"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
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Monday, 6 February 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah the slacklining guy! definitely the weirdest superbowl ever.
― the arm (NZA), Monday, 6 February 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 09:15 (twelve years ago) link
Hey Tuomas, thanks for making me think about Snow's penis at 8am ;)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
That seems like a lot of cocaine
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
Is that Art Garfunkel in the first gif?
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 10 February 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 February 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― tropical mall lady (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
"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
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
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
― some dude, Friday, 10 February 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
i am all for madonna embracing her status as crabby old grande dame tbh
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
if only mia had given head to a bottle instead of flipped off the crowd, much classier
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 February 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 12 February 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
Also, MIA's four bar rap borrows lyrics from BoA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmqrk0sPcM
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 12 February 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
good catch!
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
Second single proceeds from the assumption that "Get Together" was way too accomplished:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBMiYJ7kzbI&feature=player_embedded#!
― Tim F, Monday, 27 February 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
Oh good jesus god, that's atrocious.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 27 February 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
her delivery on this is so leaden and perfunctory
― lex pretend, Monday, 27 February 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Monday, 27 February 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 27 February 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
this sounds like a demo...
― skip, Monday, 27 February 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
It is kind of amazing how completely bored she sounds
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Someone who didn't know English and had to sing it phonetically would probably still do a better job
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
That doesn't just sound like a demo, it sounds like a Ke$ha demo.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 February 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
No way, Kesha is far more into what she's singing at any given point.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 27 February 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
I said demo.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 February 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
Ke$ha wouldn't blow her million dollar pipes on a demo.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 February 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
This sounds "effortless" in the most literal and worst possible way. Not to mention the lyrics! Just awful!
― daavid, Monday, 27 February 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdn.complex.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/seanprice.gif
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Monday, 27 February 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
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 have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 05:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
totally otm
― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
Smart enough to let Azari & III open for her but not produce some songs? She lost me.
― Cousin Slappy, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 05:52 (twelve years ago) link
"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!
― Cousin Slappy, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 06:34 (twelve years ago) link
where oh where is the dave q madonna thread?
― geeta, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 08:16 (twelve years ago) link
some fabulous artwork this year
http://edge0.viagogo.net/images/categoryimages/concerts/madonna/madonnaemail2012_c1.jpg?v=2119
― piscesx, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 08:29 (twelve years ago) link
oh stop, she's down
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
I've made a huge effort to try and not sound like everybod-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBMiYJ7kzbI
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
hyurr! Madonna deserves her own thread(s), and here's mine...
a treasure of an opening post
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:19 (twelve years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
otm, though for me she reached that point years ago
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:54 (twelve years ago) link
even "music" was like basically a difft artist in my mind
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
I am baffled by people who prefer new Madonna to "classic" Madonna.
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
there are people who think that?! surely not
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― prolego, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― prolego, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:23 (twelve years ago) link