Time to deflate your balls.

Bosom friend!

So the Patriots are going to Disneyland!
In other words they won!
Good for them, God bless America.
Apparently it was a very dramatic game but I am much more interested in the team efforts inside the locker rooms rather than the effectiveness of their game strategies.
But that's just me.
What I was very much looking forward to was the entertainment provided by the singers and the Super Bowl commercials.
I had many thoughts last night in the heat of the moment but as with any bountiful meal I needed to digest properly before opening my mouth and letting it all rip.
Most of the social media peeps were not as wise...but who am I to judge.

The main concerns were:

-Are they gonna butcher the national anthem words;

-Is a wardrobe malfunction gonna outrage Middle America.

Idina Menzel sang the national anthem.
The Broadway superstar (she was the Wicked Witch of the West Elphaba in the smash hit Wicked, 2003) had no problem getting all the words right while she proceeded to change key one too many times. She really decided to "Defy Gravity" in that sense.
Elphaba can.
No lyrics mishaps.
Good girl.

After 30 minutes of ball throwing it was eventually Katy Perry's turn to amaze us all.

What can I say?

First of all, to all the live entertainment connoisseurs I would like to say get over yourself.
It was Katy Perry performing a medley of her hits at the Half Time Show on Super Bowl night.
Not Maria Callas opening La Traviata at the Met.
Unless you have achieved as much as Perry (and done it better) please get off the "nice lip syncing" high horse.
If you are not Beyonce, Bruno Mars or Madonna please zip it.
Many thanks.
That being said I did enjoy Katy's effort but I felt she made a fatal mistake.
The whole production was amazing.
She made her entrance on top of a gilded feline the size of an actual Egyptian Sphinx and she was wearing the cheap version of the Hunger Games flaming dress that Katniss Everdeen wore at her first public appearance in the Republic.

The LED stage they put together was just breathtaking and all the performers involved really did an amazing job.

Katy had to have a quirky moment so when she sang California Girls she brought on stage a whole lot of stuffed sharks, beach balls and palm trees. I felt for the poor dancers who had to move inside those contraptions. At some point one of the two sharks next to her really looked lost in the sauce. Bless him/her.

The show was finished off with a spectacular rendition of Firework with Perry flying around the stadium like a stars-encrusted version of her self. Actual fireworks were exploding inside and outside the stadium. I came a little. Being the big homo that I am I got teary-eyed on the spot.
Nevertheless I was not blown away by the flying gimmick since I saw Cher doing the same thing live as her show finale at the tender age of 68. Cher forever bitches.

All in all Katy did well and was very family friendly. Middle America must be truly pleased.

What she did wrong (allegedly) was choosing two guest stars with careers and stage presence way bigger than hers.
I am talking about Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliot.

Lenny sang Katy's I Kissed a Girl while making love to his guitar. He wore the usual skinny jeans, rocker pointy boots and his lazy eye.
He gave us sex on a mic stand and pecs wrapped in black leather. Delicious.
Meanwhile Katy was bumping and grinding around him like a sensible groupie from Connecticut. Lovely final pose by the both of them though.

The second guest was Missy Elliot. She brought us all back with "Get Ur Freak On" and "Work It."
I was VERY glad she did.
But Missy wasn't done: the rapper took center stage to perform "Lose Control" as Perry disappeared to get ready for her floating-in-the-air finale. Watching the 2000's star getting her due in 2015 on the biggest stage in the world, with (momentarily) not a pop superstar in sight, was unexpectedly thrilling. A beloved music star who will probably never be selected to perform at the Super Bowl on her own was nevertheless given an opportunity to shine on her own merits, thanks to a very famous fan (Perry) and a wealth of hits that still don't sound dated.
In a way Katy looked like a fan having a good time at her idols concert.
Good for her.

At the end of the day any other superstar would have chosen a guest artist smaller then them just to fill in their costume changes. Katy at least didn't dumb down the show content when she needed to skedaddle off to climb up her flying apparatus. She choose two performers she is a fan of.
Beyonce had next to her the two less fortunate members of  Destiny's Child and clever Madonna only allowed as her bitches Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., talented girls but with way less music history importance than her.
To each their own.

Katy must have had a blast performing with her favorite Pop Stars while many viewers either didn't know who Missy was (youngsters...) or wished for Katy to disappear all together and leave the spotlight to bigger and better.

In all honesty I had a blast too.

I always judge a performance by the height of the goosebumps it gives me.
Katy's show in that sense delivered in full.

What was really depressing were the commercials. 
A boy told us that he would never achieve anything in life since he died too young due to an avoidable household accident, a girls left her loving father to join the army and Budweiser Clydesdale horses save a lost puppy from the wolves.
It got even worse but I am only highlighting a few. 

Thank God for fun filled Katy, Missy and Lenny.

Haters gonna hate and entertainers gonna entertain.

Ciao for now.