Madonna's Tribute To Michael Jackson!
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London. Saturday night. The O2 Arena, the same venue where the King of Pop was scheduled to perform a series of 50 concerts.
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awwwwww He really was the King of Pop, Rock and Soul.
Superb tribute!
WTF?? You honor him by having some dancer pretend to be him???? WTF???
That is offensive, rude, and beyond WTF!
Madonna, your tribute could have been you singing a song and having his pictures in the background, but no.. you decided to have some look, dance, and act like him in your show.
Anyone trying to be him after he has died is offensive! Long live the Real King of Pop, Rock, and Soul. R.I.P. MJ
long live the king
long live the queen
so clearly he didnt die?
greatest publicity stund of all time!!!! i new he faked it!
i'm not impressed. if SHE had been dancing, then that would have been amazeballs. but she just had an impersonator ? welcome to the new world, where we will replace men imitating elvis, with men imitating mj. look how far we've come
When are you going to post the new nude GAG-a pics from V magazine?
It was nice, but whoever was dancing as MJ SUX BIG BALLS, common she could have done something better…..waited to see this video but it was LAME
This footage wasnt good at all.
Go to her website madonna.com and you will find another video, a much better video and better quality who captures everything.
awwww thats amazing
wow, how pretentious and retarded. she looks more like a corpse than jackson. on the bright side though, and least she isn't a blubbering slob like you, perez– A TRAITOR TO THEIR OWN COMMUNITY! THE GAYS HATE YOU PEREZ. LEAVE OUR TOWN. LEAVE LA, AND DON'T COME BACK!
look at the video on her website instead.. madonna.com.. the video of her tribute to MJ is a video with better QUALITY!! this video wasnt good!!
That made me almost cry
God, I miss MJ.
nice short tribute
maybe she can suck on your big fat cow titties, perez! or maybe she can suck on your mom's– we've all seen pictures of her, and whoa, what a blob!
…I am relieved that Madonna didn't attempt to moonwalk. She deserves to 'Take A Bow'.
She bashes him and his family publicly then does this…idiot.
awww…i've been such a cry baby over his death. Watching that mad me cry again!! damn it, just when i think i have my crying under control!!!!!
No moonwalk?
Eh..not a tribute…kinda creepy if you ask me. A tribute would have been Madonna and her dancers pulling some MJ moves…not some impersonator.
that was a rly kewl tribute though woudld of been kewler if madonna did sing a song by MJ rather than just have an imprsonator but i guess it was all last minute
long live the king of pop
Pretty nice thing to do..
Watching that was like watching a puppert on a string in which the strings were being pulled by Madonna.That's the tackest thing I have ever seen.If I wan't to see real footage of Michael I'll go on youtube.com.I wonder what Janet thinks of it.Michael is Madonna puppet hahahahahahahahahahahhah!
"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you." -Brian Tracy
This is better than anything BET did
That was great!! I'm happy that Madonna paid tribute to MJ!!
AlbitaO2- You said the exact thing I was thinking. It was creepy and off somehow. I thought she could have sung something. Bad taste Madonna.
Great tributo to MJ!!!!MADONNA RULES!!!!!!!
So really, her tribute was doing nothing? She couldn't be bothered to say anything or sing anything? she just stopp there and clapped while she hired someone to dance….
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM…………….THATS INTERESTING. DID SHE SUNG "BILLIE JEAN" IN THE LIKE A VIRGIN NUMBER LIKE SHE DID LONG TIME AGO? SHE SHOULD. LOL THE QUEEN IS THE FIRST TO GIVE A TRIBUTE TO THE KING…ISN'T SHE?
I actually thought it was quite tacky and disrespectful. If she was dancing and maybe done one of his songs, it would have been better.
But I bet Madonna wouldn't let her kids be in a room alone with MJ when he was alive!!
WHAT? Bringing in a fake MJ is no tribute! I find it very distasteful. She should have just tried to sing one of his somgs or something, not slap him in the face. This is exactly why I disklike Madonna, she fucking SUCKS!
limelight whore!
Here is a better video of the Tribute… Thanks for sharing Perez, might want to add this better video… Thank.. XOXO
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM…………….THATS INTERESTING. DID SHE SUNG "BILLIE JEAN" IN THE LIKE A VIRGIN NUMBER LIKE SHE DID LONG TIME AGO? SHE SHOULD. LOL THE QUEEN IS THE FIRST TO GIVE A TRIBUTE TO THE KING…ISN'T SHE???
Everyone of you that is bitching about Madonna's tribute should get a grip. He died only a week ago and she was still able to make changes to her show to pay tribute. She did not have to do that, but she did. I'm sure if she had more time, she could have done something bigger and better. Something is better than nothing! Long Live the King and Queen of Pop.
I didn't like the way that guy danced at all. I think she could have found someone way better!
