I thought the half time Super Bowl show was horrible. Madonna danced as if she were in slow motion. She should retire.

you all music is terrible, I tried watching the Grammies this year for the W. Houston tribute all that shit yall listens to suck Katy Perry, Niki Minaj(who is free-loading off of Mdonna's audience)Foo Fighters that shit sucks, Lady Gaga sucks she can go to hell as well

The SB targeted over 40 year old people, tough as a 40 almost 41 year old woman, madonna was the best choice she has fans in her age demographic and in my generation as well, tough we got all the money, wall street follows the money that's it. yall asses are half the reason why the economy sucks

This is an interesting viewpoint from the younger generation. I grew up with Madonna, and I must admit I wasn't actually a fan at the time. I wasn't expecting much from her and was not looking forward to the halftime show. However, when she came to the stage in a tribute to Liz Taylor by recreating her entrance into Rome to be introduced to the people as Caesar's wife in the movie Cleopatra, I must say I was impressed. I thought she brought a lot of class to the halftime show, and making that entrance to the song Vogue, which references Gene Kelly, Jean Harlow, Fred Astaire, and Greta Garbo, etc. she was paying tribute to all the classic Hollywood glamour. It was a fitting tribute, an appropriate song, and an overall good show. I also enjoyed the appearances by other performers, such as Ceelo and LMFAO. I don't think they ignored modern hit makers, they just cast them in support of a woman who has gone from hitmaker to diva/icon. The halftime show isn't always for the kids ya know, but seeing as how you weren't the sole target demographic for once, welcome to my world. I judge by your response that you didn't enjoy not being the target demographic, and I assure you, when you hit your 40's you will find this to be the case much more frequently. I can't stand 90% of the pure crap on tv these days, and hardly watch it anymore. It's drivel. But of course the shows I grew up with are pure gold in my mind lol I suspect you might feel the same in a couple decades. In the meantime, this last generation gal liked the halftime show quite a bit. The halftime shows could use a little more class and grandeur in my opinion.

Since we all make mistakes...

the one bullet point should have read "-December 2009: Madonna ends the 2000s as the best selling single artist of the decade in the US and most played in the UK.

"Instead of Madonna, any of the successful artists of the past two years would have been a more exciting performance — mainly because we wouldn’t be subjected to watching a 53-year-old woman dance and sing songs we don’t care about."

Well...it's good to know that the Kent Stater does not do their research. I have taken the liberty to inform you, by creating a timeline, of where Madonna has been these past couple of years. Please enjoy.

-April 2008: The release of Madonna's ELEVENTH studio album "Hard Candy"
-The lead single "4 Minutes" featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. This was her 37th Hot 100 top-ten hit which pushed her past Elvis as the artist with the most top-ten hits.
-August 2008-September 2009: Madonna embarks on her "Sticky and Sweet" world tour. The tour would end up grossing $408 million, making it the highest-grossing tour by a solo artist, surpassing the previous record...held by herself.
-December 2009: Madonna end the decade as the 2000s as the best selling single artist of the decade in the US and most played in the UK.
-April 2010: Madonna releases her third live album, the "Sticky and Sweet Tour"
-July 2010-September 2010: Madonna's film "W.E." goes into production. She serves as co-writer, producer, and director.
-2011: "W.E." premieres at the Venice Film Festival.
-January 2012: Madonna wins at the Golden Globes Award ceremony for Best Original Song ('Masterpiece' from "W.E.")
-February 3, 2012: Madonna releases the first single off her new album, "Give Me All Your Luvin'".
-February 5, 2012: Madonna and the Halftime Show heard round the world. The Halftime Show was the most watched...ever.
-March 26, 2012: Madonna's twelfth studio album, "MDNA" will be officially released.
-May 29, 2012: Madonna will embark on her 9th concert tour, and will be stopping in Cleveland for the first time since "The Virgin Tour" in 1985.

