Last week, when I covered the latest Madonna “controversy” in which she basically called a French politician a Nazi, I mentioned that Madonna’s MDNA stage show features a lot of “prop guns”. She’s touring Europe right now, which doesn’t have the kind of rampant gun problems we have in America, so I kept expecting to hear more stuff from European politicians about that issue in particular, but not so much. Beyond the actual politics of “prop guns used during a Madonna show,” seeing Madge pop her hip out while waving around a prop gun is pretty lame in general. We’re supposed to think she’s avant-garde, I think. When really she just looks out of touch.
Anyway, you know where I’m going with this. The new Madonna controversy is that, following the Colorado massacre, Madonna has not removed prop guns from her stage show. At all. Some people are offended. When she was in Scotland, the authorities even warned her about using the prop guns, and she did it anyway.
Maybe she really just doesn’t read the news, but Madonna’s managed to do it again: Despite being warned by police, the singer — who named her album after a thinly veiled drug reference — defied a ban and waved fake machine guns and pistols on stage at her show in Scotland on Saturday.
Her performance drew the ire of Mothers Against Guns, who said the 53-year-old singer “should know better.”
“Madonna and her dancers using replica guns was always in bad taste but given what happened in Colorado it is even worse,” a representative for the organization told the Saturday Morning Herald.
The singer’s camp remained defiant. “Madonna would rather cancel her show than censor her art,” a member of her tour staff told HuffPost’s Rob Shuter. “Her entire career, she has fought against people telling her what she can and cannot do. She’s not about to start listening to them now.”
It’s not about censorship – it’s about showing respect to the victims of one of the worst mass-shootings in American history. Madonna probably didn’t want to take the guns out of her show because there would have been barely any show left. What were they going to do, take away the guns and leave all of the crosses and the “music”? Still, I’m not crazy about the idea that only NOW, after the Colorado thing, people are like, “Wow, Madonna is so dumb to have all of these guns in her show.” It was asinine and offensive BEFORE Colorado. Now it’s just… Madonna being Madonna. Looking for whatever controversy she can cling to, fighting the “good fight” against “censorship” of her artsy prop guns that bring nothing to the conversation. All for a tour in support of an album that bombed. My point? She should take the prop guns out of her show because the whole “waving guns around on stage” thing is so lame and stupid, not because of the politics or “censorship” or anything like that.
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so much for spirituality and kabbalah. if waving a gun will get her press, you know she is going to do it. she is not an artist, she is the female version of donald trump.
Her schtick has grown so old and tired. Of course she won’t pull the guns out of respect – she has never respected anyone but herself.
Art my a$$. It’s desperation. It’s embarrassing to watch her.
I agree, Miss Detroit is on the sinking ship that is her career.
the bitch is just dumb, dumb, dumb. when do people stop buying them tickets, seriously?why anyone wants to see her “singing” is beyond me.
She should be embarassed, and not just because she looks a fool with all those guns.
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I have said it before and I will say it again, Madonna needs to either class up her tour act and come to terms with the fact that aging is an inevitable process of life and dress accordingly or go sit her a$$ down somewhere and retire or sell some perfume/clothing or something. This is embarrassing the hell out of me just seeing her like this!
American people are hypocrites. Why can’t she use fake gun? Because what? Respect for the victims? How long? Until next massacre? Stop selling gun like it was box of matches. There you have solutions. BTW her album failed but her tour is big.
Agreed.
Madonna is conveying a story for her tour just like she always did. So if films and music can do that why can’t a performer? In essence, when you take away all that, you don’t have much left.
Or what with parents buying children toy guns and other weapons that create destruction? How can you tell them to separate fiction from real life when we adults can’t even (the ambiguity between liking using violence for entertainment in films and games but condemning real violence).
And if I remember correctly, Ms. Jolie talks about having real guns, has children that draw guns, play with fake toy guns, soldier theme parties and what else yet she never gets called out for her mixed mesages about war/peace especially in her role as UNHCR spokesperson and that’s real life! Madonna on stage is fantasy and we want to make it real.
