Well in case you opted for Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl rather than TV's biggest event of the year and missed Madonna's Halftime Show, we have it for your viewing pleasure here as long as YouTube allows it to be up. I have to admit, that is how you make a diva's entrance. As soon as it began, Twitter and FB blew up with "how gay the Super Bowl halftime was" and such. Well that's interesting. I mean she is a gay culture goddess, but why do we have to make label it so definitively? Why can't it just have been a great performance from an iconic artist? Sure there was a massive group of beefy, scantily clad mens carrying Madonna on a golden throne, but just 10 minutes ago there was a similar group of lads in leggings pouncing on each other in all sorts of sexually suggestive ways. Why aren't we giving that the same queened-out response and saying how gay the Super Bowl itself was without any consideration to any halftime show?

Speaking of a queened-out response, are your eardrums still healing from the resounding, blood-curling screams from around the world as MIA's middle finger launched a series of stations blocking the feed to ensure that 100 million+ viewers didn't behold such a horrid obscenity in their own homes? Now articles are coming out saying that the gesture will be remembered more than the performance itself. Really? Really. For 720 seconds of an amazingly orchestrated performance, fabulous costuming (by Givenchy and Philip Treacy nonetheless) and awesome guest-star appearances, we are only supposed to remember an appendage being extended for one of those seconds? Does a gesture with a somewhat negative connotation (during something a musical performance which is totally about the human expression of emotions anyway) always outweigh the good? That's a pitiful reflection of human nature.































While I did love this jaw-slacking performance for the most part, I think some of the revealing reactions are disappointing. This performance reminded me that we are compartmentalized-label addicts who are looking for what offends us rather than what impresses us. I mean what backs up that theory more than a gay blogger who calls himself CampusQueer writing about what offended him about people being offended rather than just praising all the best qualities of this performance?

I am looking forward to rest of Madonna's return to being in our face with the anticipated release of MDNA on March 26. That's a sexy name for an album. Check out this megamix of some of the tracks and the recently released video for Give Me All Your Luvin' feat. Nicki Minaj and that naughty, naughty MIA.






Over and Out,
CampusQueer