Fin Fang Foom Is Embarrassed For Madonna

[FinFangFoom]

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Madge Madge Madge, what were you thinking?

 

Elegantly yours,

 

FFF

[RockHard]

Jealous of Cher, perhaps?

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

Holy Schnikes.

 

Unfortunate, but true: Botox can only fix wrinkles... Not a sagging music career.

 

Gals like Cher and Bette Midler have it right. They don't take themselves too seriously. Madge's self-aware shtick is wearing thin (along with her $300 ticket prices). I predict (in the faux-Jamacian style of Miss Cleo no less) that this will be her last outing, as it's getting tough to look cool and keep in time with your backup dancers when you're in a Rascal scooter.

 

*wink*

 

 

 

BN

[Guest alanm]

I don't have any great hopes for Madonna's tour, but at least she is still making an effort.

 

Bette Midler is so relaxed and carefree about her musical career, she's settled for 30 minute CD tributes to better singers (Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney). Her concerts are still great fun, with her brillant comedy

sketches. Midler's musical career, which started off so well, is as dead as badly injured Barbaro's racing career.

[RockHard]

"Midler's musical career, which started off so well, is as dead...

 

Let's not place blame with the Divine Miss M. The entire music industry is up in arms and hasn't a single clue how to manage its affairs, let alone its top-name talent. As long as downloading is "the thing" and there ain't no funds for radio payola, great singers don't stand a chance.

 

The kids, mostly young girls, are dictating where the dollars go these days and that is a sad affair for music, for sure.

[Guest alanm]

My guess is that you have not listened to the two tribute CDs or heard Midler sing any of the songs in concert.

 

It sounds like Barry M. picked the songs, booked studio time & Midler came in and recorded the eight or nine songs for each CD --- end of

effort. Thirty minutes for each CD. Midler grew up in the '50s, so she was familiar was most of Clooney's songs. Lee was more complex: big band singer in the '40s, concept albums in the '50s and '60s, jazz singer at Basin Street East in '60s.

 

The music industry is a mess right now, but careless efforts like this

are just that: Midler couldn't be bothered to do better work. Thirty minutes of songs per CD says it all.

[RockHard]

RE: Midler

 

"It sounds like Barry M. picked the songs, booked studio time & Midler came in and recorded the eight or nine songs for each CD --- end of

effort. Thirty minutes for each CD."

 

Well, that maybe your opinion but I disagree. Barry and Bette worked very hard on the Rosemary Clooney effort. I love this tribute album and apparently over 800,000 other customers loved it enough to buy it, too.

 

I think the Peggy Lee album was a mistake and, granted, Midler hasn't had a double-platinum since Beaches. At age 60, I think Bette Midler is doing just fine. To expect anyone at this age to sell more than 500,000 units in this market is nothing short of remarkable.

 

The times they are a changin'. And aren't we all an age'n.

[Guest alanm]

RE: Midler

 

Barry and Bette

>worked very hard on the Rosemary Clooney effort. I love this

>tribute album and apparently over 800,000 other customers

>loved it enough to buy it, too.

>

>I think the Peggy Lee album was a mistake and, granted, Midler

>hasn't had a double-platinum since Beaches. At age 60, I think

>Bette Midler is doing just fine. To expect anyone at this age

>to sell more than 500,000 units in this market is nothing

>short of remarkable.

>

>The times they are a changin'. And aren't we all an age'n.

 

 

We agree that the Peggy Lee album was a mistake.

 

The Clooney album is enjoyable, but why only 30 minutes? Clooney had a fifty year career, surely Barry and Bette could have found more songs that would have provided a richer and fuller listening experience. I play it fairly often, but the CD is over just as I'm really getting into it. I'm making an issue of this, because I heard Midler sing "Tenderly" in concert shortly after the CD come out. To me, Bette had very little connection with the song.

[seaboy4hire]

FFF I don't quite understand what you are trying to say with your op. I was there opening night of Madonna's tour at the Forum and up paid the $400 with service fees etc to see her and am seeing her in Chicago and NYC. The whole thing is way worth $400 and unlike some pop tarts Madonna sings live and has way better dance moves then they could do. This is not her last tour thankfully. We'll know when she will choose to retire. And every show has sold out here in the States and Europe and more dates are going to be announced for Russia and Japan. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if they sold out too. I take that back I KNOW they will sell out. Madonna isn't some dumb bitch. She is a very smart woman. She knows what buttons to push and knows how to be on the cutting edge of pop music always a step ahead of the rest. My jockstrap goes off to her for a stellar performance last night. Oh and one more thing. I would KILL for a body like hers. How many woman at the age of 47 have that kind of body, can dance like that and break out some killer yoga moves?

 

Hugs,

Greg

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[seaboy4hire]

>Holy Schnikes.

>

>Unfortunate, but true: Botox can only fix wrinkles... Not a

>sagging music career.

