Color her unimpressed.  Madonna tells Ryan Seacrest this morning that M.I.A. was childish for her Super Bowl middle finger flip-off.

“I was really surprised. I didn’t know anything about it. I wasn’t happy about it. I understand it’s punk rock and everything, but to me there was such a feeling of love and good energy, and positivity, it seemed negative. It’s such a teenager … irrelevant thing to do … there was such a feeling of love and unity there. What was the point? It was just out of place.”

Did you catch the performance? What’d you think about M.I.A.’s stunt?

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I didn’t actually watch the Super Bowl yesterday. Instead, a friend and I took our kids out so the husbands could enjoy the show, kid-free. (I’ll never do that again!)

From what I’ve read this morning, Madonna did really, really well. I watched the video above, and from the looks of it – she killed it! I can’t believe for a woman her age – she’s still able to get on stage and dance with that kind of stamina. I couldn’t even do that now – if I tried!

She started off by performing “Vogue”, then went into singing “Music”. She was then joined on stage by the guys from LMFAO, and then performed “Party Rock Anthem” and “Give Me All Your Luvin” with Nicki Minaj and M.I.A..

M.I.A. shot the middle finger during her performance, and it’s causing quite a stink this morning. I’m with the critics. It was a stupid, classless thing to do. There was no reason for it. It’s not even that “shocking” – it’s just stupid.

The Super Bowl, shown on NBC this year, is routinely viewed by more than 100 million people, the biggest TV event of the year. The screen briefly went blurred after M.I.A.’s gesture in what was a late attempt — by less than a second — to cut out the camera shot.

“The NFL hired the talent and produced the halftime show,” NBC spokesman Christopher McCloskey said. “Our system was late to obscure the inappropriate gesture and we apologize to our viewers,”

The NFL blamed a failure in NBC’s delay system for allowing the gesture to be seen. Spokesman Brian McCarthy said M.I.A. did not do anything similar during rehearsals and the league had no reason to believe she would pull something like that during the actual show.

“The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing, and we apologize to our fans,” McCarthy said.

The British singer M.I.A. is best known for her 2007 hit “Paper Planes,” a Grammy nominee for record of the year that memorably features a sample of the Clash song, “Straight to Hell.” It was featured on the soundtrack to the movie “Slumdog Millionaire.”

Overall I think Madonna did really well. What did you think?

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Joe Francis has sent a ‘cease and desist’ letter to Madonna, saying that he’ll sue the pants off the ‘Material Girl’ if she even thinks of performing her song ‘Girls Gone Wild’ at the Super Bowl.

Francis’ lawyer threatens to sue all of them for attempting to get a “free ride on the valuable consumer goodwill and brand recognition” of Joe’s famous trademark.

Francis’ lawyer makes it clear:  “Your misappropriation of my clients’ trademark will not be tolerated.”

But Francis is willing to cut a deal with Madonna, provided she agrees to the following terms:

– Negotiate an immediate licensing agreement for the use of Joe’s trademark
– Account for the number of times Madonna has already used the trademark
– NOT PERFORM THE SONG AT THE SUPER BOWL

Francis and his lawyers actually think Madonna and the NFL are conspiring with one another. He wants a response by 5p.m. today “or else.’

I’m sure Madonna’s shaking in her boots.

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Madonna is on top of the world right now! She not only has a new album coming out, she just won a Golden Globe, AND she’s performing during the Super Bowl Half Time this weekend! In a new interview with Newsweek, Madonna may have let all this go to her head. Madonna a narcissistic? You don’t say!

Thinking about her own marriage and divorce while writing W.E.: “I’d been married 10 years when I started writing it. And I was certainly asking a kind of existential question that I think people ask when they’ve been married that long: what is the perfect love? Because when you start off, everything’s great and lovely, and the person you’ve married is flawless, and you’re flawless. Then time goes by, and you share a life, you have children, and there are cracks in the veneer. It’s not as romantic as it used to be. You think, ‘This isn’t what I thought it was going to be,’ and ‘How much am I willing to sacrifice?’” At the same time, she says, “when you get to the end of the movie, I think it’s very clear they really loved each other, and that I am a romantic and that I do believe in true love.”

On Wallis Simpson: Madonna makes it very clear that she relates to Simpson, a woman she believes was “misunderstood on a global scale.”

