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Madonna Slips While Performing Hit Song “Music” During Super Bowl Halftime

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There are so many different aspects of Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime performance that make it noteworthy:

- The fact that she looks as good in her 50′s as she did in her 20′s performing the same songs,

- The spectacular scenery as she shows us what a 2012 music video looks like,

- The still over-sexualized nature of her performances even in front of not just middle America, but all of America.

So considering the amount of dollars that must have gone into preparing the show, it was an odd choice to have her dancing through bleachers in heels and consequently hardly surprising that she seems to have lost her footing during the second song.

Check out the video of that moment below.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/matthew.minard Matthew Minard

     FIRST!!!!  AND this is PURE distraction.  I’m sure even if Madonna fell the her golden parachute will still deploy :)   Give us news, not distractions. 

  • 12voltman1

    Musically I thought it sucked.
    The rest was like watching rocketts.Just lots of choreography

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1245445831 Michael Nicholas Stringer

    It was a great show!  Very entertaining.  She’s an inspiration at her age!

  • Anonymous

    Any nip slips?

  • Anonymous

    In the interview before the show she said she was very nervous.  Apparently even Madonna is a human being. 

  • Anonymous

    Ahhhh you are grouchy tonight.

  • Anonymous

    What a disgusting, deafening cacophony!

  • Anonymous

    Look at her wizened arms and tell me honestly: Do you really want to see her boobs?

  • Anonymous

    Yes, if you cover her body in clothing and have distance shots she does look as good as she does in her 20s. Now if only her music were nearly as good as it was back then.

  • Anonymous

    Signed,

    Major Cuthbert Warblington-Smythe (retired), 

    Surrey.

  • Anonymous

    Oh come onnnn!

    When I read the title of this entry I thought she really slipped and fell on that contraption of hers.

    No big a deal!
    Madonna is a great performer, the songs are well known, so it’s all good entertainment. Move on!

  • Gloves Wilson Donahue

    Wouldn’t have had a problem if they had signed their first choice, Andy Williams.

    Andy doesn’t move much when he sings Moon River. People in the stadium would have time to go up and get a $25. hot dog and come back to their seats and he’s still singing Moon River.

  • Anonymous

    She did not look good then. She does not look good now.
    She sounded horrible then. She sounds horrible now.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/JTPX3EVO4MZBZWNOFUWQUREFVE Karen

    Please – she aced it. In heels. Proof that you don’t have to rely on a skanky outfit and a facade to rock the house. 

  • News Of The World

    Well, considering she was recovering from a hamstring injury and is 53 years old, I dunno… I thought it was pretty impressive.

  • sid_id

    Andy moves around pretty darn good for being 84 years old and he is a helluva nice guy. Let’s pray that he recovers from his cancer and makes it back for another year.

  • sid_id

    Madonna was awesome as always.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

     It was some top dollar lip syncing.

    Everyone gave the Who grief for their performance, and the NFL brought back pop/dance acts for the past 2 years to replace live rock – but at least Daltry and Townshend actually played and sang their music. Ditto for Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, Paul McCartney and U2.

    Bring back actual bands, NFL. It’s so much better than watching some grandma dance to a prerecorded track.

  • Anonymous

    I thought it was one of the better half time shows in recent times. Not to shabby.

  • http://twitter.com/Agonzo1 anthonybgonzalez

    meh, she recovered and didn’t miss a beat and got the next line in no problem. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

    She slipped and creaked up several times after bending over.  Next time she will have to bring a walker with her on stage.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

    She slipped and creaked up several times after bending over.  Next time she will have to bring a walker with her on stage.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

    I agree Super Bowl Halftime shows have to be Rock.  Next year they need to get ACDC before they stop rocking.

  • Anonymous

    Ordinarily it take Madonna a week to go through that many Trojans.

  • Anonymous

    Remember her Playboy spread in the eighties?  She really had dark hair back then…..all over.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/FREWGC3VVBYVFYWNY6A26EKAXU hung

    so……grandPAs and not grandmas, that’s your choice? duly noted.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/FREWGC3VVBYVFYWNY6A26EKAXU hung

    Now, now , grandpa, you know what the doctor said about getting your blood pressure up. Let old nursey check your Depends adult diapers for poo-poo and let’s get you back in front of the tv for old reruns of “Lawrence Welk” and “Hee-Haw.” There, there….that’s a good poopy old grandpa…..

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/FREWGC3VVBYVFYWNY6A26EKAXU hung

    That’s a good old grandpa. Now let go of your walker and let’s get you into a fresh pair of Depends adult diapers. You soiled yoursefl in that little rant. Let good old nursey put on a Neil Diamond album for you…that’ll calm you down…..

