I am a music lover. I always have been. I loved Milli Vanilli back in '89, and still do. I love classic rock, I love hippie stuff like the Grateful Dead. I love country, and I like to listen to up and coming artist. I saw a report on Madonna today. She was performing her 'Sticky and Sweet' tour stop in Bucharest. Now I must say that I used to sneak into the living room early in the morning when I was about 8 years to watch MTV. My parents did not know this, I think. I remember watching Madonna videos and she was a really hot lady back in the day. She just oozed sex appeal. Now she just oozes.
There are two problems that I see here with this picture.
#1. She is over the age of 50 and her 'Sticky and Sweet' tour looks more sticky than sweet. There is nothing more disturbing than watching a woman like her dancing around a stripper pole in a garter belt and thigh highs. If I were to attend her concert, that would be only the second time I would be dry heaving in the middle of the crowd (I attended a Pantera concert in college and I just don't ever want to talk about that night ever).
#2. I have been to many concerts. When in line to get to my seat, I have found myself talking to the other fans saying, 'I sure do hope Steven Tyler will make a political statement during this concert', or 'I hope Willie Nelson will discuss his views on the economy between songs.' Nope, I have never really cared what singers think about anything. Come to think about it, I don't even care what 99% of the general population think. But Madonna has now angered the Eastern Block by saying that Gypsies are treated unfairly. Now I am not turning my back on the Gypsy cause. I just think that you should do your job and let others do theirs. Having Madonna and the Dixie Chicks and Springsteen coming out with their little 'pet political causes' is like being a foreman of a construction site and seeing the electrician installing sewer pipe. You would have to go over to him and say 'hey, your a great electrician, but I think that you running the sewer line might not be the best idea. Let's leave that to the plumbers, huh?'
What is next is sports, I am telling you in advance. Is Tony Romo going to break huddle and then grab a microphone and tell the crowd in Cowboy's Stadium to vote NO on bond issue 445132b then take the snap? Is Josh Beckett going to warm up in the bullpen then go to the mound and grab the mike and say that we need to take action against the evil oil companies that are polluting our Earth? I can see it, 'As you know, I am a pitcher, and I take the mound, but today I would like to take the mound to stand up against these oil companies. We need to strike these guys out before they make global warming, errrr, climate change worse. Thank you!' Then I would be sitting on my couch and look over to my wife and say, 'WOW, Beckett is right, I mean a guy that can throw a 95 mile-an-hour fastball can't be wrong on something like this!'
So the moral of this story, Madonna, Dixie Chicks, everyone else, leave the shit to the plumbers. They know what to do with it.
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