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Topic Started: Feb 3 2012, 11:43 PM (2,109 Views)
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I agree with this guy about the Doritos ad. I didn't find it funny (dog killed cat, tries to cover it up).

I also agree with him that Madonna's show was confusing, jumping from Egyptian motiff to Romans to football stuff to religious stuff (choirs, robes etc).

Super Bowl: Good Game, Wretched Ads, Pathetic Half-Time Show
  • By David Zurawik The Baltimore Sun

    ...A dog having killed a cat and trying to cover it up was supposed to be funny in a Doritos ad.

    .....And if seeing that kind of straight culture talk upsets you, stop reading now, because when I get through the game review and get back to the ads at the end of this piece, you will really be angry. And I have not even started in on the joke of a halftime show featuring an embalmed version of Madonna snatched off the undertaker's table and surrounded by a sea of empty noise, glitz and wretched excess.

    ...But what was really sad about most of the ads was how many featured stupid, gross or cruel behavior.

    ...And then, there was Madonna's zombie halftime show.

    I can't recall the last time I saw a major TV production so desperately in need of a guiding concept. And that includes the obscene gesture from one of the other performers, which typifies the utter lack of imagination from beginning to end of Madonna's so-called performance. (You can read about that crude and ignorant gesture from singer M.I.A. here.)

    But what the hell was she doing? Was it ancient Egypt with the Cleopatra entrance? Or was it ancient Rome with the toga boy bouncing on the wire in front of her? (Hey, at least toga boy brought about five seconds of energy to that death march of a production.)

    Oh wait, I know, it was supposed to American circa 1950s high school football with Madonna waving pom-poms as a cheerleader.

    No wrong again, because now Madonna is standing in front of a huge choir full of people in robes – and she’s acting as if she’s almost singing. I say almost, because there is not a whit of artistic aspiration in the star performer or the production as far I can tell.

    But hey, that’s our sad-sack, super-sized, gross American culture these days, isn't it. And it is perfectly suited for empty Super Bowl half-time spectacle. When you don’t have real energy, true conviction, religious belief, art or transcendence, just trot out a monstrous, phony, show-biz choir of singers clapping their hands and looking heavenward as they strut and prance around the lip-synching star.

    Thank goodness there was real emotion on the field in a thrilling, 21-17 Giants victory.
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She wore Elizabeth Taylor's earrings. Such a trashy copycat! Had to wait until she's deceased to ape her entire show.
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Cross posted to P Morgan thread:

Madonna like a 'mad drunken aunt' at Super Bowl (+photos, video)

Piers Morgan: Madonna's Super Bowl Performance Was "Gruesome"‎
  • Piers Morgan has yet another bone to pick with Madonna.

    Following the 53-year-old Material Girl's Bridgestone Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show performance in Indianapolis, Indiana, Sunday, Morgan, 46, lambasted the singer on E!'s Chelsea Lately Monday.

    "That Super Bowl performance -- it was like watching your mad drunken aunt at Christmas, wasn't it?" Morgan asked host Chelsea Handler, 36. "I keep reading all these celebrities tweeting like, 'Wasn't she awesome?' No she wasn't! She was gruesome!"

    It's not the first time Morgan has publicly complained about the "Give Me All Your Luvin'" singer, who he banned from CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight in January 2011.

    VIDEO: Madonna stumbles during her Super Bowl performance

    "There was a bread roll throwing incident in London in the mid '90s; there was an incident at a hotel in the south of France at the Cannes Film Festival involving a photographer and a bodyguard," he told Access Hollywood in 2011. "And there's been an incident involving a pub owned by her recently departed husband, Guy Ritchie, where my brother was the manager."

    On Monday's episode of Chelsea Lately, Morgan reiterated that he doesn't "like the woman, and she doesn't like me."

