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Slides 4 and 6 – OH DEAR GOD! My boobs screamed in pain after seeing those…(and that’s saying something since I’m currently breastfeeding a 4 month old…)
I’m going to see her in Dallas and now I’m EVEN MORE excited. That is all terrible. If JR Ewing and his eyebrows of doom could make an appearance, I would die of happiness.
Oh Madge, desperation is not a good look for a 50+ year old (but let’s face it, I’d kill for your body)
I feel like she’s the one copying Lady Gaga now. I may be wrong, but I don’t think this is reminiscent of any of Madonna’s previous looks. Lady Gaga’s tour from 2010 had her dancing around in sheer bra’s.
I think the wide-open thighs/hello crotch moves are echoing J-Lo posts from a few days ago … nothing new under the sun
I agree. The machine gun kind of reminds me of Gaga’s Born This Way video in the beginning.
I used to love Madonna as a kid. I think if she put as much effort into her music as she does into her facial surgery, I might still like her. But since she is putting out CRAP music and doing all of these really desperate things like boobie flashes, I have lost respect for her. I used to dislike Sharon Stone, but she seems to have aged more gracefully than Madge.
ITA! It’s like she puts more effort into the show and shocking people now than her music. It’s desperate and it’s lazy.
I think it would actually be MORE shocking if she just stood on stage in a tasteful, but understated, outfit and sang some songs with piano accompaniment or something, a la Adele. Seriously.
I don’t know why I’m feeling so negative about the last couple of posts. Isn’t Madonna getting a bit old for this kind of shenannigans? She looks great for her age, sure, but please, a little dignity. Just call me qwertycrab today…
I totally agree. I mean, cooch shots? Burger King crown + machine gun? (That just seems anachronistic.) It’s like an SNL skit of Madonna or something.
I agree – I mean, her body is sick, but … she’s almost 54 years old. She does come across as clinging very tightly to her youth here, in a desperate sort of way. (See also: J.Lo, particularly in the recently fugged sparkly catsuit.) It’s possible to be 50something and sexy without trying too hard, and Madonna is way way over that line, in my opinion.
Yes, absolutely. See Sarandon, Susan. And Beverly Johnson from another post today. And many others.
And why does everything have to be SEXY? She has kept her figure for sure but why must a woman always be sexy? How about emulatying like the fugger models above and be naturally lovely even though they are a few pounds more than when they were 22, for crying out loud. But then Madonna has always been about image and not about substance so what do I expect? Her talents are thin and her body is too…
Sarandon, Johnson, or see Helen Mirren in a red bikini.
Yes, desperately trying to retain your youth is just not sexy.
I could not agree more. Come on! She’s Madonna for shit’s sake. She should be better than…that.
Slide 6, is that skin oozing out of the side hole of her bustier? I ask not to chide (she is how old and looks damn good), but rather out of camaraderie. I mean for real, if she works out eleventeen hours a day, and eats nothing but twigs and leaves, and still has excess back skin, I can sleep well at night knowing I too am just human.
Excuse me, upon closer look, the skin in question is actually between a corset and her bra. The corset looks so tight that little bulge is probably every inch of skin from her entire mid-section squeezed into a 2-inch hole. Still, something about that brings me comfort.
Me too, girl. Me too.
I saw that and my first thought was – if it gives the awesomely fit Madonna a muffin-top, it’s TOO DAMN TIGHT.
AMEN! I had the exact same thought!
You took the words right out of my head! If Mad-frikkin-donna has back fat, then whatever she’s wearing is squeezing the bejeesus out of her. How on earth did she breathe AND sing AND accomplish crotch dancing all at the same time?
Slide 6 is a great excuse for not spending your life exercising and barely eating, since her skin STILL is 54 or whatever. Now, where’s the closest ice cream shop?
I like “accomplish crotch dancing” as a phrase. It speaks of the difficulties involved (especially if one is wearing a corset so tight that one’s back skin is attempting a getaway).