So please try and justify once again how Madonna "has no business" performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

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The "Staff" of the Stator doesn't surprise me, they come from the KSU School of Journalism. I was in that building long enough to speculate that the main qualifications to 'instruct' in that building may have nothing to do with the ability to be a teacher.

As to the editorial itself, Children are SO Funny!

The Demographic has been mentioned. The NFL and Superbowl have a large built in demographic that coincidentally also has the money to afford the tickets, and big ticket items. That pretty much excludes the college student and other youngsters.

Want to see something fail quickly? Target those who aren't interested and who haven't money. I suspect this is something that will go over the editorial staff or who ever got this piece past them because they have already displayed a severely egocentric view. They watch so everyone of their demographic watch.

Another funny thing about youngsters, in thirty years there will be another hair brained editorial complaining how "Nicki Minaj, Adele, Bruno Mars, Drake or anyone who actually had a No. 1 hit" thirty years ago are performing at Bowl Whatever and not the relevant automatons of 2032.

Or maybe the real problem is what I call the Paul Newman or Hugh Jackman insecurity, that being how those two guys looked better on their worst days than the rest of us will ever look.

So maybe the editorials author was fueled by the insecurity of Madonna , old enough to be their mother or even grandmother, at 53 years old looking better than they'll ever look and dancing better than they'll ever dance. And the knowledge that even knowing Madonnas history you're boy or girl friend would still want to be taken for a spin by Madonna. Darned few of us would be up to leading in that dance.

In conclusion, once again I'm not surprised the editorial staff lived down to my expectations, and once again we are afforded a look at the world through the uncomprehending eyes of an egocentric child.

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The first sentence has a full on in your face grammatical error: "to watch" Plus this piece criticizes the halftime performance for not featuring someone like Nicki Minaj who was actually a prominent part of the performance. "Editorial Board" AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...what a joke. This is an embarrassment that's why it has so many hits. Where are the faculty advisers to scold the "board" for this garbage?


oh whoops...my bad...editorial board wanted someone "like" Nicki Minaj in the halftime performance...not actually Nicki Minaj herself. my mistake...


...idiots

i thought it was awesome to see Madonna alongside artists who wouldn't be here if she hadn't paved the way. Good for her. It's a very narrow view to be so obsessed with how "old" someone is over how they performed. Also, the Super Bowl aims at more than just the college age group.

Hey Brenna, did you skip class to write up that full-length comment?

Articles like this embarrass our generation.

Absolutely abysmal.

Its good to know that as a former staff writer for the stater, the idiocy of the editorial staff knows no generational bounds

Your student "Opinion" ignoring the merits of Madonna's is tantamount to having nothing good to say about Shakespeare, Mozart, Galileo, penicillin, the Moon Landing, seat belts, belief in a God, or anything older than your baby fat. The shame is KSU advisors and teachers who sanction your incompetence voiced in previous comments. Please demote yourselves to K or 1st grade and start over before you infect those trying to be mature.

Here we go, from the beginning:

-The "millions of Americans to watch the Super Bowl each year" are not all the younger generation. In this millions of poeple, I'd venture to guess that the majority of them are people who were around during the time of her prime icon-ness.
- Your use of "we" and "us" is an outlandish generalization when speaking of the younger generation. There are many people part of this younger generation that were excited about this performance who would not appreciate being spoken for by an out-of-touch editorial board member. In fact, I am embarrassed to be part of this generation because of people like you.
- Your definition of exciting is seriously skewed. Cirque du Soliel was part of this performance! Doesn't warrant the word 'exciting'? This gives me skepticism for the respectability of your kind of culture.
- In the past 10 years, nine of the performances were people over the age of 50. Granted they were rock bands. The mention of age here is completely uncalled for when considering this information. Is your point that someone of that age shouldn't still be dancing? Why not speak so avidly against older men playing guitar? Because they still can do it. And Madonna can still dance. It is more 'exciting' to see someone still be able to move like that at 50 than someone who is 20.
- Saying you are 'subjected' to watching her is overly-dramatic (I mean you must be severely weak if watching Madonna is something so intolerable that you use the word 'subjected'), cliche wording. FURTHER, that word is completely inappropriate for two reasons. First, how the hell can you be 'subjected' to something when you have the power to pick up your damn remote? Subjected implies something beyond your control. Secondly, that is a pretty offensive, ballsy thing to say about someone who influenced pop music as we know it.
- Did you watch the performance? Did you write this before the game? Because Nikki Manaj did perform. And so did other 'successful artists' of the past 2 years-- LMFAO, MIA and Cee Lo.
- Much of the younger generation did not take bathroom breaks and fill up our SOLO cups. YOU did. And if you were busy fulling up your cup with natty, then how did you see the performance in order to write this article?