Once again, somebody like Madonna is being used for people’s own vague agenda. It’s more about Madonna, again, attacking for being 50+ but wanting to behave like a 16-year old girl and using the massacre as something to back up people’s claim she wants to be hip but is terrible out of touch.
The massacre is terrible of course, but to focus on Madonna is just ridiculous. As if the massacre isn’t bad enough, let’s drag in pop culture to blow it even more up. It’s disrespectful and we’re losing focus as usual.
I agree with you but why are you singling out Jolie?
Violence and gun culture is an inescapable part of life now. I actually much prefer if parents take time and explain to their kids about guns like Jolie does instead of letting them learn through games, movies, peers etc.. It is better to get a practical point of view of the real word rather than highly distorting romanticized version.
And I think she’s an admirable UNHCR spokesperson and does her job quite well.
I didn’t want to single her out but it was the most obvious example I could find when typing this.
Really? What’s with the American bashing? This is the 2nd comment you wrote today with that tone – here, on an American gossip site, FFS. Hypocrites, a-holes, right-wingers, left-wingers, take your pick, are found in every place on earth. Don’t act like America corners the market on hypocrisy or violence. Have you already forgotten it’s the one year anniversary of the massacre in Norway, where 77 people were killed by one extremist? Anders Breivik lived in a country with strict gun control laws, yet he was able to legally obtain his weapons there with no problem.
There are plenty of Americans who want stricter gun control laws. But we also have the NRA and powerful gun lobbyists fighting that. Like many countries, we have politicians who cannot keep their promises to the constituents who voted for them. It’s an entrenched political battle with no quick and easy victory. Generalizing about a country of 300+ million, filled with many disparate groups who often have opposing goals, is plain stupid and ignorant.
Of course Madonna will continue to use gun props in her concerts. I bet she is enjoying the attention, any kind of publicity actually. Fake controversy that keeps her in the news is what she wants, as long as it translates to money in her bank account. Her latest album failed because her music sucks, period. Her concerts make money because she overcharges, $300 and more for a ticket. She’s got enough loyal fanatics (AKA suckers) who’ll pay whatever amount, regardless of the mediocre quality of her output. By mediocre, I mean her singing and dancing, not the performances of her backup singers and dancers, nor the cost-prohibitive stage sets, light show, sound systems, costumes, etc., used to distract from her lackluster “talent”.
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Brava Minty!! Brilliantly articulated…
I also agree. And if I thought for one hot second that keeping the guns in the show was really about an artistic statement, you know, other than “LOOOK AT MEEEEE, DAMMIT!!!” I might have some respect for her position. But Madonna has a sneaky habit of only worrying about “artistic freedom” and “censorship” when it best serves her fameho’ing. I never thought she’d go out like Norma Desmond, but it’s clear she’s on that mission.
America is the most violent Westernized country in the world. European countries may have the occasional spree killing but America has truly cornered the market in violent deaths.
@Jean:
You’re exaggerating a bit. America probably is one of the most violent Westernized countries when it pertains to gun violence. It’s a big country, so statistically the numbers are greater than each small European nation. But compared to the entire world, please, we hardly corner the market on violence. China, the Middle East, Russia, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, some African countries – all these surpass us in violent deaths. America has its problems, but unlike the countries mentioned, our government is not ruled by religious extremists or organized crime (mafia, triads, drug cartels).
I agree. It isn’t a matter of “respect” for the victims & their families, it is just who Madonna is. I’m not particularly a fan of hers, but she has the right to perform her stage show any way she chooses. Just like we have the right, as consumers, to not buy her albums or attend her concerts, and thereby support that. Good for her for “sticking to her guns” and not letting someone censor or opress her. The REAL problem in this society isn’t Madonna, it is the fact that every single toy store sells play guns; that movies, music and video games bombard children with images of violence every day; that America is constantly at war using real guns to kill millions of people worldwide; and that a climate of violence is tacitly being foisted on the American public by carefully controlled propoganda. Lets start there, THEN worry about Madonna.
Thank you soooo much Lily.
Its a tragedy what happened in my hometown, but let’s face it, it could have been avoided. why should it be legal to buy assault rifles and AK47?? what about 6000 ammo’s especially when living in a Denver suburb
Listen to Michael Bloomberg on the issue.