>

>Gals like Cher and Bette Midler have it right. They don't

>take themselves too seriously. Madge's self-aware shtick is

>wearing thin (along with her $300 ticket prices). I predict

>(in the faux-Jamacian style of Miss Cleo no less) that this

>will be her last outing, as it's getting tough to look cool

>and keep in time with your backup dancers when you're in a

>Rascal scooter.

>

>*wink*

>

>

>

>BN

Sagging music career? BN you better get your facts straight. Madonna has sold over 6 million yup 6 million units of her latest album world wide. She has been consistantly #1 and in the top 10 world wide. And all her shows for this tour are sold out. I wouldn't call that a sagging music career.

 

 

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[FinFangFoom]

>FFF I don't quite understand what you are trying to say with

>your op.

 

I was referring to the hideous costumes. They look like a Cleveland housewife's idea of something kinky and "hot".

 

They're merely embarassing.

 

Fashionably yours,

 

FFF

[seaboy4hire]

>

>I don't have any great hopes for Madonna's tour, but at least

>she is still making an effort.

>

>Bette Midler is so relaxed and carefree about her musical

>career, she's settled for 30 minute CD tributes to better

>singers (Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney). Her concerts are still

>great fun, with her brillant comedy

>sketches. Midler's musical career, which started off so well,

>is as dead as badly injured Barbaro's racing career.

I don't think it is fare to put Bette in the pop catagory or compare her remotely with Madonna. They are two totaly different generas. Don't get me wrong I love Bette. She is funnier then all get up and I wish I could see her perform one day.

 

Hugs,

Greg

 

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[Rick Munroe]

RE: getting up

 

>She is

>funnier then all get up

 

Hmmm...I never thought all get up was so funny to begin with.

[RockHard]

"They look like a Cleveland housewife's idea of something kinky and "hot"."

 

Now THAT is mother-fuckin' funny. Fin, I spit my coffee all over my desktop, damn you. You are my new MC best friend. Please post more!

 

ps Maybe it helps that I've been to Cleveland and seen the fashion there. :-(

[+ ArVaGuy]

In some respects the London Daily Mail agrees with you. Here's the link.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=387368&in_page_id=1773

 

Madonna concert review: 'Even the bouncers looked scared'

by LINA DAS, Daily Mail 11:03am 23rd May 2006

 

Riding crop in hand, leather boots gripping her legs, equestrian-cum-bondage gear strapped across her body and, of course, the ubiquitous crucifix - yup, it was just another day at the office for Madonna.

As she kicked off her Confessions world tour at LA's Great Western Forum on Sunday, she opened up her box of carefully planned props and utilised every single one to full PR shock effect.

 

So it was bondage - the traducing of religious imagery. Overt displays of sexuality - male dancers trussed up like horses etc etc.

The world's most famous 47-year-old took to the stage, a mere 50 minutes late, determined to prove to all those willing to listen - and pay up to £200 a ticket - that she still had the ability to grab headlines.

 

She insulted George Bush, simulated sex and suspended herself from a giant mirrored crucifix, head adorned with a designer crown of thorns (provided by Cotter Church Supplies, LA) in an all-out attempt to get someone, anyone out there, riled.

 

Before one can go further, mention must be made of her body - the most amazing feat of engineering since the Golden Gate Bridge.

When she unveiled it, you couldn't take your eyes off it - not as a thing of beauty but as an object of sheer, sinewy significance. Even the bouncers looked scared.

 

The show, a mixture of old hits plus numbers from her last album, Confessions On A Dance Floor, was split into four themes, starting with the Equestrian Section.

 

Proving she has no ill effects from last year's fall from a horse, images of Madonna, riding crop in hand, and horses cantering across windswept plains were played on big screens for her first number, Future Lovers, looking like a kinkier version of a Lloyds TSB ad.

And as Madonna appeared in vaguely horsey black bondage gear, a group of male dancers crawled around, leather bits in their mouths, simulating, one assumes, the movements of horses.

 

So far, so very S&M. Dressed in black Jean Paul Gaultier trousers and lacy blouse, Madge didn't take long to whip out her suggestive groin movements to the big screen accompaniment of her writhing on the floor, showing off her well-honed physique.

 

Well, if you spent three hours a day exercising, doing Ashtanga yoga, weight training and cycling, you'd want everyone to see your body too.

 

But she gave the insurance men palpitations by clambering on to a motorised saddle high above the crowds in Yves St Laurent highheeled boots while hanging on to her microphone and performing simultaneous acrobatics.

 

One hoped, for decency's sake, that her trousers were made of sturdy stuff. This was the Madonna we were all familiar with - the Madonna with the in-your-face sexuality.

 

And then it started to go a bit wonky. We know about the former Material Girl's newfound spirituality and devotion to Kabbalah, and Madonna seemed determined to Leave People With A Message.

Thus, words of cod wisdom such as: "There's light even in the darkest places" flashed up on screen - which was nice enough, even if it sat oddly with her previously stated message to "turn the world into one big dance floor".

 

But Didactic Madonna wasn't finished-Up she went, suspended on a large crucifix, as images of child poverty flickered on the screens. The tour, incidentally, is estimated to gross $200million.