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/FREWGC3VVBYVFYWNY6A26EKAXU hung

    says the grotesquely obese and jealous couch potato as he or she shovels more twinkies and ding dongs into their bloated face and settles in for an intelligent rerun of “maury povich” on their tv….

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/FREWGC3VVBYVFYWNY6A26EKAXU hung

    and your opinion matters to who? madonna? speak up – she can’t hear you over her BILLIONS of dollars.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/FREWGC3VVBYVFYWNY6A26EKAXU hung

    Like you could ever afford to buy a concert ticket and get that close to her boobs? She’s Madonna, she doesn’t give a sh** what her boobs look like to you or anybody else.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/FREWGC3VVBYVFYWNY6A26EKAXU hung

    Yeah, RIGHT. Madonna’s last concert tour was the highest
    grossing tour by a solo artist EVER, earning $282 million, breaking the
    previous record Madonna herself held with her Confessions Tour. In the last tour,
    Madonna performed to over 3.5 million fans in 32 countries, grossing a total of
    $408 million, making it also the fourth highest grossing tour of ALL TIME. You
    think her take would have been higher if….what was it you said……if only
    her music were nearly as good as it was back then? Yeah, RIGHT.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/FREWGC3VVBYVFYWNY6A26EKAXU hung

    That’s back when the carpet matched the drapes. Of course that was back when women HAD carpet. I’ll take hardwood floors ANY day over that!

  • Anonymous

    Can’t stand basic facts, can you. Madonna can’t sing or dance. She was especially horrendous tonight…so completely listless, lip synching her way through musty dated songs. Truly dreadful. The only part that was somewhat decent was when real singers came on stage. Other than that, a pom pom waving 55 yr old was just embarrassing. 

  • Anonymous

    Oh, dear.I see you suffer from the misconception that because a lot of people like then it must be good. Two words: Titanic. Two more: Celine Dion. Ps. Madonna hasn’t been a big hit in the only country that counts-the US in 20 years. 

  • Anonymous

    Oh, dear.I see you suffer from the misconception that because a lot of people like then it must be good. Two words: Titanic. Two more: Celine Dion. Ps. Madonna hasn’t been a big hit in the only country that counts-the US in 20 years. 

  • 12voltman1

    More razzle. Less dazzle.

  • 12voltman1

    LoL

  • Anonymous

    Yes, because we all know that the Rolling Stones made their best music in the 2000s when they had massively successful tours (at least one of which was bigger than Madonna’s). Get a grip. Not a single one of her songs over the last 15+ years has been remotely memorable like her early stuff.

  • 12voltman1

    Just voicing my opinion. You?

  • Pablo

    No, no. Music, not dancing.

  • Pablo

     She didn’t miss a beat because she wasn’t singing.

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  • Anonymous

    Was never much of a Madonna fan but that show was epic and she proved that she can still do it.

    Whoever designed that production is talented. The scope was right for the venue which was huge.  Oftentimes these things can’t be pulled off because the production is overpowered by the size of the site.  Not true this time.

    Both my husband and I agreed that this was probably the best Superbowl halftime show we’ve ever seen.

    But she’s got to lose the pompons at 53.

  • Anonymous

    She was horrible- lip synching her way through an overly produced show.

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  • Anonymous

    Oh wow. A whole article on a misstep. She’s human, it happens. 

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  • Anonymous

    Obama did it.

  • Anonymous

    Greatest half time show ever.
    If you don’t get that, put on your Kenny G album.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    no – actual performances and not fake singing. 
    plenty of older women who rock who could easily pull it off – Blondie, Joan Jett, to name a few.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly.
    She pulled it off.
    Bringing in current stars was an inspired move.

    Never too old for pom poms!  LOL……….

  • Anonymous

    I thought the performance was good, and I loved the early Madonna with Holiday, Material Girl, Holiday, Like a Virgin, Holiday..Ok, one song, and she didn’t sing it. Bummer.

    By my way of thinking, High Heels or Stilleto Boots, whatever you want to call them, on graduated steps-bleachers-certainly looked like a recipe for disaster. Nobody fell, and all was well. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    and Vanilla Ice still has one of the top selling albums of all time.

  • Anonymous

    Madonna’s music has always sucked. She sucks? She’s about as repugnant as they come.

  • Anonymous

    Your assuming anyone who appreciates good music and talent would want to buy a ticket to see this clown.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1146951102 Alice Hoffman

    I’m sure some of you
    were having restless nights wondering if Bigolhomo would end up at the Madonna
    show.  Well, she added more LA shows and
    I got tickets to the Anaheim Pond show on June2.  Yay! There still seem to be madonna tickets available in all
    price ranges for this show right now, so if anyone missed out, you can probably
    still get some.
     

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