Since I’m almost a week late and too lazy on my “vacation”, dear readers will not be receiving a year in review from me.  But you will get an insight on how I will remember this year in pop culture history.  2008 is the year I stopped liking Madonna.  And it had nothing to do with her turning 50.

This year started out like many others in the past.  Debating whether or not my “Hung Up” ringtone was outdated at this point,  illegally downloading some songs before release, and excitedly checking Madonna tour dates and then being deeply disappointed when comparing the ticket prices to the amount in my checking account.

And then things changed.  The woman started acting like an idiot.

1)  She’s always been a bleeding liberal and I never particularly minded so long as she articulated either well or in a highly artistic manner (ex- the performance of American Life on her Reinvention Tour).  But on this year’s Sticky & Sweet Tour during summertime whem every person and their dead grandma had an opinion on the election, Madonna threw on the giganto screen photos comparing John McCain to Hitler.  This whole argument of not liking someone so you compare them to Hitler was funny in the 9th grade classroom, but the first person who uses it in undergrad is seen as the most unoriginal person ever with no sense of what a real genocide is.  So glad I didn’t pay $75 for that rubbish.

2) Breakups are always difficult and I would never judge any one for getting a divorce.  But dedicating a love song on stage to “the emotionally retarded” when it was obviously written about her now ex-husband sounds like any idiot girl who can put up a passive aggressive away message.  On a related note, when rumors swirled about her affair with A-Rod, it was a pretty selfish move to dress her and Guy’s son up in a Yankees jersey less than a week after the divorce was announced.

3)  Showing up on the Britney Spears documentary like she was some mother figure.  Where were you the last 5 years, woman?

The sophisticated, smart moving Madonna is gone.  All we have now is some old woman who can’t keep her gap-toothed mouth shut.