In the next segment she engaged in an energetic "fight" with a male dancer which involved a demonstration of her unnerving ability to bend her leg around the back of her head.

 

Next, a montage of world leaders was flashed up as Madge sang: "I've listened to your lies", images including Nixon, Pinochet, Hitler and Blair0º00.

 

But Madonna had bigger fish to fry, in the shape of George Bush. She urged fans to perform a certain sexual act on the President.

More writhing around on the floor and simulated sex ensued for her rendition of Let It Will Be. By now she looked a bit tired. And no wonder.

 

A boundlessly energetic performance over two hours with seven costume changes would tax someone half her age.

Indeed, one worried what effect such gyrations would have on her convalescence from a recent hernia operation.

 

She exhorted us to sing along. But few did. A visibly irked Madonna screamed: "Come on you lazy mother******s! Sing!"

 

The show ended - rather abruptly - with no encore and with the lights immediately going on, leaving us all looking at one another in a slightly embarrassed fashion, as though we'd just been caught doing something we shouldn't have been.

[bigguyinpasadena]

OK Greg-we get it!You are a fan(big understatement I know)of Midge(and darlings-if you are going to slight the poor middle age harlot with a heart of crass it is MIDGE not madge that is the common slur-but madge is funny too-but not as funny as MIDGE)but why are you paying so much cash to see her lip sink in an overly large venue?I have never seen the appeal of these big stadium shows.

I have seen Bette twice-bothe times were long ago and far away(well Concord CA.and Las Vegas)And the shows were great,but I really have no desire to see her live again.

[bigguyinpasadena]

OK Greg-we get it!You are a fan(big understatement I know)of Midge(and darlings-if you are going to slight the poor middle age harlot with a heart of crass it is MIDGE not madge that is the common slur-but madge is funny too-but not as funny as MIDGE)but why are you paying so much cash to see her lip sink in an overly large venue?I have never seen the appeal of these big stadium shows.

I have seen Bette twice-bothe times were long ago and far away(well Concord CA.and Las Vegas)And the shows were great,but I really have no desire to see her live again.

[seaboy4hire]

>OK Greg-we get it!You are a fan(big understatement I know)of

>Midge(and darlings-if you are going to slight the poor middle

>age harlot with a heart of crass it is MIDGE not madge that is

>the common slur-but madge is funny too-but not as funny as

>MIDGE)but why are you paying so much cash to see her lip sink

>in an overly large venue?I have never seen the appeal of these

>big stadium shows.

>I have seen Bette twice-bothe times were long ago and far

>away(well Concord CA.and Las Vegas)And the shows were

>great,but I really have no desire to see her live again.

Midge, Madge, potato, potato it's all good. I kind of like Midge. She only lip syncs when there is a lot of dancing involved, otherwise she is singing live. And why am I seeing her? Because and this isn't just for Madonna but more times then not some of the performers that I like just don't come to Seattle. Which honestly I don't blame them. The venues up here are small to mid sized and the crowds suck. I have no problems going to see someone that I like perform. I've done it quite a few times and traveling and music are two of my favorite things. I want good seats and have no issues with paying for them. Although I did see on ebay where people were trying to sell tickets on the floor good seats mind you for $10,000. I however did not pay that for any of my seats and refuse to. I am part of her fan club and for some of the shows was able to get tickets at face value from other fans. A similar question could be turned around and asked to you or any of the other clients. Why would you spend X hundreds of dollars for a shag with John Doe escort? I don't expect an answer nor really feel one is needed cause we all have our wants and or needs.

 

Hugs,

Greg

 

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[seaboy4hire]

>OK Greg-we get it!You are a fan(big understatement I know)of

>Midge(and darlings-if you are going to slight the poor middle

>age harlot with a heart of crass it is MIDGE not madge that is

>the common slur-but madge is funny too-but not as funny as

>MIDGE)but why are you paying so much cash to see her lip sink

>in an overly large venue?I have never seen the appeal of these

>big stadium shows.

>I have seen Bette twice-bothe times were long ago and far

>away(well Concord CA.and Las Vegas)And the shows were

>great,but I really have no desire to see her live again.

Midge, Madge, potato, potato it's all good. I kind of like Midge. She only lip syncs when there is a lot of dancing involved, otherwise she is singing live. And why am I seeing her? Because and this isn't just for Madonna but more times then not some of the performers that I like just don't come to Seattle. Which honestly I don't blame them. The venues up here are small to mid sized and the crowds suck. I have no problems going to see someone that I like perform. I've done it quite a few times and traveling and music are two of my favorite things. I want good seats and have no issues with paying for them. Although I did see on ebay where people were trying to sell tickets on the floor good seats mind you for $10,000. I however did not pay that for any of my seats and refuse to. I am part of her fan club and for some of the shows was able to get tickets at face value from other fans. A similar question could be turned around and asked to you or any of the other clients. Why would you spend X hundreds of dollars for a shag with John Doe escort? I don't expect an answer nor really feel one is needed cause we all have our wants and or needs.

 

Hugs,

Greg

 

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