Let me start off with something nice about Madonna: her new face looks pretty good. I was genuinely worried because Madge hasn’t wanted us to see her new face in candid photos, and even on the Grammys red carpet last night, she was still wearing some netted hat to cover up some of her work. But we got a better look at her face and it moves and everything. Granted, she’s had MAJOR work done to her face and body over the past year or so, but it’s quality work, so good for her, I guess. Her girls look very new as well.
Madonna wore this Givenchy on the red carpet, and she wore Givenchy for her performance too. Ugh. None of the outfits were cute and she already did the matador thing like 20 years ago. Is Madge recycling? Perhaps. Madge also had a NSFW surprise with her red carpet outfit once you saw her from behind – go here to see the NSFW photo.
So, let’s talk about Madge’s whole vibe last night, starting with the red carpet interview with Ryan Seacrest. As she was talking, only Diplo was paying attention, because Nas looked SO embarrassed. Everything about Madonna just seemed like “Look at me, I’m so young and ageless and I’m hip like all the kidz!!!” But what really made her seem flat-out OLD was her performance of her new single, “Living For Love.”
I actually laughed out loud whenever Madonna tried to “dance”. Her poor backup dancers, you guys. They were just throwing her around and trying to make it look like she was so flexible. And she wasn’t. She was moving so gingerly, like she was afraid she would break something (a very real possibility). I just want to ask her: what’s so wrong with just accepting your age? Is it really that horrible? There’s nothing so aging as trying so desperately to cling to one’s youth.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I like her underwear. Pitty she forgot
To put her outfit on.
Monsieur Givenchy is spinning in his grave.
Also, nothing makes a person of a certain age look so old as trying to look young
Hubert de Givenchy is still very much alive.
Madonna’s 4 years older than me and I told my 17 year old daughter last night, “Madonna needs to stop trying to convince us she’s still 26.” I had the same feeling I had when she performed at the Super Bowl a couple of years ago. She looks tired and old. I agree with whoever else said she could have been a queen, instead, she is a joke.
X1000. Madonna could be the queen. Instead she chooses court jester.
Yes, it’s too court jester. I love her but it does look too try hard, clownish.
But…..Madonna’s body is incredible. DAMN.
Great comment, BettyRose. It’s how everyone else treats her too- like she is a joke. Even Miley called her “my bitch” during the introduction. Would Miley EVER say that about Annie Lennox? Beyoncé?
I’d say more like a brothel madame.
Complete opposite of sexy. I was watching while covering my face with my hands. I was embarassed for her.
Time to leave stage and get familiar with the idea of covering up. NO ONE wants to see THAT.
Oh Madonna.Please use Some of those straps to securely wrap ANY shreds of dignity you may find or at this point steal from other people.
All kinds of nasty. Yuck.
First thing I thought, Paola. She looks like a madame that runs a low class operation. No offense to professional mesdames. Many have more dignity and self awareness than she’ll ever possess.
I looked at the NSFW photo something I now regret and went WTF? Is that like a butt sling or something? And why was she mooning everyone?
Still tho. Her body is amazing. I’m thirty eight and I never had a body like that.
How is it amazing? She’s thin and sinewy. Her arms and hands are terrible, ropy and Gollum-ish [tm Tina Fey], which is why she covers them up. The butt-sling was there because no matter how many crunches you do, eventually your butt will sag. It’s called “age, gravity and genes.” Her legs are good, I’ll give her that. But everything else looks like the tortured body of a woman in her late 50s (early 60s? Always bought that “fake birth certificate” rumor).
She IS the Norma Desmond of her generation.
I just can’t with Madonna anymore, what a pathetic old boot. She should have worn that get-up to sing in instead of the 40’s bathing suit she looked so ridiculous in. And she should have put a nice gown on instead of whatever this is.
One of my favourite songs surrounding Madge, is “If Madonna Calls I’m NOT Here” …by Junior Vasquez.
It’s on YouTube, it was a 90’s club hit. Madonna was pissed off about the song.
She called Junior on the phone , he was tired of taking her crap “supposedly” so he let his answering machine run. His reply to her was the song,,,,,”If Madonna Calls I’m Not Here” ……
WTF? That is just a hideous outfit. What do people see in Givenchy?
When Audrey Hepburn was wearing him, it was a beautiful sight to behold. Now, not so much.
And she is just looking desperate and too “look at me, look at me when she attends events”. What was once edgy now just comes across as tacky.
Thanks a lot Jen2. I just pictured Audrey in that outfit, and I’m all out of brain bleach.
Please. Don’t conflate Hubert de Givenchy (who used to dress Hepburn) with Kanye’s boyfriend Tisci, who runs the house now AND who wouldn’t know class or taste if it bit him on the ass. Why in hell do you THINK he’s with Kanye?
I think she looks great. Just because she’s not 27 does it mean she has to cover up entirely or dress conservatively? I just don’t get it. My personality and proclivities haven’t changed dramatically. I have -never- been conservative in my life. Do I have to wear pearls and LL Bean now that I’m almost over 50? It’s a new world people, stop granny stamping women over 40. (no offense to grannies, but must we all disappear because of age??)
