Five artists who should play the Super Bowl halftime show - Deadspin

There is probably some esteem to be gained from being labeled A) a big enough act and B) just inoffensive enough to be tapped as a Super Bowl halftime performer.

What follows is a list of acts that might be cool, or ones that just simply need to accept what they are and take the gig to cement it.

If ever there was a band specifically designed to play the Super Bowl halftime show, it’s Foo Fighters.

It almost feels like if some sort of government-backed think tank or lab were to create a band for the Super Bowl, it would be Foo Fighters.

Grohl is probably under the impression that he or the band still have just enough punk/street cred to look down upon such a gig, but they lost that long ago.

Now here’s someone who does have the punk/street cred that Foo Fighters only think they do, and could justifiably and gloriously piss on the offer to play the Super Bowl.

This is who they are, which is kind of hilarious because the people who follow them around the country now are almost certainly the same ones who made fun of the first generation grunge crowd for listening to Ten thirty years ago.

Would have writers and broadcasters clapping like seals at the announcement, though the band would struggle to come up with one song they’ve written in the past 20 years that anyone knows.

Also, there’s every chance in the world that Lizzo would bring Missy Elliot along for another Super Bowl appearance, and if there’s anything this world needs it’s more Missy Elliot.

A lot of years, the Super Bowl halftime show is a lifetime achievement award anyway, and Weird Al has been cracking us all up for nearly 40 years.