Barstool Backstage Question Of The Week - Who Is An Artist That Will Never Play The Super Bowl Halftime Show That You'd Love To See Perform And Know Would Kill It?

Dante2/24/2023 8:45 PM

Here's a great hypothetical we posed on the Barstool Backstage social medias earlier this week and got some great responses to.

After Rihanna's killer performance two weeks ago, which everybody agreed was incredible, some interesting ideas for future acts started flying around.

Rather than talk about acts who would be cool to see play it, but would never have a shot to actually, like Nickelback featuring Glenny Balls,

let's talk about acts suggested by you the readers and social media followers.

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Now let's break down some of them.

1- Metallica

This is the comment sections sweet heart. As bad as everybody wants it to, it will simply never happen sadly. They're not commercial enough for Roger's puppet show, and their name for some reason is too synonymous with hardcore metal. That's not me saying that, that's our mom's and grandmom's saying it.

These guys rocked a crowd of 1.6 MILLION people in Moscow (video above) and have sold tens of millions of tickets around the world, I don't think they're losing sleep over getting passed over for the SB.

2- Taylor Swift

One of the hottest names in the world right now. One of the best live performers in the game. She's a no-brainer. Sadly, I think we're a few years away from her being asked and her accepting.

Because…

3- The Killers

One of the best rock bands in show business currently. I just saw them at a Super Bowl party play a live show for about 2,000 people and you would have thought they were playing for a million. Brandon Flowers is just the consummate showman. He leaves it all out on the stage. Belts his heart out, works all ends of the stage, interacts with and gets the crowd participating. And it helps that they have 100 certifiable HITS. You forget how many smashes this band has but they can do 120 minutes no problem playing songs everybody knows and loves, and dropping in a few smash covers.

Plus they hail from Las Vegas, Nevada. Where next year's Super Bowl is. The best stadium in sports right now.

So unless that ginger buffoon Goodell drops the ball like only he can, I think it's a lock we get The Killers in Vegas next February. And they will bring the house down.

4- Future

No. Just no. Sorry Snoop.

5- Kanye

Sadly this man is out of his mind insane, and has been cancelled, so he's persona non grata. But I think it's safe to say had he got to play a SB Halftime back before he went full-crazy he would have crushed.

6- Pearl Jam

Not a bad call. But here's my proposal, hear me out:

Give Seattle a Super Bowl and frame the halftime show as a Seattle musical tribute. Line up the usual suspects like Pearl Jam, and Foo Fighters, but also have the remaining members of Sound Garden there, and Alice in Chains. They play all their biggest hits in a medley, and then Duff McKagan (a Seattlean) and Kenny G (bet you didn't know he was from Seattle) also come out to join the ensemble and they perform a few tribute covers of Nirvana hits. You can even have Postal Service and Fleet Foxes up there playing background instruments or short solos to work in the new generation.

Then you end on the greatest musician to ever hail from Seattle's greatest hit, Jimi Hendrix' "Voodoo Child".

End Scene.

Tell me that wouldn't be amazing.

7- Blink 182

This would be fun as hell.

They're back together. They're selling out stadiums this summer like crazy. They're fun. We all grew up with them and know their songs. I don't mind this idea.

LOVE this idea Bradley. Love it.

By now we're all aware that Chris Stapleton straight-up destroys anything and everything thrown his way. I've never seen anything like it. Voice of gold, can fucking shred the guitar, and is able to put his own spin on literally anything and make it better.

He can easily carry a halftime-show by himself but I love the idea of having Luke Combs, another fucking monster, and Childers and Simpson up there to accompany. That would make for an awesome show.

9- Garth Brooks

I actually can't believe this hasn't happened yet. How hasn't this happened yet? This needs to happen.

One of the best music docs I've ever seen is the one about Garth and his insane performance in Central Park 25 years ago. Guy is an electric factory.

10- Drake -

This guy has so many hits. He's as wholesome as apple pie. And he puts asses in seats. I think he'd shatter Rihanna's viewership record if he was on the halftime bill and that's saying alot.

Who got left out?

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