I think this article is not only sexist, agist and poorly written, but an embarrassment to the Kent State community, as it implies a general tendency to feel the way the author does. I hope that this is just a case of being lazy, and not someone's genuine opinion. One does not have to read the Stater to get a heads up about this editorial. Social media is taking notice. I haven't read The Stater in a while, and am not impressed with the direction it has taken. The editorial board is supposed to be the voice of reason--the mature voice for the newspaper. I don't understand how this can be taken to be the entire board's view. If it is, your ignorance is going to make it difficult to continue writing for 'our' generation. I request that this editorial be removed.

Maybe you guys should stick to editorializing about things you might have a hand in changing — like university, city or county policy. Using the paper's unsigned editorials to blast Madonna is a cop out. Get some backbone and write about things that matter.

The reason that the Super Bowl halftime show did not appeal to college students is that it wasn't meant to.
College students are not the target demographic for the Super Bowl. A quick review of the sponsors and the commercials that aired during the broadcast confirms that. E*Trade, Cadillac, Audi, Chevy Trucks, et. al. (Doritos target everyone and Bud Lite can't really target students.) Even Pepsi and Coke were targeting an older demographic. There was not one commercial for a video game, energy drink, "youth" soft drink, fast food place or clothing.

Age shouldn't matter. Seems a bit ageist to me.

"There are three main reasons why millions of Americans to watch [sic] the Super Bowl each year ..." ? Nice grammar.

Her age is mentioned twice ... at least, as far as I could gather ... I had a bit of difficulty comprehending the uncertain sentence structure of this ... um ... "editorial"? I *think* that's what this is supposed to be? Anyway ... misogyny, anyone?

It's all right if you don't know what the word "misogyny" means, by the way. You live in NE Ohio, and you live on student loans. It'll all be OK.

DKS editors: please quit. I'm bummed I let you waste even 30 seconds of my time.

If the Daily Kent Stater sucks, then why are you reading the online edition?

P.S. You guys (DKS staff) have done some great reporting work this semester, but don't forget the Opinion section is equally deserving of quality copy.

Here's a better question: Why does an NFL halftime show even warrant an OurView? I can think of far better issues worthy of 300 words.

I totally agree with the Daily Kent Stater Editors on this one Nicki Minaj, Adele, Bruno Mars, Drake are new trash...Madonna is old trash...it's like which trash is better and the new trash will always win because it appeals more to the younger generation

It doesn't matter who performs on the halftime show because they are always forced to lip-sync anyway. The only part of last nights show that wasn't lip-synced was the very last song Madonna did with Cee-lo. And a huge reason the halftime show hasn't been exciting since JT and Janet Jackson's performance is because after the wardrobe malfunction the NFL "fired" MTV as the halftime show producer. The NFL now books the talent and produces the show themselves.

I'll take halftime shows with Madonna, Springsteen and musical acts 90% of Americans have actually heard of over some of these recent fly-by-night one hit wonders college kids seem to like.

"We would have preferred Nicki Minaj.." I guess you missed the performance because Nicki was there performing with Madonna. Hmm.

You know what else sucks these days? the Daily Kent Stater.