My friend and mentor Jacqueline Warwick has just released a much-anticpated book on “Girl Group” culture in the 1960s. All those great artists who history has traditionally dealt a bad hand are addressed here. And damned good music to boot!
Archive for February, 2007
In 2003, Mark Morford commented on Shania Twain’s Superbowl XXXVII performance in “Is Shania Twain Human?” in the SF Gate Morning Fix. Here he compared the sex appeal of Twain’s performance to that of Gwen Stefani who performed with Sting afterwards. He suggests that in her lip-synced, “plastic” performance, “despite all the bare midriffs and push-up bras and coy lyrics, Shania Twain is not a sexual person.” Stefani, on the other hand, “swivelled her hips so gorgeously and so deeply that the TV cameras were forced to shoot her only from the waist up…”
I agree mostly with these statements, preferring Stefani’s music to Twain’s. But damn if this past Sunday’s performance by Prince wasn’t the most refreshing halftime show I’ve ever seen!
[EDIT] I had links to the videos on youtube here for a couple of weeks, with the warning to “get ‘em soon”, suspecting that they would be pulled for whatever idiotic copyright reason. Well, it turns out they were! I’m sure you can find them if you go here.
It was almost disconcerting watch Prince rock out, doing something so loose, when in recent years Superbowl halftimes have been as boring as the games they were interrupting. CCR, a Foo Fighters cover, All Along the Watchtower, and some killer guitar playing…Now that’s sexy!
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