Go to www.madonna.com to see a much better, professional version of the video. This is shit, plus to all of you that think she didn't say anything… she did!
I think is unbelievable, super sad, and stupid really that these two never came together for a song or performance! c'mon is a no brainer! king and queen of pop!!!!! now it can never happen
Re: albita02 – I agree, I don't think is THAT offensive, but singing one of his song would've been a lot better
at first i thought that it was Madonna dressed up as michael jackson.so i'm thinking that's cool let see what she can do! then i notice her ugly ass in the background and thinking to myself what the fu@k is this.TACKYTACKYTACKYMADONNATACKYTACKYMADONNATACKYTACKY.
Re: Snuggies keep me snug and happy –
u r so stupid
madonna has not rights to sing mj songs her her concert .
madonna has not rights to sing mj songs on her concert.
I know what she was trying to do and bless her Queen of pop heart for that but i dont like watching this impersonater so early after Michael's death….noone can replace him no matter how good they dance
RIP KING
Michael left everything in his will to Madonna because she was his best friend and always there for him.That is why the queen of rock made this tribute to the king of pop BFF forever………………………………………………..
Well, aging '80s "legends" gotta stick together…
how very like her to exploit any news worthy event to her own end. so what's new about that. very very tacky and disrespectful but that's madonna for you. rules of humanity don't apply, she sold her soul a long time ago.
Incredible tribute artist. Great idea. ..
Re: albita02 –
For Madonna to sing one of MJ's songs, it would require some great vocal skills on her part..something she's never had.
Kind of weak.. would've been better if she did a cover but some average impersonator? Lame.
NEWKIDS ON THE BLOCK HAD A WAYYYYYYYYY BETTER TRIBUTE ON THE NIGHT HE DIED IN DETROIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! RIP MJ
Re: QUEEN OF ROCK – Um…his best friend? In what universe? If she were his best freind, she would have done a real tribute or said a few words, instead of hiring a cheap impersonator to dance about while she clapped like he was a trained monkey. this wasn't a tribute, it was a slap in the face that she couldn't be bothered to do a damn thing herself or god forbid, learn a few verses of a song or a few steps for a dance. She should be ashamed of herself. This is classless and tacky…just like her.
It was like him coming back to life again in someone else's body. I think that's what she was going for.
Singing and dancing like a mother fu#ker. That's how he should be remembered. I like it.
Re: QUEEN OF ROCK – actually, elizabeth taylor was his best friend not madonna
Yeah Baby!!!! That's my girl!!! Madonna wouldn't do this just for anybody. They were similar and different at the same time. GO TO MADONNA.COM. There is a better view of this event!!! LOVE YOU MADONNA!!!!
She's such a band-waggoner.
OMG, I loved it!! It made me cry seeing the dancer …grrrreat job. He really looked like M.J.
That bitch has absolutely NO sense of taste, tact or shame. Some tribute, hiring an impersonator that could be had at any children's birthday party. Can she just break a hip already so she HAS to sit down?
SIMPLY AMAZING!!
Re: Snuggies keep me snug and happy – #54 I ws just being sacastic.everyone knows he loved Diana ross and liz talor but Madonna is just jumping on the band wagon and putting out the image that they were the closest people in the world.if u wanted to do a beautiful tribute at all show the last rehersal he did 2 days before his dath and show it on the big screen.It was the newest beautiful dancing and singing and it wasen't a 20 year old imatation! So #54,56.i agree with u both!!!!
fuck everyone who is criticizing her for paying tribute.
why are pple on this site always so ridiculously hateful!! first off, madonna didn't have to do a tribute, she did one because mj mooved her as an artist and it is her tribute to him not your's or any mj fans for that matter!!! and it is a fitting tribute seeing as mj is most well known for his dance moves and the moonwalk which the impersonator did and in a sense having an impersonator do this on that stage is almost like having the spirit of mj perform on the very stage that he was due to perform can't u idiots see that!! and it was very fitting to play his music and have someone do his best dance moves, probably the least selfish thing madonna has ever done since she just stood there and watched in awe, i bet the crowd at the o2 appreciated it!! if mj couldn't make it to the stage then y not have a dancer who has been influenced by him realise the dream!!! all u haterz would be hating even more if madonna did an mj song herself coz yall just bitter!!!
too bad he's dead and gone forever at least the kids will be safe
Seriously are all the people who make negative comments seem to be so unhappy… WOW, talk about being jaded and bitter… I enjoyed what Madonna did, this is the way she said "Goodbye"… And she shared it with everyone, it was not a selfish act… Get over it people… Madonna is the Queen of Pop, she can do what she wants when she wants…
are people seriously critisizing her tribute to him? where is YOUR tribute in YOUR concert to him? LMAO…u people need the shut the FUCK up!
