It’s hard to believe the Foo Fighters didn’t play in the halfway show. If ever there was a band specifically designed to play the Super Bowl halfway show, it’s Foo Fighters. It almost feels like some kind of government-backed lab or think tank was creating a band for the Super Bowl, it would be Foo Fighters. The man Dave Grohl has spent about 25 years trying to convince us he is, Bruce Springsteen, has already done so. If the NFL wanted to pick a band that would be universally applauded for its still overwhelmingly white, middle-aged press body, you couldn’t find any more in your pocket. The only risk would be Taylor Hawkins saying something really stupid with this megaphone, proving the universal truth that you never let a drummer talk. In fact, the band as a whole proves it, considering where Grohl came from.
Grohl probably has the impression that he or the band still have enough punk / street creeds to look bad at a concert like that, but they lost it a long time ago. This is his natural end, and Grohl can no longer swim against the tide. If you want to hang yourself so desperately in this imaginary creed, you can only play the drums while St. Vincent sings songs from Nirvana and Josh Homme sings songs from Them Crooked Vultures during the performance, designing the final back of the league and its audience. . This would almost make up for the general annoyance of the Foo Fighters ’presence in popular culture over the past two decades.