It’s hard to believe that Foo Fighters haven’t played the halftime show yet. If ever there was a band specifically designed to play the Super Bowl halftime show, it’s Foo Fighters. It almost feels like some kind of government-backed think tank or lab were creating a band for the Super Bowl, it would be Foo Fighters. The man Dave Grohl has spent some 25 years trying to convince us that he is, Bruce Springsteen, has already done it. If the NFL wanted to pick a band that would be universally applauded by its still overwhelmingly white middle-aged press group, you wouldn’t find one in the bag anymore. The only risk would be Taylor Hawkins is saying something very stupid with such a megaphone, proving the universal truth that you never let a drummer speak. In fact, the band as a whole proves that, given where Grohl came from.
Grohl probably has the impression that he or the band still has just enough punk / street credo to look down on such a performance, but they lost that long ago. This is their natural ending, and Grohl can no longer swim against the tide. If he desperately wants to hold on to that imaginary belief, he can only play drums while St. Vincent sings Nirvana songs and Josh Homme sings Them Crooked Vultures songs during the performance, making the ultimate bait and switch for the competition and their audience. develops. . That would pretty much make up for the general annoyance of the Foo Fighters’ presence in popular culture for the past two decades.