Queen Bitch

I don't think any female has made as big a worldwide impact in such a short space of time. Madonna owed it all to being at the forefront of the MTV age and Susan owes it all to youtube era. Forget Lady GaGa - Susan is the natural successor to Madonna's throne

I'm loving American Life (the song) at the moment - WHINING BITCH that she is.

Madonna's next album will be met with critics and journalists asking is there a place in pop music for a fifty something mother of four in the age of Gaga Beyonce, Rhianna, Katy et al. The only way she can prove that there is, is to deliver a MASTERPIECE and this doesn't bode well for that happening. I've been saing for years now, Guy Oseary is a CRAP manager and has allowed heer to ruin her brand, reputation and artistic integrity.

Wasn't Crapper Than Today going to be HUGE Back to Madonna, people who saw the first part of the WTG tour would have seen new songs as the soundtrack wasn't released until July so WTG, Causing A Commotion and The Look Of Love were still in the can during the Japanese and US dates.

How could we forget. Imagine and The Funny Song pissed me off because she has so much that gets left out and I'm not just talking about the classics. To think that TFS was the only time we got to hear a new song on a tour.

This, with the exception of Human Nature on S&S - I knew at the time I'd be skipping that one on the DVD.

It's a lack lustre song and shouldn't have made the set list. It works very well as a piece of mood music in the movie but that's it, it doesn't stand up as a song in its own way the way something like Time Stood Still does. She should have done Crazy For You at that point in the show. Oh and I love the performnace of PDP on RIT but it really pisses me off that she left out the bridge.

WTG - The Look Of Love DWT - Oh Dear Daddy DWT - Spanish version fo WIFLFAG S&S - Candy Shop S&S - Human Nature S&S - Dress You Up S&S - Spanish Lesson S&S - Ray Of Light S&S - Hung Up (worst tour performance ever) S&S - 4 Minutes S&S - Give It To Me Probably a few more from S&S but I try not to recall too much about it.

FABULOUS Still find it ridiculous that this has never officially been released.

AGREED

For me it was her last moment of greatness.

The choir intro to Rebecca's second track last night was identical to Like A Prayer and then she launched into Amazing Grace.

POOR BRAVE RESOURCEFUL MADONNA, in the AGE OF GAGA she forges a new career as a GYM INSTRUCTOR

JESUS WEPT

No doubt it will be something Gaga inspired.

Not since the operation

Broken

Alison Goldfrapp is just an UNLIKEABLE CUNT, the Madonna bashing is a side product of that.

I love the RATIONALE - it sounds like a similar scenario to when Kylie "decided to part company" with Deconstruction, by "mutuable agreement". It's NOTHING like that. Madonna completed her contract with Warners (for the third time) and they tried to retain her, after 25 years with them but they couldn't as Live Nation offered her a better deal, which included licensing future releases in an ever changing industry. Alison would love to be in such a position but NEVER has been and NEVER will be. I've never bought into that. Her stuff is totally unoriginal and wholly derivative. Alison's biggest downfall was her arrogance, ego and believing her reviews. That's what's put her where she is today.

That's Geri Halliwell - the "only Spice Girl never to have been dropped by her label" - Alison's up there with the best.

But he ENDED with the 80s; she lasted into the 00s.

I'm ABOVE the law

What an UTTERLY DEPRESSING thread - it's as though you're willing her to die so that you can find out. I suggest you shift your attention to getting a life rather than wondering about someone who's done something with theirs, dying.

Belfast Telegraph Jane Graham: Why Material Girl Madonna is looking frayed Saturday, 13 November 2010 Seeing Madonna embarrass her children by dragging yet another star-blinded young stud onto the dancefloor this week, it struck me that the 52-year-old Ms Ciccone has now completed what will probably be her final transformation from the Queen of Pop to a sad, sorry, salutary tale. Does Madonna really imagine, as she slaps on a fake smile and pours her punished body into another leather basque, that the world is gazing on in envy and admiration? Probably, a lifetime of being surrounded by toadying yes-men looking to bask in the glow of your fame and wealth can do that to a person. But to most of us, she simply seems to grow more delusional with each cruel passing year. Of course its the bizarre coping mechanisms celebrities like Madonna employ to combat the deterioration of collagen which have created the cultural consensus that time is cruel to women. Her high profile struggle against getting older cryogenics are surely only a shot of courage away suggests that successful females in the public eye have no choice but battle against the inevitable until the bitter end, looking less heroic and more pitiful with each new photo shoot. But this week I went to see Lisa Cholodenkos new film, The Kids Are All Right, and was presented with a 52-year-old with a different approach to middle-aged womanhood. Annette Bening aka Mrs Warren Beatty is also 52, and looks it. Her jowls sag a little, her neck has a hint of turkey to it, but shes not only far sexier than Madonna, shes also one of the most dignified and high-achieving players in Hollywood. And she seems gasp! happy too. If half of whats written is true, then Madonna is addicted to testing out any new technology which claims youth-injecting properties. I dont think theres anything wrong with trying a bit of Botox to cheer yourself up, but the results of Madonnas obsessive experimenting are not attractive. Its not just that she appears, alternatively, puffy, swollen, gaunt or stretched; theres also a haunted look of fatigue and desperation in her eyes. Bening on the other hand looks rested, contented, soft and maternal. Her face is full of personality and warmth and exudes calm confidence. Madonnas hunt for youth has of course become literal; since her divorce from Guy Ritchie she has paraded a series of men barely out of adolescence alongside her. She must believe that her lithe baby-boyfriends make her the envy of other women, but, really, they just make her look like an insecure embarrassing mum who never gets to have an interesting conversation. How ironic that Bening is married to Beatty, the old bed-hopper Madonna famously failed to tame but who gave it all up the moment he met the formidable Bening, with whom he settled down and had four children. Bening has proved that it is possible even in Hollywood the most looks and career-obsessed neighbourhood on the planet to get off the ladder to have children, allow yourself to be almost forgotten by your peers, and return to make some of the best work of your life in your early fifties. Madonna, the most fiercely competitive pop star of the last three decades, hasnt made a good record for five years, though she pedals furiously to keep her profile skyscrapingly high. There is so much she could learn from the intelligent, benevolent, self-contained Mrs Beatty but the truth is, she probably cant bear to look at her.