Meat Loaf all revved up with no tunes to go
Meat Loaf manages to put on an overpaid, bloated and tuneless performance at the AFL Grand Final.
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US singer Meat Loaf worked himself up into a frenzied performance at the AFL Grand Final and managed to miss all the notes in the process.
His medley of songs including Bat out of Hell, You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth, Anything for Love and All Revved Up with No Place to Go was an excruciating exercise in stadium entertainment that will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.
Singing flat, behind the bar, screaming and chewing gum, the US singer couldn’t match the glory days of his famous hits.
His classic Jim Steinman songs had always brought great drama, and many would be favourites amongst the broad AFL audience, but the only drama arising from this cacophony was the amount of money that the AFL had paid and whether Meat Loaf would make it to the end of the medley in one piece.
Although he managed to get the ‘G’ singing acapella at one point, it was clear this was a performance carried by his band and backing vocalists.
After his brief show had ended, it immediately lit up Twitter with scathing comments.
The AFL Grand Final has had its share of notorious entertainment performances in the past -but this one could top them all.
Hopefully the NRL Grand Final will show the AFL how it’s done tomorrow.
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102 Responses
I think he was on the beetlenut
Stick to the day job of acting, Mr. Loaf – you’re surprisingly good at that.
The band sounded good cos they were miming..all bar Meat and Patti was coming off a backing track
What is it with the artists from the 70s anyway? Are all AFL fans ageing bogans who bring their kids up in the bogan, um, culture? And anyone who thinks Guy Sebastian and Darren Hayes are B and C grade have obviously never seen them do a full on live concert. They’d both blow the Meatloafs and Quatros offstage. I hear Tim Rogers was good. Pity we didn’t get to see him on TV … oh wait, he’s local isn’t he. Can’t have people seeing that.
@ Matt – quality comparison!
I wonder if he was unwell. I think he had asthma recently. It was a bit of a worry
NRL won’t even get shown (they’ll go to a panel), and with at least 3 stuff ups (Everything Goes in 1989 when the backing tape jammed), Optus Vision in 1995 (TV disintegrated) and Billy Idol in 2002 (no power, ironically the last time the Warriors made the GF) they’re still well in front on the stuff up score.
I said it last year I’ll say it again, the AFL need to fire whoever hires these idiots.
We’ve got plenty of acts in Hip Hop, Rock, Pop, R&B.
Couldn’t we get AC DC to perform.
You know with a few hours notice they could have gotten the entire roster of Golden Era Records to Melborne to perform. Three of whom have records out this year, one Funkoars has the current no.1 Urban album in the country.
What is wrong with these people?
Maybee time to hang up the mike mr meatloaf, what a sad performance of such classic songs
Meatloaf was absolutely shocking. A friend tried to talk me into going to his concert when he last toured, thank goodness I didn’t go. Vanessa Amarossi was brilliant as usual, but we didn’t get a glimpse of her, just heard her.
I just dont understand why every year the AFL decides to go back in time…I love the AFL and biased towards them but FFS…get a modern perforamnce. And its not a concernt only get something happening on field .ffs
Truly awful and cringeworthy. Initially I could not hear Mr Loaf above the band, I thought it was a mixing problem. I played with my audio setting and put it on mono. I wish I hadn’t. At least we know he wasn’t lip syncing, we even got to see the juicy fruit up close.
Just awful.
Maybe, just maybe, the AFL should consider some acts that aren’t Gold 104 mainstays.
AFL Sucks!!! That’s what they get!! C’mon NRL show them how it’s done Show them whose Boss!!!
Meatloaf sounded like he shed a loaf .
Agree with Jezzy about the Amorosi last stanza of the anthem. So annoying!
Oh also as a footy fan (NRL not AfL) I can say that not me or anyone I know wants to have to sit through any musical performance before the game, be it on telly or at the game itself. It is just annoying and a waste of time, also depending on the act that is chosen, a lot of the times it ruins the vibe of the build up. Pete murray singing some soft rock or Kesha (I refuse to use a dollar sign in someones name) lyp synching one of her auto tuned pop songs is not what people want to hear, it would be much better to just play AC/DC over the speakers, something that actually gets the heart racing.
Meatloaf is a legend but this performance was bad, seriously bad nut his backing band were very very good.
I hope we get the real story as to what went wrong and not the usual technical excuse. Maybe he was tired and emotional, like Karl or Andy after the Logies !!!
I only saw hilights on the news and that was enough!!!! BAD..
Watched a snippet of Kelly Clarkson’s warm up, totally fabulous!!!
I didn’t see the pre game, but surely it can’t be as bad as when they would flog the last 8 or whatever from Australian Idol, now that was a pointless bit of ‘entertainment’
We have so much Australian talent and why pay for meatloaf to come and sing aussie talent much better and to pay him so much what a joke the ALF get aussies next yr!!!
A fab but bloody horrible at the AFL.
What the hell? How the mighty have fallen. He is my favourite artist. I’ve been to his concerts and have enjoyed every second. Disappointment doesn’t begin to describe how I feel.
You are all being very hard on Mr Loaf . I felt he was well In tune , his voice Is up there with the likes of Ernie Sigley and Daryl Somers.
Was he actually chewing chewing gum as well?