Sticky & Sweet : Madonna, Brittney, Justin

Who would ever pass up a opportunity to see Madonna? And then to find out that Brittney Spears and Justin Timberlake are going to be there? OK, so I could do without Brit, but JT - I maybe would have even paid for these tickets. But, if I had, Madonna may have called me a "rich fuck" as she did to the people front and center at her show.



Madonna has a potty mouth. A dirty mouth. Maybe she should called called her show Foul & Sass because there wasn't anything Sticky & Sweet other than her entrance video which was some sort of roller-coaster for a hard candy to ride to on?

The show was the same night as one of the big rally's to protest Prop 9, in front of The Mormon Church in Westwood. Because of the activity, Santa Monica Blvd and the freeway was closed...at the height of traffic hour. Add a Madonna concert onto the chaos and you have 2 hrs of sitting idle on Sunset to get to Dodger Stadium. Some people parked as far away as Sunset Junction to walk to the concert. It was surreal to see people walking in Echo Park....I mean they were walking! There was activity. People were yelling car to car, almost as if we were all tailgating to get to the show.


The tickets read a 7:30 start time, so everyone was nervous and running to get there, with little movement. Paul Okenfeld opened the show early on....but Madge decided not to go on until 10PM. Maybe it was because her stage lighting was having issues?


Being a child of the 80's, I spent many Halloweens and regular days dressing up as Madonna, (mostly in her Like A Virgin and "Desperately Seeking Susan" look). She sang a song from new album about the SWF "She's Not Me", where she had her dancers dressed up in her vintage looks of the Marilyn Monroe, her Express Yourself Look, Like A Prayer, Like A Virgin - all iconic looks from her lifetime...and she is only 50. How many more looks will we get of Madonna?

My disappointment of her show was that her classic old songs that I grew up with, were remixed in a more metal way, with Madonna on guitar. I don't really care that Madonna can play instruments. I want to see her dance and sing. It's a guilty pleasure - and I really didn't care about her guitar skills.


She's 50. And she can kick, stretch, dance on a strip pole and jump rope. At one point she told the audience that she was going to double dutch and then that she was gonna jump rope. OK. Random. So, you are gonna use this time to do your work out routine? Maybe that's how the woman stays so rail thin with a layer of muscle. She has a sick body....but maybe a bit overboard. I'm not gonna lie, I'm jealous.

When Brittney came on, for her third song "Human Nature", Madonna changed her lyrics to "she's not your bitch", so then Brittney could say "I'm Brittney Bitch". OK. And that was Brit.

Justin's showcase at the end of the evening was a bit more interesting, because they sang their new single together "4 Minutes".

Madonna got the mostly gay crowd going with her support for No on 9, and enthusiasm for change with the new President Elect, Obama.