This was carried live on multiple broadcast and cable channels, but I did not watch it. I figured it would turn up on Hulu or Amazon next day, but it didn't.

Then I saw PBS carried it, so I went to the PBS streaming app, but it only had the 30 minute PBS News Hour intro show to the concert.

Anyways, I went to the YouTube app (I have a Firestick) and there it was, but it was still branded as a PBS News Hour show.

So if you would like to watch this, there it is.

Usually, I would not watch this kind of thing, but I've heard from several people that they were very moved by the show.

I liked Springsteen, Foo Fighters and Katy Perry. A lot of it was pretty middling though. And Hanks seemed uncomfortable, cold and stilted.

They could not get Taylor Swift?

Katy Perry is not that big of a star as she used to be in the early 2010's and she closes the show?

Right?! If only Taylor Swift instead of Katy Perry had a #1 hit with uplifting lyrics that fit the theme of the night and a central metaphor of fireworks to underscore an amazing fireworks display...

I’m sure she, her $25mil/year paycheck from American Idol, and that nice Orlando Bloom dick, couldn’t give a shit what you think. You have a really dumb and tiresome obsession with status that really doesn’t even matter.

Right??

It's all becoming clear. Taylor Swift refused to perform at Biden's inauguration because she secretly supports Trump. The two albums she released this year must be filled with coded secret messages that explain Q's new plans for the revolution.

Can anyone name a hit song from Katy Perry that came out in the last 4 years?

Roar does not count since that is from 2014.

Guess people figured out she had a team of 10 people writing all of her songs.

Who gives a shit?

Bruce Springsteen hasn't had a Top 20 hit in this century. Fucking loser!

South American camelids, apparently.

She had a lead single for a new album in 2020 called Daisies. It was fucking awful and had a chorus that really pushed the limits of what one could be called a rhyme, but I can name it. What do I win?

Katy Perry is not a timeless singer like Springsteen and she never wrote any of her own songs so she is not a true artist.

You don't because you don't know what good music is

No. I don’t give a shit because this wasn’t the fucking Billboard music awards. Nor do I give a shit about Katy Perry.

That’s also really rich coming from someone who spends hours out of their day watching bottom barrel dog shit movies. And you apparently equate “hit song” to being good music? That’s laughable.

Just move on. Isn’t there a blonde in clown make up giving the weather somewhere that you need to fawn over?

Maybe if the theme of the inauguration was getting over an ex-boyfriend, Swift would have gotten the call.

On a more serious note I enjoyed most of it. To me it seemed like most were performed live which was cool, and then Timberlake shows up with his pre-recorded dance track. That was pretty lame.

That was after Jon Bon Jovi performed Here Comes The Sun on a pier in broad daylight.

Jeff, Taylor doesn't want you to hate on Katy.

@ the notion that somehow Taylor Swift is a "true artist" while Katy Perry is not to be taken seriously. Writing soulless pop garbage is arguably more shameful than merely performing it.

My wife and I watched most of this. The most entertaining part was Tom Hanks looking and acting like he just got rescued from carbon freeze.

So people like Elvis and Frank Sinatra aren’t real artists either? Hmm interesting.

Good News : Katy Perry confirmed to be a "True Artist"!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cate..._by_Katy_Perry

Never doubted it.


That's fucking Art, people.

I skimmed through it on youtube the next day. It seemed pretty cool, but I didn't really give it a whole lot of attention. The fireworks were definitely awesome.