It’s a ticking time bomb, and there are many more James Holmes’ its a fact
Actually, legal guns only account for 12% of all gun crime in the United States. Mass murderers and gang thugs certainly aren’t lining up to get fingerprinted and catalouged by the local govt to get a permit for a gun.
On the other hand, thousands, yes THOUSANDS of studies by respected organizations such as the CDC, AAP, and AMA have proven that the violence pooped out by Hollywood does in fact, cause violence in children and adults who consume it.
Point? Madonna waving a gun is more likely to cause gun violence than the actual LEGAL sale of guns.
seinfeld actor Jason Alexander tweeted the BEST anti gun message on twitter, basically an M15 has NO purpose in hands of a civilian, these guns (like the big one madge is toting) is to kill at long range, more bullet power…
what he was trying to say is, handguns (like in someone’s home) he can see that, but war machine gums, like M15s? what purpose does that hold?
I’ll vote for the pres candidate who gives me the answer that he will ‘limit’ not end, but limit the sale of certain, ‘war machine’ guns, that guy will get my vote…
if no pres candidate does, F it, this massacre has just put me in the lowest mood- it’s time to take the boy toys (guns) away
I know my comment will be attacked by many but still….
I feel for the shooting victims, really I do.
But the fact that people use it for their own propaganda is extremely contemptuous. I have read comments on CB on how a celebrity wearing a gun necklace is being disrespectful, how the studio should be donating to the victims etc.. Yes, I do not support Madge using guns as props, but the sad fact is art imitates society and feeds public demand.
That said, I think if she believes in what she’s doing, its good that she keeps doing it not giving in to some manufactured morality of the masses. I dont think she is heartless or trying to invite new controversy.
I wish politicians and media would stop exploiting a major disaster and try riling up people for their own gains. The issue needs to be discussed, but not in a sensational way.
“But the fact that people use it for their own propaganda is extremely contemptuous.” If my son or daughter had just been shot by a lunatic that purchased an automatic firearm off the internet you can damn well be sure I would be screaming at the pro-gun set. It’s not that individuals set out to use events to highlight their cause, it’s just they have been misfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Madge is an idiot. It’s completely disrespectful. Guns are dangerous. They are not toys and the United States of America has a very very SERIOUS gun problem, even before Thursday’s events. I went to a U2 concert shortly after 9/11. Bono did it right, he draped himself in the American flag and really tried to impress upon the crowd that he was deeply affected by the event.
Dont equate 9/11 with Colorado, although the price of the victims’ lives is the same.
So you want Madonna to stop using prop guns on the stage, whereas rest of the world is running amok with REAL guns. You want to make a celebrity who defied social conventions of age and sex a convenient scapegoat?
Is this not trivialising the disaster? Think about it. I dont want to argue on a gossip blog. But I m sure you’re genuine in your grief and we are on the same page in our sympathies with the victims and disgust at the society where such incident is made possible.
Peace out.
I agree with you. It makes me sick when people try to find outside blame for his horrible actions. He was obviously crazy based on his actions and his mother’s first comment to the media. I saw a news article that described his hair as ” a shocking comic-book shade of orange-red”. Really?! It reminds me of Columbine. Anyone who dressed differently or wore a trench coat was considered even more of an outcast. Making vauge attempts are blaming this on comic-books (which make me really mad because everyone needs to read more) or a movie or anything else distracts us from the real problem. We need to stop crazy people from getting guns. I am all for gun rights but maybe we could make it a little hard to buy guns and bullets.
This is one more example for families , friends, and schools to analyze the clues they missed and try to learn from them. So sad.
Just to clarify my views of Madonna.. I find that very embarrassing but I guess someone likes it.
@Jessie,
See my above comment about how “comic books and movies” cause more violence both with and without guns than the LEGAL sale of said guns.
I agree to an extent that we shouldn’t stop portraying guns in the movies or in music videos or whatever because of one massacre.
But with Madonna it just comes off across as so desperate. It’s like she has to scream how “hip” she is constantly. Look at my ample cleavage, look at my butt, look at these guns…aren’t I so controversial?
