Because… well… you know….
NEW YORK — In the sensitive post-wardrobe malfunction world, some are questioning whether a guitar was just a guitar during Prince’s Super Bowl halftime show.
Prince’s acclaimed performance included a guitar solo during the Purple Rain segment of his medley in which his shadow was projected onto a large, flowing beige sheet. As the 48-year-old rock star let rip, the silhouette cast by his figure and his guitar (shaped like the singer’s symbol) had phallic connotations for some.
A number of bloggers have decried “Malfunction!” — including Sam Anderson at New York magazine’s Daily Intelligencer. Daily News television critic David Bianculli called it “a rude-looking shadow show” that “looked embarrassingly rude, crude and unfortunately placed.”
Presumably David Bianculli would place an electric guitar elsewhere?
Freud had some words for people arrested in this particular stage of development. (And no, I’m not convinced that group doesn’t include Prince… )
The first thing I thought of whilst watching this part of the show was the obviously phallic nature of the guitar. It’s glaring and Prince is too smart of a guy for it to be an accident.
But no big deal. There are too many real problems to worry about an impish prank like this.
I’ll bet that David Bianculli was just jealous… Maybe he will try some of those remedies advertised in all the spam he receives now?
😉
~EdT.
Jealous? Ah — Freud had a term for that, too. Probably more valid in this context than what he originally meant, though…
*snort*
Actually, I’m finding things like this are quite the relief from all the other worries. (smile…)
I can’t imagine anyone actually watching the half time show with TAFKAP.
1) Was the NFL unaware of Prince’s music and reputation?
2) Didn’t they preview the show?
3) An unitended consequence of outcries over public decency is they provide a challenge to those who like to stretch the envelope.
The symbolism was obvious but somehow not as out of place as Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction which my sister has pointed out wasn’t all that much different from the normal NFL cheerleader outfit. Which is a way of saying that most of our sporting events have elements of softcore porn. The question is where to draw the line.
Why do I have the feeling that the new Super Bowl attraction is not going to be the game or the commercials but the half time show?
I did a post on this issue as well as some of the “stink” stirred up by other commercials during the Superbowl. If bored, you can check it out at;
http://thunderhouse-yuri.blogspot.com/2007/02/i-object-to-everything.html
Best to you,
Yuri