Madonna Concert Special Fails To Score Ratings Message Board and Comments

My2cents why don'y you go back to Dlisted. Yes I know it's you. How sad are you to always bitch about Madonna, saying how much you hate her. Now you even do it on other sites. That is very, VERY sad.

WHO IS MADONNA? Are you guys talking about that old lady who runs around in a leotard? .

Yes, I absoltely think that Madonna is a role model. If my doughter at the age of 50, is married with kids, has a great amount of wealth that is used for tons of charities, and has faith than I will be more than happy. Regardless of how Madonna acts on stage, in real life she is a woman of integrity, values, and truth. She seems to be an amazing mother dedicated to family. She has a passion for what she does and she is a paragon to all us who believe and have dreams and know that some ordinary folks can reach those dreams. I truly think she is a woman of valor.

Madonna, huh don't let the screen door hit you on the butt on your way out.

Funny how this article doesn't mention all ratings were down that day. The reason for that is because it's the day before Thanksgiving and many people travel in the USA on that day. Funny how this article doesn't mention Madonna ended in 3rd place with her concert in the rating charts. Is that bad? I don't think so. Funny how this article doesn't mention 40 NBC stations refused to air the concert. So a big part of America couldn't see it. Madonna sold 8 million coppies of her last album. 'Hung Up' went number 1 in 29 countries. 'Sorry' number 1 in 15 countries. Her tour is the most succesfull tour by any female artist ever. She ended on the 3rd place on Billboards list of best selling albums of 2005. Mariah Carey(2) and Coldplay(1) were above her. She ended at number 2 on the European charts for best selling albums. James Blunt was 1 and Robbie Williams 3. She is far from over. I know people like to call her old and a has been but maybe the people that say that need to look at the FACTS before saying that.

Madonna was on TV? Looks like the ratings kinda prove the second part of her/your 'free speech' rights - I have the right not to listen to you. Rather than her looking at it as a function of a free market though, I'm sure it's W's/Republicans/Christians/America's fault she didn't get a huge audience.

Madonna has always been the most over-rated talentless tramp in the music industry. Her repetitive bubble-gum pop was both boring and annoying. Let's face it... If she hadn't acted like a complete slut at the start of her career, she wouldn't have had a career at all. Now nobody wants to see her sagging body anymore so she resorts to bashing Bush. And for the absolute idiot who claims some moronic professor "proves" the towers were brought down using thermite (instead of the planes we saw crashing into them on live TV). Please explain how saying "prove to me they weren't brought down with thermite" is "proof" that they were. Because that's the entire basis of this morons' argument... Prove to him it didn't happen that way. So basically it's the same as saying every US president has actually been an alien from Mars. Don't believe me? Well, prove to me they were not from Mars. Birth certificates and other public documents can be forged, so producing them won't count as proof. I say they came from Mars... So untill you provide absolute proof disputing it, my theory is accurate. Now, go drink the rest of your kool-aid.

Madonna is quite tiresome. We've made her a multi-millionaire so now she should just stick with helping the less fortunate HERE and in other countries. It's sad but true that no one wants to watch an aging rock star. We've established that in our culture. I wish it weren't so but it is. And Mick Jagger grosses me out! Hang it up old man!! yuck!

I have to admit to being a Madonna devotee from the time I was a teenager. I am now 37. When she decided to use her stage as a platform to bash President Bush, however, she lost my devotion. I swore to never purchase another album by Madonna. Someone decided to gift me a copy of her "Confessions from a Dance Floor" CD, however, and my anger abated. Having said all of this, I watched the concert; and by far, it is her best concert to date. From beginning to end, it was professionally done, with no expense spared, and she had top-notch dancers. The performance was art, in my opinion. There were only three things that disappointed me about the concert: 1. NBC should not have censored the part where Madonna was on the cross. I am a Christian, and I would not have found this offensive. As she sang, "Live To Tell," there was a montage of pictures of children in Africa, the message being that over 12 million children in Africa die from AIDS. As she sang the song, she wore a crown of thorns. I think both the image of her on the cross and the crown of thorns were very effective in delivering the message of: "Do so unto me, and you do so unto the least of me." How would it have been any more offensive for Madonna to use this imagery than it is for Christians to do so when emulating the suffering of Christ? 2. Madonna, while singing, "I Love New York," once again profaned George Bush when singing, "... go to Texas and suck George Bush's D***." This was entirely unnecessary and tasteless. 3. Madonna also at one point during the concert takes the liberty of giving the bird to her audience members. Once again, it was unnecessary and tasteless. All things considered, the concert was EXCELLENT! Madonna is in better shape now than ever, and I am amazed at her stamina. Every move was deliberate and controlled; and since she is in great shape, her performance is even better. My only disappointment is that I can't purchase it on DVD right now. I hope this will be available soon.

