MADONNA - MDNA (2012)

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

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.

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.

iirc Music was one of the last commercial bootleg discs i bought from a guy on the street

do people listen or buy music based on those, though? I dunno, I guess they might

Did she just slip on the bleachers?

MIA giving the finger! that was the highlight for me anyway.

Better than LMFAO and the guy on the tightrope I guess

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.

WOLD PEACE lol

LMMFAO

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Saturday, 4 February 2012 05:14 (2 days ago)

prescient

supposedly the network tried to blur the finger a second late!

yep, it was clear

Better than LMFAO and the guy on the tightrope I guess

Potential mixtape title: Man on W.I.R.E.

They should have blurred LMFAO instead

wow. she sucked.

Blech

i was laughing my ass off at the cleopatra intro, it was so absurd. everything else sucked

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)

D-I-E MADONNA

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

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

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.

i was watching the game and didnt feel like changing the channel during halftime.

i didn't watch it to hate it. it just happened.

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

had to laugh at LMFAO pretending to use Pioneer CDJs live, miming doing a loop on them.

haha I didn't even think about that ^

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.

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!

She did slip in a little "Open Your Heart"...just a few seconds, though, right?

May as well post this while it's up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROkhklj0ZGs

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

OK yeah I just saw a replay on the news - she definitely nearly fell backwards. She did recover quickly tho.

She's a true professional

And while I'm tempted to ask why she bothers, that Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld bother is an even bigger question

that was fun! just watched it. like a prayer 4ever.

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, February 6, 2012 7:50 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i saw it too

pretty pissed that she didn't do "hung up"

Huh, that was OK. Superbowl halftime is like the closest we can come as a country to true OTT Euro-style spectacle. I'm sure the crowd and audience alike would have been better entertained by one of those full-on drum, cheer and dance corp LMFAO renditions, though.

Hung Up would have been a better choice than Music.

that wasn't bad. not life-changing but enjoyable - she looked relaxed, which she hasn't for a while, and that was a strong selection from her back catalogue.

i like "music" better than "hung up", i think. or about the same. both classics!

I've always thought Music was lame. Don't Tell Me ftw.

"music" was her last US megahit. "hung up" wasn't really super bowl setslist-level big.

"Hung Up" also went platinum and "4 Minutes" went double-platinum according to Wikipedia

yeah but "music" is the closest thing to "vogue"-level universal she's made in the last x years