Re: F1 Launch 2025

Yazoo <yazoo@myself.com> wrote:

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:07:27 +1300, Geoff <geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org>
wrote:
 

"Formula 1 is excited to reveal F1 75 Live's headline performers, with
the historic launch event taking place on Tuesday, February 18.
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The show will be hosted by comedian and actor Jack Whitehall, and will
feature US country sensation Kane Brown, award-winning multi-platinum
recording artist mgk, composer Brian Tyler’s Are We Dreaming, and the
iconic British band Take That."
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Well that looks to be very cheesy.

 
You've put this politely :)
F1 should be global, so performers should be known globally as well,
isn't it?
Who TF are Kane Brown, mgk, Brian Tyler? Take That was a kind of
popular among teenagers many years ago.
 
WTF F1?!

So, I had to look up some of these...

* Jack Whitehall is quite well known, and has made something of an
  international breakthrough with his Comedy Central show. Not very
  well known outside the UK, but not unknown.
* Kane Brown is clearly an attempt to play to the US audience, but has a
  wide following with younger audiences worldwide (never heard of him).
* Brian Tyler is quite a successful composer, mainly film, TV and
  video games. The link to F1 is that he wrote the F1 theme (no, not The
  Chain - the one from the official intros) as well as for Esports. Yes,
  I had to look all that up.
* Take That...well, they are very popular in Europe and Asia still, even
  though they never really made it in the US.

So, it's not a terrible line-up for an international launch...but it's
not exactly exciting. I *hope* they're just minor bits of filler with
the focus on the teams, cars and drivers.