In case you missed it, the Super Bowl was last night, and it was made for Gen-Xers and millennials .
If you’re anything like me, you tuned it specifically to watch the halftime show. The football was cool, too, I guess. But seeing Snoop Dogg , Dr. Dre, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent, and Kendrick Lamar sharing a stage in 2022 was the main takeaway, let’s be honest.
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While it was as magical and nostalgic as we’ve always dreamed, it has also made us all feel ancient.
It feels like it was just yesterday we were hearing hits like Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” or 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” for the first time.
Unfortunately for Gen-Xers and millennials, it’s actually been longer than that. Much longer than that.
Seeing Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent, and Kendrick Lamar on the same stage in 2022 was definitely something for millennials to get excited about.
Excitement, followed by complete despair about aging.
The halftime show wasn’t the only nostalgic factor about the Super Bowl. Even the commercials were giving ’90s vibes.
Between Lindsay Lohan’s appearance in the Planet Fitness commercial, the Austin Powers reunion, the Scrubs ad , and The Sopranos ad, I forgot what year it was.
Many have taken to Twitter to explain how old they now feel, and it’s honestly so relatable.
“Between the halftime show performers and the game-ending promptly at 10 pm, this Super Bowl was made for geriatric millennials,” one person tweeted .
Another person joked that the entire show was carefully designed and curated with elder millennials in mind.
“This halftime show was made in a lab for elder millennials and I love it,” they wrote.
Someone else chimed in to point out that this could be the turning point when millennials become the new “old people.”
“This is the moment millennials finally took the world. We’re the old people now. We run this for the foreseeable future. Absolutely perfect halftime show,” they penned .
Another added that that point, explaining that Gen-Xers and millennials loved the halftime show while simultaneously realizing how old they are.
“The Super Bowl LVI halftime show was a nostalgia bomb for millennials and Gen-Xers. The internet was loving it while also grappling with the fact that we’re old now,” they tweeted.
It was truly bittersweet.
One Twitter user wrote that if you knew the lyrics to all of the songs performed, it’s an indication of an early bedtime due to old age.
May also be time for an eye cream.
“If you knew all the words to that halftime show performance, it’s probably time to start getting ready for bed,” they tweeted.
“I loved the halftime show!” someone tweeted, adding, “Geriatric millennials, now is our time!”
“This halftime show is making me feel old AF,” added another, while someone else explained that the show made them feel young and old at the same time somehow. “I feel so old and so young watching this halftime show,” they tweeted.
“Was that halftime show supposed to make me feel young or old,” another person echoed.
It was a very conflicting experience for all of us.
“I feel so old but that was the best halftime show ever,” someone else penned .
Most people seemed to be in agreement that the halftime show made them feel young and old at the same time.
“That halftime show made me feel old and invigorated at the same time lol,” one person wrote .
Another person tweeted that they’re actually grateful to be the older crowd the Super Bowl panders to.
“Feels good to be the old people they pander to with the halftime show now,” the Twitter user wrote .
Another doubled-down, saying: “This halftime show made me feel old and at the same time made me happy I got to experience this music when I was so young. Loved it.”
How can you be mad about feeling old when you got to experience the music when it was new and mainstream, amirite?
Young or old, it was a halftime show for the books.
What did you think of the Super Bowl LVI halftime show?