Tell em’, homegrrrlll.
It would look bloody awful at any age.
But Madonna’s was MOONING on the red carpet?..Believe me, I don’t mind a woman showing her gorgeous figure, etc Helen Mirren shows her lovely figure all the time,in figure hugging dresses and 50 something Monica Belucci shows her gorgeous figure but it’s done gracefully and with dignity.
Madonna’s was Mooning People on the Red Carpet. She lifted a butt flap on her outfit and showed her rear end. It looked so undignified.
Agreed, SomeoneStolemyname. It’s all about taste and sophistication. One doesn’t need to wear gowns – trendy is fine. If she embraced something akin to a Gwen Stephani look she’d receive the type of admiration she seeks. Unfortunately, she is and will always be, a try hard.
i agree with you . it seems like another age-old form of tyranny, actually hmm, MISOGYNY to be like, “oh ok you’re no longer in your child-bearing years, better head out to pasture, you’re lucky we don’t grind you into hamburger already” …
I’m 52 and no, you don’t have to dress like a granny. I am still me. My hair is still long, I still wear trendy clothes. But my days of wearing a string bikini while rollerblading at Venice Beach are OVER. You can be youthful without being trashy.
Somebody decided that Givenchy has to happen again that ‘ s why it’s all over. You know, big investiments have been done on the brand and they will be throwing this cr@p in our face until they deem we have bought enough.
By the way, this matador look comes directly from
the Dolce & Gabbana runways. Not that I have ever been in love with it, but I certainly prefer the original one.
Oh god. I watched the first bit and thought that’s not so bad. But then she started hopping around. It’s weird because there were a few moments that showed she actually is fit and flexible, and you don’t get muscles like that if you’re afraid of hurting yourself. I think what we’re seeing here is her losing the ability to perform choreography. Dancing was never her strength anyway, and I guess she’s either given up or is just incapable now.
BTW, the lip-syncing! I know they all do it but at least record a new version to perform live, don’t just play the CD version.
Yes! You can still autotune some of it. We know you are going to LIPSYNC. Please let’s make it less painfully obvious.
She looked like she was nursing an injury when she was dancing.
Actually, Madonna is a trained dancer so dancing IS (or used to be) her strong suit. She’s never been very powerful vocally but she could always dance her a*s off. Sadly, she’s more of a parody of herself than ever. I remember thinking that I missed the early 90’s Madonna…Express Yourself, Like a Prayer, Vogue…a Madonna who could move. Sigh.
Madonna is a trained dancer. I saw her show in the 90’s she’s much more of a dancer than a singer. I have never found her voice much, except a ok pop voice.
The current Madonna just seems to be trying too hard to keep up with the youngsters, it looks sad. Imo
She should go back to the basics.
True, she’s dancing since her early teens, was clearly gifted as her teacher became her life mentor for a short while and she got accepted at uni and danced in a production a year above her grade (she was only a first year student!). She’s a good dancer. Even her dancers say she can outdance them and they can’t keep up (she hates breaks and tries to keep people working), Another dances said she was tired and lazy but Madonna’s regimen helped her overcome it a bit.
Guy Ritchie (already her ex by then) says she outdances, outperforms and outworks everybody, young or old.
I actually like Madonna’s new song haha it’s super catchy and fun.
Her dancing was embarassing and I think she was trying to twerk but she made the same mistake that a lot of other people make (who don’t have big butts), instead of moving your body inward as you dance focus more on moving your butt outward..
I never really liked Madonna in Vogue, I thought the people who went to the Balls in NYC in the 80s were sooo much better (well they created it so they should be but still). She always seemed awkward with it
Madonna doesn’t have to “try hard.” She has nothing to prove. She has had an incredibly successful career and is still going strong. Why would she come back as a dignified, wiser woman? She’s not desperate about anything. That’s just ridiculous.
@Sabrine:
Please. Much of her behavior BROADCASTS her desperation. She’s desperate to be relevant and hip to youngsters, which is why she jumps on the bandwagon, i.e., she collaborates musically with whichever young act is popular at the moment – from Britney to Justin Timberlake to M.I.A. to Nicki Minaj and so on. I’m surprised she hasn’t done a duet with Bieber.
She’s desperate to be decades younger, which is why she’s not dealing well with ageing. She covers up her hands to hide the signs. She repeatedly visits her plastic surgeon to try to erase time, but ends up looking strange and obviously tweaked. Her obsessive workouts seem to indicate the same thing. More telling: she dates ‘men’ (boys actually) who are 30 years younger! Her emotional maturity is probably stunted…because what could she have in common with them?
This is not a woman comfortable with herself because her actions reveal her insecurity. She could still be vital and sexy at 56. She could take a page out of Tina Turner’s or Helen Mirren’s book, ladies who are much older yet still retain a mature and confident sexuality. Those two are the opposite of old frumps.
