Five artists who should play the Super Bowl halftime show

It’s hard to believe Foo Fighters hasn’t played the halftime show before. If there ever was a band specifically designed to play the Super Bowl halftime show, it’s Foo Fighters. It almost sounds like if some kind of government-backed think tank or lab were to start a Super Bowl group, it would be Foo Fighters. The man Dave Grohl spent about 25 years trying to convince us that he is, Bruce Springsteen, has done it before. If the NFL wanted to pick a group that would be universally applauded by its still overwhelmingly white, middle-aged press corps, you couldn’t find one more in your pocket. The only risk would be Taylor Hawkins says something really stupid with such a megaphone, proving the universal truth that you never let a drummer speak. In fact, the band as a whole proves it, given Grohl’s provenance.

Grohl probably feels like he or the band still has just enough punk / street credit to despise such a gig, but they lost that a long time ago. This is their natural end and Grohl can no longer swim against the tide. If he so desperately wants to hang on to that imaginary credit, he can only play drums while Saint Vincent sings songs from Nirvana and Josh Homme sings songs from Them Crooked Vultures during the performance, creating the ultimate bait and switch on the league and its audience. . That would pretty much make up for the general boredom of the Foo Fighters’ presence in popular culture for the past two decades.