"Sure there's an American flag built literally from the backs of Black men, but I can't imagine what message Kendrick was trying to send." - white guy at the new york times, basically
These people are saying he was mumbling yet somehow they were offended. You can’t be offended by something you say you didn’t understand. I thought the whole performance was profoundly epic!
They reenacted one of the most infamous police shootings in the history of the city they're performing in and left only a few people in white standing. This is an unclear message somehow?
Exactly. There was a message. It was about resistance and justice. The songs and Jackson’s monologue are coordinated messages aimed at Trump and his Maga cult.
These takes are perplexing, this normie reaction was predictable - what populations constitute the largest audience share of the superbowl? Do the masses of tailgaters understand elegant diss tracks?
There’s a reason halftime has been a place for the kind of generic pablum that has mass appeal.
THIS take is perplexing. Respectfully, it’s weird to act like rap isn’t a huge genre of music. Just say this particular performance wasn’t your cup of tea and go.
(Whole audience singing along to “and it’s probably A minor” but sure, let’s front like the crowd couldn’t get it.)
You’re mistaken if you think I don’t appreciate KL. I am ALSO not a 67 year old man whose musical lexicon solidified around 1992 which the majority of Super Bowl watchers are. It’s not surprising the normies who outnumber the cool kids by a lot were left cold.
It’s not a surprise that rain is wet
And YET ANOTHER ✔️ reason why I cancelled my New York Times subscription. They are hiring clueless college grads who are addicted to their cell phones 📲, and are NOT interacting with society. They are not traveling 🧳 to meet and speak with the communities, just to go get their lattes.
I deleted the picture I found of the author but for those who are curious he looks like every dude at the games store who comes up to you without encouragement to spend the next hour telling you how the only ttrpg is AD&D first edition until you fake a seizure to escape.
Either he's blatantly pretending to miss the point or he's a massively under qualified cultural critic because that's hardly cryptic symbolism. I'm pretty sure even a high school kid could guess what that meant.
Ugh, yesterday I met 2 women whose introduction to the Kendrick-Drake beef was from some smarmy white man from NYT featured on NPR before the Super Bowl making a similarly ignorant statement. I had to catch them up. It’s insulting to give the 🎤 to ppl who are too arrogant to even WANT to get it.
i genuinely don't understand how apparently most white people did not get the message. unless they are being deliberately obtuse i suppose, idk, i can't tell anymore
I think they are literally that stupid. In order to be obtuse, you have to know your history and ignore it. They clearly know nothing about something…sad!
I'd bet the majority did understand the message, but another majority (venn) say they don't get it, with a majority of them being too stupid to understand it, and a minority of them understanding it but pretending not to, implying it wasn't intelligible, because they're white supremacists.
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And holy fuck if you’re an artist you center your halftime show around your biggest hit this isn’t rocket science.
GOTTEM
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-02-09/kendrick-lamar-super-bowl-lix-halftime-show-review
thanks i needed a laugh this morning
https://andscape.com/features/genius-of-kendrick-lamars-super-bowl-halftime-performance/
https://wapo.st/42JVBs6
There’s a reason halftime has been a place for the kind of generic pablum that has mass appeal.
(Whole audience singing along to “and it’s probably A minor” but sure, let’s front like the crowd couldn’t get it.)
It’s not a surprise that rain is wet
We're basically back to post 9/11 levels of media coverage. Which was just a freshly repainted version of McCarthyism.
SMDH.
Brilliant, while also entertaining.
Great game, great show 10/10
thanks for sharing the paywall free version!