some of you would have criticised her no matter what she did. the real mj fans who loved mj for his dancing and his music appreciated and loved the tribute and would like to remember him this way…for a couple of minutes, madonna brought the spirit of mj onstage for one last time even though it was through someone else!!! perfect! and yes he may be an impersonator but he's a fucking good one and yes we all know he's not mj but he did a fucking good job so grow up all u MOTHER FUCKING HATERS coz u wouldn't know good taste if it dropped into ur fucking mouths!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: sjasper –
Actually we do have good taste. That's why we don't listen to Madonna. And you're right, the "haters," as you eloquently put it, would hate it even more if she sang a MJ song, because we know she'd fuck it up. There's no need to get pissy over negative comments toward her. At the end of the day, none of the "haters" can convince you she sucks any more than you can convince us she's brilliant.
Re: tick_tock_tick_tock –
And the kids weren't safe before he died? They're probably a lot safer than the kids Madonna adopted.
This makes me so sad because it could have been him.
Re: DanielDax –
i have no interest in convincing any of you that she's brilliant..her enormous success speaks for itself which is why we're all commenting on HER tribute including you!!! lol! you may not like her or her musc but her sucess equates to brilliance whether or not it fits your definition of the word!
She is now clearly foaming at the mouth in trying to hijack some of the massive global adoration and ceaseless reverie Jackson is deservedly receiving from world leaders, entertainment industry giants and fans on all seven continents. He's barely even cold and she's onstage at the O2 as 51 year old Cougar in a cheer leading skirt singing his praises…
Re: sjasper – You are so full of shit!
Re: QUEEN OF ROCK – You mean thanks for EXPLOITING him and trying to bag the press that will never view her as important as talented.
No one's babies today will care about madonna in ten years but Jackson lives forever.
DEATH TO MADONNA! she's sold her dead mother out to camera crews for a buck and now Jackson-that flat chested bitch is foul!
Re: sjasper –
Sorry, I didn't come here to comment on her tribute. I was just responding to your silly rant. So enormous success means brilliance….Right….Milli Vanilli were enormously successful at one time too.
Re: Brtt – Yes, Madonna can't sing and she is an atrocious actress.
Re: sjasper –
nicely said! 2 thumbs up i completely agree!! i loved how he was in a white light, totally looked like his ghost was dowing what he loved…dancing!
Re: DoubleECupMagus –
she has always sang his praises, she said at the start of her career tat he was her biggest inspiration, what is wrong with her paying homage to him like "ALL THE WORLD LEADERS" are doing as you claim. y don't you critisise them or any other artist who's paying tribute to him!! y don't you critise every artist who paid tribute to him at the BET awards or his own father for that matter! y don't you start with the man/woman in the mirror when you say she's full of shit as you're using mj's death as an opportunity to trash madonna!!
The QUEEN & THE KING
I Love u Madonna
Re: DanielDax –
you're right they were enormously successful AT ONE TIME TOO! she still is!! glad you agree with me!
Lame
Re: albita02 – #3: You hit the nail on the head. This was pathetic.
She should have sung a song or something. The impersonation was kinda tacky.
Re: sjasper –
Don't flatter yourself. You can't even construct a proper sentence, so why in the hell would I agree with you? You still haven't come up with a clever argument that enormous success=brilliance, and I doubt you ever will.
madonna.com has better footage.
Re: Brtt – go to youtube and you can see her singing bit part of billie jeans mixed in the like a virgin number……. dumbass. and that was i am expecting her to do again but…..
Re: albita02 – shut up kid
Re: DanielDax –
i don't need to come up with an argument, you need to have a look in the dictionary for the term brilliant and have a look at madonna's career and look up judgemenetal, cynical and ignorant while ur at it coz you might learn something about yourself!
Re: sjasper – nicely said…………i didn't see anything wrong with this little tribute to the king. how i wish she did the same thing she did long time ago. remember the early concert ….was it like a virgin tour? in that song number she incorporate or mix some bits part of "bellie jeans" and it was good. why everyone is against her tribute. accusing her of using him. tacky? yeah tacky my ass.
Re: DRAMA PRINCESS –
Um..I saw the video, hence my comment. She fucked Billie Jean up back then..who knows what she would have done if she tried to sing one of his songs this time. Try to sound a little more intelligent yourself before you call someone a dumbass.
Re: sjasper – "Always sang his parises?'
You have no idea what you are talking about , his family HATES her and she just wants to suck off attention. Beyonce's tribute has CLASS because she can SING! Where was Madonna all of these past fifteen years as the most famous pop singer when Michael Jackson was being vilified? Why now is she so attached to him? Did her sleazeball manager, Guy Oseary, really need to announce the day of Michael Jackson's' death, the unverified plans on her "being part of his comeback?"
No one but her slimy camp has ever confirmed she was to be part of anything.
