Desperate Diva: Madonna's Shock Shtick Getting Old

Madonna is at it again. The woman with the insatiable appetite for attention – any attention – is making news on herworldwide MDNA tour.

With the way this over-the-hill exhibitionist is behaving, instead of the title of heralbum and tour being a play on club-drug MDMA (Ecstasy), “MDNA” should stand for “Menopausal DivaNeeds Attention.”

Over the last 30 years the entire world has been intermittently subjected to the Material Girl in various stages of undress. Before her previous Latina/Evita phaseand more recent faux-British phase, a coffee-table edition of her exhibitionist book entitled “Sex” eventreated the public to a totally nude Madonna hitchhiking.

Since then, Madonna’s estrogen levels have greatly diminished, but not her desire to shock. So that’sprobably why Madame Ciccone felt it was her civic duty, as if anybody cares, to update the public as to thechanges middle age inflicts on a woman’s body.

While in Turkey on tour, a woman too deluded to accept thefact that nobody cares what her nipples look like anymore, injected a huge dose of Granny disgust into theIstanbul show when she whipped out one boob while singing “Human Nature.”

Early-onset senile dementia must be kicking in because Madonna criticized Janet Jackson fora similar wardrobe malfunction in 2004, when she called showing your nipples “cheap attention grabs.”

So, according to Madonna, the intent of her “cheap attention grab” was to garner more press, up the shockante, offend any traditionally Islamic members of her audience, and while she was at it, send a strongmessage to the male-dominated Muslim culture.

The 53-year-old must want MiddleEastern fans to know that if she gets the urge to act like a trollop, cultural mores will never prevent herfrom doing so. To drive home that point, Madonna scribbled “No Fear” on her back.By tattooing “No Fear” on her body, Madonna unintentionally conveyed to her audience another, moreimportant message, which is that age does not prevent a grandstanding narcissist from embarrassing herselfon stage when she should be home tucking in her children and sipping a cup of chamomile tea.

Besides, Madonna’s “No Fear” pretense is a boldfaced lie. “Little Nonni” merely feigns fearlessness whenshe’s flouting religious sensibilities, especially in a country where female modesty is mandated by law.She’s also Ms. ‘No Shame’ when it comes to defiling a generation of other people’s children with her lewdpromiscuity, Godless message and self-masturbatory conceit.

But when it comes to accepting the realityof aging, Madonna is obviously riddled with fear.Moreover, up until now, a fearful Madonna tried desperately to preserve the purity and innocence of herdaughters Lourdes (Lola) Leon and Mercy James and sons Rocco Ritchie and David Banda Mwale byshielding them from exposure to what she has purposely inflicted on other people’s children for the past 30years.

Madonna has apparently decided it’s about time toexpose her offspring to their mother’s unique brand of perverted antics, so she took Lourdes and Rocco ontour with her.From a mother’s perspective, it really doesn’t matter who Madonna thinks she is; subjecting her ownchildren to watching her writhe around on stage depicting violent, sadomasochistic pleasure borders onchild abuse.

It calls to mind Cher singing “If I Could Turn Back Time” on the deck of the USS Missouriin front of a group of sailors, skipping around in a fishnet body stocking while her 12-year-oldson Elijah Blue Allman played backup on the guitar with the band.

Nevertheless, apparently Madonna has decided to follow Cher’s lead because Lourdes and Rocco areboth fully involved in the production of the MDNA tour. Pre-teen son Rocco sings with the gospel choirin “Like a Prayer,” break dances and gets to see Mom up-close and personal “stripped nearly naked andtied up in a corset by a dancer, then dragged around the floor.”

And as if that weren’t bad enough, while Madonna exhorts the crowd to world peace young Roccowitnesses gun violence complete with images of “shattered skulls, brains, and blood splashing” acrossJumbotron screens.

The real kicker occurs when this impressionable child gets to observe his mother cavort on the stagewith a 24-year-old Kabbalah devotee/lead dancer with an apparent Oedipus complex named BrahimZaibat.

Daughter Lola, whom self-described “disciplinarian” Madge used to prohibit from watching television,eating ice cream, and reading magazines, now serves as a backup dancer but mostly works backstage inwardrobe helping Mama slip her bony body in and out of bondage outfits, chains,and lingerie.

By inviting her children to participate in the tour, the ravenous-for-attention Madonna clearly disregardedthe effect that a deliberate wardrobe malfunction would have on her own children, let alone anyone else’s.

Perched center stage, unable to control the impulse to shock her audience, Madonna lowered one side ofher brassiere like a mother preparing to nurse a baby before she remembered her nursing days are longgone and covered her teat.

Word to former children’s book author Madonna from one 50-something to another: rather than look fornew ways to make the world cringe with your perverse exhibitionism, maybe you should gather up your two kids and head home to whatevercorner of the world you presently identify with.

And while you’re there picking up a new fake accent, forthe love of God, please start acting your age.