Im sorry but the finger is everywhere in all media forms and in everyday life. You see the bird on a daily basis unless you live in a cave. Its nothing anymore. People just want to act like they are offended cause their bored.

purplethunder3121 said:

mancabdriver said:

Don’t you think it’s a little demeaning for Nicki and MIA that they were basically Madonna’s backup dancers? But then again I would find it very hard to turn down an opportunity as big as that.

I think its Madonna’s bitchy way of keeping control and centre of attention like she did when she performed with Xtina and Britney.

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Uh, that's like sticking the finger to herself... She didn't have to do the half-time show... Her choice.

MIA also didn't have to appear on a Madonna track with a (Illuminati-driven) Nicki Minaj neither. MIA choose to compromise her own status as a socially-conscience artist in exchange to increase her time limit within the mainstream pop culture. And then on top of that, she throws up the as if she was trying to tell her long time fans from her underground-level days that she hasn't sold-out 100% and that she was still "hood".

Well too late for that. MIA should have thought of that before she compromised on her own musical principles.

Timmy84 said:

The Super Bowl technically isn't family friendly at all. You're letting your kid see someone get their ass torn up by someone throwing themselves at you like a bowling ball.

The commercials for SuperBowl Sunday are not family friendly neither. Remember the infamous Mike Ditka commercial concerning erectile disfunction?!? The same people that were piss at Janet & Justin for their halftime show performance almost didn't say jackshit about Mike Ditka at all.

TonyVanDam said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Uh, that's like sticking the finger to herself... She didn't have to do the half-time show... Her choice.

MIA also didn't have to appear on a Madonna track with a (Illuminati-driven) Nicki Minaj neither. MIA choose to compromise her own status as a socially-conscience artist in exchange to increase her time limit within the mainstream pop culture. And then on top of that, she throws up the as if she was trying to tell her long time fans from her underground-level days that she hasn't sold-out 100% and that she was still "hood".

Well too late for that. MIA should have thought of that before she compromised on her own musical principles.

Didn't you promise us all at the end of 2011 that you were going to fuck off?

BlaqueKnight said:

BlaqueKnight said:

Nobody bothered to pay close attention.

Go back and pull up her lyrics to this and then go back and watch the video. It is TOTALLY in line with the lyrics.

Again...if you listen to the lyrics and look at WHEN she gives the bird...

The lyrics are

"I'mma say this once"

"I don't give a sh*t" (flips the bird on "sh*t")

It fits.

If parents can let their children watch that kind of violence, they can let their children see a middle finger.

There is nothing to pontificate on.

The faux outrage in this country is growing to ridiculous proportions.

And lets face it, Madonna has been way more over-the-top than M.I.A.

That bitch ain't not saint...although she has dressed up as one before.

Madonna has also dressed up and played the role of Mystery Babylon, Mother Of All Harlots (Revelation 17:5).

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Graycap23 said:

Not a single person was talking about her great "performance".

It seems this was the ONLY way 2 get any attention from this particular performance.

@Gray & BK....I'm more disappointed that MIA's middle finger gotten far more attention than all of the occult symbolism that were obviously in plain sight throughout the entire halftime show of the entire audience & viewers to see.

G3000 said:

I agree. It's a freaking double stardard.

lastdecember said:

mjscarousal said:

Right.

The fact that Madonna even acknowledge that shit... is tacky to me.. Like you over their doing crotch showing kart wheels and someone gives the bird and NO ONE saw it.. and you calling an overly sex performance peaceful... please Madonna SIT DOWN...

Sorry but i dont buy the whole "race" card issue, YES, its a double standard, but you cant tell me that if Madonna stuck her middle finger up in the camera people would have looked the other way? I mean really? Oasis did shit like this on the MTV awards about 15-17 years ago, and got banned, Adnrew Dice CLay cursed and did whatever got booted off two different shows and blacklisted by a whole network, now Chris Rock went out there and trashed everyone and no one blinked an eye, yet no one was saying, oh well Dice got banned because he was Jewish, Dice got banned because people thought he was sexist and pulled out of the network, SO YES race does play a part in these things AT TIMES, but CASH and the bottom line wipe out all race, GREEN is the color that matters people not black white and brown and yellow.

OFF-TOPIC: ViaCON (which is the current owner of MTV, VH-1, & BET) lifted the banned status from Andrew Dice Clay in order for Dice to appear more often on VH-1.

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VoicesCarry said:

Since when did Madonna turn into a conservative cunt? We always knew she was a cunt, but a conservative one?

I think it's pretty lame of Madonna for calling MIA out for the middle finger gesture. First of all, MIA makes the gesture in the video, so Madonna can hardly be surprised that she integrated it into a performance. Second, Madonna is no stranger to stunt queen moves during performances. Finally, Madonna should be standing up for performers who push the envelope considering she's made a career out of doing it.

