With Kevin Costner back in the news today, and mentioning "that white singer," here's the infamous "neat" clip from the Truth or Dare documentay. She starts on her "Rude Beeyatch: The Celebrity Edition" conniption around the 11 minute mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhex3ClS5KY

An apology followed about 15 years later. Costner in 2007:

Kevin Costner has forgiven Madonna for making fun of him in her 1991 documentary Truth or Dare.

In the film, Costner visits Madonna backstage after a concert and describes the performance as "neat." After he leaves, Madonna pretends to stick her finger down her throat and says, "Anybody who says my show is 'neat' has to go."

"Yeah, I was embarrassed by it and kind of hurt by it," Costner, 52, tells the L.A Times. "I just went back there because I was asked to go back. And I found the best word that I could. I never called her on it or whatever."

A decade later, Madonna, to Costner's surprise, made things right. "She did a really beautiful thing," he says. "She was performing [in L.A.] about three or four years ago, so I decided to take my daughters to see her. I just thought this is somebody they should see. I didn't call anybody for tickets, I just got tickets and we went down.

"And about the third song in, the lights were down, and she said, 'I want to apologize to someone.' And all of a sudden my face starts to get hot. ... She says, 'I want to apologize to Kevin Costner.' She just said it very simply. Ninety-eight percent of that audience didn't know what she was talking about. But I really respected that, and it showed me the power of just keeping your own counsel for a long time. ...

"Whatever possessed her, whatever was inside her, she came to her own decision. And a bigger thing came out of some kind of humiliation. I never wrote her to say thank you, but I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart, and that meant more to me than you could ever know."

It's flopping in the United Kingdom. It's doing fine in the United States, #10 on the Hot 100.

There's some controversy over that--due to them not counting the free download people who pre-ordered the album get. The Uk still has a somewhat healthy CD single market, and I wonder if it was a mistake not to release this physically.

Any discrepencies aside, is there any particular reason the British media is so venomous towards her OR is that just the British sense of humor? Still mad about her former fake British accent? (Shouldn't Americans be mad about that? lol) They act as if the 114 million watching the Super Bowl were watching it in Britain. That's despite the fact that I don't think anybody in Britain would be caught dead watching football over soccer.

The UK media has always had a love/hate relationship with her (mostly hate) over the years. Things seemed to quiet down a bit when she settled down with Guy and moved to London.

Then when they divorced and she moved back to NYC full-time, and her love affair with the UK seemed to have stalled, they turned on her again.

So new single Girls Gone Wild is much more what I want from Madonna, even if it sounds a lot like Get Together from Confessions--and the remix of Celebration that was released to radio--no shock as it's also produced by Benny Benassi. TeamMadonna seems to be doing damage control, claiming THIS is the first single, and the previous single was just a promo single...

Not loving either single released so far. Nothing memorable so far.

A review from the UK from a magazine that got their hands on the album: http://www.attitude....VER+MDNA+REVIEW

Late-night You-tubeing again. I had never seen the Pepsi commerical before for obvious reasons (detailed write-up on the controversy: http://eightiesclub....d.com/id135.htm). I hadn't seen Whitney's Coke one either. I'd seen Michael Jackson's Pepsi ones.

Madonna:

The original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8qtsUaoVak

Love the music in the remix (posted by the Pepsi company on YouTube, ironically):

Michael:

Whitney:

George:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysTNEGu0FCg

I love Coca-Cola taste waste over Pepsi, but Pepsi definitely puts more effort into their commercials.

I absolutely love this cover:

So Madonna's cute 24-year old boy-toy/boyfriend has proposed, supposedly.

I'm of the opinion of do whatever the bleep ya want but don't forget to get a pre-nup before each and every future marriage. Heh.

You think Madonna would forget?

Yeah i was going to post that Attitude magazine. It certainly makes the album sound way way more interesting than Hard Candy. Take it with a grain of salt though--Attitude is always always glowing towards the gay divas (Kylie, Madonna, Gaga, etc)

You think Madonna would forget?

You never know. Sometimes love makes you really stupid. Well, she does have at least 100 million good reasons not to forget one the next time (if there is a next time).

Yeah i was going to post that Attitude magazine. It certainly makes the album sound way way more interesting than Hard Candy. Take it with a grain of salt though--Attitude is always always glowing towards the gay divas (Kylie, Madonna, Gaga, etc)

Thanks for the heads up on biased critics. So, I'll definitely wait to hear what Billboard, Entertainment Weekly and the Daily News says before I get my hopes up for at least a couple of good songs on the album. GGW, single No. 2, sounds like something a music company could have gotten out of a drunk and high B. Spears after connecting her to a few machines.

I have to admit I really like GGW despite myself, but it is VERY much Benny Benassi by the numbers, and anyone could be singing it--I expect and want more from Madonna. It does sound, again from that review solely, that there will be at least a few more interesting tracks on the album though.

Who is the guy?? Any pictures?

http://cdn.crushable.../alg_brahim.jpg

Edited March 6, 201213 yr by EricMontreal22

The Saturday Night Live Edition...

1986: An apology of sorts...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYEHX1l5NX0

1991: Madonna Justifies Her Love to Wayne and Garth....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKuqCcrL6oU

Link to a clearer version of the same clip: http://www.dailymoti...0-featuring_fun

1992: The Mike Myers & Dana Carvey years of SNL, sigh. This is a great clip - Mike, Madonna, Roseanne and a surprise appearance by Barbara Streisand. This one is a link. I have no idea how to embed from Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/stand_alone/1e955a55038a0f4028dee01826d18cac?lcname=ESEABidkZWZhdWx0Q2FwdGlvblN0eWxlBgMxBi1pc1RyYWlsZXJTZWxlY3RvclZpZGVvAgYXcG9wb3V0U3RhcnQEAAYhc2l0ZUxvY2F0aW9uUGF0aAEGFWluUGxheWxpc3QCBh1kZWZhdWx0UXVhbGl0eQQBBh9kZWZhdWx0TGFuZ3VhZ2UGCW5vbmUGIWFkU2VsZWN0b3JPcHRpb24BBhVwb3BvdXRUaW1lBUJzXnFmQZAABjl2aWRlb1RyYWlsZXJTZWxlY3RvckFkVW5pdElkBP////8GI3BsYXlsaXN0QWRVbml0SWRzCQMBBIXGEQYTY29udGVudElEBIGXmF0GFWN1cnJlbnRQb2QEAAYtc2VsZWN0b3JWaWRlb0NvbXBsZXRlZAIGEWF1dG9wbGF5AwYXY3VycmVudFNsb3QEAA==&continuous_play_mode=4&continuous_play=on&continuous_play_sort=#in-playlist

1993: Madonna has a special invitation for a member of the Clinton family...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssGuKaHv9-g

2010: The Live Clip AND The Rehearsal Clip of Lady Gaga and Madonna...

Madonna: What the hell is a disco stick?

Lada Gaga: I think you know.

Priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqzM0wpWMUo

Ha, I'd never seen that 1986 clip--that's great.