I rather enjoyed this year's Superbowl. I especially loved this video (link above), with one of my favorite Johnny Cash's songs. And I loved Lady Gaga's performance.
I had steeled myself for political statements made right and left, as they were last year during Beyonce's performance, which I found offensive. But I was pleasantly surprised.
But of course, the news and social media had to politicize it to demonstrate their view that all these videos and acts throughout the game were jabs at Trump's latest executive order.
Whatever one may think about his order, this is not how I viewed the show. Not even when those three ladies sang a patriotic song before the game, which I thought they did a fabulous job of it.
Apparently, they were from the musical Hamilton and they somehow tweaked the song to reflect some political statement.
Who knows, really. Who knows what is fake news and what is not? Can't we just enjoy the game and music without something politic shoved down our throats? Can't we just enjoy the game for the sake of sport, the music for the sake of art? Why does every thing have to be so political nowadays?
I used to be political myself, until I realized that it just made me angry. I don't want to go through life being angry all the time. I can write what I really think on this blog or on Facebook, but I'm usually just preaching to the choir, and it is getting more and more difficult to disagree on things.
For once, couldn't we just agree that the Superbowl is a tradition to bring people together, even those who, like me, don't like football? For once, can't we be united instead always divided?
Is that too much to ask?
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