{"id":5307,"date":"2022-02-13T23:45:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T05:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=5307"},"modified":"2022-07-26T15:40:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T20:40:49","slug":"the-halftime-show-was-good-but-where-was-jason-mraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/13\/the-halftime-show-was-good-but-where-was-jason-mraz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Halftime Show Was Good, But Where Was Jason Mraz?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The halftime show was great. Don\u2019t get me wrong. Amazing rappers I\u2019ve loved my whole life, not to mention with the incomparable Mary J. Blige, teaming up for a performance I couldn\u2019t dream of. It elevated a game I was already enjoying and paying so much attention to.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there was one person who was conspicuously missing: Jason Mraz. I know what you\u2019re all thinking \u2013 it\u2019s great that they showed the distinct styles and voices of the West Coast rap scene come together with Eminem and the undisputed Queen of Hip Hop, but where was the guy who wrote \u201cI\u2019m Yours\u201d in 2007? I know I wasn\u2019t the only person thinking, as 50 Cent emerged dangling like Spiderman to perform hit favorite \u201cIn Da Club\u201d: \u201cWow this is great, but now I can\u2019t wait to see how they\u2019ll introduce the guy who wrote \u2018I\u2019m Yours\u2019 in 2007. I wonder how the two-time Teen Choice Award winner will pop out, wearing his classic fedora and soulfully belting out \u2018I\u2019m Yours\u2019 from 2007, to top an already so great half-time show.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Again, don\u2019t get me wrong \u2013 I loved how they closed the LA Super Bowl show with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg performing \u201cStill D.R.E.\u201d (1999). He is LA, and a once-in-a-lifetime song like that shows LA is always here, keeping its genius fresh as ever, and it\u2019s always real. However, I argue that Mraz, a Mechanicsville, VA native, would have added a layer of depth to the conversation and emphasized the East Coast\u2019s unique music style.<\/span><\/p>\n

But sure, let\u2019s say Dre had to close it out, it still doesn\u2019t add up to me: why wasn\u2019t Jason Mraz up there tonight with names like Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar? Was there a dispute during contract negotiations? Was he not getting paid what he deserved? Or is there new beef between Dr. Dre and Jason Mraz that we don\u2019t know about yet? There must be a reason.\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019m hoping at the next Super Bowl, the powers that be can figure this one out, because Mraz isn\u2019t getting much younger and neither am I.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The halftime show was great. Don\u2019t get me wrong. Amazing rappers I\u2019ve loved my whole life, not to mention with the incomparable Mary J. Blige, teaming up for a performance I couldn\u2019t dream of. It elevated a game I was already enjoying and paying so much attention to. But there was one person who was conspicuously missing: Jason Mraz. I know what you\u2019re all thinking \u2013 it\u2019s great that they showed the distinct styles and voices of the West Coast rap scene come together with Eminem and the undisputed Queen of Hip Hop, but where was the guy who wrote \u201cI\u2019m Yours\u201d in 2007? I know I wasn\u2019t the only person thinking, as 50 Cent emerged dangling like Spiderman to perform hit favorite \u201cIn Da Club\u201d: \u201cWow this is great, but now I can\u2019t wait to see how they\u2019ll introduce the guy who wrote \u2018I\u2019m Yours\u2019 in 2007. I wonder how the two-time Teen Choice Award winner will pop out, wearing his classic fedora and soulfully belting out \u2018I\u2019m Yours\u2019 from 2007, to top an already so great half-time show.\u201d Again, don\u2019t get me wrong \u2013 I loved how they closed the LA Super Bowl show with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg performing \u201cStill D.R.E.\u201d (1999). He is LA, and a once-in-a-lifetime song like that shows LA is always here, keeping its genius fresh as ever, and it\u2019s always real. However, I argue that Mraz, a Mechanicsville, VA native, would have added a layer of depth to the conversation and emphasized the East Coast\u2019s unique music style. But sure, let\u2019s say Dre had to close it out, it still doesn\u2019t add up to me: why wasn\u2019t Jason Mraz up there tonight with names like Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar? Was there a dispute during contract negotiations? Was he not getting paid what he deserved? Or is there new beef between Dr. Dre and Jason Mraz that we don\u2019t know about yet? There must be a reason.\u00a0I\u2019m hoping at the next Super Bowl, the powers that be can figure this one out, because Mraz isn\u2019t getting much younger and neither am I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":5309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5320,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307\/revisions\/5320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}