Celine Dion is sharing her thoughts on Madonna performing in next week's Super Bowl Halftime Show.
"I love Madonna and know her well," Celine Dion told The Trend on Zappos Couture. "I know she'll do just fine, she doesn't need any luck. She's going to do her thing, she's going to do what she does best, she's going to give us something for us to remember. She's going to be great, just fine."
"I'm not going to be performing at the Super Bowl because I'm pretty booked," Celine added. "I'm in Las Vegas right now at Caesars Palace doing a lot of shows so I won't be at the Super Bowl."
DrownedMadonna.com heard that Stuart Price and William Obit did mixes of some Madonna's classics for Madonna's Super Bowl long-awaited performance, and are meant to be mixed into each other to create a MASH-UP.
Without ruining plans for a surprise for the her show, we decided just to reveal that Give Me All Your Luvin' is blending into Hung Up through the guitar solo (in a similar way they did for Live Earth). Keep in mind that it is still subject to changes. Also the mash-up originally included more tracks than what they are currently rehearsing.
The show is being described to DrownedMadonna.com as "a magnificent symphony of visuals." Expect the unexpected!
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Our community member AlanUK read an interview in UK in which Glenn Close discussed Madonna, and confessed that Madonna is her favourite performer.
Q: How was the Golden Globes?
GC: Fantastic! I hate trying to find a dress for these events because it's not something that I am interested in but once I'm there I begin to enjoy it. Oh and I got to sit near Madonna.
Q: Did you talk to her?
GC: Yes, I have been to her tours since 1993 and met her backstage in New York during her Confession Tour. She is my favourite performer, I love her. There will never be another Madonna in my lifetime. I was also privileged to see her rehearse her Sticky and Sweet tour when I was filming Damages in Brooklyn.
Madonna talks about her long-awaited performance at Super Bowl on February 5, and admits that it is the thing she has been more nervous about.
"I have 12 minutes and 40 seconds to do something extravagant and exciting in the middle of something that's quite sacred to all of America," Madonna told the Los Angeles Times. "No one's asked me to tone down my moves. They were curious about my costumes and the costumes of the dancers.... They were very clear with us up front that they don't want nipples or anything like that, and I didn't have any intention of doing that, so I was like, 'OK, we're cool.'"
"I'm more nervous about this than most things I've done, simply because ... it's not how I'm used to working. I'm a perfectionist," Madonna goes on. "I like everything to be done just so, and I like to run things and run things and run things until people can do it with their eyes closed."
Madonna compares directing a movie to putting up one of her demanding tours. "When you're putting a show together, you're dealing with so many elements," she said. "You're creating a stage and working with lights and costumes and dancers, who you could say are the actors. You're paying attention to the minutiae and you're also stepping back and looking at the bigger picture. I always like to tell stories in my show and have some kind of an arc. I have a crew that I rely on desperately and... I'm working with creative people, so I need to be judicious with the way that I speak with them. I've always been intricately involved in every aspect of my show. I know where all the nails are on the stage."
"I feel like all the records on the radio right now have a homogenized quality to them," Madonna tod to The Los Angeles Times, and it sounds like an excerpt of her new single Give Me All Your Luvin'. "I've made a huge effort to try and not sound like everybody else."
"The music that I've done with William (Orbit) is quite introspective, whereas Martin (Solveig)'s is more ironic and funny and upbeat," Madonna adds. "There's a really up aspect to it and a really fun aspect to it."
"I don't like to repeat myself," Madonna says. "I'm a curious person who's interested in learning, and I like to take the road less traveled by. That's just my nature, so perhaps that leads me to subject matter or controversial or subversive waters. I don't know. It's not something that's intentional. I'm not calculating being subversive or trying to be ahead of people. I just work on things that interest me."
It's being rumoured for months, and now it's official.
Madonna and business partner and manager Guy Oseary are working on a dance channel for YouTube. Madonna confirmed it to the Los Angeles Times. It's on her long list of interests for 2012.
One song on Madonna's new album, MDNA, is called Beautiful Killer.
Beautiful Killer is a tribute to French film star Alain Delon., as Madonna revealed to the Los Angeles Times "I've seen every movie Alain Delon's ever made," Madonna said. "He's so charismatic."
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Her Stopid Hoe video was an evidence, but today Nicky Minaj has finally confirmed with a tweet that she will perform at the Super Bowl with Madonna.
Nicky tweeted on Twitter that she on her agenda today contains "Super Bowl rehearsals w/the Queen" in New York City.
Songwriter and Golden Globe co-winner Julie Frost joins Colleen Williams on Nonstop News LA to talk about her recent win and working with Madonna on Masterpiece. Watch and post your comments after the jump.
Madonna's Give Me All Your Luvin' and Masterpiece show the two very different sides that Madonna is pursuing on her next album MDNA.
While Give Me All Your Luvin' plays up Madonna's playful, upbeat persona, Masterpiece, as she explained to MTV News, is a different story.
"Masterpiece is one of the few kind of more down-tempo songs, more reflective," Madonna told MTV News. "I think the majority of the record is more action-packed, more high-energy."