३ फेब्रुवारी, २०१२

"What Time Does the Superbowl Start?"

= the best-ever string of words for pulling internet traffic.

Part of the strategy is the missing space. It should be: Superb Owl.

AND: Speaking of the Super Bowl, here's Madonna:



Who doesn't want to walk along the helmeted heads of football players as if they were a cobblestone street? And... where can I get wall-sconces like that (see 2:25)?

३२ टिप्पण्या:

edutcher म्हणाले...

Usually the worst game of the year.

The best part is the commercials.

Nonapod म्हणाले...

I don't know about y'all, but the first thing that pops into my head when I think "football" and "Superbowl" is Madonna.

Palladian म्हणाले...

Who are the trannies in the Madonna video?

Wince म्हणाले...

Instead of "Hoo!", the "Superb Owl" this year says "Ho!".

ricpic म्हणाले...

The old broad's gettin' creaky.

Patrick म्हणाले...

I clicked on the video solely to see the sconces. I didn't even make it a minute. Truly awful. There is (a very little bit) of Madonna's stuff I liked (Live to Tell e.g.), but this is awful.

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

Not a Nicki Minaj fan.

Chip Ahoy म्हणाले...

I think you'll have to make the sconces and it looks like a fun project. Especially if you make five or six at once like that. At first I thought they were real people. I didn't embiggen the video to examine closely maybe they are real people. But in lieu of real people, I'd start with dressing mannequin sections and I'd look at the motors that move sweeping cameras. Light mounted inside the helmet to shine out through the face mask. I agree that would be an AWESOME rec room.

Known Unknown म्हणाले...

Linking to yourself and your clever use of wordplay?

Who do you think you are, Crack Emcee?

Known Unknown म्हणाले...

Madonna descends into self-parody.

Palladian म्हणाले...

Yeah, it's really hard to call that melange of soft-serve digital fibrillation, skim milk-thin vocalizations, eye-rollingly trite sentiments and syncopated shouting a "song". It sounds more like the audio equivalent of mechanically-separated chicken, a slurry of Madonna cliches ground up in some large machine and served on a slice of Wonder bread.

Scott M म्हणाले...

Madonna descends into self-parody.

Shatneresque? Nobody's that good.

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

I'm somehow reminded, also, of Lucille Ball in Mame.

Watching someone of Madonna's age singing Gimme all your love like she's 25 just sounds kinda pathetic.

sakredkow म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Palladian म्हणाले...

MadisonMan, it's even worse than you think... It's called "Give Me All Your Luvin".

sakredkow म्हणाले...

Madonna self-aware?

BarrySanders20 म्हणाले...

Madonna: I'm still the stankiest slut. Take note of the original, little Gaga girl.

Me: pretty amazing for 50.

sakredkow म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
stutefish म्हणाले...

What was the deal with the baby carriage at the beginning?

The message I got was "I just now reminded you that I'm an aging soccer mom, but I want you to forget about that and pretend I'm still the hot young Madonna that hit the big time all those years ago, even though this piece can't hold a candle to my groundbreaking early work."

Irene म्हणाले...

Is this Madonna speaking to Lady Gaga?

“There’s a lot of ways to look at it. I can’t really be annoyed by it …because, obviously, I’ve influenced her.” But the Material Girl became coy when the conversation turned to “Born This Way.” “When I heard it on the radio …I said that sounds very familiar,” Madonna said.

Asked if that felt annoying, Madonna responded, “It felt reductive.” Pressed as to whether that was a good or bad thing, Madonna told Cynthia McFadden to “look it up” — we did; the term means “minimal” or “crude” — before smiling slyly and taking a sip from her tea cup.

Known Unknown म्हणाले...

She should get back to directing terrible movies about Nazi sympathizers.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

Weak tea. and what Palladian said.

Triangle Man म्हणाले...

Look, if your're going to game the search engine, you could at least put the answer in the post.

Methadras म्हणाले...

Madonna looks hot. Nicki Minaj looks okay. The other one I don't know.

The rule of Lemnity म्हणाले...

I'm watching it for the first time Irene.. and I had the same thought.

It could all be a marketing stunt to sell rec.. its not records anymore.. nor cds.

Its a marketing stunt.

chickelit म्हणाले...

Madonna at half-time?

*click*

Not even eye-candy anymore. Too stringy.

Lance म्हणाले...

It's been years since Madonna could sing live and stay on key. She'll lip-synch her entire performance, guaranteed.

el polacko म्हणाले...

lotta cranky old farts around here.
madge is looking great and the vid and song are fun. (note the keane reference to nicki's 'stupid ho' vid.) madonna has been the undisputed queen of pop music for thirty years now and still had the largest grossing tour by a female last year..not too shabby.

The rule of Lemnity म्हणाले...

To be fare to Lady Gga.. and I'am not a fan.

Madonna used material from ABBA in one of her recordings.

See if this sounds familiar.

Maybe ABBA lifted it too.. the piece sounds like its not part of the original score.. it sounds like music you would hear at a western.

The rule of Lemnity म्हणाले...

Oh, maybe I should mention the evidence against Madonna.

Hung Up

Madonnas version is better.. and maybe that's her point.

If you are going to copy/homage.. improve it.. its your duty as an artist?.. or something.. that's my interpretation of "reductive".

Of course I'm biased.
Madonna can do no wrong.

Chris Althouse Cohen म्हणाले...

Lance: Madonna doesn't lip synch in concert. Perhaps you're thinking of Britney Spears.

Lem: This should be too obvious to even point out, but Madonna used a sample of an ABBA song in Hung Up, for which she gave the writers of the original ABBA song co-songwriter credit and royalties. I believe I've heard that ABBA made more money off of the sample than they did off the original song. Sampling is very very common in current music and is not wrong or illegal by any stretch of the imagination, for the same reason that doing a cover of another person's song is not wrong or illegal. That's not comparable to ripping off another artist. In fact, it's the opposite.

The rule of Lemnity म्हणाले...

I was unaware.. about the royalty.