    "But at least I've found that I have one common ground with Madonna: neither of us have sung live at the Super Bowl," the British journalist joked. "She was lip syncing the whole damn thing. I was singing along with her and trust me, she wasn't singing."
These next headlines are funny considering her televised world tour totally bombed a few years ago. (See Poor Ratings For Manny's NBC COAD Show)

I'm wondering if one large reason a lot of people tuned in to see her during the Half Time show was to see if she would trip and fall on stage, or for reasons like that:

Super Bowl, Madonna set new TV audience records‎
  • Quarterback Eli Manning and his New York Giants may have beaten superstar Tom Brady and the New England Patriots at Sunday's Super Bowl, but none them could outmuscle Madonna -- at least, where TV audiences were concerned.

    A record 111.3 million U.S. viewers watched the Giants defeat the Patriots in the professional football championship, but 114 million watched the halftime performance by Madonna that drew mostly mixed reviews and a firestorm of controversy over a rude gesture by rapper M.I.A.

    Ratings tracker Nielsen on Monday said the Super Bowl on the NBC network was the most-watched TV program in U.S. history, eclipsing the 111.0 million who watched 2011's game. An extra three million tuned in for Madonna's glitzy, Cleopatra-themed performance, giving the Material Girl the distinction of having the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show ever.

    But her honor may always have the description "dubious" attached to it after NBC and the NFL were forced to publicly apologize for a finger gesture flipped at the audience by British rapper M.I.A, who joined Madonna in the performance that viewers seemed to love and hate in equal measure.

    Singer Sean "P.Diddy" Combs tweeted that Madonna "had the best Half-time performance of all time !!" Allison Stewart, pop music blogger with the Washington Post, said Madonna "delivered the most excellent and unexpectedly subversive Super Bowl halftime show in years."

    But the Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik called it a "joke of a halftime show featuring an embalmed version of Madonna snatched off the undertaker's table."

    Other critics took her to task for blatantly promoting her new album, due out in March, and upcoming tour. The Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot commented that the Super Bowl "has become the biggest stage for shills of all kinds, pop stars included, and halftime has turned into a 12-minute branding opportunity in recent years for artists brandishing new albums."

    M.I.A'S FINGER MALFUNCTION?

    Much of the day-after reckoning focused on rapper M.I.A.'s offensive finger, which drew comparisons to Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction" in 2004.

    M.I.A. joined Madonna on stage with U.S. hip-hop star Nicki Minaj to sing "Give Me All Your Luvin'" from Madonna's latest album, when M.I.A. extended her middle finger in a fleeting, obscene gesture while facing the camera.
Record audience watched Super Bowl, and even more watched Madonna‎
  • For the third year in a row, the Super Bowl set a record as the most-watched TV show in U.S. history.

    As estimated 111.3 million people tuned in to NBC to watch the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI, Nielsen said Monday.

    Sunday's audience just surpassed the 111 million U.S. viewers who tuned in to see the Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers last year.

    The last two Super Bowls, along with the 2010 game between the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts and the finale of "M*A*S*H" in 1983, are the only programs to exceed 100 million viewers in U.S. television history.

    Madonna actually had an estimated 114 million people watch her halftime show. That's right: The Michigan native's 12-minute performance scored a higher audience than the game itself.

    Although Nielsen said Madge's show was the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show on record, it wasn't without some controversy.

    Madonna was on her best behavior Sunday, but rapper M.I.A., who performed with Nicki Minaj during a performance of Madonna's new song, "Give Me All Your Luvin,' " issued the one-finger salute to the audience.

    Though the incident didn't pack quite the same punch as Janet Jackson's infamous wardrobe malfunction of 2004, NBC and the NFL issued apologies. Representatives from M.I.A. and Madonna chose not to comment Monday.
Madonna's Super Bowl halftime performance gets mixed reviews
  • By Cara Kelly, Published: February 6

    Reviews for Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime performance have ranged from stellar to scathing, with fans heaping lavish praise on the singer’s mix of old hits and new releases, to detractors who found it a pathetic attempt at a come-back. But the wide array of comments is really nothing new for the pop icon, who has been wooing as well as angering crowds for more than 20 years.
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I definitely meant Queen of Poop.
Her fans are nuts. Everything she does, they lie in wait, to post/review/rate/vote about her. It's quite an arranged fix, and the old bag either believes it or talks herself into believing it.