I just figured it was a pinch of looser skin from when she had her babies? Even the thinnest women don’t always have abdomens that snap back entirely. I was comforted to see corsets weren’t realistic (or at least that one) even with her level of fitness.
Yes, that is her oozing back skin in slide six. And here’s the thing, I’m not a fan of Madge, like, at all. But, she’s in arguably great shape, but she’s still FIFTY and wearing a BUSTIER. Just STOP, MADGE. I’m going to give myself an aneurysm.
Slide 6 was TERRIFYING and completely and totally unflattering to her figure. It’s Madge the sausage!
What you don’t know is that the guy in slide 6 is actually holding the bustier together in the back because it ripped open when she exhaled.
LOL
That looks like a popped open can of biscuits.
OMG, it does!! Hahahaha!!!
OMG. You’re right. And I’m never eating biscuits again.
Yeah, this is pretty tragic. I very much wish I could unsee some of this. Then again, I’ve never been a Madge fan so I feel like her retirement is approximately 25 years overdue.
I’m going to see Madonna on Saturday in Edinburgh. I’m not really that excited about it, although that’s partly because it’s rained constantly here for the last two months and I’m too old not to mind being out in the rain. Interestingly (or not) the Scottish police have told her that she is not to point any of her guns at the audience or she will be in Trouble.
That is hysterical! You’ll have to report back and let us know what happens.
It can’t be as bad as down here in London where they made her stop at 22.30. Because this is London, you know, a world capital city. Where the Olympics are held next. Where Westminster Council runs the country! But seriously, have fun and I’m hoping for good weather for you. And that Madonna plays some of her good old big hits! And not just the crap she’s churning out lately.
Have you ever seen her in concert? Because she is AMAZING live. I didn’t even like Hard Candy but the show was incredible. She gets the best people to do everything, from her backup dancers to the stage design. If theatre is your thing, you’ll love it.
On the plus side….. if I played dress up like that, they’d call the men with white coats…. Madge gets paid to do it.
“NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION.”
Do you think Madge has a Comfy Chair?
PS. You made my day.
And mine!
Although we must be the older segment of Fug Nation to get this reference…
Yep. I actually cackled. Cackling is something only old ladies do, I think, isn’t it?
Amen to that!
I’m Madge’s age, and my body looks just like hers – only more so. And by more so, I mean more thighs, more butt, more back fat. Otherwise, we look exactly the same. Oh, and I wear clothes. Those are the only differences.
The riff on ‘No one expects the Spanish Inquisition’ made my day. Best post in months and lord knows there’s been some wickedly funny ones, but this made me guffaw.
I would have cackled if I wasnt actually choking on my tea! Madonna and Monty Python are now forever linked in my mind. Thank you!
I cackled too (also copping to being an ‘old lady’)
[cackles with glee, stirs boiling pot of Eye of Newt, scratches giant hairy mole on nose]
Me three … that Monty P skit is one of my all-time faves … followed very closely by the blancmange that competed at Wimbledon … thank you, Heather, for that.
Yes, thank you so much. As an aside, I lost the Monty Python DVD collection is the divorce and am still a little bitter about it. (okay, it was the XH’s Christmas present but c’mon!)
She’s become a joke. Not that I ever really took her seriously (never was a fan), but now it’s so obvious. Ridiculous.
Sigh. Remember when Madonna was fun? I read some headline saying she would open her Poland concert with a WWII film. I mean – just gag me. Guess I’ll have to watch “Truth of Dare” for the 10,000th time to remember the Madonna I loved. I’ll always have a place in my heart for her, but I wish she would just give it a rest. We’re not going to forget you if you go away for a few years, you’re MADONNA.
Any time there is a Monty Python reference, my day gets a little better.
Ditto
I simply cannot abide her. CLOSE YOUR LEGS, WOMAN.
I know- what is the point of this – it’s frightening… and ugly. and trollopy..
I am using trollopy in a sentence this week. It’s my new fave world.
Remember Cher’s “follow this, you b*tches” farewell tour? She was about the same age Madge is now. She wore her thong outfit and she still managed to look more dignified than MDNA. Madge – you went from being an original to being a 2nd rate Lady Gaga impersonator!
