the reason they both said yes* is because IT'S FUCKING MADONNA.
― "bruh" is the black bro (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
lilbro: i agree with you except those were the parts of Music I found most unlistenable
― "bruh" is the black bro (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Are you serious? Those were the highlights for me. His more lean production with the electric guitar is why I love that album. A great balance to what would've been a preening, pretentious synth album.
― Tired of these edcuated basic bitches. (lilsoulbrother), Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
i had to fire up music for the first time in like six years to check but yeah i LIKED the preening, pretentious synth elements!
― "bruh" is the black bro (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah they were great at the time when she was doing it when it initially released but they can get irksome if not in the right mood. Plus, I do miss listening to Madonna with a guitar/bass/piano/whatever rockist boring instrument every once in a while.
― Tired of these edcuated basic bitches. (lilsoulbrother), Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Madonna hasn't had youth/critical culture impact since like the mid-nineties
I'd push that a little forward to include Music, but I basically agree. Which is not an aesthetic judgement on the the two or three albums that followed, and I love lots of music made by people who are on the other side of their moment or whatever you want to call it.
― clemenza, Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
The other side of their moment usually equals to young pop fans who can't fathom listening to someone past the age of 25.
― Tired of these edcuated basic bitches. (lilsoulbrother), Sunday, 5 February 2012 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't rate much madonna past ray of light really. i'd like to?
try listening to it? that's be a start
ehhh these people need a slap but it might not be worth the effort as they'll learn anyway
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Sunday, 5 February 2012 23:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
dan are you seriously suggesting that the woman who won an oscar for best song in a movie and who rapped with kanye and jay at the grammys while she was pregnant is desperately in need for exposure?
does anyone under the age of 40 who isn't a music critic or film critic or industry flack pay attention to these awards
― mh, Sunday, 5 February 2012 23:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
uh, lex I did? I liked Music fine but it felt flimsy; American Life was terrible and after two listens Hard Candy left zero impact. Hung Up was, what, '08? I only vaguely remember it; it was clearly not for me.
― "bruh" is the black bro (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 February 2012 23:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
mh: everyone who buys us or people or star or whatever the hell sure does. She was watermelon big at the grammys, it got a lot of press. the oscar thing with rahman was huge international news for like a week.
― "bruh" is the black bro (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 February 2012 23:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
iirc Music was one of the last commercial bootleg discs i bought from a guy on the street
― "bruh" is the black bro (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 February 2012 23:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
do people listen or buy music based on those, though? I dunno, I guess they might
― mh, Monday, 6 February 2012 00:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Did she just slip on the bleachers?
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Monday, 6 February 2012 01:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
MIA giving the finger! that was the highlight for me anyway.
― piscesx, Monday, 6 February 2012 01:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Better than LMFAO and the guy on the tightrope I guess
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 February 2012 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
feel like 25 year old me woulda had a conniption fit at cee-lo and madonna singing like a prayer at the superbowl. ten years later the thrill is gone.
― "bruh" is the black bro (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 February 2012 02:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
WOLD PEACE lol
LMMFAO
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Saturday, 4 February 2012 05:14 (2 days ago)
prescient
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Monday, 6 February 2012 02:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
supposedly the network tried to blur the finger a second late!
― piscesx, Monday, 6 February 2012 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
yep, it was clear
― "bruh" is the black bro (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 February 2012 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Potential mixtape title: Man on W.I.R.E.
