MADONNA - MDNA (2012)

"Boring game. Also, I don't understand that twenty minute musical commercial for Walking Dead at halftime."
- Walter Chaw's (of Film Freak Central) twitter

oh yeah the slacklining guy! definitely the weirdest superbowl ever.

If it's a triple pun, it may be the first triple pun in pop music since "12 Inches of Snow."

"12 Inches of Snow" is a quadruple pun, actually. It can refer to:
1) A vinyl record.
2) The canadian weather.
3) A cocaine line.
4) The artist's penis.

Hey Tuomas, thanks for making me think about Snow's penis at 8am ;)

That seems like a lot of cocaine

Is that Art Garfunkel in the first gif?

Are there two covers? I'd guess one is standard, one is deluxe. Anyway, I like this alternate one:

http://i.imgur.com/u7IeZ.jpg

So is LMFAO on the single, or is that a new remix making the radio rounds already? LOL at the idea of MDNA piggybacking on the popularity of LMFAO.

Madonna broke her silence Friday morning on the uproar that followed her Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, which was upstaged when fellow performer M.I.A. appeared to curse and gave the middle finger to the more than 110 million viewers watching.

Madonna said that she only learned of the antics after the fact -- and was none too pleased.

"I was really surprised," she told Ryan Seacrest during a call-in interview to "On Air With Ryan Seacrest." "I didn't know anything about it. I wasn't happy about it. I understand it's punk rock and everything, but to me there was such a feeling of love and good energy and positivity, it seemed negative."

She added: "It's such a teenager … irrelevant thing to do … there was such a feeling of love and unity there, what was the point? It was just out of place."

I figured she'd be pissed.

I tried to buy presale tickets for her Philly show this morning; they're priced at $90, $170, and $355. The best seats $170 would get me were BEHIND THE STAGE; what the fuck is that? P fucking disgusted atm. Hopefully they'll have better seats when tickets go on sale for real. Do ticket presales usually suck?

"I understand it's punk rock and everything"
"I understand it's punk rock and everything"
"I understand it's punk rock and everything"
you're late for your yoga class btw

don't a lot of big touring acts now sell tickets 'behind the stage' explicity because they've built some kind of rotating stage setup so nobody's always seeing the performers' backs? just saying

i am all for madonna embracing her status as crabby old grande dame tbh

if only mia had given head to a bottle instead of flipped off the crowd, much classier

With someone like Madonna, there is no "behind the stage." When I saw her behind "American Life," the moving stage was as radical as anything I'd seen from U2, and I imagine many in the worst seats got some of the best views.

Superbowl halftime show possibly inspired by this fanvid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNRjzUB7Afo

This was featured in a NYT article in 2007 so it's not a stretch to imagine that someone in Madonna's camp saw it! And maybe secretly plotted for a Superbowl halftime show from that day forward XD.

The BBC had to play a 15 minute montage over stirring trumpets and heterosexual rap to get the manliness level back up after the Madonna interlude.

Also, MIA's four bar rap borrows lyrics from BoA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmqrk0sPcM

good catch!

Second single proceeds from the assumption that "Get Together" was way too accomplished:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBMiYJ7kzbI&feature=player_embedded#!

Oh good jesus god, that's atrocious.

her delivery on this is so leaden and perfunctory

like, i don't think the song would be amazing if it was sung by someone with a trace of excitement in their voice but madonna just kills it stone dead

I'm glad Tim set up Get Together as a comparison, because it only emphasizes how tossed off and uninvigorated this piece of crap is.

this sounds like a demo...

It is kind of amazing how completely bored she sounds

Someone who didn't know English and had to sing it phonetically would probably still do a better job

That doesn't just sound like a demo, it sounds like a Ke$ha demo.

No way, Kesha is far more into what she's singing at any given point.

I said demo.

Ke$ha wouldn't blow her million dollar pipes on a demo.

This sounds "effortless" in the most literal and worst possible way. Not to mention the lyrics! Just awful!

http://cdn.complex.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/seanprice.gif

Shit, this song gives me serious bad flashbacks to this one time I did E and then my friend bailed on me and I had to go sleep at a bathhouse. But seriously, no Madonna lyrics will ever be as bad as:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkr3xtBRcKI

I Love New York's lyrics are at least buoyed by resting atop a pretty great piece of music. Girl Gone Wild is just garbage from beginning to end.

totally otm

Smart enough to let Azari & III open for her but not produce some songs? She lost me.

I'm half-tempted to start a fb campaign urging her not to release this album in an effort to preserve her legacy. A hollow gesture, of course, because the label has already sunk a ton of money into it, but a gesture from the heart nonetheless.

"I feel like all the records on the radio right now have a homogenized quality to them. I've made a huge effort to try and not sound like everybody else,"

You're Madonna...you shouldn't have to try!

where oh where is the dave q madonna thread?

some fabulous artwork this year

http://edge0.viagogo.net/images/categoryimages/concerts/madonna/madonnaemail2012_c1.jpg?v=2119

oh stop, she's down

I've made a huge effort to try and not sound like everybod-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBMiYJ7kzbI

where oh where is the dave q madonna thread?

hyurr! Madonna deserves her own thread(s), and here's mine...

a treasure of an opening post

i think madonna may have finally reached jay-z status with me, where i actually think of the artist in their prime as an entirely separate person to the current artist, and there is no overlap at all in my mind

otm, though for me she reached that point years ago

even "music" was like basically a difft artist in my mind

I am baffled by people who prefer new Madonna to "classic" Madonna.

there are people who think that?! surely not

There's quite a sizeable number who think Ray of Light and Confessions are her best work, but I kind of put that down to an age thing, and maybe people disliking 80s production. For me "classic" Madonna (where she could do really no wrong) ended with the Evita vocal lessons which sucked all the warmth and life and the use of her lower register out of her voice, and now that the mannered imperiousness has vanished (which was the whole point of the lessons), we're just left with this lifeless catastrophe. The song is dire but she probably could have done something with it two decades ago.

I'd want to give this song to the Madonna of "Burning Up" or "Open Your Heart" and see what she'd do with it, but she'd probably she'd just look at it and what she'd become with complete derision.