Remember the "Remember the Time" video with Michael Jackson and crew in Egyptian costumes?
Redo! Redo! Madonna's a Redo!
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Feb 7 2012, 07:31 PM
I definitely meant Queen of Poop.
Her fans are nuts. Everything she does, they lie in wait, to post/review/rate/vote about her. It's quite an arranged fix, and the old bag either believes it or talks herself into believing it.

Remember the "Remember the Time" video with Michael Jackson and crew in Egyptian costumes?
Redo! Redo! Madonna's a Redo!
Funny you should mention that, because earlier today I was thinking of that Michael Jackson video that had an Egyptian theme.

The Bangles had that "Walk Like An Egyptian" song/video around 1984-1985.

This will be cross posted to another thread:

From Business Insider:

STATS: Cee Lo Was More Popular Than Madonna In The Super Bowl Halftime Show
  • STATS: Cee Lo Was More Popular Than Madonna In The Super Bowl Halftime Show
    Aly Weisman | Feb. 6, 2012, 5:58 PM

    Think headliner Madonna was the highlight of Sunday night's Super Bowl halftime show performance?

    Think again.

    According to ClearSpring, the most tweeted about/Facebooked/e-mailed/printed/overall social-media's most clicked upon celeb of the night was none other than Cee Lo Green.

    Cee Lo beat out not only Madonna as the most talked about on the internet during the big game, but also Kelly Clarkson, M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj.

    After taking the stage dressed as a band leader and dueting with Madonna on "Express Yourself" and the grand finale, "Like a Prayer," Cee Lo fans freaked, causing his online presence to surge to over 2,000 percent above normal—and nearly double any other Super Bowl act.

    Cee Lo couldn't be reached for comment but we have a feeling we know what he would say to his competition and haters: "Forget You."

    Check out the chart below that proves Cee Lo's online popularity:
    [snip image - click here to view their image]
This is on the Perez H site:

Was Cee Lo More Popular Than Madonna During The Super Bowl Halftime Show?!?!?

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  • According to newly released stats - he was!

    Madonna's Super Bowl halftime performance may have been Twitter's top music event, but new statistics show that Cee Lo Green was overall the most popular topic on social media during the Super Bowl.

    According toClearSpring, Cee Lo was the most tweeted/Facebooked/emailed/printed/clicked celebrity of the night!
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I don't think Steve Sherman was impressed by Madonna's half time show. :laugh:

This mentions that she's a has been, among other things.

Madonna lip-syncs Super Bowl XLVI halftime performance, M.I.A. flips the finger (VIDEOS)
  • Feb 8, 2012
    By Steve Sherman
    For BucksLocalNews.com

    Really, Madonna?

    Your one and perhaps only chance to play in front of over a billion viewers and you give us lip-syncing?

    Really?

    I know the NFL doesn’t pay halftime performers but if a singer is not going to sing, why not just show the pop star’s latest video?

    I know the Madonna-worshipers out there will disagree but wouldn’t you think the NFL could come up with a better halftime show than a 1980s pop singer on the downslope of her music career.

    Not that it surprised you. Previous halftime performers have included Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and the Rolling Stones – pop/rock-stars living on decades-old reputations in the music biz.

    After last year’s god-awful performance from the Black Eyed Peas – who actually sang their songs, much to the audience’s regret – the NFL probably figured it was better to have a pop icon has-been lip-syncing than a more current recording artist stinking up the stage during intermission.

    Madonna’s halftime show wasn’t without all the pomp and circumstance that audiences have come to expect from the Material Girl.

    Like the Queen of Pop maybe only she and her admirers visualize, the star of the show arrived shrouded in gold robes on a throne, lip-syncing her 1990 hit song “Vogue.” Some who witnessed her performance, said Madonna looked a little stiff, you know, for Madonna (but she is 53, remember).

    Age aside, apparently, the pop star sustained a hamstring injury in a mid-week practice session. That said, Madonna kept her movements precise and seemed content to concede the acrobatics to her supporting actors.

    Performers from Cirque du Soleil – dancing Roman soldiers, if you will – helped her out with “Vogue.”