Instead, Madonna resorts to the same crude, attention-whoring tactics she’s used since the beginning of her career. Look at me! Look. At. Me. The same old tactics which, in a rebellious 20-something, is somewhat tolerated because youth is forgiven its foolishness (see: Miley or Rihanna). Someone in their 50s should have evolved by now.
@Mintessence
“because what could she have in common with them? ”
Does it really need to be spelled out? They’re not playing chess, to give you a hint. Agree with the rest.
Oops, double post.
@qwerty:
I could’ve been more specific. What I should have written: Besides the obvious sexual component, what does Madonna have in common with her boytoys on a mental/emotional level? “Nothing” should be the answer if she’s emotionally mature. But she’s not, so that’s why I said she was stunted.
No hint was necessary, as the physical factor is implicitly understood. After all, people lusting after fresh young meat is as old as human existence.
This. Dancing has always been her strong suit. Singing, not so much. This was hard to watch. I was embarrassed for her. And the matador thing, I knew she had already done that sometime in the past. Yes, she’s officially out of ideas.
@Mintessence
Oh, ok then. I always thought of her relationships as purely sex-based, I don;t think she’s looking for a connection. Lainey often says is that at least she doesn’t give them great-paying jobs in her team, buy them cars and bring them to Grammys or marry them like JLo tends to do, lol. And doesn’t she change her bfs every few years? I recall at least 3 young guys she’s had since her split with her ex-husband, and it’s pretty unlikely it’s a coincidence that they’re all so young. Meaning, I wouldn’t be surprised if she had them shipped from somewhere on a contract.
She just can’t do the dance moves because she is OLD. It doesn’t matter how “young at heart” you feel and how much you want to “move to the music,” after a certain age any vigorous jumping around HURTS. Knees, hips, spine–there just isn’t as much padding any more, and what is left doesn’t work as well, and there are all sorts of things for your vertebrae to pinch and puncture and knot up. It’s probably worse for Madonna than for a normal person, because she’s already been putting great impact on those parts of her body for decades. That’s why she seems ginger and injured and the dancers treat her like she’s fragile.
I’m sorry, but she does reek of desperation, of wanting to be relevant to an audience her children’s age, because that’s who buys albums. But in terms of her image to her former fans from her heyday, she would do herself a million worlds of good if she just went for a classy older chanteuse image, draping on a piano in a long figure-hugging dress and singing ballads. Although, her face is already ruined, so that part would still look weird.
She’s really showing her age. The hopping made her look old. She needs to change her choreography to suit her current abilities.
The comments on DM mentioned the word “GraNNYs” as in Madonna turning the Grammys into what looked like the GraNNYs.
Uniboob.
I used to love her so much! Now she just makes me sad …
She makes me sad too. 🙁 she was so great in the day but now she is just kinda of pathetic. 🙁
She’s such a try hard.. My god.
+10000
Why doesn’t she reinvent herself into a dignified wiser older woman? Like Barbara Streisand or Helen Mirren. I’m sure she has the brains to match. I can just imagine her daughter cringing at this look.
Part of me thinks (or at least hopes) that she’ll reinvent herself eventually. I mean, she’ll have to, right? Plastic surgery can only take a person so far before aging eventually catches up. God wouldn’t she look amazing with stark white hair in some chic do and maybe start wearing some well tailored suits and sexy patent heels. She could quit this performer shtick and become a producer that everyone would just kill to work with. That is if she doesn’t destroy her own image completely on the way there. :/
@mytbean: very well said. I’ve never been a fan of Madonna, never. But I admire her work ethic and no one can deny she’s a talented entertainer. She’s ready for a total do-over. I hope she chooses something closer to your vision than her old vision of herself.
Obsidian, I agree with you 100%. Madonna was always such a Marlene Dietrich fan; why doesn’t she do as Marlene did at her age? Long, sparkly gowns with lots of coverage, topped with flawless hair, nails and jewelry. It’s a glamorous and sexy but dignified look for a woman in her 50s or 60s.
Well if Madonna wasn’t thirsty as hell… who would she be?
She really hasn’t done anything new, in the last two decades, with her style. It is always been all about show everyone her hoo-ha and tits. Now they are nearly 60 years old. It is time to put them away.
Hell, even Cher put her bits away finally. Seriously, I thought that would never happen either. But it did.
This is why Madonna became so big, because of her thirst!
Now it became sad, because she reinvented herself along the way, now not anymore.
She did become big because of her thirst and incredibly hard work, but back then it felt like her thirst was for world domination. She more or less achieved that.
Now the thirst seems to be directed at being validated and accepted as someone she no longer is, so it comes across as desperate. She’s giving away her own power by trying to be something that she’s not.
I’m still sure that she could achieve all kinds of great things if she just wanted to. She just can’t be a 30-something anymore, no matter how much plastic surgery she goes through. And why should she be? She could be so powerful without trying to get attention with revealing outfits and semi-shocking antics.
