MADONNA - MDNA (2012)

yeah it's good, not "kaputt" good, but def good

ggnnnnnggghhhh

hahaha

When I was little I thought it "Music makes the boys run free. And, the rebel.

lots of boys and one (1) rebel, running free, together

at a superbowl halftime show. forever.

wtf was the deal with the sword fight sfx during "vogue"?

"Hung Up" was massive everywhere in the world except the US, where it peaked in the top ten but tumbled quickly

That's because the rest of the world loves ABBA a million times more than the US ever did. Though if the song sampled "Dancing Queen" it'd be a different story.

There's truth to that. Timing didn't help: if she'd released "Hung Up" after Mamma Mia it might have worked -- or asked Meryl Streep to sing it.

It's also because US radio wasn't playing dance music in 2005.

http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/2/5/23/anigif_enhanced-buzz-17241-1328503166-24.gif

that dude was very impressive in showing America all the different way a man can rack himself on a tightrope

That dude was the best.

http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/2/5/23/anigif_enhanced-buzz-17172-1328503210-36.gif

(Just stealing those from the spbwl thread now but I can't not because they're so good - thanks Am0n)

i loved the little sha-shingggggg sword sounds in vogue!

also that was a "slack rope" fyi

yeah i imagine it was when he got home too

"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.