    Madge let a tightrope walker make the more acrobatic moves during her performance of “Music” when she stepped out onto a set of bleachers, appearing to stumble, albeit ever so briefly. And those cartwheels the Material One did so effortlessly decades ago? Let’s just say she had a lot of help this time around.

    “Music” was mashed into a snippet of “Party Rock Anthem,” performed by pop duo LMFAO, one of whom carried the pop diva on his shoulders.

    Guest singers M.I.A. – who flipped the middle finger while muttering half an expletive – and Nicki Manaj joined Madonna in her performance of “Give Me All Your Luvin,” her new single from her yet-to-be released album “MBNA,” her first since “Hard Candy” in 2008.

    Like a high school cheerleader sending a shout out to the varsity team, the pop diva donned a set of gold pom-poms for that one, setting up the encore, “Like a Prayer.”

    A drum corps appeared for the finale, led by singer Cee Lo Green, who at least seemed to sing his lines. Snippets of “Open Your Heart” and “Express Yourself” served as a prelude to the last overture, which was backed by a bunch of gospel singers in black and white robes.

    Jumping into robes of their own, Cee Lo and Madonna led the choir in the 1989 hit. True to her word, Madonna suffered no wardrobe malfunctions (Madge said there’d be no nipples in her show, a reference to the appearance of same by Janet Jackson in Super Bowl XXVIII). Her most provocative moments came last when she sang several lines of the encore on her knees.

    Like the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz, in the end, Madonna disappears into a puff of smoke. Ding-dong, the witch is dead.

    Viewers shouldn’t be surprised by the lip-syncing, however. The Queen of Pop has been accused of that many times in her live shows. Chiming in on the controversy, Elton John said in a public mid-week rant to Madonna, “make sure you lip-sync real good.”

    Look at it this way. At least you run no risk of singing the wrong words, like Christina Aguilera did in her performance of the National Anthem in a prelude to last year’s Supe.
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Yep, it's the end for her, as far as butt-kissing media goes. She'll still have her enablers, kissing up to her because they want an interview, but for the most part, the free ride is over.
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Yep, it's the end for her, as far as butt-kissing media goes. She'll still have her enablers, kissing up to her because they want an interview, but for the most part, the free ride is over.
I hope so, but there has been a recent upswing in positive, butt kissing coverage this past week.

A lot of journalists are behaving as though her SB appearance has revived her career.

I don't completely trust the iTunes numbers and stuff like that, because several years ago, we found fans on boards telling each other to buy multiple copies of her new books, records, etc., they phone into radio stations to request her new songs all the time to make it look like she's really popular (which we had documented at the old board, maybe here).

Today's entertainment news: Madonna sets TV records in the US‎
  • The New York Giants may have beaten the New England Patriots at Sunday's Super Bowl, but neither could outmuscle Madonna – at least where TV audiences were concerned.

    A record 111.3 million US viewers watched the championship, but 114 million watched Madonna's halftime performance which drew a firestorm of controversy over a rude gesture by the rapper MIA.

    The ratings tracker Nielsen said Madonna's glitzy, Cleopatra-themed performance of her new single Give Me All Your Luvin was the most-watched halftime show in US history.

    Meanwhile, NBC and the NFL were forced to apologise publicly for a finger gesture flipped at the audience by MIA, who joined Madonna in the performance.
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Madonna half-time show falls flat‎
  • Published: Thursday, February 9, 2012
    Updated: Thursday, February 9, 2012 21:02

    Oracle readers, we need to have a family discussion about that halftime show at the Super Bowl this year.

    Admittedly, I'm not a huge Madonna fan. Cue the letters to the editor. I would have liked to see a performance by someone who's a little bit more current, say for example, The Carpenters, ABBA, or perhaps John Tesh.

    In terms of the actual performance, let's start with the um, "singing." Madonna and I have two things in common: neither of us has ever sung at the Super Bowl. This isn't the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Madonna isn't Ashlee Simpson (she could, however, be her mother).

    I was expecting a live performance. Instead, I'm pretty sure some guy hit "play" on a CD in a sound booth somewhere while Madonna and her army of Trojan soldiers bopped around on stage.

