Madonna: "The bad girl is a grown-up now" (Superbowl)

[Miguel]

The bad girl is a grown-up now, like it or not. Madonna, 53, danced her way back toward worldwide visibility Sunday as the halftime attraction for the Super Bowl, with a giant supporting cast — gladiators, acrobats, cheerleaders, drummers, a gospel choir — and a downright benign stance.

She sang about dancing, music, loving and praying, with a little star power on the side. It’s impossible to guess what the Madonna of decades past, fascinated with lust, power, religion and transgression, might have done with this platform. But it’s probably not something the Super Bowl would have booked in the first place.

(recap of performance)

Madonna wasn’t the indefatigable trouper of years past. Though she’s still lithe, she measured her moves, letting her supporting cast offer distractions. As she climbed into the bleachers during “Music,” she missed a step, though she recovered fast. At the Super Bowl, Madonna was the party girl turned regent: a queen on her throne, a homecoming queen strutting in the bleachers, a church singer fronting a choir. At the end, the words World Peace glowed from the field in giant letters. Madonna was proffering virtue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/sports...ml?_r=1&hp

I think Haley, the hippy chick, will be "proffering virtue" from the get-go.

[john]

It’s impossible to guess what the Madonna of decades past, fascinated with lust, power, religion and transgression, might have done with this platform. But it’s probably not something the Super Bowl would have booked in the first place.

Interscope artist M.I.A. took care of that ...


Paper Planes (uncensored version - I guess the gunshots were changed to drums on Letterman and perhaps lyrics at 2:35 were cut)

[Miguel]

Jesus, that woman has a long Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A._%28artist%29

Jimmy Iovine, chairman of M.I.A.'s American distribution label Interscope, compares M.I.A. to (Lou) Reed and punk rock songwriter Patti Smith, and recalled, "She's gonna do what she's gonna do, I can't tell her shit."

I find her moniker "M.I.A" somewhat offensive as I will always associate it with "Missing in Action" and the Vietnam War. Flipping off the camera during a Superbowl appearance is disrespectful to everyone and especially Madonna who presumably had invited her to perform.

[john]

A taste of M.I.A. live. Madonna might be a little too tame for her.

[john]

Madonna's Super Bowl Performance Caused 10,245 Tweets Per Second

February 06, 2012
By Glenn Peoples, Nashville

The world's most powerful promotional event met the leading real-time social media tool during the Super Bowl Sunday evening. Records were set and a pop icon's upcoming album and tour got off to a fantastic start.

Madonna's performance during halftime of the Super Bowl produced 10,245 tweets per second, one of the busiest moments in Twitter history, and averaged 8,000 TPS for five minutes. Less than a third of those tweets were negative while 59% were positive and 11% were neutral, WiredSet CEO Mark Ghuneim ( @MarkGhuniem) revealed in a tweet Monday morning.

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/...5552.story

[Miguel]

I saw a lot of references to Madonna "shufflin'" during her performance. Didn't know what that was so I looked it up:




You can shuffle too!

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A taste of M.I.A. live.

I'm not gonna listen to that again because I was born free and it's not my cup of tea.

[john]

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