Super Bowl: All the Cock-Ups

Posted by TellyBelle on Feb 7, 2011 in Music | 0 comments

Black Eyed Peas were the music act granted the honour of performing in front of 100 million TV viewers during the Super Bowl Half-Time Show this year. It’s a big gig, and I think they did their best but there were obvious flaws. The vocals were shaky, Fergie’s rendition of Sweet Child O’ Mine with Slash was awful, and Usher’s appearance for OMG was pointless – he seemed to just dance his way through a verse and chorus without actually singing at all. The 12-minute performance tried to cram in too many songs and featured some awkward segues like Boom Boom Pow into Sweet Child O’ Mine (how was that ever going to work?)!

In other Super Bowl news, the American public is aghast at the news that Christina Aguilera fluffed the lines of their National Anthem at the start of the game. Whoops! The poor thing repeated an earlier line “What so proudly we watched at the twilight’s last reaming” when she should’ve sung “O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming”. It looks like it was a tricky gig for Christina all-round; she was also clearly risking a hernia as she belted out the (wrong) words: