Aug 242008
I don’t know why this amuses me but it does. Frommmm…MyWay!
Amid a four-act show at Cardiff’s packed Millennium Stadium, a video interlude carried images of destruction, global warming, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe’s authoritarian President Robert Mugabe – and U.S. Senator John McCain. Another sequence, shown later, pictured slain Beatle John Lennon, followed by climate activist Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally McCain’s Democratic rival Barack Obama.
So let’s break it down.
In Group 1 we have…
Destruction
Global Warming
Hitler
Robert Mugabe
John McCain
In Group 2……..
John Lennon
Al Gore
Mahatma Ghandi
Barack Obama
I think she’s trying to tell us something in her shrew, cagey, deft sort of way.
Well, seems she never had problems with speaking her mind, isn’t it?
Sub-tonic Policlits?
Good Morning,
Monday, 25 August 2008
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
— Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ovidiu, I thought about a previous conversation we had when I saw this; the article describes the show as being “billed as a musical mishmash of “gangsta pimp,” Romanian folk, rave, and dance
Jak Se Mas PD
Two good quotes by the way, the coffee one I will file away for later as I’m enjoying a particularly nice cup right now.
The Goethe is a gem that seem applicable to Madonna’s artistic vision.
Although, it might be better to say imagination without wit.
Really? It would be interesting to see why they consider it this way, I mean where’s the Romanian folk influence. However, it is usually interesting when somebody outside your culture takes a bit of your traditional music and adapts it, in some cases results an interesting mix. Otherwise the result may be a kitsch…
As a good result I think of Steve Vai’s Babuska ,if I don’t confuse the song, where he takes a theme from Slavic music and adapts it.
I’ve read that quote a few different places Ovidiu. I don’t know how Romanian folk music is incorporated in Madonna’s show. I can’t think of any title but, I have heard some other types of folk music melodies in some of her stuff. Like maybe, some Hindu influence, I don’t know. The word “kitsch” is interesting because, I would associate it with cabaret which, I think is present in Madonna’s presentation. I would also say that the melodies in cabaret music are influenced by Gypsy music. Just my impression, no research.
I found the Vai song on YT, nice.
There’s something there. She’s trying to make a point, an association. I’m not quite sure what.
Here you go…here’s a guy that ties the Hitler/McCain correlation together
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2008/08/has-madonna-got-mccain-pegged-right.html
I don’t see how anyone who is for privatization and against tax increases can be called fascist.
You must have graduated from a different high school Sans.
The questionably unseen Tyrraniclitoriasaurus Raptor-Mastadon in the room that does not get attention is:
How does one go about influencing Madonna who has tried everything and still loses out?
Shouldn’t M retire and let the younger Amy W pick up that baton? Not a hater, just a baiter, master.
Alright Alright Woah! Back the truck up a sec
did you say TyrraniCLIToriasaurus?
Ouch.
Is that a microphone in that dudes thong?
Yes I said it, and here is the microphonusbananahammock –
OBAMAWEEN uTuber
Madonna’s Team Picks
Madonna — Queefing
Jewish American Queen of pop —
has a new hate for Hitlering
Milleni Stadi Shimmy Pop —
Reinvents post-mod Destructing
Alludes Allah Galore —
who is Globally Warmling
Guy Ritchie — she’s cutting
for Al Rodriquez’s — base balling
Just as Live Nation’s Ink –
She’ll be bankrupting by stalling…
Robert Mugabe — who is he?
John Mc Cain — en-Abel-ing
and Mahatma Ghandiing –
in sequins, fishnets, bondaging
In Group 2…….. John Lennonning’s –
continuous reinventionings
Last to be picked for positioning–
Obama Barack’r — out in right fielding
Doesn’t Madge know any girls
– she could be fingering?
Sticky and sweating
– we await all Mad’s lingering.