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Ppfff the whole day on the radio About the fall , new single they dont play but talking of the fall the whole day im really pissed on the radio and still in Shoke About the whole thing

I know how you feel. It's the same with me. We're not used to see our idol fall/fail... even if she stood up etc. I don't want people to pity her. I want her to sparkle!

 

But then again... life goes on, Madonna will. I'M SURE!

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somebody please give Cindy an unreleased leak to calm her down

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She'll laugh it off tomorrow on Jonathan Ross. This will get her good publicity and show the true performer she is.

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I totally loved the new dance routine with those girls. Kinda like Vogueing. KILLER.

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I know how you feel. It's the same with me. We're not used to see our idol fall/fail... even if she stood up etc. I don't want people to pity her. I want her to sparkle!But then again... life goes on, Madonna will. I'M SURE!

Yeh i think she is home talking with Lourdes an Rocco About the fall and laughing About it
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Whoopie Goldberg [The View] said to the haters about her age 
"If you can't do what she does then shut up." 

https://twitter.com/TheView/status/570978243337007104

 

Whoopie also made it clear that Madonna was Pulled back and that she did not fall because of a misstep etc. 

 

THE VIEW WAS VERY SUPPORTIVE OF MADONNA!

They all told the haters to SHUT UP!!!

That she can wear and do whatever she wants!!! she is MADONNA!

If they had a body like MADONNA they would be naked everywhere!

 

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http://www.salon.com/2015/02/26/madonnas_fall_was_her_greatest_performance/

Madonna’s fall was her greatest performance

A viral worthy tumble gives an icon a human touch

MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS

During the finale of Wednesday night’s Brit Awards, the always showstopping Madonna once again made audiences around the world gasp. But this time, the performance was as surprising to her as it was to viewers. As she stepped to the stage for her first time back at the awards in two decades, her dancers were supposed to pull her flowing Armani cape away from her shoulders. Instead, the garment remained tied around her, causing her to fall into a backwards tumble. Ever the pro, she then got up, finished the performance and posted on Instagram, “Armani hooked me up! My beautiful cape was tied too tight! But nothing can stop me and love really lifted me up! Thanks for your good wishes! I’m fine!â€

 

Of course, a splat of that scale was all but begging to go viral, and by Thursday morning, the image of a falling Madonna was the subject of both clever memes and cruel jokes, mostly involving an old lady falling down. Certainly no one seemed to enjoy the incident more than Madonna’s arch nemesis, 49 year-old Piers Morgan, who tweeted, â€œAmbulance for Granny, please.†Funny, I don’t recall any gleeful gramps jokes when Prince, who at 56 is the same age as Madonna, showed up recently at the Golden Globes and Grammys.

 

The world is a cruel place for a woman who dares to commit the sin of growing older, and Madonna has certainly been valiant about keeping time at bay. She’s fit, strong and still cranking out new material, and to make fun of her simply for being in her fifties is sexist and lame and represents everything that makes me froth at the mouth on a daily basis. Yet I’m not ready to make a tearful “Leave Madonna alone†video for YouTube yet either. And I’m unconvinced by the Guardian’s defense of her that asks, “Why should anyone have to swallow the world’s unstinting hatred when she wants to be remembered for her brilliant artistry?†Does she? Is she?

 

As a mouthy feminist GenXer, I have tried to keep relatively quiet about my near total disregard on the subject of Madonna for the better part of my life. Sure, it was entirely acceptable to be dismissive of her – with her thin voice and her lightweight hits and her penchant for rolling around on the stage at the VMAs — early in her career. And yeah, “Like a Prayer†is a good song. But somewhere along the way, she supposedly morphed into an icon of female empowerment. I think it was around the time of the cone bra. And from then on, to be underwhelmed by her was tantamount to betrayal of womanhood.

 

Through all of her ostensible reinventions, from Material Girl to the naked hitchhiker of “Sex†to Ray of Light yoga goddess to her current sexy bullfighter incarnation, I’ve always been unconvinced her persona was more than a carefully calculated new costume change. She’s been in the public consciousness for 35 years; I’ve been around for all of it, and I can rarely recall more than a handful of moments she appeared to be authentic. That’s why I’ve never connected with her. To me she’s an efficient, hardworking, emotionless machine, even in her allegedly more “real†moments like “The Power of Goodbye.â€

 

I don’t buy that a woman has to age in any particular preordained way in order to be palatable to her audience, though I can’t help noticing how Bruce Springsteen gets to be a sex symbol at 65 and Madonna gets laughed at for being an “old bird.†But I do think the steeliness that’s always been such a big part of her identity becomes harder to pull off with time. It’s not about whatever one may think of her sexiness – because hell, she still looks better than most of North America. It’s about her teeth gritting seriousness. Cher and Tina Turner have managed to go on dancing and strutting and wearing short skirts into their sixties and seventies, but they’ve done it in a way that suggests they’re having fun. Madonna, in contrast, seemed at her recent Grammys performance as flawlessly mechanical as ever. Watching her that night, I felt exactly as I did thirty years ago – thatAnnie Lennox is just so much more compelling. 

