Madonna has slowly morphed into the most irrelevant and hard-to-watch of pop tarts, so I actually felt a fleeting sympathy for the Polish Catholics who want to stop her from performing in Warsaw, their capital. Emphasis on fleeting.
Mediawatchwatch explains what the "problem" is:
Not only is her show "anti-Christian", but it is also scheduled for August 15th — and we all know what day that is, don't we? No? Why it's the Feast of the Assumption, you heathen swine! That's the day that Jesus' mummy died and got scooped up to heaven, body and soul. Clearly you can't have a rival "Madonna" prancing about in stage in fishnets while pious Catholics are busy celebrating this most holy of miracles.
That's not entirely correct — August 15 is the Assumption of Mary, the day that the Holy Virgin, "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory," to hear the Church tell it. Or, as it shall heneceforth be known, the Day the Madonnas Duked It Out.
"slowly morphed into the most irrelevant and hard-to-watch of pop tarts" - I thought that happened around 1985 or so?
Posted by: JT | Monday, June 15, 2009 at 08:32 PM
Simply from an effectiveness viewpoint it is noteworthy that the folks protesting still don't get it: Madonna is happy for any publicity, and their protests will make many more people pay attention to her act, etc.
Posted by: Jeff Wiebe | Monday, June 15, 2009 at 10:05 PM