This is an act of desperation for attention. It’s that simple
There’s no fool like an old fool.
“Madonna would rather cancel her show than censor her “ART”.
Are we sure he wasn’t misquoted and meant to say:
“Madonna would rather cancel her show than censor her FART”.
Sorry!!! I know it’s a stupid comment but fitting for her pathetic antics.
I laughed, but I never claim to be mature 🙂
And I thank you for that!
She is seriously out of touch with reality!
And that last picture ewwwww!!!!!
She’s making it nearly impossible to defend her. I used to be all “so what she’s old” “just because she’s old doesn’t mean she has to pack it in”.
Now I’m just grossed out.
In her defense, the guns were props of the show before this happened and right now she’s touring outside of the US. It’s not like she did it in Colorado.
Having said that, art? Madonna?
Bitch, please.
Dear Madge. STFU, and stop it. Your true fans have moved on with their lives, why can’t you? Your own daughter has been photographed trying on your bustier. This is not a sad commentary on her upbringing, but on your inability to separate yourself from your persona. Also, granny nipples are for granny liasons. <3
Wow. Lola working in the costume department puts on a wire like bustier over her own clothes jokingly and takes a photo and you consider that scandalous? I consider it joking around. That piece of Madonna’s costume isn’t even sexy. It is more of a constructed piece almost wirelike as an homage to her BA days put over a dress shirt and tie and slacks. Woo-Hoo, how scandalous that Lola, who actually isn’t laying around a hotel on her iphone or computer, but actually working in a costume department for the dancers on tour creatively on school break, would make a joke. Good Lord.
How is she not in touch of reality? Guns are part of the first act of the concert, where she sings Gang Bang about shooting her lover and a song called Revolver.
Going by your logic of thinking Keiser, WB should cut all of the scenes of DKR that have guns in them, because it’s… disrespectful.
Let me have my own conscience.
‘Let me have my own conscience’
Beautifully put. Thanks.
Go Madge. Love you.
The woman is revolting in every which way. But i dont consider the gun totting one of the most offensive things about her, by a long shot.
Unless one is on a movie/show set, prop guns are out of place.
As a responsible, law-abiding firearm owner (I know, I know), I find it offensive to see people waving around guns (you know who you are) and taking pix of people “playing” with guns *coughTerrycough*, be they props or not.
There is nothing “artsy” or “edgy” about guns. They have two purposes: hunting and defence. THAT’S. IT.
I agree with you Bella. Unfortunately boys like to play with their toy guns, don’t they? And Madge has always struck me as a perpetual teenage boy.
It’s interesting that she is expected to change her tour because of the Colorado shootings.
What of all the other shootings that occur daily? what of Syria? what of Nigeria? Liberia?
It’s everywhere, every day. She shouldn’t be told to change because of Colorado. She should have used her head and promoted banning guns in their entirety.
Completely agree with you. the Syrian massacre (now going into a full fledge civil war) has been going on for a year. Yet glorification of guns hasn’t been stopped. I get that massacres that occur in normal settings(massacre in a theatre, on a summer camp, etc) garner a lot more publicity and coverage in other mediums than news agencies. And in no way I am being disrespectful towards the victims of colorado shooting, but let’s spare a thought for the people that are being massacred every day because of ‘guns’ in other parts of the world that are not in the US or Europe.
Seriously? And the town came back and said they had no problem, anyway, because it’s toy guns in two songs. But she is being called out on this while she is over in Scotland? Where is the outrage for The Dark Knight Rises not pulling out of theatres over the massacre. The movie has violence and it’s where it happened? Oh, no outrage there. In fact, everyone ran to the movie. And the same with other violent movies appearing after the shooting in theatres and on TV. But call out Madonna for dancing while waving a gun while dancing while in Scotland. Such hypocrisy here in good old America.
Her show has a story to it. I have no issues too much with any of it; though, one song is enough for me with guns. The rest of the show is more about moving on from divorce and anger and finding love and celebration of life again.
