Music Awards Shows & Halftime Shows: Yeahhp, so bad your TV emits a foul odor. It's ok, you can say It.

See Carrie Underwood, Bad Bunny, Dua Lipa, Post Malone, Walker Hayes, Foo Fighters and J LOHHHH!!! This Sunday, this year's Grammy Awards, make sure to tune in! ...... See Cardi B, Darius Rucker, Olivia Rodrigo, The Weeknd, Katy Perry, Foo Fighters and J LOHHHH!!! This Monday, The Billboard Music Awards, don't miss out! ...... See Lil Baby, DaBaby, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Wayne, Sada Baby, The Babys, Lil Yachty, Lil Pump, Lil Kim, Lil Jon, Baby Tate, Glen "Big Baby" Davis, the baby from "Look Who's Talking", Stewie Griffin, Megan Theeeeee Stallion, Foo Fighters and J LOHHHH!!! Next Thursday, The American Music Awards, watch it! 

NBA ALL STAR WEEKEND. It will be star studded all weekend, but most importantly, check in on the halftime show featuring the biggest K in the biz, Khalid. He'll jam that stage up with the likes of Drake, H.E.R., Pink, Jack Harlow, Gunna (twice), Machine Gun Kelly, The Kid LAROI, both Billie and Finneas Eilish, Morgan Wallen and DAVE GROHL!!! Come and get it! ...... It's ... THE ... SUPER BOWWWWL!!! With halftime performance from Lady Gaga and special appearances by Rihanna, Snoop Dog, Missy Elliott, Shaikra, Ed Sheeran, Elton John, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Sza, Charlie Puth, Electric Light Orchestra, the blonde chick from Little Big Town along with the dude from Imagine Dragons, Pitbull, LL Cool J, Selena Gomez, the head from Deadmaus, Chris Martin, Melissa Etheridge, Bono's Son, Twenty One Pilots, the band Pilot from the 70s, Trent Reznor, Gary Clark Jr., Vin Diesel's car from Fast and Furious 6, just Joe Jonas, Michael Jackson's hologram and DAVE GROHL!!!

Awww yeah! That is where it's at! That is the bomb every time, I'm telling you!!! No, not really. That is just one colossal cauldron of shit ... please adjust the serving size. I am always fascinated hearing or seeing people have a serious discussion and even go at each other online, in the media or in person about any of these performances. Me, I am quite blown away how the production staffs can operationally handle 29% - 35% of the entire live performing industry on one stage at the same time. My suggestion is to start adding record label executives, booking agents and even bus drivers to the spectacle. That would really pull in the audience. These are the most nonsensical musical goulashes, bordering on Saturday Night Live skits (pre-2000 that is). Let's temporarily leave out the fact that the awards shows represent the ROCK genre like back-alley drug deals. Try and make sure nobody sees it, that is. Argument for another day, if I essentially cared. When artists are not lip-synching or running a great deal of backing tracks, they just jack up the stage with another name + face to gaze upon, banter into a microphone, then you'll be so "overwhelmed" and "spellbound" by his or her presence. According to the network execs, practically no artist has enough talent or cache on their own to hold your attention. Every now and then, you do have an artist with enough industry juice, who is likely able to determine their full performance, and then they STILL feel the need or pressure to bring someone on stage with them. Advice or pressure from management, record label or agent always comes into play, in addition the "award show contagion". Even Metallica gave in to that vomitous joke of an idea with Lady Gaga. I never thought Metallica would jump the shark, but it happened. I will never unsee that.

This is a proper lead-in for the pandering, I mean marketing, I mean pandering. This applies to both the awards shows and halftime shows, mid-hot-single performance, of course. I AM A POP STAR... cue the rapper. Look everybody, I am so down with the rap scene, check out my cred, buy my record. Look at me. Look who's on-stage with me. NOW I AM A RAP ARTIST... cue the rock guitarist. Look everybody, I am such a rock dude, check out my cred, buy my record. I totally rock. Look at me. Look who's on-stage with me. THEN WE HAVE THE VETERAN POP ROCK SINGER... cue the young kind-of-rocker dude. Look everybody, I am so down with the youth, check out my cred, buy my record. Look at me. Look who's on stage with me. LASTLY, WE HAVE ANY ARTIST, IN GENERAL... cue Dave Grohl.

Now we wander into the halftime extravaganzas. Basically, the goal is to pick a big enough name (or possibly two, if need be), and then just keep catapulting additional people on stage and screen until you pass out from dizzying delight. Check out all the different colored people of all shapes and sizes from all places and values bringing in their musical backgrounds or mere dance moves. It's so plentiful AND it checks all the proper cultural and socio-economic boxes. We performers were also able to multi-market due to all the proper "cue-ing", as discussed earlier, and have convinced the audience that we genuinely loved the selling process freshly demonstrated. All missions accomplished, across the board with all parties. Now we can follow all the viewers as they debate over who lip-synched better, who air-guitared on their actual guitar better, when applicable- who legitimately sang their two or four lines better, who pretended to be something they are not better, who wore it better, and if you're lucky, who was truly talented and so on.

You will find nothing less musically authentic and inorganic than an awards or halftime show. It is so manufactured, manicured and manipulated (the three Ms?), it squeezes the life out of artists and the entertainment as a true art form. Telemarketing has more verve and spontaneity, in comparison. These most-likely-not-fully-live appearances are for the most elementary of music digesting individuals. No offense to that crowd. If that makes you happy, have at it. I also don't blame the hired help; the musicians. It's their career promotional choices and necks on the line. With that said, I fully believe none of these artists would perform on any of these shows unless they felt they absolutely had to. I just find it so humorous witnessing people with greater artistic experience and knowledge overly examine such entertainment excrement and give it much more credence than it deserves. The more you gut the veracity and true delivery from live musicians, you get professional wrestling and Broadway, instead of the NFL and U2 at Red Rocks in 1983. When you witness these network begging displays on television, you have to know that the pandering machine is turned up full blast, which nowadays morphs into virtue signaling. Oh, how superific! I love that in my songs, albums and artists. Please mix that in with my manufacturing, manicure and manipulation. Now that's some serious art for ya!