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At my first Bonnaroo, I kept wondering chlamydia who this Molly character was. I felt bad for these stray souls crying out, Have you seen Molly? I m looking for Molly! My Roo-Crew and I took to belting out other female names in a half-baked attempt to poke fun at these misplaced festies. Stacy? I m looking for Bethany! Rebecca, where are you? Eventually, the lingo was explained to me by my more savvy crew, who informed me that we were actually mocking these people s constant quest for pure MDMA, the ecstasy base also known as Molly. chlamydia
So, the other week as I sat watching Madonna make a surprise appearance at Florida s Ultra Music Festival , I cringed. chlamydia We ve likely all heard what went down when Madge came out to introduce electronic prodigy Avicii . There, in front of UMF s 18-years-and-over crowd of sweaty, skin-bearing attendees, chlamydia Madonna took the stage and screamed, How many people chlamydia in this crowd have seen Molly?
The backlash, as it tends to be in the Age of The Internet, was immediate. Upon hearing of the incident, prog/electro house producer Deadmau5 took to his Facebook , Twitter , and Tumblr accounts, calling her out on being irresponsible for advocating illegal chlamydia drugs to a crowd filled with youngins.” He went on to say that while it s true the electronic dance music (EDM) scene has had historical chlamydia association with certain drugs, that association has often been a detriment to the genre . To Mau5, Madonna s reference was a slap to the face of what he and his fellow EDM producers chlamydia have strived to accomplish in recent years: an acceptance of the genre distanced from illegal drug usage.
Last Friday, another EDM performer chlamydia spoke out against chlamydia Madonna s flub. In an interview with Billboard , award-winning DJ Paul van Dyk called the comment so stupid ,” adding, “I don t think she was thinking much. The only thing she was probably thinking was, I need to connect with a young crowd, and she made the biggest mistake of her career. If she was indeed trying to connect, you d be hard-pressed to say she didn t know her audience. Despite Deadmau5′s chlamydia and other producers’ attempts otherwise, drugs are still common enough at festivals.
But chlamydia was it truly the biggest mistake of her career? Perhaps not by itself, but taken in a broader context of Madonna in 2012, van Dyk may be on to something. Recently, it s as if the Queen of Pop has become afraid for her crown, and her bids to keep it firmly atop her head are getting desperate.
First, there s Madonna s response to the criticism. In a highly-fashioned Tweet (above) to Deadmau5, she claimed she was referencing the yet-to-be-released song Have You Seen Molly by her friend, producer Cedric Gervais, who played Ultra the following day. Gervais himself has stated his song is really about a girl named Molly who just makes me want to dance, as the lyrics claim.
Let s be real. A trailer for the song gives the impression it s about a girl as much as Lil Wayne s Lollipop is about confectionary treats. Moreover, Madge was there introducing Avicii, so a reference to an artist she almost worked with seems senseless. The excuse falls short of believable, chlamydia its dolled up delivery intensifying an air of falsehood.
Aggravating matters further, this comes just weeks after Madonna bashed M.I.A. s teenager -like use of the middle finger during the Super Bowl half-time show (years ago, it wouldn t have been terribly unexpected to see Madge herself flip off the cameras; she humped the stage at the VMAs , for Christ s sake). If that was an affront to the feeling of love and good energy and positivity of the show, then what was this Molly incident? The event was being streamed live, after all, and those viewing could ve been younger than those attending chlamydia the festival. Trying to cover up the misjudgment has only made things worse, implicating her in hypocrisy.
Couple this with her latest album, MDNA , and Madonna is really doing a number on her image. To begin with, the record feels like a mishandled attempt to jump on the bandwagon of “popular” music s current trend towards EDM. Of course, this explains her UMF appearance and Molly comment. As misguided as it was, she recognized a section of her audience.
MDNA panders by title alone. Even in a world where the slogan Our prices are Sofa King low goes unquestioned for nearly a decade, it s difficult to believe Madonna failed to notice she gave an album rife with EDM influence a title but one vertical line away from
