Black-Eyed-Peas, the future of modern music?

Whitney lip synched, but it was still the best anthem performance of all time.

It may have been a vocoder effect, not autotune. It could have been a vocoder and autotune. It's hard to say.

"Whitney lip synched, but it was still the best anthem performance of all time."

I'll accept lip synching for the anthem if needed to assure a sterling performance.

Otherwise, let people who are supposed to be singers just give it their usually best. No big deal.

Agreed Whitney's was perhaps the one for the ages.

Auto tube coming on premature was just another flaw in the prgram, I know its no secret, it was however a sloppy transition. One more cherry on the poop sunday.

Actually, all the background music is pre-recorded a day before and played through the monitors at half time the next day. It would be impossible to properly stage a "live" event due to the nature of the roll-out stage and the logistics of feeding and mixing a 64 track board in real time. It is easier to mimic the music under similar conditions the day before and let the attention be placed on the front persons during Sunday.

The only live feed in real time is the mics on the singers and occasionally one instrument, usually a guitar. Only Fergie and Slash were live during that section.

Why do I know this? I have done three of the half time shows.

Very difficult for ANY band to sound good here.

Bongofury, I'm with you. I've been getting into the local music scene and even singing with some of the musicians I have met who are much younger than I (56). I've discovered that I have a good rock voice only because some of the younger musicians have encouraged me to belt it out. Prior to this revelation I was afraid to sing in public. A little private jamming after listening to a lot of these younger musicians on stage has opened up a whole new world of music for me. Mostly I just enjoy listening to all the great local bands but actually participating a bit is like a dream come true. While I have no illusions of my ever really doing something in the music biz, just letting her fly for however long is a gas, gas, gas.