ANSWER: The moment Madonna accepted the stipulations of the NFL & NBC to not be the "liberal cunt" and/or the provocative artist that she is infamous of being throughout her music career.

This is the part that people need to take in consideration. Madonna might have been THE only one promising to accept these stipulations and not MIA or Nicki Minaj for that matter.

SoulAlive said:

Madonna is not against doing things that are "controversial"...she's made a whole career out of that.The problem is...after Nipplegate,you can't do that kinda stuff at the SuperBowl.Janet learned that the hard way.During your own concert,it's fine to do whatever the fuck you want.The SuperBowl has a whole different set of rules.They now make artists sign contracts that hold them liable for any indency fines that the NFL or network receives.

There's a time and place for everything.

Before Nipplegate, there was NOTHING controversial happening at any NFL SuperBowl halftime show at all (unless Michael Jackson lip-syncing through most of his performance counts! ).

And you know why? Because the limits of free speech & free expression were NEVER tested on a (inter)national platform on free boardcast television like the SuperBowl before the year Janet, Justin Timberlake, Kid Rock, Nelly, & Sean Combs took a shot at it. And we all know how that turn out......for Janet & Justin anyway.

lazycrockett said:

Timmy84 said:

lazycrockett posted some pictures of Madonna's gash.

Just so you do have to look too hard.

At least Madonna shaved these days. Remember back in her early 1980's (before her record deal with Sire/Warner Bros) when she used to have it too hairy?!?

TonyVanDam said:

G3000 said:

I agree. It's a freaking double stardard.

I had forgotten all about this and folks still talking .... smh Yes it is a double standard which is why Im not paying it no mind. The media choose what they want to blow up and deem as classless but does the most trashiest shit every single day... whatever

http://www.alternet.org/s...super_bowl

Try as hard as i can, i do not for the life of me understand what MIA thought she had to gain from

doing Madonna.

Whatever victory she sought was always going to be pyrrhic, unless her intention was to become

the new Madonna, but her new song and vid would seem to suggest otherwise, even if she has come over all sexy and shit.

Surely, not even record company pressure led to this?

WTF happened here?

mancabdriver said:

Don’t you think it’s a little demeaning for Nicki and MIA that they were basically Madonna’s backup dancers? But then again I would find it very hard to turn down an opportunity as big as that.

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They better be glaad that they were even allowed to per4m during a Super Bowl

TonyVanDam said:

http://www.alternet.org/s...super_bowl

Why MIA Was Right to Give America the Finger at the Super Bowl

...Madge is very interested in co-opting black and brown “cool.” As bell hooks wrote years ago in her essay “Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister,” “Fascinated yet envious of black style, Madonna appropriates black culture in ways that mock and undermine, making her presentation one that upstages.” In this estimation, it’s easy to see why Madonna was so angry at M.I.A. for stealing the spotlight...

It’s telling that one of the main critiques of M.I.A.'s finger-flip this week had to do with the fact that she is “not even American,” as Republican Dana Perino groused, which is true (she holds British and Sri Lankan citizenship), but is also veiled code for “brown.” Let us not forget the role race played in Nipplegate, and how it corresponds—woman of color onstage with white pop star offends the country by will or by accident—and wonder if M.I.A. was white and gave the finger, how commentators would react. While we aren’t inclined to think a middle finger is all that interesting—we view it with something approaching boredom—it is somewhat subversive that a young brown woman rapping about her “uranium hits” did it.

And so, as the NBC and NFL play, and the FCC decides how much to charge, and who to charge it to (likely: around $50,000, and M.I.A.), this light controversy continues to rage, the country’s racial undercurrent runs through it. Meanwhile, M.I.A.’s got a new single to promote. It’s called "Bad Girlz," it samples Arabic pop, and the video features women wearing niqab and wielding A-Ks. Dana Perroni would love it.

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THIS^ article makes sense.

Exactly, Tony. (Where the hell you been, man? )

BlaqueKnight said:

TonyVanDam said:

http://www.alternet.org/s...super_bowl

Why MIA Was Right to Give America the Finger at the Super Bowl

...Madge is very interested in co-opting black and brown “cool.” As bell hooks wrote years ago in her essay “Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister,” “Fascinated yet envious of black style, Madonna appropriates black culture in ways that mock and undermine, making her presentation one that upstages.” In this estimation, it’s easy to see why Madonna was so angry at M.I.A. for stealing the spotlight...

It’s telling that one of the main critiques of M.I.A.'s finger-flip this week had to do with the fact that she is “not even American,” as Republican Dana Perino groused, which is true (she holds British and Sri Lankan citizenship), but is also veiled code for “brown.” Let us not forget the role race played in Nipplegate, and how it corresponds—woman of color onstage with white pop star offends the country by will or by accident—and wonder if M.I.A. was white and gave the finger, how commentators would react. While we aren’t inclined to think a middle finger is all that interesting—we view it with something approaching boredom—it is somewhat subversive that a young brown woman rapping about her “uranium hits” did it.

