From: mpconmy@gmail.com   
      
   Yazoo  wrote:   
   > On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:07:27 +1300, Geoff    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>"Formula 1 is excited to reveal F1 75 Live's headline performers, with   
   >>the historic launch event taking place on Tuesday, February 18.   
   >>   
   >>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."   
   >>   
   >>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.   
      
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