Two things I look forward to watching the Super Bowl other than the game itself: Half Time entertainment and the Super Bowl Commercials.

Well, first of all the Packers won the game today but let me share the other entertainment and the feedback it got from the crowd.

Christina Aguilera and Lea Michele singing the National Anthem and America the Beautiful

I know, I know.  The singing of Christina Aguilera was flawed but OMG her vocals are just awesome!  I have been a fan of her since Genie in a Bottle.  She has a great voice and she delivered the song well, except for the scrambled lyrics.  Singing in that big stadium could bring butterflies in the stomach even to experienced and well established singers.  They often get criticized and most often than not, people would bash them for not singing them the right way.  It’s like our local artists here in the Philippines who get bashed when they sing the Philippine national anthem too slow or too fast.  But, I mean c’mon guys, stop hatin’ I don’t think she meant to skip some lyrics while singing.  I’m pretty sure she tried to give her best. 

And since I don’t know the lyrics of the American National Anthem, I didn’t notice her mistake until Vince told me.  I almost cried even if I am not an American.

Video of Black Eyed Peas, Usher and Slash of Guns and Roses for Super Bowl Half Time

I heard many complaints and negative comments about their performance but after I watched the video I’m like “what the heck guys, stop HATIN’”

They might have complained about vocal qualities and Darth Vader (fake account) — (DUH?!?) even tweeted about the half time entertainment saying…

“That half time show did more to crush the morale of the rebellion in 30 minutes than I ever did.”

okay, fine. that’s funny but those glowing dancers were fun!

and c’mon at least there were no nip slips unlike Janet Jackson’s performance before!  Or would you rather have seen one from Fergie? you nasties!

People say they sound too different from their recorded album vs live.

One, studio and stadium are both different venues.  Sound quality is definitely better if recorded in a studio.  The stadium was pretty noisy with all the crowd cheering and the loud background music – it would be so hard to hear yourself singing that’s why I think they were all shouting.  But anyway, even if they weren’t that “in-tune” it wasn’t as bad!

What did you think of the two videos? 

and oh, I didn’t like Lea Michele’s performance though, I felt like she held back her vocals or something.  I don’t know. What do you think?

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Anyway, some people just watch the Super Bowl games to watch the advertisements or commercials.  Since millions and billions of people watch the Super Bowl games live online, on the game itself and on television, these people are also exposed to the commercials being aired with the game.  And with this, placement for ads cost $3 million for only 30 seconds of airtime.  This excludes production costs and other stuff like that.  Therefore, the companies placing ads in Super Bowl must have a super awesome commercial that impacts everyone watching the superbowl games.

The challengers for the Super Bowl Sunday games are the Pittsburgh Steelers vs Green Bay Packers.  Here is the list of advertisers that you should watch out for while watching the Super Bowl 2011 live either online, on TV or physically happening in the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas. 

List of Super Bowl 2011 Advertisers

Anheuser-Busch

Audi

Best Buy

BMW North America

Bridgestone

Careerbuilder Cars.com

Chrysler

Coca-Cola

E-trade

General Motors

GoDaddy.com

HomeAway Inc.

Hyundai

Motor North America

Kia North America

Mars Mercedez-Benz

PepsiCo’s Dritos

PepsiCo’s Pepsi

Max Pizza Hut

Skechers

Teleflora

Volkswagen of America

*You can watch YouTube’s Annual Gallery of Super Bowl Commercials on their adblitz page here.  They will post Super Bowl commercials once they get played during the NFL game.

Here are other things you need to look forward to when watching the Super Bowl XLV 2011:

• National anthem will be sang by Christina Aguilera. 
• Coin Toss will be done by Dion Sanders.
• Halftime Show will be performed by Black Eyed Peas.  It’s back to hip hop this year and the Black Eyed Peas, especially Fergie, is trying to make sure that there wouldn’t be any wardrobe malfunction unlike what happened years ago with Janet Jackson’s performance.

Rumors going around that Justin Bieber is going to have the best Super Bowl commercial ever?

We’ll see about that.

Here are other screen shots of other super bowl commercials in the past years.

this is lol and I think this is fake