poptimists | Bedtime Bible Verses

So who saw some or all of last night's Madonna documentalry, 'I'm Going To Tell You A Secret'? Much evidence was on hand that while the quality of Madge's music may have gone back up again, she has, in a very real sense, Lost It. The opening credits feature Madonna reading portentously from the Book of Revelation, which is apparently also how her live show starts these days. She explained later that "the Beast" refers to the Material World, which distracts us from being able to see things that don't really exist.

I liked her better when her obession with religion was a bit more blasphemous.

Other lowlight: Madonna sits on a guitar stool playing the guitar and singing a song about her dead Mum while wearing a hairnet. Her Dad sits in the audience and watches, his expression inscrutable.

Well done Stuart Price, however, for pulling faces while Madonna's Dad was saying a pre-show prayer, and for being suitably bemused at her shock that he didn't believe in God (for all her desire to be British, never has she seemed so American), and for drawing a crucial line in the sand even after he'd admitted he does believe in something.

Madonna: "Can we call it 'Energy' or 'The Life'?"

Lu Cont, after a telling pause: "We can call it 'Energy'."

To be fair, she did laugh at this point. Maybe there's still hope for her.