Thu, 10 Feb 2005
CBC Arts
WASHINGTON - The FCC has received a handful of complaints about Paul McCartney's performance at the Super Bowl – but not because it was too racy.
According to a report on Mediaweek.com, four people submitted complaints to the Federal Communications Commission – the broadcast regulator in the U.S. – following the broadcast.
Paul McCartney appears at the Super Bowl on Sunday. (AP photo)
Of those, two people complained that McCartney's performance wasn't racy enough.
The complainants said that the show put on by McCartney was boring and didn't entertain them.
McCartney was chosen by Fox, the network that broadcast the Super Bowl, as a non-controversial follow-up to last year's featured act, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake.
In 2004, one of Jackson's breasts was briefly exposed to viewers at home because of a so-called "wardrobe malfunction."
The incident prompted more than half a million complaints, as well as a widespread crackdown on broadcasters by the FCC.
Two other complaints submitted this year centred on a line from Get Back, the 1969 song that was among the four tunes sung by McCartney.
The viewers were upset by the line "Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona/For some California grass," taking it to be a reference to marijuana.
Viewers also submitted a number of other complaints not related to McCartney.
Eight people complained about a commercial that aired during the Super Bowl for the web-hosting service GoDaddy.com. The ad satirizes the FCC crackdown.
It features a buxom woman appearing at a Congressional hearing who narrowly avoids a wardrobe malfunction of her own, grabbing at a strap on her tank top just in time to prevent her breasts from being exposed.
Five people complained about commercials for drugs that treat impotence, and one viewer did not like a Pepsi commercial that featured Queer Eye for the Straight Guy star Carson Kressley looking at a young man walking down the street.
One viewer asked the FCC to remove announcer Joe Buck from the Fox broadcast booth, and two viewers wrote to thank the FCC for what they judged to be a clean show.
In addition, two people submitted complaints this year about last year's duet by Jackson and Timberlake.
WASHINGTON - The FCC has received a handful of complaints about Paul McCartney's performance at the Super Bowl – but not because it was too racy.
According to a report on Mediaweek.com, four people submitted complaints to the Federal Communications Commission – the broadcast regulator in the U.S. – following the broadcast.
Paul McCartney appears at the Super Bowl on Sunday. (AP photo)
Of those, two people complained that McCartney's performance wasn't racy enough.
The complainants said that the show put on by McCartney was boring and didn't entertain them.
McCartney was chosen by Fox, the network that broadcast the Super Bowl, as a non-controversial follow-up to last year's featured act, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake.
In 2004, one of Jackson's breasts was briefly exposed to viewers at home because of a so-called "wardrobe malfunction."
The incident prompted more than half a million complaints, as well as a widespread crackdown on broadcasters by the FCC.
Two other complaints submitted this year centred on a line from Get Back, the 1969 song that was among the four tunes sung by McCartney.
The viewers were upset by the line "Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona/For some California grass," taking it to be a reference to marijuana.
Viewers also submitted a number of other complaints not related to McCartney.
Eight people complained about a commercial that aired during the Super Bowl for the web-hosting service GoDaddy.com. The ad satirizes the FCC crackdown.
It features a buxom woman appearing at a Congressional hearing who narrowly avoids a wardrobe malfunction of her own, grabbing at a strap on her tank top just in time to prevent her breasts from being exposed.
Five people complained about commercials for drugs that treat impotence, and one viewer did not like a Pepsi commercial that featured Queer Eye for the Straight Guy star Carson Kressley looking at a young man walking down the street.
One viewer asked the FCC to remove announcer Joe Buck from the Fox broadcast booth, and two viewers wrote to thank the FCC for what they judged to be a clean show.
In addition, two people submitted complaints this year about last year's duet by Jackson and Timberlake.
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You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time.
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