Her whole existence now just reeks of trying to keep up. Like she’s running around behind people, trying to do her own version of whatever someone else is selling, and she’s failing. She needs to let it go. Why do people in Hollywood seem to have such a hard time with aging gracefully and retiring while they’re on top?
When they remake Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, I know who should play Aunty Entity.
Yawn….
Seriously? This is all she has? I can smell the desperation from here. Ugh… just stop – you’re ruining all my happy, fun 80s memories of you Madonna.
I would love to see her go back to her original brunette before she truly loses her beauty. She would look more balanced and youthful. The “blonde” conceit is so far past its freshness date. As for the theatrics, well, it IS impressive, given her age. And hell, I love guns.
Now, now, please note that, other than the cleavage, there was no sign of revealed flesh, no buttock, underboob, abdominal cut-outs, or fishnet. She is to be commended. We may be of the same age, and although there is twice as much of me as when Madge first hit the scene, I now trump her in one way- My plump little hands are prettier!
I don’t understand the problem people seem to have with her opening her legs wide apart. It’s not like she sat there like that for an hour, it’s just one photo of part of a dance move. And at least she’s wearing thick trousers, not just a leotard and tights this time.
I have to say, she has a fabulous profile. I know that sounds weird,but I have a HORRIBLE profile…so I notice these things…. that and from the side you can still see Madonna circa “Like A Virgin”
She does have a lovely profile, which I actually noticed in these photos, but didn’t have any idea how to bring it up as a topic. Then you…just brought it up. Ah, I love the comments here as much as I treasure the OPs.
Thirded. She has an absolutely gorgeous profile still. I agree with the later batch of commenters saying It’s a bit easy to criticize and judge on pictures that are stills of her in an unfortunate moment… But yeah, I’m sad she’s not as deep or innovative as she used to be. All her CD’s from the 90′s, I miss those days. I was so hoping she’d pull another Ray Of Light with MDNA, and admittedly it’s no a bad album but yeah… Earthy Madonna was SO much cooler and such a better artist to look up to and be inspired by.
Well, those are particularly bad and unflattering shots, she is moving about a lot, it’s not entirely fair to judge her so rashly. And about her music being crap: the last album has some of her most beautiful and deep felt songs, it’s not all cheerleader folly. I think people judge her a bit too fast, without really listening.
Seriously, this was one of the most catty series of comments I have read in a long time on GFY. LOL.
To me, the photos show that Madonna is all about theatrics, having fun, poking fun (occasionally at herself — surely she is aware of what she has wrought upon concert stage fashion) and usually making a point here and there (witness the controversy of her swastika use to critique French conservatives). True to herself until the end.
I love both Gaga and Madge for their theater. There’d be no Gaga without Madge, and believe me, anything Ms. Germanotta does is an extension of Ms. Ciccone, not so much the other way around.
I tend not to like Madonna’s singing on tour while I believe Gaga has a pretty good voice on stage, still I would not judge the tour, or Madonna’s performance, by 9 stills capturing four of her outfits. It’s about the performance and the theater in context.
Though at least Madge (unknowingly?) provides a service, by letting so many get out their anger at her aging process or lack there of. In so doing, we see in Madge (incisively or not) what we feel about aging. It’s difficult for most of us.
…did you just admit that you liked Gaga on GFY?
That’s almost like admitting you’re a Satanist in the Vatican. (Something which I’m sure Madonna has aspired to do, but still…)
Instead of “pants, what?” I’m thinking “breasts, owww.”
I’m one day away from sharing a birthday with Heather and Madge. But it’s okay, I get Belinda Carlisle and Mae West.
And yeah, Madonna is looking uncomfortable, I would love to see her focus more on her voice than her boobs.
Ooh ooh! I share their birthday! August b-days FTW!
Also: how does one dance in a corset that tight, let alone breathe?
I need MDA to put up with Madge.