    Madonna, dressed in some sort of Cleopatra-inspired getup, performed her hit song "Vogue" and briefly did some shufflin' and various awkward stretches with LMFAO. Then Nicki Minaj, M.I.A. and a chorus of cheerleaders took to the stage and joined Madonna in a performance of a new song entitled, "Give Me All Your Luvin'."

    It was at this time that Madonna picked up a pair of pompoms and joined the cheerleaders in their routine.

    Madonna, you look great but you're 53 years old and are probably already receiving solicitation in the mail from AARP. Stop gyrating across the stage in your stripper boots and put down those pompoms; you could throw out your hip.

    Also during this song, M.I.A., who I only know from the "Slumdog Millionaire" soundtrack, flipped the bird to the show's 111-million-strong audience, thus sending the Parents Television Counsel and the FCC into panic mode. But hey, at least we didn't have a wardrobe malfunction.

    After that song, a marching band lead by a visibly winded Cee Lo Green came out and joined Madonna in a 30-second medley of "Open Your Heart," and "Express Yourself." I'm a product of the ‘90s so I had to Google the lyrics.

    Then, for the grand finale, Madonna and a sparkly-black, choir robe-clad Cee Lo Green, who at this point is starting to resemble a low-budget drag queen, lead a choir in a performance of "Like A Prayer." This concluded with Madonna disappearing into a cloud of smoke and the message "world peace" displayed across the stage.

    World peace, huh? Let's just shoot for civility between you and Elton John. That would be a good start.
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For links about Madonna criticizing MIA flipping the bird during the half time show please see the Hypocrite Thread
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That was a good slam. World Peace huh? She can't even get along with Elton! She has always slammed politicians, other singers and actors, even Oprah. But she's all about world peace.
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Hicks: M.I.A. apologizes to Madonna for halftime gesture
  • The British hip-hop artist M.I.A. has apologized to Madonna for making an obscene gesture during the Super Bowl halftime show.

    Good move. And just in time, before the flying monkeys found her.

    Madonna said in radio interviews on Friday that she had no idea M.I.A. would extend her middle finger during the performance in front of 114 million people, according to Madonna's spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg. The singer didn't find out about it until after the show.

    "I wasn't happy about it," Madonna told Ryan Seacrest in one interview. "I understand it's kind of punk rock and everything, but to me there was such a feeling of love and good energy and positivity, it seemed negative."

    She said it was like something a teenager would do.

    "It seemed out of place," she said.

    That's right -- where's the love? There's no place for that sort of sentiment during the break of a game where grown men are trying and knock each others spleens out their backsides.

    Madonna forgave her, and thought M.I.A. just got caught up in the moment, Rosenberg said. Madonna said she remains a fan of the "Paper Planes" rapper and said she doesn't want it to spoil what was one of the biggest moments in Madonna's life.
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Bozell Column: Another Fleeting Failure for NBC

By Brent Bozell | February 11, 2012 | 08:05

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At 53, Madonna's a little old to pull this stunt herself. She promised the press beforehand there would be no "wardrobe malfunctions" -- and we were all relieved. There was an unmistakably musty grandma smell in her aging act, which she tried to overcome by bringing in female rappers M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj. They acted as her hired cheerleaders in her song, chanting "L.U.V. Madonna" in the background.


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Tattoos, Madonna, music and more
  • A selection of reader comments from our Facebook page last week:

    On what you thought of Madonna’s Super Bowl half-time show:

    • Well, she definitely put on a show, just not sure that it was one worth watching. I think the “talent” booking agents for the Super Bowl need to get their stuff together. They’ve had washed-up acts for several years now, why can’t they just get someone who is current in music now? And someone who doesn’t have to lip sync — Jaimie L.

    • Like to see some gospel! — Jack M.

    • I thought it was not up to what Madonna has been capable of in the past. I was disappointed. She just did not look natural. She reminded me of a robot — Gail B.

    • I thought it was all right! — Marton H.

    • Maybe it was how it was photographed, but it looked too manufactured — Shari G.
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I don't think this has been posted before. I'll need to add this to the site's home page eventually.

