benni said:

FUNKNROLL said:

SuperFurryAnimal said:

Deal with it!

People hate Madonna. Deal with it. Her tribute can't come soon enough. God knows her career was over decades ago. . [Edited 5/23/16 19:22pm]

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Her career isn't over. She can still sell out stadiums in many places, most likely. By most standards, Prince's career was over too. And don't get me wrong, I have thought Madonna was untalented (at music and art in general) since the 80s, but she made a big career out of working with talented artists and taking credit for their work, etc.

SuperFurryAnimal said:

Lizzypoo said:

Linn4days said:

Graveyards,

Goth,

Pire of his symbol

....for a video tribute of a "friend"?

Bingo! Awful! And, typical of Madonna's darkness -- Prince was into the Light and God -- someone else should have done the triube -- anybody else!!!!

I think that some of the imagery is inspired by the Senead O'Connor video of Nothing Compares 2 U. On the other hand I had forgotten that she was into Kabbalah, so who knows if what she did in terms of the background video was malicious. Maybe Billboard only allowed a short time frame for the tribute and she did what she could. My main complaint is that the tribute seemed half-azzed - I was expecting more speeches about what Prince contributed to entertainment, more about how he got his start, more performers - that sort of thing. I could tell that she was nervous or maybe she was emotional. Hopefully, Madonna can tell her side of it soon.

this person that posted on her instagram broke it down hard and for real:

• diamondiamthatThat's a LIE!! I LOVED HER but that was a DISGRACE!! A WOMAN OF HER CALIBRE AND POWER WHY WOULD YOU SAY YOU LOVED HIM SO MUCH AND ALLOW YOUR FANS TO SAY GREAT JOB!!! MADONNA!!!!! YOU ARE ONE OF THE EXCEPTIONAL ARTIST WITH VISION OF GREAT COMPOSTION AND SHOW CREATIVITY!! YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HONOR TO BE ASKED BUT IF THAT'S ALL YOU HAD TO OFFER YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN LOYAL AND HONEST AND DID WHAT HE WOULD HAVE LOVED! TOLD THEM " ONLY" PRINCE BANDS AND ARTIST HE PRODUCED CAN GIVE HIM THE ULTIMATE HONOR!! THIS WAS SATANIC!! WHAT WAS YOUR POINT? THIS GLOOM! DARKNESS!!! CEMETERY!!! ANTCIENT TOMBSTONE! HIS PICTURES OF CHOICE WAS HORRIBLE!!! THE LAST ONE HMMMM... I WON'T TELL SINCE YOU DIDN'T WHAT THAT MEANT!!! THE LAST DOVE FLYING WHO PRESENTS DOVES AT THAT ANGLE LOOKING LIKE IT WAS STRUGGLING!! NO BETTER DOVES YOU COULD FIND? THE FOOLISHNESS DEATH SCRIPT WHY IF YOU ARE HONORING SOMEONE WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE IN HEAVEN!!! HIS SYMBOL BURNED IN ROYAL PURPLE FLAMES!!! WHY NOT PUT THE SYMBOL THAT REPRESENT EVIL DESCRIBING HIS ENTIRE MUSIC STRUGGLE THAT STRIP HIM OF HIS MOST PRIZE POSSESSION " HIS MUSIC" ONCE HE GOT IT BACK NOT 2 YEARS TO THE DATE HE MIRACULOUSLY TURNS INTO A PILL HEAD!!! DOES SHOWS NO ONE KNEW ABOUT!! MAKES WEIRD THEN COMMENTS THAT MAKES PERFECT SENSE TO ME NOW!!! WALGREEN RUNS ALL OF A SUDDEN FREQUENTLY IN THE PRIOR WEEKS I BET HE DID AFTER OD n And NOT understanding Y? WHEN DID YOU EVER SEE HIM PERFORMING IN BLACK AND GLOOM!! TIRED AND BORING!?! NO FEELINGS OR FEELINGS OF VICTORY AND HUMBLE HONOR OF ANOTHER PROMINENT DEATH THAT BRINGS POWER!!! THIS WAS 3 MUCH AND HORRIBLY SAD COMING FROM A PERSON WHO WAS CLOSE TO HIM AND LOVED HIM SO MUCH!! WAS THAT A TRIBUTE AND CELEBRATION OF PRINCE BURNING IN HELL? IJS AND ASKING?!? TOTALLY CONFUSED ON LOVE! FRIENDSHIP!??! RESPECT!??!! TRIBUTES!??!! AND HONOR!?!? I HOPE WHEN LINDA PERRY HONOR YOU SHE SHOW HER LIVE LIKE YOU DID LAST NIGHT THAT'S ALL YOU DESERVE!! THE AUDACITY TO SAY DEAL WITH IT!! YOU DEAL WITH THIS THEN. ALL RESPECT LOST!! RIGHT IS RIGHT AND WRONG IS WRONG!! I LOVE GOD AND IT WAS SUCH DISRESPECT FOR HIM WEARING THOSE 3 CROSSES YOU ALL MADE SURE WAS VISIBLE!!! "DO NOT HAVE ANY IMAGE OF ME"! God Bless♡

