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Sunday's Super Bowl started with pop star Christina Aguilera bungling the words to the national anthem, and according to many critics and the "Twitterverse," the halftime show's featured
performers, the Black Eyed Peas, didn't do much better. (See their performance below.) The foursome — Fergie, will.i.am, apl.de.ap, and Taboo — were the first contemporary act to play the
Super Bowl halftime since Janet Jackson's 2004 "wardrobe malfunction" with Justin Timberlake. Did the Black Eyed Peas drag the storied halftime show down to new depths?
The Peas bombed: "What the hell was that hideous Super Bowl performance about?" asks Paul Cashmere in Undercover. The Black Eyed Peas have not only "completely run out of musical ideas," but
their "awful" stage show demonstrated that they've "totally lost track of where they came from and who they once were." The Peas of yore wouldn't have come out "dressed like some sort of
comic book sci-fi superheroes targeting a 12-year old audience."
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