Brock!?! You actually believe that Madonna is "an inspiration and a role model"??? That is a stretch. If you had a daughter, would you want her to be dancing around, half naked, simulating sex? Born a Catholic, converting to a perversion of Judaism, and blaspheming the religion that her own father still embraces? This woman cannot possibly be considered a "role model", unless it is as a greedy narcissist.

i tuned in to NBC to see one of my favorite shows (the biggest loser)and found that it had been replaced with an even bigger loser. stop messing with the schedule NBC

Modonna is too old to connect with todays culture? I would have to disagree. Since there are many female artists that are both older and talented. They are still connected. Madonna has always been the center of some controvercy or another. Thats just part of her appeal. I don't know anyone that really pays any attention to music concerts on TV. Doesn't matter who is performing. You want TV, watch the video, you want concert buy a ticket. I am not going to read too much into this. Bad nite, okay album and what channel was that on again?

Madonna is the most talented, gifted, and inspiration women singers of today. I think the reson for the low turn out was because a T.V concert is not that exciting to watch. It's one thing ot watch a music video or two, but a whole concert is tough. Madonna at age 50 ooks as beautiful as she did in her early 30's. She is the one person I can think of and relate to as a person who believed in something and went after it was passion and commitment. I feel that she is a role model and an excellent person. May she and her family have only happines, health, and good fortune. Brock from Jerusalem

I can't believe that NBC thought this would fly... People are sick of Madonna and her pathogical need for attention. Her audience has long outgrown her, and what used to be shocking is now just tasteless. There is no room for a new, younger audience because her former fans are now the parents of those kids and don't approve of her bizarre tactics - although the kids that I know simply aren't interested, anyway. She's 50. She looks ridiculous. She needs to put her clothes back on, quit simulating sex on stage (we're all over that)and look for a house in Vegas, because it's likley that a lounge act in Sin City will be her last stop.

Madonna is like all the women who look so nice when they are all gussied up. However, on the small screen all that gloss is a barrier for her to get close to us and more importantly for us to connect to her. I taped the show to time shift on my viewing of the concert. It is hard to tell wher the commercials end and her show begins. Not good if you want to CONNECT to her and her songs. On TV sometimes LESS is MORE. But then again she wouldn't be Madonna. So much for expanding your audience. Looks like the Cher route for her. Let Madonna go, laughing all the way to the bank!

I saw a few minutes of this and was interested beforehand to see what the deal was. The problem with this was production value - it was like a 2 hour long music video with androgenous men in synchronized dance. This is before Thanksgiving??? I think the concert idea can work on TV, but probably something more like an MTV unplugged where someone engages the audience. This was too canned...too prepackaged....who were the demographics for this? Teenage girls? I am 31 and Madonna first caught my eye with that girl next door look and brunette look briefly in the 80's where she was beautiful. She went off the deepend with that book, and skeezed many of us out. She won me back with Evita. Then she sort of disappeared from my radar until this kid thing, which was just a week or two before a concert that had been planned for how long? I think at this point, Madonna has three choices. 1) Go down the Cher route, which this concert seemed to do. 2) Go down the semi-retired route and do last tours for the next 5 years and disappear. 3) Retire. Madonna never had the best pipes of anyone, she had the best marketing. Now that the market is depleted and the talent is lacking, she can retire a legend instead of hanging on the next 10 years. She is the greatest female performer, ever, no question, look at the records she has. But she's pushing 50 and there comes a time and a place for it all.

I liked Madonna in the early stages of her career, then she got too darn weird and freaky for me. The adrenaline rush celebrities feel from constant attention must be addicting. When the attention begins to wane, many seem to do just about anything to stay in the lime light. It's really kinda sad.....they have more money then they could spend in 2 lifetimes and they never seem to be happy. We all just watch them self-destruct.

Many years ago, Madonna was a hip and trendy young woman who used people to gain an audience. Now, Madonna is a foolish old woman who uses children to gain a spotlight. Guy Ritchie is as dumb as a doorknob.