Comments on: Thoughts on Super Bowl Ads & Post-Game GLEE

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:21:04 +0000

I loved the little kid in the Darth Vader ad. My second favorite was the Pepsi commercial. But the kid was so kid the way he used his hands on all those things. I think he actually met the real Darth Vader voice who was James Earl Jones a few days later.

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:22:33 +0000

After a while, their songs and performances start sounding/looking the same to me. There’s a pounding beat and Fergie’s in a short skirt and they’re all jumping up and down with no real choreography.

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:20:39 +0000

Haha! And race car drivers, and air.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:10:52 +0000

So true! And they are so offensive; to women certainly but, I think, to humans in general, black tank tops, cameras, and the internet.

By: Poncho

Poncho — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:08:17 +0000

Well… I hadn’t had THAT many beers by the time Xtina sang, so I think my hearing wasn’t inhibited. By the time the half-time show started, however, that’s another story (since I don’t bet on money, I played a contest with a buddy that I’d bottoms-up a beer bottle whenever the Packers scored, and viceversa… and with the drinking in between, well… you get the picture). I just thank God Monday was a holiday ‘ere so I could sleep through it.

I often get confused over BEP performances. I mean, their songs are kind’a good -or at least they’re catchy- and sometimes you get great stuff from them (like the famous Oprah concert with the flash-mob), but others you get utter crap (like the AI finale where they seemed to be molested by people disguised as TVs)…

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:18:15 +0000

Thanks for your report on the Mexican SB experience, Poncho. Your comment about having to watch the Old Spice commercial 1200 times made me smile. And the fact that despite all the beers, you could still recognize there was something off about Aguilera’s version of our anthem.

I was bored during the half-time show, too. I thought it was a little embarrassing when Fergie was rubbing herself up against Slash and he wouldn’t even look at her. I imagined him thinking, “Woman, let me be. I just want to play my guitar.”

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:11:15 +0000

It’s as if GoDaddy.com sets out every year to win the Most Terrible Super Bowl Ad Award. There’s never anything remotely appealing about them and yet they paid millions of dollars to make and air them in those slots.

By: Poncho

Poncho — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:23:00 +0000

I did watch the SuperBowl with a bunch of friends (and a bunch of beer bottles), but that couldn’t stop me from realising Xtina blew the US Anthem. I mean, I don’t know it by heart but I don’t recall it having that much runs and shouting. Come on! That 5-time Grammy winner intro they gave her only made her botch sound worse.

The sad thing about Mexican airing of the SuperBowl is that you don’t get to see the same commercials as in the US, and I reckon the airtime isn’t as coveted here as it is there. I ended up watching the lamest commercial ever by “Old Spice” like twelve hundred times.

BTW, I liked Lea Michele’s performance of “America the Beautiful”. Liked, not quite loved. Also, I was pretty underwhelmed by the half-time show. I think the only one that did great was Slash, and he only played for like 14 seconds.

About the Glee episode, I was kind’a underwhelmed too. But, you know? I stopped watching it for its story quite some time ago. I mean, I know the writing isn’t good, but I fell for some of the characters, and now I watch it just for the music and the ‘eye-candy’ (Heather Morris & Naya Rivera are gorgeous). I loved the Lady Antebellum song, but I also feel it didn’t fit in the story wisely. Hated the “The Zombies” cover, and kind’a liked “Bills, Bills, Bills”. The mashup was great, musically, but I also felt the camerawork didn’t bring the performance to life. Anyway, now I’m confused about Sue… her character has very little coherence right now and is sometimes just plain mean & shallow. I just watch Glee for the fun, and the “feel-good” sensation.

Thanks for this post, PCN, and for letting me know about the ads you had there!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:12:45 +0000

I don’t watch Glee but my favorite ad was the Bridgestone Carma one (VW was a close second) and GoDaddy.com continues to be the worst ad campaign to ever taint the Super Bowl (and TV in general).

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:16:03 +0000

He must be cute then!