Superbowl Halftime Show - M.I.A. Flips the Bird

[Project Willow]

*Adjusts tiara*

I am PW, Queen of the Abuse Survivors. I speak for us all, whether the others like it or not.

Bow down before me! Speak only when you're spoken to, you idiots! Memorize my teachings!
You will, no, you vill OBEY me!

amidoinitrite?


...............

Do yourself a favor crikkett, put me on ignore, because I'm just going to keep on being who I am.

[norton ash]

Cricket in the willow now,
Run boys run

Sorry, listening to bluegrass.

I think the forehead-fro guy in the toga on the slackline signifies Simon Magus.

[Elihu]

I think the forehead-fro guy in the toga on the slackline signifies Simon Magus.

i was wondering what he had to do with it. thanks norton.

[barracuda]

You mean this guy?

[norton ash]

Naw, I can't post photos from here, but he's an acrobat known as Sketchy Andy- Andy Lewis from Utah. He's bopping around on a slackline at the start of 'Music'.

Here:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainme ... pe-dancer/

[Searcher08]

Naw, I can't post photos from here, but he's an acrobat known as Sketchy Andy- Andy Lewis from Utah. He's bopping around on a slackline at the start of 'Music'.

Here:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainme ... pe-dancer/

I think the guy Maddonia is sitting on is a gene-splice between midseventies period Ted Nugent and Dean Learner from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

[kelley]

the singer nicki minaj was onstage with madonna and mia at the super bowl during the finger-flashing number. sorry, don't know how to embed the video, but this is her performance at last night's grammy awards:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVNHcdew ... re=related



the song is under consideration is called 'roman holiday'. this little spectacle has been described as "transforming the banalities of award ceremonies into something so awesomely tacky, cheesy and sublime that it makes madonna’s appearance at the super bowl look like a classy outtake from 'cleopatra' . . . so staggeringly unhinged i thought i had taken some ambien and wandered into a theater where a triple bill of 'showgirls', 'flaming creatures', and 'the exorcist' were playing simultaneously while a popcorn machine was ejaculating giant buttered nuggets into my lap, causing my scrotum to pulsate like a vibrating bed in a sleazy motel somewhere on route 666."

dive in, y'all this thread ain't dead yet.

ps-- this vid includes some very dark imagery, possibly 'triggers', so proceed cautiously.

Edited by Bruce Dazzling to embed the video.

[Searcher08]

the singer nicki minaj was onstage with madonna and mia at the super bowl during the finger-flashing number. sorry, don't know how to embed the video, but this is her performance at last night's grammy awards:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVNHcdew ... re=related



the song is under consideration is called 'roman holiday'. this little spectacle has been described as "transforming the banalities of award ceremonies into something so awesomely tacky, cheesy and sublime that it makes madonna’s appearance at the super bowl look like a classy outtake from 'cleopatra' . . . so staggeringly unhinged i thought i had taken some ambien and wandered into a theater where a triple bill of 'showgirls', 'flaming creatures', and 'the exorcist' were playing simultaneously while a popcorn machine was ejaculating giant buttered nuggets into my lap, causing my scrotum to pulsate like a vibrating bed in a sleazy motel somewhere on route 666."

dive in, y'all this thread ain't dead yet.

Edited by Bruce Dazzling to embed the video.

Whatever floats yer boat... I'm with Godzilla on this one



"transforming the banalities of award ceremonies into something so awesomely boring, incoherent and PoMo (in a 'so Bad its just a turd' Way) ,that it makes Madonna’s appearance at the super bowl look like an actual Magickal Ritual . . . so staggeringly bereft of everything artistic i thought i had taken some ExLax and wandered into a theater where a triple bill of 'Waiting for Godot', 'Peter Greenaway outtakes', and 'The Exorcist' were playing simultaneously while the undecipherable tannoy at Tashkent Airport in Uzbekistan boomed over the sounds of a dysentery ridden group of Central Asian adventure tourists vomiting spectacularly into an array of aluminum buckets provided by the efficient machine of the Soviet Tourist Agency before departing on schedule to Samarkand"

[kelley]

not a hip-hop fan, i take it? i mean, the fecal imagery kind of gives it away.

[Searcher08]

not a hip-hop fan, i take it? i mean, the fecal imagery kind of gives it away.

I love hip-hop.

[thurnundtaxis]

Okay, well, now there is an interesting fact to throw in the mix here and its that the Grammy number can technically be seen as having been performed by Minaj's alter-ego: "Roman Zolanski".

From the Nicki Manaj Wikia:
http://nickiminaj.wikia.com/wiki/Roman_Zolanski

ROMAN ZOLANSKI

NAME Roman Zolanski
ORIGIN British
GENDER Male
SEXUALITY Homosexual
FIRST APPEARANCE Trey Songz - Bottoms Up (Visual)
PERSONALITY Pissed off & Full of anger
Rude at all times, with a nip of crazy.