The part everyone jumps on, Madonna in a bra, is the part I love. She has a set that is about sexuality. It is very theatrical, not so pop concert. She is well aware of all the ageist comments about her, which she is clearly addressing. I see it everywhere, men calling her grandma with a dry and dusty vagina, to go away, blah, blah. She’s selling out stadiums for a reason. You don’t have to like her or what she does or wears, but the ongoing hate about she should go away, retire, and watch the kiddies I find mysoginistic and aegist.
So in the one segment she does Human Nature about again can’t discuss sex, this time in the context of her age. She is at first in a man’s slacks and dress shirt. At the end she unzips the side of her pants for a few seconds, or in a few shows has flashed her bum or part of her breast. This is an in your face response to all of those that address what she should be at 53 years of age. And she then moves into a stripped down, very slow piano/waltz version of Like a Virgin. It is Madonna addressing being an older woman, divorcing, broken from it, and wanting to feel new and love again. It is probably one of the best performances I’ve seen by her. Big deal, she’s in her bra and slacks. There is a nakedness emotionally to the performance that I love. So what we fans love, those over Madonna will hate.
Many this type of show wouldn’t suit them, as they just want a greatest hits tour. That’s fair enough. But this is the Madonna I love.
I don’t have an issue with these things. My big complaint is this show is very theatrical and less hits than usual. It’s usually half and half in the show of newer and older. This time it’s a little more tipped to a combo of newer songs from her album and two new ones from her latest 2009 GH album and one from her 2008 album, mixed with some of her classic hits. Because she plays to stadiums, that is harder to stay connected to 40, 60, 80 thousand people, especially many that are casual fans. In the front it’s awesome and visually stunning. But I feel she needs to intersperse a couple more of her energetic hits to help keep the audience connected during the show that are farther back. That’s my only criticism. But just the crowd’s reaction alone to Like a Prayer is an immense moment.
Madonna has put tons of money into the set design and tons of dancers, mucisians, marcing drummers, etc, and she works her ass off with no air-conditioning up on stage for her vocal cords. So love her or hate her, but at least appreciate that this woman is giving her all on stage, whether it is your cup of tea or not.
I guess most of the people who criticise her show have never been to a concert. Or they never had the intense experience you are talking about. Or just plain jealous.
But your comment is the best one I read today.
Yes. Everyone who doesn’t like Madonna is jealous. That MUST be it. It can’t possibly be because some have opinions that differ from yours.
I mean this in the best possible way, but if a group of us think Madonna is a sad wheezy pile of grisly desperate, it doesn’t mean we also want to be a sad wheezy pile of grisly desperate.
Oops! I didn’t know I couldn’t talk about sex, musta been cray-zaaayyy.
Not too wise a rebellious stance in your performance after the tragic Batman massacre Madge.. Oh wait she’s so great, wise and sure of her actions she doesn’t read gossip or care about the news.. right?
Meh, she works her ass off for a recycled image. I would love it if she actually worked on her music, instead of finding the right gimmicks to keep her relevant.
All Madonna is capable of is shameless self-promotion but she calls it “art”. She’ll self-promote any way she can from swearing, flipping people off, showing her tits and ass and now guns. The woman’s obsessive focus on herself and all the attention she can garner is legendary. This is not art, it’s not talent, it’s pure and simple narcissism.
The gun thing is disrespectful. Although not on the scale of the movie massacre, we in Toronto just had a terrible gunfight at a street BBQ in which 2 innocent people were killed and dozens injured. Gang warfare. With guns smuggled up from the States no doubt.
So no, I don’t think her use of them as props speaks the right message. None of what she does on stage sends the right message, from using crosses, kaballah, masturbation and guns in her show.
Yeah, a real talent.
Do any of you think the ‘Joker’ would have entered a theatre and opened up on an audience in Texas where they are allowed to pack? Of course not! He picked a state where the people have been stripped of their right to protect themselves. All gun control does is put guns in the hands of criminals and crazy’s.
Hitler used gun control legislation that was already in effect in Germany and added further restrictions, especially on the Jews. Once he had everyone disarmed, he had no trouble taking over Germany and doing what he liked with it. Wake up people!!
