Taylor Swift has a tacky MSG wedding and Madonna – Latest News
We dwell in unusual and complicated occasions.
Up is down. Day is night time. Madonna is acclaimed. Taylor Swift is a circus act.
It’s a veritable pop bizarro world.
On Friday, 67-year-old Madge shocked everyone by releasing her first good album in 21 years, “Confessions II,” after a long string of clunkers and tasteless, embarrassing stunts.
Madonna launched a incredible new album. GC Images
The report has rolled in like a prayer. During a sweltering summer time that’s been depressingly mild on recent dance-floor hits, we lastly obtained some rhapsodic ones from a star who’s been with us for more than 4 many years.
And then, spookily on that exact same day, 36-year-old Taylor wedded Travis Kelce at a small and unassuming venue known as Madison Square Garden — an object lesson in tackiness.
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The day of Madge and Tay’s abrupt switcheroo will henceforth be often known as Freaky Friday.
When Page Six broke the surprising information of Taylor’s diabolical wedding plan back in April, followers had been in whole disbelief. How might she probably do that? A Swiftie pal at a rival publication informed me, “That’s not happening.” Well, it did. And no person, save for the wealthy and highly effective company, could be very completely satisfied about it.
Why would they be? Streets subsequent to Penn Station, the busiest transit hub in North America, had been blocked off for 2 days for a personal movie star marriage attended by 1,000 or so of the couple’s closest mates and wealthiest benefactors.
Madonna was once the Queen of Attention Grabs. Best Image / BACKGRID
And more than 100 NYPD cops (that Swift reportedly can pay for) had been diverted to her nuptials on a weekend when hordes of New Yorkers set off explosives within the street whereas binge ingesting. Gee, thanks!
Reports on the decor different. Some mentioned the couple was building a fort inside of MSG. Others mentioned, no, no, no, they’re creating a garden! I say, eh, it’s garish all the identical.
And but up until now, music’s reigning Queen of Tawdry Displays had been Madonna.
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Remember three years in the past when Madge launched a piece of digital artwork depicting a tree grossly rising from her, uh, materials lady?
Or the time during the 2016 Rebel Heart tour when she went on unhinged rants and ordered two Cosmopolitans to the stage?
Obviously, there’s the pileup of twenty-something boyfriends and her uncomfortable, Quixotic obsession with youth.
After the wedding, the indicators outdoors MSG blared: “JUST&T MARRIED.” Getty Images for TAS Rights Management
But the numerous determined consideration grabs fade into the background when Madonna releases incredible music. That’s what the people need, not a bizarre descent into Madgeness. Her newest album, appropriately her best since 2025’s “Confessions On A Dancefloor,” has some infectious tunes, particularly “Danceteria,” “Love Sensation” and “Bring Your Love.”
At virtually 70 years previous, she’s nonetheless obtained it.
Meanwhile back within the smelly cesspit of Midtown on Friday night time, the indicators outdoors MSG blared: “JUST&T MARRIED,” just like the Taylor and Travis assume they’re the romantic equal of the Knicks and needed a standing ovation from the sweaty plebs outdoors their fortress of elitism.
How stunningly out of contact they’re.
Madonna, nevertheless, is back in Vogue. The singer first moved to New York from Detroit in 1978 and it’s right here the place she broke out into the music industry.
You can hear town and that decade’s affect on her new songs — notably “Danceteria.”
Madonna is a true New Yorker, and there’s something I do know that even she would by no means, ever do: Get married at Madison Square Garden.