And so, as the NBC and NFL play, and the FCC decides how much to charge, and who to charge it to (likely: around $50,000, and M.I.A.), this light controversy continues to rage, the country’s racial undercurrent runs through it. Meanwhile, M.I.A.’s got a new single to promote. It’s called "Bad Girlz," it samples Arabic pop, and the video features women wearing niqab and wielding A-Ks. Dana Perroni would love it.

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THIS^ article makes sense.

Exactly, Tony. (Where the hell you been, man? )

Really?? You think madge gives a shit what she steals and where she steals it? Like she has researched and studied the non white cultures and has come up with a dasterly plan?

Cmon. she steals what hot and now and the reason is cause she has the money and the respect of the industry to do it. Who says no to Vadge? As for MIA she saw the op and took it, she wants to promote herself as does any other artist. Lets be honest if Taylor Swift threw the bird at the superbowl it would be news, or kelly clarkson. Its not bout MIA its bout the USA weird ass uptightness.

lazycrockett said:

BlaqueKnight said:

Exactly, Tony. (Where the hell you been, man? )

Really?? You think madge gives a shit what she steals and where she steals it? Like she has researched and studied the non white cultures and has come up with a dasterly plan?

Cmon. she steals what hot and now and the reason is cause she has the money and the respect of the industry to do it. Who says no to Vadge? As for MIA she saw the op and took it, she wants to promote herself as does any other artist. Lets be honest if Taylor Swift threw the bird at the superbowl it would be news, or kelly clarkson. Its not bout MIA its bout the USA weird ass uptightness.

Nonsense.

She flips the bird in the video.

Read my earlier post for an explanation of why it fit during the show.

It was really insignificant but WHITE MAINSTREAM AMERICA tries to mask its blatant bigotry with fake outrage.

Madonna can spread her busted ass coochie all over the stage during the halftime of a sport that is 90% violence but somehow one little brown finger is controversial? BULLSHIT. Its the "we can't call you a sandn*gg*r, so we'll use this as a reason to be mad" excuse.

People of color know this tired ass move. Its not new and people ain't foolin' nobody with that bullshit.

Madonna's fake ass knows damn well she wasn't suprised nor was she offended.

And somebody remind that bitch she's from Bay City and not Brixton. Ol' faux accent havin' ass...

She's always been a culture vulture. People of color just don't give a shit about a watered-down version or bastardization of something.

BlaqueKnight said:

She flips the bird in the video.

Read my earlier post for an explanation of why it fit during the show.

It was really insignificant but WHITE MAINSTREAM AMERICA tries to mask its blatant bigotry with fake outrage.

Madonna can spread her busted ass coochie all over the stage during the halftime of a sport that is 90% violence but somehow one little brown finger is controversial? BULLSHIT. Its the "we can't call you a sandn*gg*r, so we'll use this as a reason to be mad" excuse.

People of color know this tired ass move. Its not new and people ain't foolin' nobody with that bullshit.

Madonna's fake ass knows damn well she wasn't suprised nor was she offended.

And somebody remind that bitch she's from Bay City and not Brixton. Ol' faux accent havin' ass...

She's always been a culture vulture. People of color just don't give a shit about a watered-down version or bastardization of something.

BlaqueKnight said:

lazycrockett said:

Really?? You think madge gives a shit what she steals and where she steals it? Like she has researched and studied the non white cultures and has come up with a dasterly plan?

Cmon. she steals what hot and now and the reason is cause she has the money and the respect of the industry to do it. Who says no to Vadge? As for MIA she saw the op and took it, she wants to promote herself as does any other artist. Lets be honest if Taylor Swift threw the bird at the superbowl it would be news, or kelly clarkson. Its not bout MIA its bout the USA weird ass uptightness.

Nonsense.

She flips the bird in the video.

Read my earlier post for an explanation of why it fit during the show.

It was really insignificant but WHITE MAINSTREAM AMERICA tries to mask its blatant bigotry with fake outrage.

Madonna can spread her busted ass coochie all over the stage during the halftime of a sport that is 90% violence but somehow one little brown finger is controversial? BULLSHIT. Its the "we can't call you a sandn*gg*r, so we'll use this as a reason to be mad" excuse.

People of color know this tired ass move. Its not new and people ain't foolin' nobody with that bullshit.

Madonna's fake ass knows damn well she wasn't suprised nor was she offended.

And somebody remind that bitch she's from Bay City and not Brixton. Ol' faux accent havin' ass...

She's always been a culture vulture. People of color just don't give a shit about a watered-down version or bastardization of something.

Hot damn!