The Black Eyed Peas Major Halftime Fail

By Jo Piazza Posted Feb 7th 2011 08:44AM

Pop-Ed: Forget the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Black Eyed Peas were the real losers of Super Bowl Sunday.

Nevermind that their costume designer opted to dress the Peas as alien invaders lined up to star in 'Tron 3.' Nevermind that the auxiliary dancers dressed as glow sticks. Nevermind that the V in the word "Love" never lit up during 'Where is the Love.'

What made the Black Eyed Peas halftime show so difficult to watch wasn't that they phoned it in. They didn't. BEP was trying really hard, and that's what made it sad.

Yes, what made it so bad was how much effort they put into their show and it still ended up sucking royally. When they weren't screaming over a sound system that failed early in the performance, the singers were off-key and occasionally off-verse.

The Black Eyed Peas ruined many good things besides halftime. Namely 'The Time (Dirty Bit),' which they desecrated by turning it into a poorly placed ballad right before people wearing boxes on their head marched onto the stage. The only reason we can think to employ boxes as headwear is that they had to get really close to Fergie and they needed to protect the sanctity of their eardrums.

And as the amazing and insightful Rachel Sklar put it on Twitter, "OH COME ON NOW. If you're not going to do the jump, then leave Baby in her corner."

Also ruined during halftime: 'Sweet Child O' Mine.' For one sweet, sweet moment it seemed that Slash could save the show all by his singular anthem rocky self, but then Fergie had to go and temper all expectations by taking on Axl's medley and trying to do something with her hips that no one besides Mr. Rose should attempt on a stage in front of millions of viewers.

We can't help but wonder if Usher begged the crew not to make him descend onto the stage in the middle of the performance. In my head he was clinging to a harness and promising Bentleys to any stagehand who could get him the hell out of there.

A wardrobe malfunction from any of the band members wouldn't have been able to save the Peas' halftime performance, but a well-timed nip slip may have distracted the audience long enough for Fergie to get on pitch.

There is little doubt that this will go down in the history books as a massive fail. There is a reason that legends like The Who and The Rolling Stones serve a Super Bowl audience well. They know what they're doing in a Texas-sized stadium. Let's see what they're doing next year.

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Monday 07 February

By Laurie

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Why does everyone have to be so mean. I thought it was good.

By Scooter

I was just thinking the same thing.........over the years I have learned that when I like something critics seem to hate it. Rather be me!

By tinkerbell

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that's because you have insipid tastes and probably like other talentless hollywood crud like the kardashians. that sweet child act was disgraceful, love the article and love all the grammar corrections!

By Robert

joe pizza is such an A**WIPE. What can you expect from an aol writer. They are really going to have to start paying writers if they want to have good articles. Actually BEP was the very BEST part of the SB(including the game) by far. Back to the burger joints pizza face where you belong. We can ALL agree on that. I speak for ALL of us when I say joe pizza can only DREAM of having 1/100th of the talent that BEP has. Now to the real problem with yesterday. There were TWO mediocre teams playing each other trying to give the game away. Just one more reason why NOBODY watches football anymore. Check out the halftime ratings. They were triple what they were for the rest of the game. You go BEP. You bite me pizza.

Tuesday 08 February

By Inkling

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Maybe Piazza would've rather had a "pizza" instead of "Black Eyed Peas". LOL!

By Digi

Oh please it wasnt good it was crap! Fergie has the worse voice EVER, I mean really how could someone ruin such an awesome song like sweet chiild of mine THAT BAD! Slash was the only person in that whole segment that had any musical talent.

Thursday 17 March

By Tellthetruth

I'm sorry Laurie, If you thought that was good. You have very low standards

By Justin

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Why do everyone have to drink the cool-aid like you?

By nhumar8

Anyone with an ear will tell you it was exceptionally BAD. There was absolutely nothing good about their performance. If you're into glitz and hip hop dancing only, being entertained by the whole "ooh, light show" then yes, I can see why you are so easily entertained. Professionals will tell you it sucked royally. And it did.

Saturday 19 February

By Karin Buchanan

I thought it was pretty great myself!! Lots better than aging rockers.

Friday 11 February

By Kimmy

Laurie, I am guessing you wouldn't know the difference between Usher and Kayne West. #imajustsaying I doubt you are a "music" person, and can't tell one artist from the next.

By snlmel

Why can't AOL hire writers that know how to proof read?

By StPete1

Actually, it's "proofread."

By D

snlmel - Actually, your sentence should read: “Why can't AOL hire writers who know how to proofread?” “Who,” is used when referring to a person or persons.

By alexa

what is meh?

By Multi Tude

I don't know . Even better question is why can't the Superbowl find quality entertainers ? Gotta' love AOL as last night they reported the " Peas " nailed it . Today they are losers . Must be the Huffington Post influence .

By KR

Those god-awful outfits that Parliament Funkadelic rejected back in the 70's didn't help that act any. Fergie looked like Tinkerbell: the Dominatrix Years. Their lyrics are juvenile at best and the performance was no better than what you'd expect in a high school talent show.

By syl1969

Thank you D!! 'That' and 'Who' are my pet peeves - along with 'your' and 'you're', 'there', 'their', and 'they're', and oh, never mind. Too damn many to mention! (too and to, also!)

By csi8299

They ought to hang their heads in shame, renounce all future appearances, tear up their own contracts, change their names,dye their hair and move to Argentina.

By dnkrpd

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By "renounce", do you mean "cancel" future appearances? You cannot "renounce" something that you have not already done, or stated.

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