While the 24 hour fight between
Madonna and
Deadmau5 has died out, Trance DJ/producer
Paul Van Dyk has now jumped on the bandwagon and taken the Queen of dance/pop to task for her "Molly" reference, calling it “the biggest mistake of her career.”
For those living under a rock, Molly is a slang term used for MDMA aka Ecstacy, which also ties into her new album MDNA.
“I don’t think she was thinking much,” van Dyk told Billboard. “The only thing she was probably thinking was, ‘I need to connect with a young crowd,’ and she made the biggest mistake of her career.”
“Madonna was so stupid to actually call out drug abuse in front of a crowd of 18-year-olds,” he continued. “This is not what our music is about. It’s really counterproductive.”
Madonna, who made a surprise appearance at the Ultra Music Festival earlier this week to promote her 12th studio album, says that her comment “Has anyone seen Molly?” was not to promote drug use, but her friend Cedric Gervais’ film and song “Have You Seen Molly?”
Madonna I love you but you're wrong on this one. First of all, Gervais' song Has Anyone Seen Molly does refer to drug use, so for you to say that you in no shape or form condone drug use (yet you condone it numerous times throughout your new album, especially on I'm Addicted where you use love as a metaphor for being addicted to drugs). I'm all for the freedom of expression, but I find it hard to see the other side of your point when outside of beinging the underground dance movement into the mainstream for the past 30 years, you also have made a career out of using different cultures (ethnic, homosexuality, and otherwise) as inspiration for your artistic creativity. But in defense of Madonna, I don't understand why she's being taken to task for talking about drugs at a EMF where nine times out of ten someone will be using ecstacy. I'll admit back when raves were popular I was using E pills.
On the flipside, I take offense at Van Dyk who said the following:
“I think we have a problem with calling it a new movement or a breakthrough in America,” he said. “We had massive festivals in the mid-’90s; I remember playing big shows, like Electric Daisy in L.A. in 2008, which drew something like 65,000 people. This was before the pop artists started to sound danceable, so in a way it’s not really something that needed a breakthrough. I think what people are referring to these days is a popped-down version of what our music actually is. I hope those pop stars all go back where they came from and do their normal pop music again.”
While he is right with the countless pop puppets who are using watered-down dance production to make millions (anything by
RedOne, Dr. Luke and
David Guetta), Madonna has been at the forefront of dance music for most of her career. Madonna was and always be someone who collaborates best with DJ's from
Shep Pettibone to
Martin Solveig she's collaborated with them all. So while I do keep hope alive that real edgy dance music will prosper and not fizzle out like some little trend, Van Dyk's bitterness towards some mainstream artists who respect the craft enough to catapult it to mainstream success is just plain tacky because I'm sure he'd be singing a different tune if
Britney Spears or
Katy Perry called him up to submit tracks for their next albums.
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