It goes to show how vacuous pop music is today when they can bring out Prince for the halftime show, performing twenty year old material, and it stands out above all the stupid eye-candy hip-hop buffoons that adorn the “music” scene these days.

Even if some of the eye candy can sing, they are still just pretty faces and half-naked bodies gyrating in front of a mechanical dance track. Prince is well known as a songwriter as well, including for some of the pretty pop faces. He can also play nearly every musical instrument you hear on his albums.

I work in video production. Quite a while ago one of my coworkers did a freelance job with Mtv News which involved a Kurt Loder interview at Prince’s place. He told me that Prince was the nicest, most humble and gracious guy he’d ever met. After the interview he told the crew they’d be welcome to return for a party he was holding later that evening. And this was before he developed a conscience and publicly declared that he was no longer going to perform much of the racy material that helped make him popular early in his career.

Even if the Christinas, Britneys, et al can sing…I don’t need my kids to see them gyrating around mostly nude like a bunch of hookers and earning grammys for hitting the high notes.