Long time lurker, first time poster here. I finally decided to post, even though I’m not really invested in what Madonna is doing. Yet, this just made me so sad…
I don’t think that women (or men) “ought to” behave or dress in a certain way as they age. I most certainly don’t think that women should hide themselves in shame. I think someone like Dame Vivienne Westwood is a great example of a woman who’s unafraid and unashamed of being who she is, and that is something to look up to.
I’m sad now, because Madonna used to be someone to look up to. I just turned 39 less than a week ago, to put it in context how I’ve pretty much grown up listening to her music. When I was a teenager, she looked like someone who was so unafraid of anything, such a hard worker and clever at what she was doing (aside from her desire to act in movies, which was always rather cringeworthy). She didn’t ask permission from others and did her own thing, which is unfortunately rather rare amongst us women, so that alone placed her on some sort of pedestal.
Now she just comes across as someone who’s deadly scared of getting older and is really desperate to be just as “hip and cool” as the younger performers. It feels like I’ve lost someone I used to look up to. Just, sad…
^this
I’m right there with you. She was such a bad ass when I was growing up, but now it’s depressing to see how desperate she’s become.
Yes. Only bad ass she’s get now is the one she’s exposing, held up with straps.
totally agree
Welcome!
She looked so thirsty and ridiculous and Nas had the good grace of Both Looking Like her son had grown and Mortified by her, UGH
Also She looked a MESS on stage But I’ll download illegally that song at my earliest convenience
One thing about Madonna that never changes, is that she certainly knows how to get people talking about her.
Agreed. Thought she looked good and the performance was ok. People pick on Madonna too much. She had the crowd on their feet and she’s still standing so good for her.
The performance was good. l liked it.
Unfortunately that appears to be her only marketable talent these days.
Try-hard has been her default setting for a long time now.
Her performance was really uninspiring too.
Try-hard of the century and a third-grader coulda written that cliché song.
I haven’t seen her performance, but I assume she danced in high heels like she did at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2012. Back then I got the impression she deliberately chose to dance in high heels to actually mask the fact that she doesn’t dance so well anymore! Like people would excuse her poor moves because she was handicapped by dancing in high heels.
I also wish she would choose a less obviously ‘sexy’ style, something simple and fresh, which actually might make her seem younger, or ageless. The outfit she is wearing in the pictures in actually very aging, which is a pity because her skin in flawless. All those years of staying out of the sun are actually paying off.
Too many ‘actually’s’ in my post actually…
Actually, not at all! Let’s make it the word of the day and use it as much as possible. 🙂
🙂
Show some respect to ya elders
Not until she starts showing some respect for herself.
She tried to actually sing a few bars to get the crowd going towards the end – the contrast with the pre-recorded music was embarrassing. She absolutely could not dance at all. But it was a spectacle!
The outfit is tacky. And flashing the thong on the red carpet was REALLY tacky. Looking too thirsty for attention, Madge.
Regarding the NSFW photo: I think it was very clever of her to wear an outfit with a big strap to hold up her ass cheeks. BUT it doesn’t get in the way of actually SEEING her 50-something year old ass cheeks.
Well-played, Madge, you thirsty old attention whore.
(I’m being very sarcastic. I grew up with her–was a teen in the 80s–and I’m totally embarrassed by and for her these days. Ray of Light was her final decent album.)
LMAO, ROTFL
Wow – I’ve now moved on to the “feel sorry for her” stage. Aging is a b*tch for some women.
Hey, when I’m that old I’ll still be having fun, too. Of course, I’ll have to win the lottery to buy a body that good. lol
Yikes. She just lives to make everyone around her uncomfortable.
Why are people so uncomfortable with Madonna wearing revealing clothes? It’s age and slut shaming combined. This woman is an icon. Don’t care if she performs naked, the woman deserves respect. Women in their 50’s are sexy. Stop pandering to societal stereotypes. The talk is cruel on here. All entertainers are try hard in one way or another. They need the attention. Not necessarily a negative. Madonna seems to get picked on more than most for her age and expression of sexuality and it feels misogynistic.
The best analogy for Madonna is those athletes who have to decide when their best playing days are behind them- that’s where she is at this point. It’s not “age” shaming- it’s aging, period. It’s the flip side of the teen idol who grows up. Now, to me, her big appeal was always her dancing and energy on stage- and no one at 50 something has the moves they had as a 20 something. I wish she’d focus more on directing- her WE movie was pretty good.
Athletes usually stop because their extreme training regimen cannot be sustained, many suffer from countless injuries. It simply wouldn’t be safe nor productive to keep going at that level for some (not all). They are people who train at least 3 hours/day from a young age, your body is just damn tired. Madonna trains maximum 2 hours/day and hasn’t been injured that much and her injuries come from other things like falling from a horse for example, not overtraining.
A lot of athletes also stop because the strain of not being able to focus on family coupled with extremely stringent schedules becomes too much. Ever wonder why Olympic athletes go crazy in that one house they’re all in? Finally some freedom, some normal social contact and feelings you can give in to (lust). Or why athletes pig out on food and drink once they stop?
