I like watching the Super Bowl halftime show to see what a show built by many committees (with lots of money) looks like.
The Weeknd looked great, sounded great, the different staging and setups and camera work was really well done…but there was barely a hit in sight.
Blinding Lights has almost two billion streams on Spotify and a billion more on Youtube…but it’s not a cultural hit. “Everybody” doesn’t know the song, they can’t sing it to you.
Maybe the cultural hit, the one that everybody knows, is a thing of the past.
But I don’t think so. Sure we all want to listen to our kind of music and leave the other stuff alone. But even more than that we want to be connected. To sing the chorus with everyone, to dance the silly dance with everyone, to know that we know the same thing.
»» I wrote about the Super Bowl last year and may before that.
