Bill Sykes' Newsletter
from America.
(March 2004)
An ex-Brit gives his views-(without fear
or favor)---of the American Scene
Sex and Violence: (Two Part Paragraph).
Part Two: The Sex.
This is not as spectacular as you may have imagined that
it was going to be, and I won’t bore you with many
of the details as this was part of what I considered to
be the worst half time show that I have ever witnessed.
A bunch of scantily clad males and females gyrating about
the stage with singer (?) "P Diddy" Combs ,
doing his thing, (rapping, hip hopping, whatever that
means). Then there was Janet Jackson and her male counterpart,
Justin Timberlake, stomping about the stage with Timberlake
continuously grabbed his crotch for whatever reason -
perhaps he had the seven-year itch.
 The
final degradation came when Timberlake purposely leaned
across and, as was reported, "accidentally"
ripped off a Velcro type pad on Janet Jackson’s
costume, exposing a portion of her right breast.
So what - who gives a damn? well apparently over 200,000
people did - by telephoning the TV station presenting
the game, and protesting that the show, was offensive,
degrading and totally inappropriate for family viewing.
The half time show itself was shrouded in smoke and haze,
(which emanated from the pyrotechnic devices being used),
and the so-called music and questionable lyrics were drowned
out by the frenzied noise coming from the young people
audience gyrating around the stage.
Super Bowl XXXVIII is not a game that will go down in
history as one of the best top ten games ever played,
and the half time show - what can I say - has been described
by many as a new low in TV smut.
Comment: I’m not a fuddy duddy by any stretch of
the imagination, I got around during my youth, but I cannot
see the music of today being classified as comparable
to say the Beatles music of the 60's - its like saying
the that the Kennedy clan are the nearest thing in America
to royalty. I say old chap that’s not cricket.
The Beatles music has excellent lyrics, and the music
is well worth listening to which is more than I can say
for some of the so-called music of today’s generation.
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