METAL INJECTION REPORTS: MADONNA COVERS PANTERA, “SOME PANTERA FANS ARE NOT PLEASED (OR INTELLIGENT)”
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 12:56pm by Axl RosenbergFrom the “Gee I wish I’d written this” files: Madonna apparently played a snippet of Pantera’s “A New Level” at a recent concert (video above), and some Blabberbrats have their panties in a twist over it. Rob at Metal Injection reports:
“…much like with Fall Out Boy covering Pantera, some Pantera fans are not pleased (or intelligent). Here’s what some loyal Cowboys From Hell are saying over at Blabbermouth:
anybody who thinks this is cool should never ever post a negative post about any of the bands from the 80’s again!the fact that the she is holding a guitar does not make her a rocker and just because it happens to be a pantera riff does not make it a tribute or cool. she belongs in the dance hall of fame not the rock and roll hall. I did not even watch this garbage but more than likely she is lip syching like everything else. the people praising her for this are the same ones who trashed nickelback for making a real dime tribute song and they used his solo on the track.just another pub. stunt by this overrated attention whore.
Actually, the fact that she played the riff does make it a tribute. Thats actually exactly what it was. Why are you commenting on something you didn’t even bother watching? I’ve never trashed Nickelback for making a Dime tribute, I trash them cause they absolutely blow.”
I hate Madonna as much the next guy, but seriously, some of these comments are pretty ridiculous.
Head over to Metal Injection for the rest of their awesome commentary on these events; then weigh in on the righteousness, or lack thereof, of Madonna’s cover below.
-AR
uuuuuuuuuuugggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh…makes me want to buy a Madonna hoodie
Wow. That was very clearly “A New Level.” What I wanna know is who in her band hipped her to it. . .
“Hey Madge, wanna know what would make a really cool, ‘heavy’ breakdown in your latest shitty dance track? This Pantera riff.”
On the other hand, M has always been a vulgar display of something or other.
I always look at making a sucky version of something awesome as a way to take your suckdom to biblical proportions. But if you’re Madonna you can do what you want, record sales will back her up and I will continue to ignore everything her old ass does unless I hear something about her fixing that gap in her teeth: THAT’S THE COVER SHE REALLY OUGHTA DO!
SCARY as hell. maybe she should open for the Metallica tour. or Metallica open for her. whatever
no one should be ‘flattered’ that Madonna is using Dime/Pantera to sell more records. she’s fronting, plain and simple.
A. That is one of the worst Pantera riffs ever. Period.
B. Is it at all possible that someone in her “band” just fooled around and came up with an extremely simple, basic, shitty ascending power chord riff that just happens to sound identical to the riff from “A New Level”? (How many songs have the exact same chord progression as Danzig’s “Mother”, for example?)
C. Who cares?
And yes, I do like Pantera.
This made me laugh, but Im not going to slag it off, Im actually a little impressed XD
One has to wonder how many Pantera fans there are in a Madonna audience.
Madonna’s also a bit old to be humping an amp which makes it that much more surreal.
The first thought that did come to mind was “how many people in the audience would recognise it?” It’s not like Dream Theatre whacking the riff from “By Demons…” into one of their overlong solos (saw that years ago – at least they were playing to the right audience).
As for the amp-humping. I am rather embarrassed to admit that with my advancing years I would still very much like to fuck Madge. Oh yes. Definite MILF totty.
Sorry.
There’s a crowd shot about halfway through that, and it’s wonderful, because it’s a bunch of pristine, polished fans who clearly have no clue what’s going on.
Regrdless, I still hate that woman with a passion….
Meh, still not as bad as anything suckleback has done.
This one kind of hits me like the Prince half-time show deal where he covered the Foo Fighters.
Now I hold Dime in much higher reverance than Dave Grohl, but I think it was to be a surprise for people that really pay attention to music, (us), and less of a treat for the Madonna fans. Now if Madonna did a harmonic dive bomb, then I would have been fucking astounded! Hit that sucker and we’d be having a different conversation!