Anyone crazy enough to walk into a theatre and shoot people isn’t thinking straight, irrespective of where they live or commit their atrocity. I see both the anti-gun and the pro-gun lobbies promoting their respective causes when these massacres occur. The anti- gun stance is “look, this is what guns do”. The pro-gun stance is “look, this is why people should be able to carry guns, so they can protect themselves”.
As for Madonna, she had these guns in her show before the incident happened. It’s not as if she put them in the show afterwards as a way to gain extra publicity. So as far as I’m concerned, between the anti and pro gun lobbies, and Madonna, she is being the least disrespectful.
It’s true, gun control isn’t the solution. Control is never the solution. The people on this planet should be afforded the tools to help themselves, to choose for themselves why violence is not the answer. We don’t live in a society like that. Our society raises children on sex and violence and, after they’ve become somewhat obedient heathens distracted by toys, some kind of incident like this pops up right around election time. Normally, the conspiracy thing isn’t my thing. Mostly because I don’t believe it’s hidden in any way. This dude was hand picked by someone else.
I hadn’t even realized her new album had dropped already! I’m getting old, or just have fewer f*cks to give
“…fewer f*cks to give.”
LOL!! Plagiarizing this one! Brilliant!
I think I’ve run out of f*cks to give.
Regardless of how this fits into the larger discussion about gun control, I would be VERY uncomfortable if I went to a concert and the performers were swinging guns around. I’d spend the whole time wondering if one psycho might have a real gun. I’d be ducking.
Stupid idea for a live performance, and I’m standing by that!
She desesparate for attention .. it’s very sad at this point .. she need to understand that aging is natural process and put more creativity than a gun and nudity .. it’s not original anymore.
Now that’s actually a thought worth repeating MyLeNe: Aging…a natural process requiring more creativity.
This works in ANY field or discipline and is the hallmark of a more EXPANSIVE mind!
Good one…
It’s so cool how I often don’t need to comment because numerous people here say just what I want to say but better that I could have!! When I win the lottery I’m gonna have a CB party at my new mansion & fly you’s all out to talk this junk all night long together *dreams*
Settle down grandma…I mean Madonna. Nothing this woman does is shocking, just asinine.
Thank you jaded exactly; I’m glad i came of age in the 70s when bands as diverse of Ike and Tina Turner, the mighty Led Zepellin, KC and the Sunshine band, Grand Funk railroad, etc. could come out no props or gimmicks and give you 3 hours of live music; madonna’s music is average to awful she’s not an “artist” or “musician” please put away the guitar you’re not Carlos Santana or Jimmy page; she has become an ugly vain empty human being – why is this 1 per center not excoriated right along with the wall street types – wonder how many investments she has that have wall street ties. End of rant.
I’m not trying to be insensitive but I do think pop culture and real life events such as the Colorado massacre should be separated.
Maybe it’s because I’m completely desensitized to violence and gun culture having lived in a conflict zone most of my life, but violence does not end if musicians stopped using gun props.
Agree. I’ll always have a big spot in my heart for Madonna and TBH I would love to see her live, but waving guns around and pointing them at the audience is just uncomfortable. Of course they’re props but it’s still unsettling. But I suppose I just don’t understand high ahhhht.
Woops, meant to reply to NerdMomma’s comment (#25). Oh well…
Yeah, the guns are just stupid and offensive. I do support her “No Fear” tattoo on her back, though, and her bodacious ass.
So because of 09/11, planes shouldn’t fly near skycrapers? Gun toting is prohibited? As a foreigner (who lived in Cali), it seems that mass shootings are a never ending phenomenon in the U.S. and STILL your culture is all about guns and violence. Sex is seen as a wrong, disgusting thing with politicians, religion fanatics made a fortune and a career out of it. Crazy country!!!
Word to Madonna, put some lotion on those nasty elbows, yuck!
Oh Madge just put it away, please. The guns, the crotch, the tits, the ass.
She seems to think she is still provocative with all this shtick, but instead she just looks desperate and utterly self-centered.
She’s a bad parody of herself now, a cartoon.
I feel for the people who were killed in the massacre but Madonna having faking guns in concert hasn’t NOTHING to do with what that man did. America is so backwards sometimes. I live in Chicago and people are murdered almost EVERY WEEKEND. No one cares about them or the kids who just go outside to play and get killed. We need to be worried about ALL the people getting killed in our country and not just the ones who make a good news story.
