1. Her recent concert at Hyde Park in London failed to sell
out, despite the fact that she hadn’t played there in 4 years. Of course she
didn’t endear the fans by saying, “I love you Poland,” at one point. It turns
out, many concert goers walked out early, calling it the worst concert they’d
every seen.
2. Although in her mid 50’s, Madonna tried to rely on her
typical sexually charged bag of tricks at that concert, putting on a strip
tease show that had people yawning – or just grossed out.
3. That’s still better than her 2012 concert in Istanbul,
Turkey, where she pulled down her lingerie to expose her nipple to 50,000
concertgoers…in a conservative Islamic country.
4. To further trample on and disrespect the cultures of
millions of fans who put money in her pocket, she wore Hindu facial markings
during her MTV performance of the song Ray of Light. Unfortunately, the
markings signify the ideals of chastity, purity, and devotion in the Hindu
religion, and she wore them while simulating sex acts and basically making a
mockery of their religion.
5. By the way, her 11-year old son is now on stage with her
as a backup dancer at some of these concerts as his mommy writhes, gyrates,
simulates sex acts, and exposes herself. Mom of the Year?
6. Apparently her new album and concert tour, MDNA, is all a
shallow attempt to be cool with a younger generation who sometimes use the
designer drug Molly, or MDMA. Just to remind audiences how “hip and trendy” she
is in case they didn’t catch on, she’s been known to yell Molly references to
the crowd during concerts.
7. Never one to avoid a cheap prop to try to shock audiences
and critics into giving a shit about what she’s doing, Madonna had a music
video where she was holding prop guns to her head and pointed at other people,
as well as another video where she committed all sort of violent crimes, both
of which were censored off of MTV and VH1. (Just imagine the backlash if she
was black and singing rap music?!)
8. She once put out a book called Sex, which of course she
starred in because apparently, she invented sex. In the book she posed in
compromising erotic positions with Vanilla Ice, Naomi Campbell, and other
sycophants.
9. Because her ego couldn’t be confined to music and had to
spread like a fungus over cinema, too, she made the movies Evita,
Shanghai Surprise, Swept Away and Who’s That Girl. We really wish she hadn’t.
10. Her brother is homeless. Let that sink in. Anthony
Ciccone lives on the streets in poverty. Says Ciccone about his rich and famous
sister, “My sister’s a multimillionaire, but she earned it. I have to give her
credit for that. But you’d think there’d be some more family loyalty, and
that’s not the case. Just to communicate would be nice.”
11. She talked trash about Lady Gaga in a classless display,
while Gaga had done nothing but show her reverence and give her credit as being
a huge influence on her music.
12. She wrote a children’s book called English Rose, filled
with lessons from the Kabbalah after she adopted those spiritual practices. Is
Madonna really the person we want teaching our children, and what makes her an
authority on Kabbalah after following it for like, 5 minutes?
13. She once tried to sabotage her appearance on The Late
Show with David Letterman in 1994, dropping 13 F-bombs and disparaging the host
during the live network television broadcast. Luckily, her foul language was
bleeped out and Dave gave it right back to her, but why would she do that? It’s
funny that she got all sorts of mad at MIA during their 2012 Super Bowl
performance when MIA flipped the national audience the bird.
14. To reignite her failed persona of a sexual icon, Madonna
appeared at the 2003 Video Music Awards and shared a faux-passionate tongue
kiss with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. But instead of turning people
on it was just sort of pathetic and creepy.
15. She’s literally had plenty of “No eye contact!” moments,
like when her security guards ordered her own volunteers to turn the other way
while she passed at the Toronto International Film Festival.
16. For some unknown reason, Madonna released a series of
photoshopped promotional photos via her Instagram in which she likens herself
to civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and others,
except she photoshopped in cords wrapped around their faces and torsos. All
this while she calls her white son “#disnigga” on Instagram.
17. Never one to turn down a ridiculous display of
self-importance, Madonna appeared hanging on a cross during her performance of
“Live to Tell “ during her 2006 Confessions Tour. So now she’s Jesus-like?
18. Even worse, her face appears with a Nazi swastika on it
during her MDNA on-stage video performance, as well as superimposed on the
forehead of the French president.
19. Madonna steals. A lot. Like, a whole lot. It’s a fact
that during her career she’s made a mockery of copyright laws by ripping off
songs, beats, lyrics, and just about everything she can from scores of other
artists. She’s dealt with hundreds of lawsuits but has the money and the power
to make them go away without redress. Her photo shoots, too over the centuries
– oops, I mean decades –that’s she’s been in the public eye have blatantly
imitated Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol photos, and many others. She has
absolutely no respect for other artists.
20. Just a week ago she took a tumble on stage at the 2015
BRIT Awards show, when her cape wasn’t unfastened and a backup dancer pulled
her to the ground in a choreographed move gone terribly wrong. The spill, in
which she adeptly reenacted the gyrations of a newborn giraffe, kindled a
barrage of hilarious memes and tweets in which people expressed concern that
she didn’t break a hip or fell and couldn’t get up.
