Gaga is Purely a Cut-and-Paste creation from Past Decades
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For the first part of Madonna's concert last week, it seemed as if her main inspiration was the netherworld. The opening segment featured a frightening cross, a mix of Hebrew cantorial and Christian music, and satanic creatures. The video clips on the screens showed gothic images from cemeteries, setting a mood you would expect from Ozzy Osbourne. After the warm-up by DJs Offer Nissim and Martin Solveig, Madonna burst forth from a booth on the stage and opened with a fast-paced dance to "Girls Gone Wild" from her new album, "MDNA." Images of destruction and violence filled the screens and there were even more during "Revolver" and "Gang Bang." In a black jacket and Chanel gloves, shooting at her dancers with pistols and a Kalashnikov rifle, Madonna did some acrobatics with her dance troupe, making it feel like the set of a Quentin Tarantino movie.
As had already been leaked during the rehearsals, Madonna decided to do a song to sting Lady Gaga. Gaga, herself purely a cut-and-paste creation from the pop culture of the past decades, studied Madonna more carefully than any other artist. When Gaga released the song, "Born This Way," the difference between inspiration and imitation was particularly blurred, given that it sounded more like a cover version of Madonna's "Express Yourself." In her concert, Madonna did what many just hummed in their heads when Gaga's song was first released, combining the two songs in what sounded like a natural pairing, while still singing "Express Yourself" as a recommendation of sorts to the young singer. Madonna ended the medley with lines from another of her songs that summarized the Gaga issue as "She's not me."
Political pop
Even before she made her peace speech at the concert, according to which "if there is peace here in the Middle East, then there can be peace in the whole world - it depends on you, you're the future, don't forget," Madonna donated hundreds of tickets to Israeli peace activists. Yet in one of the concert's most politically loaded and intense segments Madonna was not even physically present onstage. During the song "Nobody Knows Me," Madonna's image flitted across the screens, rapidly changing clothes into soldiers, nuns and traditional Moslem dress while the dancers, dressed as policemen abusing prisoners in orange uniforms, looked like a musical version of Guantanamo prison. The screen clips turned to heated social protests and banners from the Occupy Wall Street protests such as "We are the 99%" and "Eat the Rich," then, as Madonna sang "Nobody Knows Me," to photos of teens who committed suicide in recent years because of homophobic harassment.
Many of the songs were just off the mark; hits the audience was waiting for were not done interactively enough; lesser songs were giving too much time and space. The concert was faithful to her last album: In both, it was apparent that the effort of maintaining her status, staying relevant and recreating the outrageousness she was associated with in the 1980s and 1990s was weighing on her.
I think Madonna will do the show better over time, but the stage, special effects, and overall aesthetics of the show are flawless, I've never seen anything like it
I'm not talking about her rip-offs, her age, her looks, whatever else people talk about.
She can't win against herself. Everything has to be scrutinised and compared to stuff she's already done. Yes, she makes references to herself, but that doesn't mean there isn't a new perspective.
She puts more energy, thought and meaning into her shows than any other pop artist ever has, and yet she's slammed for not being "emotional" enough.
And what's wrong with her doing less well-known songs? If she did the biggest hits all the time, they'd say she's repetitive.
People are stupid.
P.S. Swag, I like your posts. But bolding the Gaga bits was as immature as the stuff Monsters do.
I don't understand why ppl are shocked that she's singing more songs from MDNA than from her previous albums, I mean she's not promoting a greatest hits, she's "promoting this album" and her previous efforts but then again, she has shitloads of songs so it's hard to choose among all of the songs she has.
I love the fact that not one monster has denied the article's statements
I think Madonna will do the show better over time, but the stage, special effects, and overall aesthetics of the show are flawless, I've never seen anything like it
Which statements? The ones about Gaga? I'm not even going to dwell on those because they're such an over exaggeration and the fact that they're the ones you've highlighted pretty much sums up Madonna's era...circled around Gaga. So don't try and cause unnecessary trouble.
I'm confused
Are you serious with that title change?