Madonna on thinking about her kids: “When I was making my Sex book,” she says, “I wasn’t thinking about my kids or the reaction they would have. Now I have children, so I have to think about how things like that would impact them.”

Lourdes is embarrassed: In December, while Madonna was getting ready for a screening of her movie, her 15-year-old daughter, Lourdes, walked into the room and vetoed her mom’s proposed outfit: a corset with fishnets and no pants. Madonna has since said that her daughter was right, but adds that she isn’t about to enter a nunnery at this late date either: “I’m not going to let [being a parent] completely censor me. I say to my kids all the time, I’m an artist, this is what I do, this is what I’ve always done. And they need to learn to separate it.”

Let them eat cake: Touring has become the bulk of Madonna’s business (the last tour grossed $408 million, the most ever for a solo artist) since the music industry went belly up and consumers stopped buying records. She’s not ready to talk about specific plans for this go-round, but it’s safe to assume that her ticket prices will continue to be astronomically expensive, Great Recession be damned. “So start saving your pennies now,” she says, sounding annoyed that any-one would suggest these prices are prohibitive. “People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I’m worth it.”

Madonna understands poverty: A few years ago she got filleted for saying the Big Apple had been more fun back in the day, before it was all taken over by hedge-fund types. “It kinda was,” she says, unapologetic as ever. Consequently, she was “excited” by the Occupy Wall Street movement, for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that Sean Lennon and Rufus Wainwright did a rendition of “Material Girl” at one of the early rallies. “I thought that was cool,” she says, bringing the discussion back to her favorite subject: herself.

On Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”: No wonder Madonna seems so un-ruffled when asked about Lady Gaga and “Born This Way,” the No. 1 song that came out last year and that many critics thought resembled Madonna’s 1989 smash “Express Yourself.” “Of course I heard it,” she says toward the end of our interview. “How could I not? I think it was on the radio a few times. I thought, ‘This is a wonderful way to redo my song.’ I recognized the chord changes, I thought it was … interesting.” And at this, she gives a little smile.

Via Celebitchy

Man, I sorta feel for her kids. Must be so strange to have Madonna for a mother. “I’m an artist, this is what I do, this is what I’ve always done.” Basically – get over yourselves! Who do you think you are – my children!?

I hate this dress on so many levels, it ain’t even funny. Madonna showed up at the New York City premiere of her new movie, ‘W.E.’ wearing this horrific Marchesa gown. If you were to dissect the dress, the bodice itself might be doable, but together all these pieces = FUG. The velvet skirt and train, the horrible tulle blowing up in her face… it’s just a mess.

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Sir Elton John’s husband David Furnish wrote a no-holds-barred post on Facebook BASHING Madonna’s Golden Globe win.

“Madonna. Best song???? F**k off!!!  Madonna winning Best Original Song truly shows how these awards have nothing to do with merit. Her acceptance speech was embarrassing in it’s narcissism. And her critisism of Gaga shows how desperate she really is.”

Madonna did give an awkward-ish speech and got in a few jabs at Elton, but I thought the two were friendly.  Apparently not so much.

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During the promotion of her film ‘W.E.’, Madonna shared her celebrity motherhood woes. She admits that Lourdes, 14, doesn’t fear her, no matter how strict of a mom she’s tried to be.

“She is always sneaking into my dressing room and borrowing things when I am still sleeping.  She doesn’t fear me at all…I have no authority!  If I say to my daughter, ‘That outfit is a little bit too risqué or revealing’ and she looks at me and says, ‘That’s rich coming from you’.  Sometimes, you have just have to say, ‘Because I said so!’”

The mom of four also says that despite her two divorces and several failed relationships, she’s still a romantic at heart:

“It’s not that I ever believed in perfect love.  But if you are a romantic like me, you want to be swept off your feet by a knight in shining armor. Unfortunately, we are raised on those fairytales, and even if we are sophisticated, educated, intellectually evolved human beings we still, in the back of our mind, think that Mr. Right is going to come along and we are going to live happily ever after.”

I always wondered if Madonna’s past would make for some interesting parenting conversations down the line.  How do you try to keep your kids from rebelling and testing certain waters when you were the queen of rebellion, experimentation and self-expression yourself?

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