The point you are all missing is that Madonna, regardless of her genre or talent level, is quite simply the greatest musical marketeer of her or any generation. Never has anyone made so much out of so little actual musical talent. She is a brilliant business woman, plain and simple.
I never have nor ever will own a Madonna CD or even one-song download, let alone any merch, but you’d have to be a complete moron to not see her business acumen. She could burn $100 bills to keep warm and use other $100 bills to wipe her ass ’til she dies and STILL laugh at all of us from the even larger pile of $100 bills she’d be sitting atop.
Someday the metal community will not consist of mostly ignorant, closed minded crybabies.
Good call on this one. Whether it’s good or not, it’s still a tribute. This isn’t the fucking he-man Madonna hater’s club. At least she had some damn respect for one of the greatest bands in history. Maybe that was the one thing some of her fans needed to start opening up and listening to metal at some point. I know that’s a little far fetched, but shit.. everyone has to start somewhere. It’s definitely an acquired taste to some people.
why is every metal site I go to seriously a rehash of what Blabbermouth has justed posted? if i wanted to read what was at blabbermouth, then i’d go to their site!
why do you guys do more original research, interviews, insightful reviews, band features, etc. and stay away from the retarded copy & pasting. you don’t neeeeeed to post something every hour.
Great vid. I love the shots of the audience where people realize they’re supposed to headbang but don’t know how.
I don’t at all have a problem with this type of genre clash. Why isn’t Madonna allowed to play a Pantera riff, when pretty much every metal act in the world has covered at least one Depeche Mode song?
If you look closely, she’s obviously not playing at all. It’s all her rhythm guitarist and drummer. Her amp probably isn’t even on. Besides, the crowd is full of 13 year old girls and 45 year old men living with their mothers. They don’t appreciate Pantera, no matter how much Madonna ravages their music. Also, Andrew’s probably right – they may not even have known they were covering Pantera.
Actually, after listening again I’m going to say that the real guitarist just came up with a very basic riff that happened to sound like Pantera, but not quite.
1. Drums are off by a noticeable margin.
2. Every 3rd or 4th note is not the same as “A New Level” and after the intro the riff is repeated instead of going into the stop-start muting that Pantera is known for.
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Could you imagine if someone like an Ani DiFranco, or even a Tori Amos covered some metal classic? Like a piano version of Raining Blood? I bet that would just drive people bonkers!
Oh, wait. You mean that happened like 10 years ago? You know what’s really funny about all this? Pantera fans being upset that a band that hasn’t existed in the better part of a decade finally making the slow, inexorable, inevitable cultural demotion to mere kitsch.
Hey someone in her band probaly talked her into it, but hey either way it was a classy move. And hey I’d still fuck her, just to say you didn’t.
I have but two words to say after watching that video:
Metal Sucks.
I’m totally down with this. She’s not at Ozzfest trying to win over metal fans, she’s just doing a quick mashup of a great song to her fans, who never know what to expect from her. I’d still hit it.
I love her hilarious failure of distortion feedback at the end. Way to hump that amp.
i’m honestly dumbfounded by this. ladies and gentlemen, hell has frozen over and satan is having a snowball fight.
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i think this is funny
a) it will piss off the aggro fanboys.
b) it will scare the pop fiends
c) it will possibly open the pop fiends brains up just a tad, to go and check out some other music.
making the world a better place.
though i would rather see her play some sleep terror or something.
I seriously doubt she was really playing it. I mean, how do we even know she can play the guitar?
Hey, you, mother fuckers, you think that metal sucks, come on!!! Madonna’s music is nasty, pop music is nasty, the only sort of music which save us of annihilation is METAL, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Trivium, KoRn, Children of Bodom…n’ hundreds more… so, please, open your filthy minds, n’ start to listen to REAL MUSIC, NO BULSHIT, DUMBASSES!!!!!!!!