MADONNA - MDNA (2012)

if a superstar with a deep catalog is playing a high profile event for like 15 minutes, you can bet 'the biggest song from two or three albums ago' is not on the agenda

never forget:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZ3A06Wkdc

People complaining about the medley aspect obviously haven't watched a Super Bowl halftime show in the past decade.

I thought she looked pretty good and was having fun.

this was pretty fun and ridiculous and p much exactly what you'd expect from a super bowl halftime show

^^^ otm

But my favorite Madonna moment of the weekend was the Guy Fieri sketch on SNL when his Madonna tribue dish was a "weird bucket of mussels".

I thought it was sloppy and ridic and that she wasn't taking it v seriously, also way lol @ slipping on bleachers. That's not to say I didn't love it

<i>the Guy Fieri sketch on SNL when his Madonna tribue dish was a "weird bucket of mussels".</i>

YES this was hilarious.

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After finally watching the superbowl thing, felt like the new song had the most energy by far, which is nice. The Give Me All Your Luvin' video is kind of disjointed, which put me off at first, but it's a good song.

Weird how between Parkour and Slacklining and Gymnastics and so on, Madonna is like a one-woman physical fitness ad for people who'll probably never progress past M's Tracy Anderson phase.

cosign on Stevie D's comments 100%

except i "loved" it

btw, i always thought it was "music makes the bourgeois have a revel" is it really "music mixed the bourgeois and the rebels"?

music makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel

oh. see i was gonna say that didn't make any sense but man madonna is making me *think*

lex, do you like to boogie woogie?

makes them do WHAT????? god that always left me hangin

(also I think "music makes the bourgeois have a revel" was hella more appropriate both for madge in general and the superbowl in particular)

tracer: i am assuming she is saying Music is what leads to the creation of both the bourgeois class and of rebels against it

i like to singy singy singy
like a bird on the wingy wingy wingy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khEcPEi2GNs

*thinks*

Music makes the bourgeoises want to rebel?

i'd forgotten that music is half a really amazing album (and half totally inessential but whatever). "impressive instant", "paradise (not for me)", "runaway lover">>>>>>>

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