What total bellends they both are.

Madonna for trying to pretend that she has anything to do with dance music and ecstasy when we all know she is a macro-biotic exercise junkie vegan.

Deadmau5 for being such a patronising wanker and claiming mdma use to be "detrimental to society" !

It's lack of use would certainly be detrimental to his record sales and concert sales I'd imagine, along with dance music in general.

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What a pair of wasters.

He did rat out Rusko last year for smoking a joint backstage.. so Benson? YES

the attitude towards the EDM scene here in the states is completely different than it is in the UK (i'm assuming). some girl overdosed at Electric Daisy Carnival in 09 and california tried to ban "raves" altogether because of it. california won't even allow EDC to be held there anymore. Beyond Wonderland was just a few weeks ago in california and so many people were complaining about business's being rude to them if they were dressed for the event. they weren't even allowed to go into certain gas stations (just to use the restroom) because the workers/owners didn't allow anyone inside if they were dressed for the event -__- that one girl who overdosed almost destroyed the scene in california. i don't think deadmau5 was being over-dramatic. madonna is boasting the drug use that goes on at festivals and it could seriously cause some damage >_>

Criminal Justice Bill anyone?


I dont think its irresponsible at all. The problem neither lies with Madonna or Deadmau5. The problem lies with an over baring government with control issues.

That was designed to stop large scale illegal raves taking place in the countryside, the same year that was brought in they allowed venues 6am opening times to get people back into clubs where they could keep an eye on them and tax the venues. It's not like they tried to stop events from happening altogether!

True, but it wasn't just any sort of large out door party they made illegal.. they specifically referenced music characterised by repetitive beats.

Because the authorities kept losing every weekend trying to chase them all over the country!

It's not like there aren't hundreds if not thousands of licensed out door events with repetitive beats every summer in the UK. I think our governments policy is more "keep it over ground and keep it safe" as oppose to the american policy of "aggressively stand against it in case people take drugs" !

Absolutely. Rule Britannia and all that.

Feel very sorry for the Americans, Land of the Free indeed.

Maybe. But someone in such a position as Madonna's should have a responsibility to act, well, responsibly.

For someone who claims to have been a massive part of the EDM scene over there since it's inception (To be fair to her, she has been) she should be doing her best to protect the future of the scene, not making a flippant remark to gain publicity for her new album and look relevant to the younger generation.

So Madonna has to act responsibly as she is a musician but the government can be as out of touch, irresponsible and stupid as they like, even going so far as to try and ban a style of music based on the fact that some people may take drugs whilst listening to it!

They really haven't moved on at all since the 60's, for a country that currently and historically consumes the worlds biggest share of recreational drugs they seem to be in a morbid state of denial. Do they actually think that if they stop a festival from happening people will stop taking ecstasy?

Oh I agree, the government's stance on it is completely out of touch and absurd but this should in turn make people involved in the scene think a little before making comments like that.

Then you're just pandering to stupidity. She chose her words poorly, instead of making some nonsense veiled reference she should have gone up there and quoted the fatality statistics when comparing alcohol, tobacco and ecstasy then double dropped on stage and given a double finger to the corrupt right wing politicians that blight america.

Thats a difficult call to make. I'm with Funk when he said earlier that musicians should be a voice for change, not just corporate sycophants. But its hard to believe, especially after the preposturous back peddling, that Madonna was making any sort of politcal statement.. she was most likely just being the dumb bint we all know her to be and not thinking at all about the implications of what she was saying.

HA! Imagine the outrage!

More than likely mate.

The difference is that we had Mr C, The KLF, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Spiral Tribe etc. that would never be told what to say about anything and they basically were like a mouth piece for most of the young people that we're into dance music and ecstasy.

In America they get fucking wangs like Deadmau5 and Madonna chatting shit on Twitter hoping to boost their little publicity machines, I really am starting to realise why so many american kids are into their conspiracy theories.

Yes, but so is agreeing with everything a guy says who's holding a gun to your head, and the two situations aren't massively different.

They still do... #trollface

I can't really subscribe to that analogy, Madonna hardly needs the money so badly she has to conform or risk starvation, as for Deadmau5, he is not doing so badly and if you look at the history of music, aside from East 17, there haven't been too many bands/artists whose association with drugs have damaged their record sales or popularity probably the opposite.

The thing is about East 17 is that they started out as a nice clean boy band. Something for preteen girls to faun over and all the rest of it. The comments about taking pills screwed them over becuse they fell from grace.

Thats not the same as being a band that gets famous while touring and hammering the hallucinegens on the bus.

You have to be consistent and conform to people's initial ideas of you, otherwise people feel betrayed and abandon you. I have a feeling that Madonna would lose a lot of support from her middle aged house wife audience if she became some sort of spokes person for the legalisation of drugs, or even the draconion mind set of the american government in general. All of which is a million years above her understanding anyway.

Madonna doesn't need the money from staying at her level of fame, she needs the level of fame itself to stay high.