Madonna is an insipid parasite, and thankfully the Jackson family won't buy her bullshitter's line. She did this when Princess Diana died, crying out against the media driven culture she nearly single handedly helped build with her fame whore/reality MTV life.
Re: sjasper – I only criticized Madonna the bitch who can't sing or act and who created raunch and skank culture
Don't put words in my mouth. The black artists have been massively talented in paying their respects-THEY have shown class. madonna just wants in on the media frenzy. She is a desperate old whore. shouldnt she be with her precious new daughter? can't get back on stage and away from her stolen kids fast enough can she?
Re: sjasper –
Lord. Now you're trying to analyze me. Save the pseudo-psychological bullshit for Dr. Phil. I don't need to look up a dictionary to know what brilliance is. Brilliance is making, writing, and producing unique, mind-blowing music that leaves one in awe and wonderment. Sorry, Madonna has never done that. What she has done was create a bigger than life image that was much bigger than the music itself, and in a sense that's brilliant, but that has nothing to do with making music. Face it, her music is not different nor better than the Bananaramas, Samantha Foxes, and Debbie Gibsons of the Eighties. She knows this, and that's why she remained controversial, because if she just released music without any fanfare, she would have been another 80s has-been. People like her music because she's Madonna the celebrity, not Madonna the artist. Other famous artists are able to balance celebrity with making great music (the Beatles, Elvis). Madonna's has gotten crappier as the years gone by. She doesn't have the luxury of laying low and retreating from the spotlight, because she's so worried about being forgotten. Prince is brilliant. Kate Bush is brilliant. Madonna is not.
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Yes, it's good that Madonna paid respect to Michael, but it could have been
done better .. in a more personal way
Re: DanielDax –
did it ever occut to you that madonna had to create the imagge because there is a double standard between male and female entertainers!! which other female entertainer has had the longevity that she has had which for male entertainers is much easier! ru even aware that michael jackson never wrote his own songs, in fact prince wrote a lot of his music while madonna writes her own material. ru aware of the huge machine that has always been behind michael jackson which was created for the sole purpose of breaking him into a predominantly white industry!! i still think mj was very talented and so is madonna, her success is written in stone and she's still at the top, no artist in history has had her consistency fan fair or not she's one of the greatest entertainers ever and being a good entertainer involes having a larger than life image otherwise ur just like everybody else who sings in the shower! and you wanna talk about unique music, madonna has done that, u need only look at ray of light!! and as for ur elvis comment, elvis could not live up to the image he created which is what led to his demise, y don't you read about his last days, u might sound smarter when you talk about him then!
Re: DoubleECupMagus –
yes always sang his praises y don't u have a look on youtube, its silly to argue about facts, she's said it before that michael was her biggest inspiration, whether or not his family hates her is not the issue, she admired him. and as for his family hating her that was all janet jackson who's always been jealous of madonna's success, she's said a lot of shit about for publicity!! and if you want to judge her for her apparent "fame whoring" why don't you point out a successful artist who's had the long career that she's had who hasn't been guilty of the same. its a sexist society we live in and female artists have to do this kind of shit just to maintain a career, janet jackson superbowl??
Re: DoubleECupMagus –
and as for you saying where was madonna all these yrs when michael was being vilified, she may admire him but she was in no way responsible for his life, and if she publicly supported him, u probably would be saying that she was doing it for publicity then as well besides which u don't know whether she offered him her support or not, she may have done, just not publicly. and just because beyonce is a better singer doesn't mean her tribute was better, after all it was her own song that she dedicated to michael, she didn't sing any of his songs which a lot of people here are accusing madonna for having not done.
Madonna is the only super star left.
Re: sjasper –
"u need only look at ray of light!"
Ray Of Light was nothing but 40 minutes of RD2 farting. It was a BLATANT commercialized rip off of underground techno and house trends that had been popular in the UK and Ibiza for about a decade before madonna ripped it off. Madonna just steals ideas, Jackson was CREATIVE.
William Orbit blows chunks.
Re: sjasper –
everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion. but i must say that a lot of you people have nothing better to do than judge peoples hard work and bitch about what they do in life. Everyone is only human being what more do you people want?? NO body's perfect not even the king and queen of pop. clearly i love michael jackson hes my inspiration because he worked so hard in life. He had no happiness if you think about it. The media ruined this mans life…theres only so much abuse one person can take emotionally or physically so before anyone wants to judge someones character think twice about the trials they have suffered in their life and frankly MJ is an example of a person like that. Madonna's tribute was nothing short of wondeful, she took her time out of her show to perform something in the name of the most wonderful man on this planet, Michael. I am so sick and tired of hearing people being so negative and hateful. Why cant people just be thankful and happy with what we have?
Madonna your performance was really great
and RIP my angel Michael. i love you. God bless your gracious soul.