 

So maybe the shock and subsequent excitement over Madonna’s fall Wednesday night wasn’t entirely schadenfreude. Maybe it was also the surprise of seeing this larger than life creature become, for a few seconds, vulnerable. And though I despise the gleeful crowing over her stumble, I didn’t dislike the stumble itself. In fact, as she lost control and a look of concern flashed briefly on her face, it was one of my favorite moments o her entire career. Through all her decades of incarnations, it was one of the rare times she seemed truly human.

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Spanish article:

http://www.revistavanityfair.es/personajes/articulos/madonna-caida-actuacion-brits-mensaje-living-for-love/20419

"After those tense seconds, where she stops singing and the public asks itself if she may have broken her back and we may lose her forever, she stands up, goes on stage and keeps on singing live while dancing.

Ageists: Madonna spits on your face" 

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Kathie Lee and Hoda supported MADONNA

They applauded how she got right back up and continued like a pro.

They read MADONNA's full statement from Instagram.

Kathie Lee said "don't say her age.....they always say a woman's age before they talk about her...they never do that to a man"

She also said "Madonna was singing her latest HIT "living for love"

They also quoted Cher and Liza....

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OPINION: Why all those ‘Madonna is old’ jokes are weak and tired

http://attitude.co.uk/opinion-why-those-madonna-is-old-jokes-are-lame/

Among the jokes, memes and occasional expressions of genuine concern that flooded social media last night after Madonna’s nasty backwards tumble from the Brit awards stage, there was a depressingly common theme: Serves you right love. At your age? You should be watching from home under a knee rug with a nice cup of tea.

 

Some are even suggesting that the whole thing’s been an elaborate publicity stunt. Because obviously, having writhed around on stage in a wedding dress and pashed Britney, the logical next step would be to have a dancer yank you backwards by the neck down a flight of stairs for MAXIMUM ITUNES SALES.

 

This isn’t new territory for Madonna – in fact, just hours before the BRITs, Rolling Stone released a taster for their new interview with the Queen of Pop, in which she delivered an eloquent riposte to those who want her to sit down, cover up and shut up:

No one would dare to say a degrading remark about being black or dare to say a degrading remark on Instagram about someone being gay. But my age – anybody and everybody would say something degrading to me. And I always think to myself, why is that accepted? What’s the difference between that and racism, or any discrimination? They’re judging me by my age. I don’t understand. I’m trying to get my head around it. Because women, generally, when they reach a certain age, have accepted that they’re not allowed to behave a certain way. But I don’t follow the rules. I never did, and I’m not going to start.â€

 

Even at the ripe old age of 32, she was being called upon to defend her continued existence - but the white noise about her age has reached fever pitch lately. There was her Grammys red carpet bum flash, earlier this month, again met with a rousing chorus of ‘Not at your age, love’.

 

But don’t we want our pop stars to be shocking, salacious, and just a little bit silly? And to paraphrase another popette currently facing the ageing process, we should be so lucky to have buttocks as taut and muscular as Madge’s when we stare down our 57th year on earth. Should I, you can all expect an invite to one of my twice-daily viewings. A squeeze costs extra.

 

 

Lest this turn into yet another fanboy rant, let us state the obvious: Madonna hasn’t exactly been the perfect pop star lately, and we’re certainly a long way from her Like A Prayer/Vogue imperial era.

 

Until the Grammys performance, her publicity strategy for new album Rebel Heart seemed to consist of making ill-advised social media posts, deleting them and apologising profusely. Her insistence that heroes of black culture like Martin Luther King and Bob Marley were true #RebelHearts meant for a while there, Madonna fans lived under the very real threat that we’d one morning open Instagram to find Madge declaring Rosa Parks the ‘original #unapologeticbitch’.

 

With that in mind, perhaps the fall – provided Madonna is actually OK (and she insists she is, as everyone must do while screaming internally after taking a big embarrassing public tumble) – could turn out to be the best thing that’s happened to her public image in years.

 

In the torturously long seconds that followed that nasty tumble, her fans held their collective breath. Is she ok? Is she going to get back up? When she did return to her feet, head held high, she was visibly rattled. It seemed clear she felt disappointed in herself – but she carried on. Madonna’s a showgirl, and she wants to entertain us. After all, it’s what she’s been doing for 30-odd years.

 

Maybe we needed Madonna to fall flat on her arse for us to realise: we’re not going to have her forever. Let’s treat her right.

- By NICK BOND.

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:worship: these articles are so on point

They are and I also think that a lot of people especially women in their 50s are waking up to the horrific  ageism and sexism she is fighting against.  All the ageist and sexist remarks thrown at Madonna are also directed at them too. So proud of Madonna, a true freedom fighter and rebel heart!

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I'm watching the performance again and I have to say that the dancers acted so well. Trying to help her would've made her seem weak.

I'm glad she didn't need anybody's help to get up.

Well, she actually got up quite quickly, took a few seconds to gather herself. They probably didn't have time to realize what happened, and as Madonna recovered almost immediately, they most likely opted to stay focused in their performance. 

 

Only the one dancer who stayed on the platform seemed to be a bit lost.

 

Luckily, she didn't fall on one of those horns.

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