WOW diamondiamthat made some Cold arse Observations and Points!!!

[Edited 5/23/16 20:50pm]

tmo1965 said:

Shaolin325 said:

I believe Madonna's tribute was sincere (I actually enjoyed it) and she didn't expect all the negative responses. Her feeligs are hurt but instead of ignoring it all she's lashing out and being as hurtful as she can be. I think BET's response probably really stung. I wish BET would've taken the high road and followed the old saying "I can show you better than I can tell you" Madonna's just not built to take the high road, so the 5 year old has reared it's head.

Lashing out? Because she's promoting the exact same bag she's been promoting for over a year? http://www.mawi.co.uk/dia...r-handbag/

As for BET, somebody needs to let them know paying respects to the deceased is not a damn competition. Trashing someone else's tribute to boost your own ratings and profits is shameful.

Quest said it best: "EVERYBODY wants and deserves a chance to say goodbye in their own way. But remember: there will be AMAs, SoulTrain, NAACP, mtv, GRAMMYS. "And a gazillion other tributes. But the point is let's not get ugly w playing the 'Prince would and wouldn't approve' game. & this isn't *just about* the Madge/Stevie tribute btw."

I like the way he mentioned 5 other upcoming tributes and didn't include BET.

IstenSzek said:

What I wrote to Madonna;

You mocked him in life by dressing like him, burning the Symbol, displaying DEATH in the cemetery, made fun that he needed a cane,(hips) wore crosses (JW), chose wrong song, and if that wasn't bad enough, mocked him in death by posting a picture of yourself in purple in what purposely looks like the inside an elevator carrying a bag with the word DEALER on it.

I just have one question for you, how come you hate Prince so much?

Its really amazing to me that people are making this thing about race. Even Madonna who mentions skin color on her IG.

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For me this has nothing to do with race. This is only to do with who is more appropriate and talented to be in front of millions tributing Prince.

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And for me Madonna is not a name I would have thrown into a hat. Point blank and simple.

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To support my point, I don't want to see Janell Monet, The Weekend, or D'angelo do any tribute either. (I must have spellings wrong but I really don't know those people to know correct spellings).

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But that's just me.

FUNKNROLL said:

There it is. There can be no doubt why she did Prince's tribute. For herself. Her tribute can't come soon enough. . [Edited 5/23/16 18:35pm]

Lady Gaga will be doing the tribute

Then her fans can "deal with it" too

Madonna, you are irrelevant. You always were. Musically, culturally and intelectually. Deal with it.