What in the world is that corset doing to her skin? It looks like what happens when you open a Pillsbury biscuit-dough-in-a-can.
Picture 6 (the Corset Picture), I actually thought it was a photo from the 80s at first. Her face and hair look JUST like they did back then. But then the corset, and what it’s doing to her side…. I just don’t know about that. She looks tiny in the waist (tinier than I’ve ever been for sure) but I think she dragged that corset out from the 80s and she’s still trying to squeeze into it. Not a good look, Madonna! It’s okay to age gracefully!
And this is why I infinitely prefer Kylie Minogue. O_o I dunno, Kylie mixes it up, Gaga mixes it up, hell, even Katy Perry’s mixing it up, but Madge just…ugh. This makes me feel sad and weary. Am I a horrible person if I want her to start doing jazz standards with a big band orchestra and start covering up?
that would be so fab! I love jazz.
Didn’t Cyndi Lauper already do that? She and Kylie are so much more fab than Madonna anyway.
*yawn*
another *yawn*
Not technically a gun, but still arguably a lethal weapon is comedy gold!
And that picture of her with her clearly floppy 52 year old breasts in the bra, atop a corset wih her flesh pushed up and hanging over the edge? Not flattering. There was another pic of her in a bra where the support was much better and her breasts looked fine.
(Before the “You’ll be 52 eventually too! people come in, I have 51 year old breasts and I’m aware of their [lack] of contstraint!)
Form the neck up she looks gorgeous in slide 7.
As an older broad, I do get tired of people saying “you’re too old for long hair, to be blatently sexy, spread your legs, wear a bustier, etc”. A person should try to judge themselves objectively in their own mirror and ask if it’s the best look for them inspite of their age. Despite that and despite Madonna’s well maintained bod; I did get slightly uncomfortable looking at these pictures thinking she’s trying too hard. It’s got to be hard to give up those sexy theatrics when that is what she does. But she was known for “reinvesting” herself. Anyway, she does look great and I admire her ambitions.
I too am an older woman (“mature” I always say lol); and I don’t think she’s “too old” to spread her legs – I don’t think anyone should do it!
And I don’t think she’s too old to wear her bustiers and sexy lingerie – I just think she’s too old to wear them IN PUBLIC. Her body – although in amazing physical shape for any woman of pretty much any age – is showing extremely reasonable signs of age. In our youth-centered culture, these sights are not viewed as “attractive”. And though I agree that that’s ageist, I think the fight against ageism needs to be focus on other areas (workplace, healthcare, workplace healthcare for example) rather than in the “right to wear lingerie in public” sphere.
reinventing! Note to self: edit before positng.
oohsparkley, but “reinvesting” is also appropriate. Whatever else we might say about Madonna, she’s certainly invested in herself over the years.
Comments about Madonna’s age are so tiresome and predictable. Listen, Madonna has always been about sex, will always be about sex. It’s been like 30 years, get over it already. I know, you disapprove. Join the horde, there are plenty of you.
I think she looks great, she looks saucy, and this is a very natural step in her evolution.
So if she’s all about sex, we can make “50 Shades of Grey” digs about Madge, then? #snark
Knock yourself out.
Thanks for your approval. We’ll take it from here.
It’s not the sex I disapprove of. I just don’t always care for how Madonna executes it. Cher, Susan Sarandon, Patricia Clarkson, Helen Mirren, etc. are quite sexy, but they wouldn’t be as sexy if they weren’t comfortable in their skins, wrinkled or otherwise.
I share my birthday with Paula Abdul, Kathleen Turner, Phylicia Rashad, Mia Sara (Ferris Bueller’s girlfriend) and… wait for it … Moe Howard of “Three Stooges” fame.
I was thinking about this… and I have to say…there was a scene from “Hot In Cleveland” ( I friggen LOVE that show) where Elka explains that even though you age on the outside you just don’t on the inside. You don’t see it until you look in the mirror and you’re reminded ( quote) “I hate that bitch”……
I totally get that. I really sort of put myself at 25. I’ve been doing that for nearly 15 years now…. I know I’m not….. and when I look in the mirror I’m reminded I’m not….but when I’m feeling fabulous and I’m out and about, from the inside out I’m looking at the world through the eyes of a 25 year old…..
