{"id":2143,"date":"2013-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/chrisk\/dear-madonna-its-time-to-knock-off-the-desperate-stunts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:09:35","slug":"dear-madonna-its-time-to-knock-off-the-desperate-stunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/chrisk\/dear-madonna-its-time-to-knock-off-the-desperate-stunts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Madonna: It\u2019s Time to Knock Off the Desperate Stunts"},"content":{"rendered":"

When\u00a0Madonna\u00a0masturbated on a bed during the Blond Ambition Tour (you know, the one in\u00a0Truth or Dare<\/strong><\/em>) all of her fans cheered because it was scandalous, well-choreographed, and rather moving. When she got up on a disco ball crucifix on her Confessions Tour, it was a bit of an empty gesture to try to provoke a response from the Catholic Church (it\u00a0got one) but it looked really cool so we went along with it. But now, on her MDNA tour, all the stunts she\u2019s pulling are just looking\u2026 well, sad.<\/p>\n

Monday night in London, Madonna brought some loaded guns out on stage and pointed them to her head and other body parts south of the border. This is after she\u2019s flashed\u00a0her butt,\u00a0her nipple\u00a0(more than once), and\u00a0a swastika. Really, Madonna, just knock it off.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying she shouldn\u2019t be political and provocative (that\u2019s sort of like asking a doughnut to not be delicious) it\u2019s just that there are certain behaviors that are above Madonna, including these. I mean, really? Guns to the head? Oh, that\u2019s trying so hard to edgy that it is as edgy as a kitten in a basket of fresh laundry. And Hollywood\u2019s most desperate starlet\u00a0Lindsay Lohan<\/strong>\u00a0just\u00a0did it. You know when you\u2019re copying Lohan that it\u2019s really hard up. It looks like the ad for the Material Girl\u2019s new fragrance\u2026 if she had a perfume called Desperation. When she shows off her body like this, she doesn\u2019t look like the sexual provocateur like she did back in the days of theSex<\/em>\u00a0book, she looks like an old lady trying to hang onto her relevance with bland stunts. It\u2019s like she seesLady Gaga,\u00a0Katy Perry,\u00a0Rihanna, and the rest of the world knocking at the door and she feels like she needs to up her game. How? With cheap ploys designed to get headlines. Or maybe this gun stunt was just to distract fromt he fact that she cancelled\u00a0her Australian tour dates\u00a0without reason.<\/p>\n

Madonna has always gotten headlines, whether it was for her \u201cJustify My Love\u201d video that was so raunchy it got banned from MTV or for having a crying African-American Jesus in her Pepsi-sponsored \u201cLike a Prayer\u201d video. But those headlines were always to further her art (yes, music videos can be art too). Her pre-planned nip slip is not only kind of gross, but also seems to be provocation for provocations sake.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s just the preponderance of attention-grabbing stunts that are turning me off. Before Madonna had a message and stuck to it, whether it was an anti-Catholic sentiment, sexual liberation, or a very graphic sort of self-love. Now it just seems like the message is attention, any way she can get it. Madonna is the goddess of reinvention and one of the few pop icons left in this sad and lonely world. This look-at-me, look-at-me flailing is something befitting someone just coming up in the industry (hey,\u00a0Ke$ha, how\u2019s your dollar sign doing?), not a veteran who has proved that her envelope goes a whole lot further than the rest of ours. All of this other nonsense is taking away from what might be the hottest moment of the show: when Madonna takes her much younger boyfriend out on stage to\u00a0bump and grind on him\u00a0for a bit. Not only is that a message we can get behind (older women are sexy too!), it also has a little something to do with the real reason we will always love Madge: the music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When\u00a0Madonna\u00a0masturbated on a bed during the Blond Ambition Tour (you know, the one in\u00a0Truth or Dare) all of her fans cheered because it was scandalous, well-choreographed, and rather moving. When she got up on a disco ball crucifix on her Confessions Tour, it was a bit of an empty gesture to try to provoke a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[1439],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","tag-madonna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/chrisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/chrisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/chrisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/chrisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/chrisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/chrisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/chrisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/chrisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/chrisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/chrisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}