FunkiestOne said:

for me, it's not about race - I would have been happy to watch Eric Clapton or someone of that caliber do a searing guitar solo in his honor! It's really about talent level, & she was nowhere near him, which is why it was insane for her to do the tribute. The ONLY thing they had in common was being megastars who were huge in the 80's. The only thing Madonna is good at is marketing. That bitch can't even sing her OWN songs, just barely learned guitar last night, she's just sooooo beneath him musically it's not even funny. But she's adored by the masses as a superstar, & Billboard is cheesy enough to fall for it, & the joke is on his diehard fans who know fuck well he's 1000x more than Purple Rain. For her to come out on a purple throne (as if she's assuming it), holding a cane, dressed like him, showing graveyard shit, & burning his symbol at the end?? It's like she's dancing on his ashes, happy to be the last juggernaut from that era (besides Springsteen I guess, but the 3 of them - MJ, Prince & Madonna - had a serious hold & just blew UP that era). Her "tribute" was an excuse to have the spotlight, which is tacky & vile. I hope she catches hell for this for a long time to come

CalhounSq said:

CalhounSq said:

for me, it's not about race - I would have been happy to watch Eric Clapton or someone of that caliber do a searing guitar solo in his honor! It's really about talent level, & she was nowhere near him, which is why it was insane for her to do the tribute. The ONLY thing they had in common was being megastars who were huge in the 80's. The only thing Madonna is good at is marketing. That bitch can't even sing her OWN songs, just barely learned guitar last night, she's just sooooo beneath him musically it's not even funny. But she's adored by the masses as a superstar, & Billboard is cheesy enough to fall for it, & the joke is on his diehard fans who know fuck well he's 1000x more than Purple Rain. For her to come out on a purple throne (as if she's assuming it), holding a cane, dressed like him, showing graveyard shit, & burning his symbol at the end?? It's like she's dancing on his ashes, happy to be the last juggernaut from that era (besides Springsteen I guess, but the 3 of them - MJ, Prince & Madonna - had a serious hold & just blew UP that era). Her "tribute" was an excuse to have the spotlight, which is tacky & vile. I hope she catches hell for this for a long time to come

Amen!!!

Lizzypoo said:

SuperFurryAnimal said:

FUNKNROLL said: "Deal With It” is an expression used as a retort in response to someone’s disapproval! Of course we have people going mental thinking weird, fucked up shit that Madonna is making some reference to drugs. Foolishness. All foolishness and narrow-minded thinking.

I believe her statement "Deal with it" was directed to Prince's fans -- telling us to go F**k ourselves if we didn't like her tribute or her picture making fun of his death in an eleator. The Drug reference is clear by her handbag which says DEALER. She's insuting Prince, calling him a person with a Drug Problem and making fun of his death in the eleator. And, we Prince Fans, can just deal with her sickening message, her sickening tribute and her sickening picture!

She better watch herself, mess like this could cause something on herself, she better watch bad karma!

Pokeno4Money said:

Finally saw the performance... meh Madge. But I guess her ego had her thinking she could pull it off. And now she is the only one left of that time.

Well at least she picked the right song. Nothing compares. Cause no one can.

Any one person trying to sum him up is gonna fail. Prince was a little bit of this and an whole lot of that. I don't know one artist can do a tribute well by themselves. In order for it to be sucessful you would have to have the best of the best representing.

Best Guitar

Best drums

Best vocals

Best entertainer

Best dancer

Best piano

Horns

Funkiest

and so on.

Hopefully BET will get it right. There should be no less that 50 of the best to pull this off. lol

RiotPaisley said:

benni said:

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Yes, it's some kind of statement. If you'll notice, she's also in an elevator.

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This is her statement to those that didn't like the tribute she did last night.

Oh geez. Hm. Interesting. I hate to sound nutty with all the Illuminati stuff but Sometimes...??? Sorry I was on this thread earlier and didn't realize this was already being discussed and just posted. I'm curious to see the performance now to just try and catch what her reasons might be... But I still can't watch it now.

That photo of Madonna looked more like a slap to Prince than to those who cared about him. I have no idea what she was thinking. The symbolism is just crass and coldhearted.

I have changed my mind, after reading others' opinions regarding things that I visually missed and just went over my head at the time. I was swept up by seeing Steve W, and when he choked up, I choked up. I sincerely offer my apologies.