Go away Madonna who ever you are. You bore the Hell out of me.
Posted on 05/23/2006 3:53:44 AM PDT by MadIvan
MADONNA’S world tour began in typically provocative fashion when the pop singer hung from a cross, shouted an obscenity at an image of President Bush, showed video footage that seemed to compare Tony Blair to Adolf Hitler, and writhed around on a device that combined a horse’s saddle with a stripper’s pole.
As if that were not enough, the singer also wore a crown of thorns, dressed up as various male icons — James Brown and John Travolta included — and even briefly played the electric guitar. Early reviews of the event on Sunday night were positive, but the show failed to produce the reaction so beloved by Madonna: shock.
“Throughout the night Madonna worked hard, not just to stay on pitch and dance well, but also to connect emotionally to her material,” Ann Powers wrote in a Los Angeles Times review that was positive but avoided superlatives.
Lyndsey Parker, on the Yahoo! Music website, was less reserved. She wrote: “Despite the surprising and disappointing lack of an encore (what, no Like A Prayer?), during her breathless two-hour set the Divine Miz M justified not only her audience’s love, but her somewhat exorbitant ticket price. It can safely be said that those 16,000 fans got their money’s worth, and then some.”
The Confessions tour opened in Los Angeles and will travel across North America before resuming in Wales in July. From there it will move through eight cities on the Continent, then to Japan. With tickets priced at up to $380 (£200), the tour is expected to earn more than $200 million — a record for a solo female performer. The tour comes amid rumours that the 47-year-old singer’s marriage to the British film-maker Guy Ritchie is under strain. He is reported to be making a behind-the-scenes documentary about the tour. The last film he made with his wife, Swept Away, a box-office disaster, was ridiculed by critics.
In true showbiz fashion, the concert began 50 minutes late. During the Christian-baiting crucifixion sequence, the singer was suspended on a giant mirrored cross, on which she sang the ballad Live to Tell. Video screens showed images of suffering children in third-world countries.
BAD TASTE
# Michael Jackson performed at the 1996 Brit Awards as a Christ-like figure in a crucifixion pose
# In 2004 a US church group staged a disturbing show for children in which the Easter Bunny was whipped and crucified
# Will and Grace announced a role for Britney Spears as the host of a cookery show titled Cruci-fixins
# Online game Roma Victor said that it would crucify cheaters in the virtual world
# Every Good Friday eight pious Filipinos volunteer to be nailed to crosses on a hill north of Manila
Good one! Maradona lives!
Saw her childrens booka at the dollar tree 2 for 0.50... she's a "winner".. lol NOT!
A lot is packed into those four words.
I don't know if I'd pay to see that, but boy howdy, I like how your mind works! ;-)
This must be the "new" Madonna the tabloids have been prattling about. You know, the one who takes her "religion" and her role as a mother so seriously ... Lots of moral instruction to be gleaned from on a stripper-pole/saddle and two-bit profanities hurled at the leader of the free world.
Hey, what do you get when you stip Madonna nekkid and stand her on her head?
ANSWER: A brunette.
I couldn't agree more. Her poor kids must be embarrassed by her. She's acting like the "cool" Mom, who insists on wearing her teen daughter's crop top and hip huggers, no matter how ridiculous it looks.
The whole thing is incredibly boring. There is nothing more pedestrian than some "artist" heaping insults on conservatives and religion. It's almost a rite of membership in Hollywood, yet they still clap each other on the back for their supposed bravery.
Regards, Ivan
Reading between the lines....
In other words, she was off key, she moves now like an old broad with arthritis and sounded like she didn't believe her own crap anymore.
Regards, Ivan
Has been is right. She thinks her formula still works; but only in the minds of people who think they are legends in their own minds.
The truth be known, Madonna thinks she is worthy enough to be in competition with God. I mean she has invented sex, a new religion(one that she is buying herself)trying to stay married to the same man for more than 5 minutes. She pretends her children are being brought up on old fashion values which is probably not true. How can one live that kind of lifestyle and not have it seep into one's family life. Impossible not to.
Exactly. What's so ironic is that the "revolutionaries" who vowed to upset the Old Order have BECOME the Old Order! They are now "The Establishment" and -- at least in Hollywood circles -- you defy them at your peril.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Methinks Madge should be careful, as she may need hip replacement surgery. Maybe her new dentures contain lead that is contaminating her brain.
Here's my advice for Madonna's next "Shock and Awe" tour:
1) Step onto the concert stage in a burqua
2) Walk down a ramp with a huge fan that blows upward ala Marilyn Monroe (which would harken back to her earlier days)
3) Reveal her hairy legs (she doesn't shave, remember?) and a bikini bottom with a mohammad cartoon glued to her arse.
4) Wait for the jihad announcement and death threats to start rolling in.
Go away Madonna who ever you are. You bore the Hell out of me.
Her Children are probably the adults in that household. How embarrassing for a teenager to have their Mother acting like a 10 buck whore on a stage.
Madonna jumped the shark about 1990. She should have retired and enjoyed her billions then. Her fans from the 80's (I admit I was one) have moved on and the kids these days have their own pop stars and don't care about "some old women".
People are getting jaded and turned off by the current spate of slams on Christianity and the divinity of Christ.
I hope that Madonna gets crucified with a precipitous drop-off at the box office........that she never rises again on the third or any other day.......and that she then descends into oblivion.
Leni
And to think that Sean Penn was the "sane" one out of the two.
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