the 1970s. I’m for sure not the girl I was in the 1970s, and neither are these acts. Good idea to concentrate on more current performers.
She’s very talented, even though I can not stand her popular music.
Check out her Oscar performance from last year, all about Sound of Music. She’s amazing.
Yeah, GaGa was incredible! I loved every nuance of how she pulled that off and I bet she gained a boatload of new fans yesterday. And it was particularly apt for me, because I was really left cold by most of her American Horror Story turn this season. More singing and less acting until she’s a bit better at it.
I had to work yesterday and knew I wouldn’t get home until about an hour after kickoff so I DVR’ed the game. I blew through the halftime show because, well, Coldplay? Really? Not that I hate the band, but they’re pretty bland. But while I was on FF through it, I caught the little video clips from previous halftime shows, including:
Paul McCartney
Prince
The Rolling Stones
Bruce Springsteen
Michael Jackson
U2
And then there was Coldplay. I kind of felt bad for them, and then they get upstaged (by all accounts I’ve heard) by Bruno Mars and Beyonce.
There was some talk a year or two ago that the NFL was trying to get acts to pay to be the halftime act. I really hope that Coldplay didn’t pay too much for that…
Yeah, also not a huge fan of her records, but she has an undeniably great set of pipes. I’m recording the Grammys next week because she’s slated to do a David Bowie tribute, and I really want to see what she does with that.
It was Up With People meet HR Puffenstuff. If that wasn’t yesteryear, I don’t know what is. Nothing will beat Prince.
Damn. In Los Altos Hills that must be at least a three bedroom with two and a half baths. Living in style, she is. 
I was excited for Coldplay because I love “Viva a Vida”, but yeah the halftime show was underwhelming on all counts. Does the lead singer of Coldplay ever stand up straight? I hope that guy has a good chiropracter.
Bruno Mars was OK. I was too distracted by Beyonce’s fetish wear to actually listen to her. (What happens if you pull down that big gold zipper on the front?) BTW, has anybody noticed that when female singers have back-up dancers, they are always very careful to make the backup dancers less attractive than the star? In this case, it was the silly giant afros on the other girls that made sure you could hardly see their faces.
Chris Martin just reminds me too much of Matthew Lillard playing his Shaggy character from the Scooby Doo movies. Even more so with the hippie love fest theme of the show. He should have arrived in the Mystery Machine.
Beyoncé needs a new schtick also. How much longer is she going to do the high heel high cut ‘look at my ham hock legs’ thing? “Put A Ring On It” is from 2008 for god’s sake.
This made me laugh and I have to agree on both points. Actually I’m getting pretty sick of all the female performers in their leotards and heels.
It seems that Fox News and the right wings Internets are peeing in their collective pants because Beyoncé hired colored ladies to dance with her.
“Dead Breitbart’s Refuge For Panicky White People.” I have to steal that.
I think that attacking Beyoncé as a prostitute/cop killer is not going to get five seconds of traction anywhere in America. And I don’t even get Beyoncé’s appeal. Can anyone hum a song of hers from after 2008?
Not even from before 2008.
I find Beyonce’s rear end very appealing, but I wouldn’t listen to her music. Of course, I’ve got The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams (1957) on the box right now, so that tells you where I’M at in the world of pop music.
“What is this music?” my grandma asked me as I listened to Robert Plant on MTV in 1985. “It just sounds like noise to me!”
I remember playing Sonny Rollins’s Saxophone Colossus for my grandma in 1985. She didn’t say anything disparaging. Of course, she didn’t say anything positive, either. She may have been being polite, or possibly struck dumb with terror at being exposed to negro music.
Was it just me, or did Beyonce’s zipper highlight an epic FUPA? I’d half expect an evacuation slide (like on airplanes) to come unfurling out if you opened her zipper.
Ellis, that was one acronym I did not need to learn. May you be trapped in a lifetime of Nickelback halftime shows.
But yes she did look… compressed, shall we say?
Judging by this, I’d say it’s just you. I’ll admit her getup is played out, but I’m not seeing any fat there.