In fact all this discussion about stripping me of my right to protect myself has made me feel more inclined to excersize my right to bear arms …. But heck I’m from Texas were we like being able to defend ourselves
While I think sensitivity is needed in light of the fact that people just lost their lives to a gun toting lunatic, the simple fact is that Madonna has no respect or courtesy for anyone. Censor her art?? What art?? She’s been like this since the 80s, thinking that doing things like crawling around the stage in a wedding dress is so avant garde, when you can see strippers doing it for a lot less. Or kissing someone not of her race, or doing a book that was basically just nudie shots. She is not an artiste, she is an aging entertainer who thinks waaaaay too highly of herself and is for some weird reason thought of as an icon. Really, you can see why an attention whore like Gaga sees her as an idol. Madonna, honey, showing your boobs and butt have been done about 5 billion times already and brandishing guns while you’re doing it isn’t artistic. Please sit down, Grandma.
Once she simulated sex during a concert; the parents made a formal complaint because she violated the decency code in Toronto; she was warned by the police and defiantly insisted that she be arrested; they chose to ignore her because everyone figured she needed the publicity. So I am not surprised; just puzzled why she is still getting attention.
I think we’re confusing a few things here: 1) Madge is using fake guns in her show. 2) Scottish police asked her to refrain from using fake guns in her show. 3) A tragic happened in Colorado on Thursday.
The simple fact is the police in the place where she was performing asked her to refrain from using fake guns in her show and she refused. Let’s take Colorado out of it and just think about being a guest in a country and you are politely asked to refrain from a certain activity which may be offensive to the local culture and you refuse. I’m sorry, she’s an idiot. Madge was a guest of Scotland’s. It’s not her god given right to be allowed into the country to perform her crap music / stadium show. She’s just straight up dis-respectful. She’s old and over. I just wish should would go away already.
Just my two cents.
Madonna, idiot or badass? im not sure but her old ass should probably sit down before she throws her back out. haha
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She just looks ridiculous. Her little outfit, mincing around with guns like she’s a dangerous little sex kitten. It’s just plain silly.
Yes, that would be censorship. It’s about having the CHOICE.
It’s art, not real life.
And now, after the trailer being pulling out, they will probably remove the cinema shooting scene in the Gangters Squad movie. Remove the scene to not make people uncomfortable or come off as unintentionally insensitive, this is plain political correctness censorship to me. And same thing here.
They are other ways to show victims respect, without being force to do something we don’t want. Here she wants her show to stay the same, it’s her choice, her show as nothing to do with the shooting, in fact I didn’t know about her show at all and still don’t care.
But when we start to cancel/recut stuffs in the name sensitivity, it just makes me want to puke.
What is next to be pointing out by the high morale people to be cancel/recut?
yeah, definitely not artsy or edgy.
Someone please tell me how making gun illegal would solve any of these issues, since criminals love to follow laws….
Denial can be so pathetic. When will MDNA accept that she is PAST-DUE??
I’m betting this will be Madonna’s last tour so she is going out with guns blazing (no pun intended) or thinks she is.
Me, I’m beginning to find her to be way too desperate. Anyone paying so much to see her really needs to examine their life.
My reasoning: If she could actually sing (she basically lip synchs), then I’d excuse her camp ridiculousness. However she can’t sing and every interview (beginning from her very first) only displays how limited her personality really is, so she’s barely been able to convince me to go and see her. Her recent quote to the media, that she is ‘worth’ the $300 minimum price tag or something, is quite arrogant to say the least.
Elton John is right in loathing her.
It’s also interesting to see what a tightwad Madonna has become in terms of her stage costumery: cheap and ‘reductive’, which matches her personality.
Very astute comment about her personality or lack thereof; i believe that many people that go into this world have limited personalities, and the longer they stay in this celebrity world the more their personalities atrophy; Madonna dabbles in things because she lacks the depth to pursue them with vigor and thoroughness; van gogh was an artist; she is a paltry entertainer.