RELATIVES Martha Zolanski (mother)
FASHION STYLE Varies, but mostly black outfits, or if more brighter outfits, with a twist of evil.
FEATURED IN Pink Friday
Roman's Revenge

Roman, who is Nicki Minaj's alter-ego, was born out of rage and became quickly a frequently used ego by Minaj.
Roman Zolanski is a very agressive, rebellious, and angry young man. He is always honest about how he feels about something or someone and will always speak out in a rude manner against it. On the other hand, let's say that his heart pumps out rage into his veins. Nicki Minaj has said that Roman is her ego who doesn't have a f*ck to give. He will often speak his mind,making it clearly obvious who he speaking of without giving out names. He grew up without a father, and was very active in Church when he was younger and aspired to be an Actor.


Gender Edit:
Roman Zolanski is a male, but many people think of the alter-ego as Nicki's twin-sister, because Nicki stated that Roman is like a twin to her. Though, the truth is that Roman is Nicki's twin-brother, and Roman represents always the more rude and angry side of Nicki.

SexualityEdit:
Roman, who is a male, is homosexual.

AppearancesEdit:
Roman appears mostly on songs where alot of anger is displayed, or where heavy lyrics are used.
Roman has sung in Bottoms Up, My Chick Bad, Roman's Revenge, Monster, Give Me All Your Luvin and is mentioned in Moment 4 Life where Martha states he was sent to a boarding school with Slim Shady.

Roman appears in Nicki Minaj's new album "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded". He was in the two lead singles "Roman in Moscow" & "Stupid Hoe". CRAZY BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TriviaEdit:
In Stupid Hoe,Roman joins forces with The Harajuku Barbie with Rosa also and tries to dominate stupid hoes.

Cheeky stuff!

[thurnundtaxis]

Here's Minaj herself on this "coming out party" performance for her "alter ego", which, she states was inspired by Madonna's super bowl show:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/167916 ... ance.jhtml

Nicki Minaj nearly stole the show at the 2012 Grammy Awards when she performed her frenetic Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded track "Roman Holiday." Rife with religious symbolism, the performance welcomed her alter ego Roman Zolanski to the Grammy stage for the first time. On Monday (February 13), Minaj called into Ryan Seacrest's radio show to give her take on the red-hot performance.


"Well, [that religious character I walked the carpet with] is a major part of the story and the movie that I'm writing about one of my alter egos; his name is Roman," she said. "Basically, the religious figure is there because he was called on by Roman's mom [Martha] to rehabilitate him. I wasn't going to do the red carpet, so you know I was backstage prepared ... my people wanted me to do it. I had this amazing robe made for me by Versace sent from Milan and I said, 'I have to wear this.' They were so generous, and I was going to originally wear it in the performance, but then when I got it, it was a little heavy for the performance.

"I had this vision for Roman. I had this vision for him to be sort of exorcised. ... People around tell him he's not good enough because he's not normal. So his mother is scared and the people around him are afraid. He wanted to show that not only is he amazing, but he's never going to be exorcised, even when they throw holy water on him, he still rises above." In fact, when MTV News caught up with Minaj in late 2011, she shared the origins of this particular plotline. "Well, he was there [in Moscow] secretly because [alter ego] Martha wanted him to go there," she said. "So they put him in this thing with monks and nuns; they were trying to rehabilitate him."

Minaj told Seacrest that she feels the performance, choreographed by Laurieann Gibson and directed by Hype Williams, was a success. "It's funny because it was the most comfortable I've been in my entire life," she said. "The Grammys chose 'Roman Holiday.' They heard 'Roman Holiday' and I could not play them another record after that. I have to stay true to what I'm doing ... My fanbase, they understand every single thing. Roman was created two years ago. I've been writing the story for a long time and yesterday was his coming-out party. It just was very literal and streamlined if you know who Roman is and if you don't know the Roman character, you have to digest it."


While she has no plans to recreate that Grammy performance, she has made it clear several times to MTV News that this April will kick off the era of Roman. In a previous interview with Minaj, she explained that Roman is definitely her favorite alter ego.

"[He's] bad. That's why I like Roman," she said. "I think I started liking Roman more because everybody else starting like Roman, so he became my favorite. People are expecting him to do some real craziness on the next album."

The over-the-top spectacle was, in part, inspired by her Super Bowl performance with Madonna. "Meeting Madonna changed my life. This performance was it, and this is the first performance I'm proud of in my whole life. Madonna was the first person in history who was able to make me change my wig," she said of the Queen of Pop's undeniable influence over her. "When you see her vision, it's like, 'Oh, OK. If someone this talented and this rich is still giving it this much [then I should too].' "

And, she explained that she cares so much for Madge as an artist that she felt "disappointment" over M.I.A.'s headline-grabbing middle finger salute. "Even though I'm a coo-coo lady too, I would never be able to do it off the strength of Madonna," she said. "We're kind of all firecrackers."

[justdrew]

undeniable influence?

heck, I thought I could hear bits of this all through that "song"

[Pierre d'Achoppement]

some more recent alter ego's:

Strange songstress Lady Gaga prompted many jaws to drop during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night when she channeled her foul-mouthed, whisky-drinking, chain-smoking male alter-ago, Jo Calderone

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/20 ... restrooms/

Meet Sasha Fierce or, as she is more commonly known, diva Beyoncé Knowles. These sultry shots see the singer transformed into her on-stage alter ego in a series of dramatic outfits, including a gold metal top and matching cyborg-style glove.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... -much.html

[Searcher08]

"I think I started liking Roman more because everybody else starting like Roman, so he became my favorite"