So I kind of hate the “She’s too old”…. I mean, maybe she is on the outside…but what age is she on the inside? and who are we to deny her that. I don’t want to be nearly 40…. sure, I am and I can’t change that…but I don’t need to squash that 25 year old in me…. she’s the one that bought the ruffled combat boots and urges me to wear them with a pleated skirt…. and I remind her to put some damn tights on with that….. She’s the one that has little stuffed bats hanging in the closet…and I remind her closet is OK, ears not so much….
Madonna’s younger Madonna is on stage…and the 50 year old Madonna is hitting the gym and raising a couple of kids.
So much pissiness… Geez.
I love Madonna.
I have never been a Madonna fan, but I do uphold any woman’s right to express herself in the manner of her choice. I am alarmed, however, that Madonna looks more like Faye Dunaway with every face lift. She needs to stop before that happens. Fierce as Madge may be, my money is on La Dunaway for the win.
Why does she always do that froggy thing with her legs? It’s fugly.
Went to see Madonna at Murrayfield tonight.
The support was awful – some DJ called Alesso doing his DJ thang to terrible electronic music, the sort of thing I hate with a fiery passion.
Madonna was half an hour late starting. One of the people I went with had downloaded a set list from the internet, and we were somewhat apprehensive because the vast majority of it was stuff from the new album. The set list said the oldies would be Papa Don’t Preach, Hung Up, Open Your Heart, Express Yourself, Vogue, Like a Virgin and Like a Prayer, and I love all of those except Open Your Heart, so I thought it would be ok.
The first 20 minutes was stuff off the new album and it was really bad. It’s all very dancey, in the sense it’s that pounding electronic stuff with a thumping bass and horrible high frequency stuff on top that makes me feel sick. The songs were crap and her voice was vocodered to hell and back. The dancing was excellent, which is probably why she was using the vocoder. The stage production was all monks and mediaeval religious imagery and incense censures and crosses, then there were a lot of guns, and a lot of shooting and blood and splattery brains and things. I hated that, absolutely hated it. Call me old-fashioned, but on a Saturday night, I don’t want to hear vocodered Madonna singing “I shot my lover in the head and now my lover is dead” over and over and over while the big screen shows splattery blood. It was like being in somebody else’s nightmare.
Things picked up for a few minutes when she did about a quarter of Papa Don’t Preach (but not all of it) and then Hung Up, which is only really any good because of the stolen Abba riff. More unpleasant electronic stuff, a lovely slowed down version of Open Your Heart, way better than the original. Express Yourself all mixed up with Born This Way was great, cheerleader outfits, bright, fun, cheery dancing tin soldier costumes, everything cheerful and fun for the first time all night. More dirgey electronic stuff, then Vogue was good. They were way behind time by then so they cut three songs from the set, unfortunately cutting Like a Virgin and leaving in a load more dirgey stuff, then a stonking version of Like a Prayer (that’s always been my favourite Madonna song) and then some crap to finish with.
It was really really disappointing, especially because the good bits were so good that you could see how good it all could have been. If they’d cut some of the new album and kept in Like a Virgin people might have thought they’d got their money’s worth, but really, £77 for four and a half good songs is a bit much. People in the seats didn’t even get out of their seats to dance for the first four songs. Folk were leaving in droves all the way through, most people were just sitting with their arms folded through most of it, and the whole place only came alive for the old songs. Oh, and she mooned us. I paid £77 to be mooned by Madonna.
And what really pisses me off is if I hadn’t gone to see Madonna, I could have afforded to get a ticket for George Michael’s rescheduled Symphonica tour that I want to see more than anything. Bah.
As for the costuming, she looked great the whole way through. She even wore a pointy bra at one point, which was fun. The dancing was amazing, the singing was really pretty ropey, and most of the show was really really boring and joyless and charmless. I’m so disappointed.