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Monday, 6 February 2012 02:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
They should have blurred LMFAO instead
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Monday, 6 February 2012 02:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
wow. she sucked.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 February 2012 05:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Blech
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 6 February 2012 05:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
i was laughing my ass off at the cleopatra intro, it was so absurd. everything else sucked
― Assmaster (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 6 February 2012 05:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Why do you think she sucked? I thought that was the second most entertaining halftime show of the past decade after Prince (which is fitting, really)
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 6 February 2012 05:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
D-I-E MADONNA
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Monday, 6 February 2012 06:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
nicki minaj and mia poor sods
actually half time show wa decent dan, hate madonna bending ppl who should know better to her will, but shur tis all about da moolah
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Monday, 6 February 2012 06:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
dan, mostly because of song choices i guess (i think Music sucks, and I think whatever that new pile of crap is, is crap), and Vogue didnt really get a fair shake with the medley treatment. from a production standpoint it was pretty good though
― Assmaster (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 6 February 2012 06:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
I enjoyed the show. I especially liked the Vogue and Open My Heart parts. If people weren't going to like it then why watch it? I guess hate watching is the thing to do.
― Tired of these edcuated basic bitches. (lilsoulbrother), Monday, 6 February 2012 06:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
i was watching the game and didnt feel like changing the channel during halftime.
― Assmaster (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 6 February 2012 06:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
i didn't watch it to hate it. it just happened.
― "bruh" is the black bro (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 February 2012 06:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't have much invested in madonna at this point. and i hate pro sports w/passion. still i wanted to like this. honestly it reeked of desperation. nikki! MIA!! pom-poms!!! medley!!!! C-LO!!!!! gospel choir!!!!! WORLD PEACE
and seeing her cavort with those LMFAO goons was flat-out depressing
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Monday, 6 February 2012 10:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
had to laugh at LMFAO pretending to use Pioneer CDJs live, miming doing a loop on them.
― piscesx, Monday, 6 February 2012 11:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha I didn't even think about that ^
― crüt, Monday, 6 February 2012 11:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
I didn't think it was awful. I liked "Open Your Heart" too but wished she'd done Express Yourself. Anyway, like A Prayer is one of my favorite songs so I was pretty excited about that. Think it's pretty clear that the star was totally that crazy tightrope walking guy.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 6 February 2012 12:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
I loved it except for "Like a Prayer" (a song I've never liked, so it wasn't the performance). Thought "Vogue" was fantastic, "Music" was great because of LMFAO, and after first thinking the new video saved a just slightly-better-than-average song, I'm now really starting to take to the song. Back when Madonna was going through her outrage-a-week phase in early '90s, I wrote a couple of times about how manufactured I thought her Sam Kinison routine on Letterman was. I think it's funny how in 2012, she now delegates her controversies!
― clemenza, Monday, 6 February 2012 12:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
She did slip in a little "Open Your Heart"...just a few seconds, though, right?
― clemenza, Monday, 6 February 2012 12:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
May as well post this while it's up.
― clemenza, Monday, 6 February 2012 12:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp yeah reading a transcript in Q mag of that Letterman interview was a bit of an off-the-bus moment for me with Madge until Ray Of Light came out. actually *watching* the clip years later on You Tube i realised that she looked really messed up and miserable and kinda out-of-control.
― piscesx, Monday, 6 February 2012 12:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
AM I nuts or did she almost fall back a bit when she was on the bleacher things at one point. I swear I saw it but nobody else I was watching with seemed to.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 6 February 2012 12:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
"sucked" is too harsh. I didn't care for the dance routines; she looked distracted. Maybe she thought the centurion belt was as fetching as I did.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 February 2012 12:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I read an account this morning that said she had a misstep at one point, so that must have been it. I missed it, or else I just thought she was, uh, voguing.
― clemenza, Monday, 6 February 2012 12:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Watching it now. New single sounds fantastic. Love Nicki & MIA's expressions when they're crossing pom-poms.
"WORLD PEACE" is a classic banality bomb.
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Monday, 6 February 2012 13:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
OK yeah I just saw a replay on the news - she definitely nearly fell backwards. She did recover quickly tho.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 6 February 2012 13:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
She's a true professional
― da croupier, Monday, 6 February 2012 13:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
And while I'm tempted to ask why she bothers, that Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld bother is an even bigger question
― da croupier, Monday, 6 February 2012 13:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
that was fun! just watched it. like a prayer 4ever.
― scott seward, Monday, 6 February 2012 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink