The Cure's Robert Smith Mocks World Cup Final Half-Time Show
Robert Smith said the show is superficial appeasement as FIFA plans the first World Cup final halftime performance with major pop stars.
- The Cure frontman Robert Smith publicly criticized FIFA's inaugural World Cup final halftime show on Instagram, scheduled for Sunday, July 19, at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
- FIFA president Gianni Infantosser described the halftime show as a 'groundbreaking spectacle' featuring Madonna, Justin Bieber, Shakira, and BTS, curated by Coldplay's Chris Martin.
- Smith labeled the show 'Bread and circuses,' a phrase attributed to Roman poet Juvenal referring to superficial appeasement, and accompanied his post with NASA's 'Pale Blue Dot' photograph.
- Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher echoed the criticism, arguing that football has been 'functioning perfectly for hundreds of years' without a popstar intermission and dismissed the artists as not 'football people.'
- While critics deride the event as a 'Jarring Americanization' of football, FIFA maintains the show supports the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, which aims to expand access to education and football worldwide.
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The idiotic idea of having an intermission show at the end of the world football championship. Robert Smith of the Cure is not excited about the ‘half-time show' of the World Cup final, organized by Chris Martin of the Coldplay, and with performances by Madonna, Shakira or Justin Bieber
The Cure’s Robert Smith lashes out at the World Cup halftime show
Not everyone is a fan of the upcoming World Cup final halftime show, with The Cure's Robert Smith posting his blunt but oddly poetic (considering the image) thoughts on FIFA's Super Bowl-style performance on Sunday.
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