Kendrick Lamar - GNX (November 22nd, 2024) Album • Page 43

My sister is a former Drake stan who loved the Kendrick performance so he's definitely lost some of that crowd lol

 

I know it fits the narrative of being a hater better for his fans to all be teenage white kids, but the black and brown (and white) kids that I teach in Philly are all still obsessed with Drake. Guys and girls alike. Kendrick does not have that kind of pull with the youth, outside of Not Like Us being played at every dance/prom for some reason lol. When I talk about Drake not releasing a good album in like 10 years I get the same angry responses I used to get when I said J. Cole was overrated.

 

So TV Off was written to close the SB and tell Drake "game over, turn your TV off"?

 

I mean for these kids, there's probably a nostalgia aspect to this right? - where a lot of their parents were listening to Drake in his prime and now they're "fans" because it's what they grew up with and able to follow his new album cycles? Kind of feels similar to how kids feel about Kanye (before this weekend)...where their golden years are giving them way more leeway for their newer stuff.

 

I mean yeah I’m sure but they will ride out for any/all of his new stuff. I heard more talk about the Drake/PND album that isn’t even out yet than talk about GNX. There’s probably 5-6 kids in the building that I know are Kendrick fans. One of those “internet isn’t everything” things

 

Did you know he has an album coming out Friday called Some Sexy Songs 4 U

 

i didn't watch the game last night but caught the full performance from some video someone crossposted from Twitter. however my sister texted and said that they had their TV volume all the way up and could barely hear Kendrick's performance, claiming that some news stations lowered the volume super low during halftime. did this happen with anyone else?

 

The live mix was not great.

What's been uploaded by Apple is better but still a bit flat.

 

UK and EU tour for July/August

Jul 02 – Cologne, Germany – RheinEnergieSTADION
Jul 04 – Frankfurt, Germany – Deutsche Bank Park
Jul 08 – Glasgow, UK – Hampden Park
Jul 10 – Birmingham, UK – Villa Park
Jul 13 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Johan Cruijff ArenA
Jul 15 – Paris, France – Paris La Défense Arena
Jul 19 – Cardiff, UK – Principality Stadium
Jul 22 – London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Jul 27 – Lisbon, Portugal – Estadio do Restelo
Jul 30 – Barcelona, Spain – Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Aug 02 – Rome, Italy – Stadio Olimpico
Aug 06 – Warsaw, Poland – PGE Narodowy
Aug 09 – Stockholm, Sweden – 3Arena

 

I didn’t notice the audio being poor. I mean other than it being a live tv performance.

 

Yeah the volume levels were ass

 

I understand the take that Kendrick "played his least interesting stuff" for the halftime show but I think that's a plus. I don't wanna see him wax poetic and be ~deep~ and ~interesting~ I wanna see him have a good time and help us have a good time

Was a great performance, not up there with the best performances but one of the better recent ones for sure

 

The audio quality was poor—can’t deny that. It’s always like that and especially not suited for a rap performance, but it was still fun

 

It’s the Super Bowl, he’s not gonna play The Art of Peer Pressure or Sing About Me… is he?

 

There was also a second job of the performance which was "make people wanna go to Kendrick's tour even more" and that very much succeeded, I wanna go badly

 

Halftime shows are more often bad than good

 

Would’ve been amazing tho

 

Not I

No

 

can't tell if this is a serious bit or not

 

Mr Century has personal beef with SZA

 

Poster has tried to see Sza like 2 or 3 times and she’s canceled or didn’t show up.

 

Polled my classes. Consensus was the performance was “mid” and Kendrick didn’t play the songs they wanted. I pressed them and they said they didn’t know the songs because they don’t listen to Kendrick like that. A few kids agreed that the messaging was cool but most didn’t get it. They want bangers

 

No that was someone else

 

I've been going down a rabbit hole checking the view count on Youtube for all the halftime shows in the past 8 years or so. Rounding the numbers, here's the breakdown:
Lady Gaga 2017 - 110 million
Justin Timberlake 2018 - 36 million
Maroon 5 2019 - 22 million
J Lo & Shakira 2020 - 320 million
The Weeknd 2021 - 68 million
Dr Dre 2022 - 326 million
Usher 2023 - 32 million
Kendrick 2024 - 17 million (so far)


Funny that in only 24 hours Kendrick will probably surpass what took Maroon 5 over six years to accumulate. But also pretty wild how the Dr Dre/Snoop and J Lo/Shakira shows blew everyone else out of the water.