![]() ![]() Despite claiming at a short (and disastrous) Paris concert on Thursday night that “it’s not intention to make enemies,” she knows exactly how to stir the proverbial pot, and she just might do it better than anything else she does. She’s absolutely aced the art of controversy it’s been her lifeblood and her life’s work since she first flounced onto the music scene in 1983. And, as we all know, she didn’t get there entirely based on the strength of her singing and dancing. With more than 300 million records sold worldwide, she is the highest-selling female recording artist of all time. None of Madonna’s aforementioned, purportedly provocative antics are especially surprising, given her track record. Madonna’s most shocking antic of all, though, was more personal and less widely reported: In early July she visibly fought back tears while performing a stripped-down (and some might say bad) version of her 1984 hit “Like a Virgin” in Berlin. Since June, she’s flashed a nipple during a Turkey live show, flashed her butt a few days later in Italy, shown a video with swastikas superimposed over right-wing leaders’ faces, and continued to use authentic-looking fake guns as part of her choreography even after being asked to cut them from the show following July 20’s movie-theater massacre in Aurora, Colo. Let us count the bizarre shenanigans from the beginning. And she’s not the only one wondering.Ĭurrently on a world tour to promote her latest album, “MDNA,” Madonna’s recent antics have been a bit dramatic, even for her. She was referring, of course, to Madonna’s super-controversial summer. ![]() “What’s up with Madonna lately?” a friend asked recently as we were attempting to evade the oppressive July heat in a Manhattan bookstore.
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