No spark in Madonna’s boring Super Bowl performance
  • by Jeff Simon

    Updated: February 7, 2012, 7:44 AM

    I was wrong. Was I ever.

    For two decades now, I have been writing that Madonna was going to be a very interesting old woman.

    She still has time, of course. She’s 53 now, which means she still has about seven years on my scorecard before the adjective “old” applies. But if her late middle age is any indication, she has become a crashing bore.

    Her halftime show at the Super Bowl was the all-time worst in a performance art internationally known for transforming pop music vitality into godawful corporate overkill.

    Not even rapper/costar M.I.A. and her infantile attempt to inject naughty rebellion into the mechanical wall-to-wall dance pop oafishness made much of a dent. For those who missed it, there was a moment when the young rapper sang what sounded to most of us at home like “I don’t give a s---” and accompanied it with an all-too-apparent flip of the bird.

    Which, if you ask me, wasn’t really aimed at us poor consumers of wings, chips and pizza during one authentically super Super Bowl, but rather at her halftime hostess—Madge herself —who had smugly assured the press during a preshow news conference that this year there would be no “wardrobe malfunction” a la Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake.

    Strictly speaking, she was right, but I’m not sure it’s all that different from a language and gesture malfunction from a young rapper who just couldn’t resist the temptation to infuse the proceedings with just enough “acting out” to cause lots and lots of clucking and disapproval from the great American clucking-and-disapproval machine.

    Under ordinary circumstances, you might almost feel sympathy for a performer insistent on “keeping it real” enough to demonstrate conspicuous childishness but, frankly, I found the circumstances so extraordinarily deadening that M.I.A. could have brought out the entire cast of Monday evening’s “Smash” for a simultaneous wardrobe malfunction without anything even vaguely “real” intruding on the Super Bowl’s wretched halftime proceedings.

    It was, to be blunt, an entirely wasted half hour in the middle of a dramatic and terrific football game. After merely a couple minutes of Madonna looking none-too-limber, I wondered, “Where is Lady Gaga when you really need her?”

    For those keeping score at home, that means Madge has now added a Super Bowl halftime calamity to the upcoming national opening of her film “W. E.” in a middle age that, so far, seems to be devoted to arriviste intellectualism, social climbing and a whole bunch of other dreary things most of us never thought we’d be saying about Madonna Louise Ciccone of Bay City, Mich.

    I admit I haven’t seen “W. E.” yet, so it may indeed be a far more respectable film than its reception, thus far, has given it credit for. (A prevailing climate of opinion about films, as well as music, is often wrong.)

    It does seem, though, a dubious gesture for Madonna to jump into a romantic wallow in the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, considering their not-so-hidden reputation for anti- Semitism and entirely inadequate anti-fascism at the wrong time. (Even if one cedes they may not have been Nazi sympathizers, there is little question that their behavior during World War II and after was less than inspirational to the Allied cause.)

    But then, I’m sure Madge herself feels woefully misunderstood, so maybe she made a strong case for Wallis and Edward, the Duke and Duchess of High Society Vapidity.

    Add all of that to her previously reported studies of the Jewish mystical teachings of Kabbalah and it may well seem that Madonna, in her British years, has taken climbing to a new level that may well deserve a bird or two flipped along the way.

    Certainly shouting, “You like me, you really like me,” to the annual corporate massacre of entertainment put on by the NFL at almost every Super Bowl doesn’t exactly seem to be in the same spirit as that of the woman who made “Truth or Dare.”

    I was granted a one-on-one interview with her Madge-ness before “Truth or Dare” came out in 1991 and I must say, in a professional lifetime of such things, it was one of the more peculiar I’ve done. I took the occasion to give her a hard time for invading her own family’s privacy in the film and asking the toughest questions we had time for, but the whole setup of the interview was like a royal audience rather than a conversation between sensitive and candid consenting adults.

    The couch she sat on was on a platform raised a few inches off the floor. Interviewers sat across a coffee table that was as wide as a moat, while she, on the couch, was surrounded by pillows on every side.

    She had turned a hotel suite into a throne room.

