Madonna Celebrates with an Orgy

Gus Braga, Sept. 1st, 2009

An analysis of Madonna's latest song, Celebration


"I guess I just don’t recognize you with your clothes on…"

When I first heard Madonna's latest song "Celebration", I was thrilled. I found it fresh, fun, catchy and the perfect headline track for a compilation: it reminds us all why Madonna's been crowned the Queen of Pop.

But what is she celebrating after all? And how does she celebrate?

After a few hearings and a little more attention payed to the lyrics, I realized that Madonna's track has much more in common with a "Sex in the City" lifestyle than anything else. Single, middle-aged, hot and, sometimes gay. It can't get better than that. Madonna's celebration isn't about dancing after all.

Remember those nights when we were all single, going to nightclubs, trying to hook up? Yeah, this one goes for those who kiss (and do more) on a first date.

After a few glasses of Cosmo, or the good-old O.J. and vodka, you find yourself a little hammered, flirting with a latin hunk who looks familiar (he might be that dude from manhunt or dudesnude, now dressed). Your eyes meet. You think he wants to come over. And if he's drunk or sober, it doesn't matter. You both want it.

You're really into him. Everybody's found themselves a piece of meat. So you invite your hottie to join the party, because anybody else just wouldn't do - "he" is your type.

You two start messing around. Things get hotter and hotter, you're going to lose control (no protection?). "Oh, but he is super hot" you think. "And he has a reputation" (is he really that hung?).

It just drives everybody crazy. He stoop up for his reputation (boy, he's got it). When they see it, they all want to "party" with him too. You get a little jealous, and invite him to go outside, just the two of you.

Then, when you two are finally alone. You whisper in his ears and invitation to the dance of life. You know, the dance routine two grown-ups do when they want to have a baby (if at least one of them has an ovum).

Go for it, Madonna! Once again, you gave us all a new reason to go clubbing.