The biggest female athletes of my country quit because they wanted to start a family and they reached their peak, sacrificing family and friends to keep going when you’ve already seen and done everything there is to do, was something they couldn’t do (anymore).
All of this is not applicable to Madonna. She can combine all of that and do other things in her life like as you mention making films.
There are plenty of older people who dance. JLo is nearing 50 and she’s still has crazy energy. Or this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAGbq3A9HfA
I believe she can do it but I won’t disagree that she is losing energy, I just don’t think it’s at a rate when she can’t dance anymore all of a sudden or shouldn’t be allowed to dance. I give at least 7 years before she’s going to be a subpar performer.
I can’t knock her down for this bad choreography when Perry cannot even do a simple two-step without seeing the thought process behind it!
Some older entertainers still have tbe energy. Watch Mick Jager cover a stage! He just lets it all out, wrinkles and all. The Stones prove you can age, entertain, sell tickets and fill venues if your act is based on true talent. No need for tricks, special effects, etc. Just play, sing, rock on! Madonna is too wrapped up in her image and not focusing on developing her musical talents, such as they are. Some performers grow, some cling to their good old days.
That outfit is fug and would be ridiculous on nearly anyone. I would hate it on a man, too.
Yes, the French-maid-meets-Spanish-matador-meets-dominatrix outfit is NOT a good look, PERIOD!!
I would like to see it on Kanye, actually.
lol chaine
to me, it’s not the revealing clothes, it’s the tacky outfits. wtf? although I wouldn’t want to see any woman’s bare butt like in the NSFW picture of her. if she dressed sexy, but not in costumes (like this one), I think everyone would be okay with it. but she makes herself look like a fool by wearing these ridiculous outfits no one should wear. when she was younger, it was edgy for the time, now it just looks old and tired and too try hard and like she’s trying to relive her youth. if she dressed sexy in clothes that didn’t look ridiculous, she would be fine. she looks really insecure when she wears crazy outfits, like she’s desperate for attention. or thirsty
Thank you @happymama. The age and slut shaming here today is off the hook. The real problem is the song – it’s generic and dreadful.
I think it’s stupid when 19 year olds flash their ass, too. Most of us do, but roll our eyes and realise that when they are old enough to gain some awareness, they’ll see how stupid they looked. It’s not that Madonna is doing it and she shouldn’t because only 20 year olds should–it’s that not even 20 year olds should do it, but Madonna should at least be old enough to know better. The fact that she is an emotional child is what is offputting-not her the ass itself.
The song is horrible. It’s like some early 90s circuit party anthem by an anonymous dance diva.
Don’t know what to say! Better accept our age with dignity and act it? Also may be quit while she is still remembered fondly as a good artist and don’t wreck the image.
She’s already wrecked her image, she’s become a Gloria Swansonesque caricature of her younger self and her self-obsession seems to have increased exponentially with each decade.
I really wonder what M’s style is when she’s not in performance drag or track suits? Like, what does she wear out for a fancy dinner or lunch at The Savoy?
There is nothing sexy about that outfit IMO .It wouldn’t be sexy if Beyonce or Miley was wearing it.It has nothing to with age.She looks ridiculous.
As a fellow Nana…just grow the fuck up and accept it.
I think she can dance alright, the opening alone of the MDNA tour is proof of this. Also her videos with Nicole Winhoffer when they were promoting her workout DVDs. She can move alright and she is really flexible and strong. If she wouldn’t be able to move, then her muscles wouldn’t still be so visible.
She’s still horseriding too and I consider that much more dangerous than dancing, she should know as she was badly injured a few years ago from falling of one.
Her problem is that she was adamant to perform with high heels, she’s much better with sneakers.
Second, the choreography wasn’t very exciting either, they just tossed her around. Hard to critique her performance when there isn’t much material to work with tbh.
I don’t think her dancing should be a critique on her age, after all, many older people start dancing or continue to keep on dancing. From ballroom to jazz, there is no age in dancing.
At the end of the day, Madonna still puts in more effort than the young kids who are still climbing to the top or who have only been there for a few years. She always has and always will do. I like that attitude, it’s the only thing I still admire her for.
Those sky high shoes threw Madonna’s balance off completely – she could barely strut, much less do a routine, on them. She was adapting to fit the “new generation.”
So what if Beyonce performs in heels? Madonna’s a trained dancer.
She should stick to what SHE does so well.
(But definitely update that persona & those routines! M is coming off rigid and off-putting,
not sexy and playful.)
Relax….you made it already.
Good grief. I didn’t watch the Grammy’s so I didn’t see this, thank goodness. What was she thinking?
I’d like to know what Lourdes thinks aboud this.
I used to love Madonna until early 2000’s. Yesterday I couldn’t believe that the same woman who’s done Like a prayer and Bedtime story was performing that tacky, generical and boring song/choreogrphy. No creativity or intelligence left. RIP.