    On Super Bowl Sunday, her entrance on a barge pulled by dancers in slave costume was an apparent homage to Liz Taylor entering Rome in “Cleopatra.” At least Liz followed all that up with a wink at Rex Harrison. Madonna followed it up with a lot of jumping around that Lady Gaga would have done better.

    Please understand. I truly believe none of us has any business begrudging Madonna her middle-age affection for extreme respectability. I’m a little leery, though, of Madonna at 53 inflicting it on all of us in front of the largest national audience she could find.

    Give me Clint Eastwood any day, at 81, giving a halftime pep talk to America to sell Chryslers and, at the same time, demonstrate some real feeling for Detroit, the city 115 miles away from the one where Madonna was born (a city, of course, where Eastwood’s film “Gran Torino” was set).

    Eastwood has gotten more interesting with every passing year.

    So pass it on to Madonna, if you like. There’s still hope.

    These days, though, she’s about as interesting as Debby Boone.

    And not quite as good a singer.
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There has been a surge of "Worst Halftime Shows" articles and there were others about Madonna's being awful (but they said Madonna was actually good ( :gagme: ) and LMFAO brought it down or whatever).

But I did find this one. Lol... :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: It should have been #1 (the worst) but #2 is pretty close.

The Worst Super Bowl Halftime Performers!


  • 2) 2012: Super Bowl XLVI (46), Indianapolis, Indiana -- Madonna, LMFAO, Cirque du Soleil, Nicki Minaj, M.I.A., Cee Lo Green:
    For many years Madonna could get away with anything. Even her miscues were held up as evidence of her uncompromising artistic vision (well, maybe not the acting thing), but by the time she was finally deemed safe enough to perform at the Super Bowl her expiration date was significantly passed. Truth told, it was sad. Because we've all called her a lot of names over the years but boring and irrelevant were never among them and judging by her underlings -- Minaj, M.I.A. -- there isn't anyone yet fit to carry her…jockstrap?
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I might cross post this to the Beyonce thread.

Beyonce Super Bowl Performance Greatest Thing Ever, Madonna Loses Crown
  • Look, we all knew Beyonce was gonna kill it at the Super Bowl, as she is incapable of doing anything less than amazing, but DAMNNNNNNNN.

    From the clothes (props Rubin Singer) to the choreography to the moment when Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland popped up on stage for the Destiny’s Child reunion we have prayed for every night since 2006 (at which point we were forced to explain to the straight men in the room why we were crying), this was quite possibly the greatest live music performance we have ever seen.

    Also, that hair. That amazing, amazing hair. And legs. And how does she dance so good in those heels? And can she teach us to walk?

    Sorry Madonna, but the crown has officially been snatched. And you ain’t ever getting it back.

    Watch it all, over and over and over again, above.

    This lady really is the hardest working person in the business.
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NFL Wants M.I.A. To Pay $16.6 Million For Middle Finger Incident

NFL Sues M.I.A. for $16.6 Million Over Super Bowl Middle Finger

MIA asks Madonna for money as NFL sues her for $16m
  • Football League demanding millions following middle finger salute at 2012 Super Bowl

    It has been confirmed that the NFL have stepped up their legal action against MIA with the American Arbitration Association on Friday (March 14). The Hollywood Reporter states that the NFL are demanding $15.1m in "restitution" on top of the $1.5m (£900,000) they were already chasing for breach of contract.

    The NFL claims that the additional $15m covers "the alleged value of public exposure she received by appearing for an approximately two minute segment during Madonna's performance," stating that, "The figure is based on what advertisers would have paid for ads during this time."

    In response, MIA's spokesperson has said that the claim, "lacks any basis in law, fact, or logic." Adding that the "continued pursuit of this proceeding is transparently an exercise by the NFL intended solely to bully and make an example of Respondents for daring to challenge NFL."

    The statement also refers to various other explicit moments from previous Super Bowl performances as well as a recent fine issued to a player found to have used racially aggressive language on the field.

    Tweeting about the story earlier today (March 17), MIA sent a message to Madonna which reads: "ummm ..... can i borrow 16 million ?"
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