LEMON DROP | Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show - Calm Down, Racists!
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Why did Don invite Colby Hall to discuss Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show?
The founding editor of Mediaite.com is here with us, Mr. Colby Hall. Colby, thanks for joining. Tom, good to be here. I wanted you to come on because you have this article that's up on Mediaite.com. Now it's like, it was just a halftime show. The meltdown reveals how dumb we've become. Okay.
Well, I mean, it just, you know, like halftime shows are always meant to be kind of a bathroom break. You refresh your drink and you get in a debate about like, do you like your guacamole spicy or not? And for some whatever reason, it's become like this weaponized, politicized wedge issue, largely driven by the right, who need to sort of kind of, I don't know, divide and conquer, right? And, you know, I'm not a big Bad Bunny fan. I'm not into like sort of Latin club music, right? You know, give me Masters of Work or Little Louis Vague, I'll be there. But, you know, but I didn't, I thought that it was visually stimulating. It was good. But the fact that everyone had to either sort of get outraged and tune into this dumbass kid rock,
Turning Points USA show. And also there were some on the left who felt like they had to make this show some sort of transcendent, like this was the peace moment. Like, no, it was just a halftime show. And I guess my larger point is that that's sort of the muscle memory that we've landed at. Like, why does everything have to be an outrage why does everything need to be something that either saves us or is you know demonstration of the ruination of our society and it's largely driven by president trump and his followers who just need to point to other and say this is a slap in the face how is it a slap in the face it's just a top-selling artist performing
You have answered like four of my questions when I like I'm going to jump in and then you answer because I say, look, a couple of things. No, no, I'm not saying I liked it, but a couple of things. You said it was just a halftime show, but, you know, it wasn't right because of everything. It wasn't just a halftime show. The meltdown reveals how dumb we've become. I, I agree with you on that. All right. But but how, however, I don't know when it started that people became, you know, turned whoever's performing at the halftime show into some political statement. If it was, you know, like the fake war on Christmas, if they were using it just to divide people, like, I'm not sure.
How did hosts describe the halftime show as becoming a politicized 'wedge' issue?
But it became something. And then, you know, I think like, was it was it was it like Beyonce when people were upset or did it start before that? Was it before Kaepernick or like what was it?
Because it's a little crazy. Well, historically, it's sort of interesting because it used to be like growing up in the 70s, it was like marching bands and up with people. It was cheesy. And then it was 92, Fox counter-programmed the halftime show and did In Living Color.
In Living Color, right.
And the Super Bowl noticed that they lost a lot of ratings, so they quickly pivoted. And in 93, they booked Michael Jackson. And what they learned is that when you book these sort of catalog artists, whether it be like Bruce Springsteen, Prince, U2, Tom Petty, their back catalog sales just soared. So it became this money-making deal between the NFL. I think what happened sort of more recently where it got kind of like, it started pivoting younger. Like the audience, like Bruno Mars and Beyonce and Lady Gaga, these are not artists that are popular with the traditional old kind of white dude football fan, but it was intentional not only to monetize and to sell the records and get money from Apple Music,
But also it was an appeal to a younger audience. The NFL is like the most mainstream entity in the world. So they were like, we need to get more people involved. And if you look at what's going on in the NFL, like they are actively trying to build their viewership in South America and in Europe.
Because that's where the growth is. I mean, they're not stupid, right? That's where the numbers are. Roger Goodell is not dumb.
No, it's a smart move. And honestly, if you look at sort of the end of the Bad Bunny performance, it was a celebration of South America.
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