I agree with you – used to love Madonna – she was amazing years ago. Now, I just feel all she has to do is put on a pair of trainers and have 2 dancers next to her and do what she used to do and we would all fall back in love with her. Watch her performance at a Radio One Reading Music festival a few years back – she had just released Hard Candy and performed Give it to Me with a few dancers. She was wearing trainers and the routine was brilliant, but simple and she was fantastic. Loads of energy and it was her true self. These days, I don’t know why she goes OTT – she would gain more positive attention by simplifying her performances and we would all be talking about how great she is instead of feeling sad and nostalgic.
I loved her in her last tour, age 54, and loved at the end for the great dance song Celebration. Madonna was in trainers also and was so high energy, and that was after a whole night of performing. It was just fun dancing at the end, but I admired her energy at the end of the night like that. We were all dancing like crazy to the song. And she was definitely not careful or slow. That set design was so cool, like it was buildings coming down on top of you. And Rocco Richie, her son, was there dancing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqTUzeW4KJM
Didn’t Gaga just do a song where she speaks in the beginning, all trying to be motivating and stuff?
Born this way? sounds a lot like this new song of Madge’s. Both suck, btw.
If you’re looking to pop stars for your raison d’etre, it’s already too late.
Tacky and inappropriate.
I really didn’t think it was that bad at all. Was she actually singing in parts? Because that, coupled with her heels may be why she was not full on dancing.
Plus, she’s 56. For everyone who complains about older women not having leading roles, or carrying movies on their own, or having enough opportunities in the entertainment business — this woman is making her own. She’s not letting people tell her to act or dress her age and I am okay with that.
I honest to God thought she was Cindly Lauper. I would not call that quality work. And she’s just so ridiculous.
LOL.
I really thought it looked like some things went wrong in the performance in a few places. LIke, actual mistakes. Around 2:50, it sort of looks like the dancers were supposed to lift her, but it didn’t work.
I want to say I miss the old Madonna, but now I wonder- was she ever really a bad-ass or just attention seeking/vain. Maybe the aging process just made the real madonna apparent.
Bingo! I think you nailed it. Notice how she regularly trotted out so many different personas over the years, which were masks she could hide behind. There was a lack of authenticity.
I remember one of the songwriters responsible for her earlier hits (Stephen Bray, I think) said that during their songwriting sessions she contributed little because she wasn’t focused on the music. For her, it wasn’t about creating art. She was busy strategizing ways to get even more public attention. I was a fan of hers when I was younger, but it looks like everything she did (and continues to do) was just to remain in the spotlight.
But of course! That’s the reason why I get annoyed when people call her an innovator. No, no, no! She has continuously found innovative people and trends to copy or hitch her wagon to, and that is how she remained relevant for the time that she did. She has never had much going on in terms of her own artistry, because it has always been about fame and attention. She’s always been thirsty, she just used to hide it better.
What’s that under her right upper arm in the pic of the three of them? ? ?
Made me look..think it’s her wrist, but looks like she had her hand amputated..probably one of those bullfighting accidents, hehe
I think she’s trying to make up for last year. She was walking with a cane and looked really old. This year it was “Look how young and cool I am” Sad and tragic.
The comments on here are so cruel. This woman is an icon and has paved the way for so many of the entertainers today. Her body is amazing. I know someone who worked with her on a video and he said she was very down to earth and extremely hard working. He had so much respect for her. I’ve never been a big fan of her music but I enjoyed her performance. She probably looks better than most posting on here….bodywise.
I’m sorry but, she’s really treading into Charro territory with that get up. Since I compare every performance to Brittney’s meltdown AMA performance. Meh, It wasn’t that bad.
I actually like Charro because she was in in the skit, you got the feeling she was in on the the jokes. Charro laughed at herself with her jokes.
Madonna looked FANTABULOUS! And the performance and song were awesome! Thanks for making me check it out. (I KNEW there was NO WAY that Madonna would suck. It’s NOT POSSIBLE!)
I loved the performance and thought she looked amazing. I loved the hair and the costume and her legs are amazing as far as tone and in shape.
She was singing. Sure she had a backing track or more likely background singers, but Madonna was singing and it was different from the studio album song. And I think she was very focused on that.
Re her dancing, there wasn’t much of it. The hopping was supposed to be her Open Your Heart kind of toe dance. Remember what I’m talking about? She did it in her new music video and it was a cute homage to that. But it didn’t work on stage and I think it is because she was i heels. In the video she’s in flats and she was in the Open Your Heart video. So on stage it looked clumsy, but I think it’s because she couldn’t do that kind of step with heels and so should have scrapped it.
I wasn’t a fan of the song until her music video came out and now I find myself bopping to the song and love exercising to it. It’s a very uplifting song about the darkness from love gone wrong and perseverance and triumph and still believing. The song just really grew on me.
The red carpet was a mess and I cringed and am embarrassed and sad for her. I don’t get it. She was never like that in her 40s or late 40s. It’s like she’s lost the blueprint of what is really edgy and what is desperate and dated. The bottom half of the outfit was bad enough, as was the pushing of her boobs to high heavens, but when she flashed her a.s.s., it was pathetic. There were all these young singers looking so amazing, and there was Madonna.
But thankfully she redeemed herself on stage to a mostly slow night that needed some energy. I like the message of the song, being hurt and betrayed but dusting yourself off and not losing that belief in love.
Her skin looks good and shes lost the puffer fish look. Whats she had done?
I’m surprised Kayne didn’t complain about the masks the dancers were wearing.
Didn’t he wear one that looks like them?
She has always been “Look at me!”
She has always wanted the spotlight. Nothing has changed.
25 years ago Warren Beatty said it in “Truth or Dare”: “She doesn’t want to LIVE off camera. Why would you say something if it’s not on camera?”
I worked the Super Bowl in Indy three years ago, and that woman rehearsed for hours EVERY NIGHT. She also inspected every costume on every dancer for details. Yes, she craves attention, but that is nothing new. She also works incredibly hard and is a stickler for every single detail.
She’s had a ton of work done in recent years on her face, but you don’t get a body like that from plastic surgery. Hard work, 24-7.
She’s over 50. More power to her, I say.
That’s just butt ugly, BUTT Madge will never change.
I feel like it all (botox/boobs etc.) went down hill after Guy Ritchie and her divorced? I remember thinking; how the Hell does he handle her face circus! he must find it pathetic.
In 2008 she still looked fine, but then in 2009 she looked like a squirrel saving food for later.
Sharon Stone is 56 too. And she is SO beautiful. Maybe she gets stuff done too, but if so, it’s very subtle.
Rene Russo looked so fab at the BAFTAs last night, way to look like a class act.
Oh Madonna. You’ve not reinvented yourself; you’re simply recycling the same tripe in an older body and bad face.
Her left knee is having trouble, not bending as much as the right & she had to pull her lower leg with her hand to get it into position toward the end. (I’ve had 4 knee surgeries & recognize the tells.) Not sure if she’s had a partial replacement or not.
All I could see on the back-up guys were Maleficent horns, not bulls.
You can still be sexy and cool at 60. See Dame Helen Mirren….this look just isn’t either.
Watching Madonna claw at the walls to stay relevant gives me a a bad A$$ case of transfer embarrassment! Flashing her 60 year old crotch and dancing around like she has a BAD CASE OF GOUT is not a good look!
sings *don’t go for second best baby!!
This is very disappointing. Where is the allure she had even when completely covered!? She was a presence and had a potent intelligent sexuality that left the impression that she was in control. I’m only 31 but she was someone I truly admired and it had nothing to do with her age but her ability to capture our imagination and take her fans on a fun ride of how she saw the world in art, music, fashion, feminism, business and do it without ever wanting to fit in. She was what I thought was cool without trying and someone that would not be exploited by the industry. She did it her way and made no apologies.
I just want to scream at her “WHY would you want to be like any of these basic ass b*tches! Your one of kind and your story deserves a better conclusion into your Queen years!!!” 🙁
Imma be nice.
Madge honestly looks great! Her face, her body, her bosom. I don’t like the outfit, but she does look great, and given older women are discarded by all forms of popular media regardless of their talent level, I won’t give her grief for doing what it takes to “pass” as still cool.
I just have to put out there I hated MDNA. I deleted the album from my iTunes after a while.
I ordered the Deluxe version 19 songs of Rebel Heart. You get like nine songs now downloaded on iTunes with the pre-order. But I have the complete deluxe album that finally leaked last week all done except for final mastering and yes, I have been listening to the full leak for days, and dayum you, Madonna, besides two really embarrassingly juvenile songs (which she put on the standard album WTF was she thinking), the songs are amazing.
The sonics are everything. The ballads are glorious and there are plenty. And the cheeky songs with great dance beats are giving me life. I will never get the God-awful Bitch, I’m Madonna, and the cringeworthy Holy Water being on it. But the rest will be my running album for a long time.
Holy Water is probably her lowest point of all time.
But Hold Tight, Joan of Arc, Iconic, Inside Out, Heartbreak City, Best Night and even the cheeky self-referencing of every one of her iconic songs as lyrics in Veni Vidi Vici is so much fun. So many more I love. I’m a Madonna fan and don’t need her to conform to a 56-year-old, as I love her dance music, so I love songs like Unapologetic Bitch. I even love the campy S.E.X. Hey, It’s Madonna. What do you expect? Wash Over Me and Rebel Heart are great songs. Ghost Town is still sticking with me. Messiah is like a movie soundtrack, very dramatic arrangementwise.
19 songs and I enjoy listening to 16 and never get bored. I bow down, Madonna. I had no desire to even buy this album. I still can’t stand desperate Madonna with her plastic surgery and antics, but she has delivered me some Madonna music with great sonics that makes me back on board for a tour. Who would have thought? I had no interest in seeing her in tour again.
She even has a Super Deluxe at 25 songs, but I find that just nothing filler. Some like some of those songs. I haven’t paid attention to them really. Except the beautiful Beautiful Scars is on there. I may have to get the Super Deluxe and just pare it all down and make my own album because I love Beautiful Scars.
I need to stop listening until the album comes out, but I can’t stop. Madonna has redeemed herself and could have had a great album if she had left off Bitch, I’m Madonna and Holy Water. But I can create a great playlist off of this album.
It really bugs me when people say that criticising Madonna is ageist or worst, misogynistic.
There ARE comments about her out there that are both, but they’re not here,
You can absolutely be sexy in your fifties and beyond. Being beyond her childbearing years has nothing to do with anything in this case. It’s her attitude that’s offputting rather than her body (although stick thin and sinewy isn’t my thing).
Her body is amazing fit, and she has every right to be proud of it and show it off… but flashing your ass is never classy or okay. She could have showed off her body with a tight fitting dress or a stunning pantsuit. She can show leg and cleavage, both are great (as long as it’s tasteful, and that goes for any age), but when she shows off as much as a 20-something attention whore, people are going to call her out on it.
Like it or not, certain things are just kind of classless as you get older. I don’t dress the same way I did at 16 now I’m 29. Certain things are aging on every woman, and nothing ages a woman worse than trying desperately to be younger, which Madonna is. Look at Cyndi Lauper or Annie Lennox. Both women are around her age, both are performers, and both are incredibly sexy. It’s because of their confidence, not because they show skin, and Madonna should take a cue from them. Nobody has to be a frump when they turn 50 and nobody here has said they should. People are sexual beings their whole lives, but that doesn’t mean what’s acceptable for a 20 year old is acceptable for a 60 year old.
The irony of her singing about accepting yourself as you are made me laugh out loud. Nobody cares more about their image and what other thinks than Madonna. I’ve seen her documentary, and she;s kind of a piece of work imo. She’s always acted younger than she is, I don’t think she’s very emotionally mature.
Oh please who died and left you Arbiter of Acceptability and Emotional Maturity? I can’t stand Madonna. But she’s been a performer and an exhibitionist since before you were born and I will absolutely defend her right to be who she is. Because that’s what we are taking about here.
Note how I said “in my opinion”? I’m entitled to an opinion, just as you and all the other fine folks here at Celebitchy are.
I agree that she has been a performer and exhibitionist since before I was born. I’ve followed her work over the years, including watching her documentary, made in the height of her cult fame days, Truth or Dare. Have you seen it?
I’ve formed my (completely harmless) opinion of her being somewhat immature based on her documentary (which is much more reality-based than what passes for reality tv these days, though undeniably she was playing to the cameras to some degree), from interviews she has given, from what has been said about her by those who know her and from her actions over the years. I’m not sure why there was such vitriol in your reply if you can’t stand her.
Her maturity, in my view, has something to do with how she expresses herself now, especially as it pertains to stunts like she pulls over facebook such as using the images of dead icons to push her album, comparing her album being partially leaked to rape, using the N word to refer to her son, and flashing her ass as mentioned in the article.
I don’t care if you’re a stripper, flashing your ass on the red carpet is childish and classless and so below the level of taste she used to bring to her provocative persona. This is a woman who was threatened with arrest by the police merely for putting her hand on her groin during her stage shows, she doesn’t need to resort to classless crap like that. It’s not sexy when anyone is doing it, and Madonna absolutely wants to be sexy.
She has a right to be who she is, certainly, but I’m not convinced that ‘herself’ is much more than a stage persona. The Madonna that shines through in other media is a tireless worker, relentless perfectionist and has a wry sense of humor. She doesn’t honour that self by being thirsty and trying to compete in the sexiness stakes with Kim Kardashian. She actually dressed pretty normally back in the day and left the sexiness for her shows. As I mentioned in my previous post, confidence and power are both very sexy and other women in her age bracket are able to be sexy without Madonna’s desperate antics. She has the right to do it, but her fans and the public have a right to dislike it, and it would seem that predominantly what she’s serving is not what people want.
I actually thought the conversation was about many things; her right to express herself, agism, her achievements during the years, the acceptability of her actions, the public response to them. Apparently you’re the ‘Arbiter of Acceptability’ of responses on this thread? Lol. Your points are fair ones, I just don’t agree this thread is about one thing.
I agree with you. It’s the aura of desperation that makes this spectacle so sad. You can’t really pinpoint such things, but people still clearly pick up on it. Most of us sense when someone is needy, and we tend to avoid those people.
Insecurity goes hand in hand with youth, but confidence comes with maturity. She could be a mature, confident woman with a great body and great performances, but now she comes across as terribly needy and desperate. If only she would actually embrace who she is, she could be such a great role model. Instead of sucking in all the energy with “look at me!” antics, she could be shining brightly.
Madonna is the Queen of fun. How boring life would be if we all dressed like old grannies. Lighten up and enjoy life.