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During the final weekend of winter music conference is one of the biggest parties in the country known as Ultra Music Festival. As mentioned in my previous blog posts regarding winter music conference you can find this well known event. Again Winter Music Conference is an international summit that brings together many industry professionals to do work together and throw events together. Ultra Music Festival is known to be on the last weekend every year. This event alone has taken publicity to a new level for EDM! What do I mean by this? Last year’s Ultra of 2011 hit record highs of 400,000 plus attendee’s and has been known to sell out months in advance at over $400 a pop! That’s some serious revenue! The colossal event is reaching record-breaking heights for something that size and the talent is unheard of for this country! This year Ultra and Miami were in for a bit of a surprise though! When the crowd was chanting for Avicii, one of the new superstars hailing from Sweden, they got a surprise! Not only was he not on stage, out came Madonna to introduce this new Dj icon! Obviously she is one of the biggest known artists of our time, her presence instantly transformed the crowd. She wore fishnets and cut off shorts, a T-shirt that said MDNA, as well as her trademark channel gloves. It didn’t take her long to throw herself into the controversy of the media as she takes the mike Madonna explains how excited she is to be at Ultra and how talented Avicii is, then Madonna goes on to say, “Electronic dance music has always been a part of my life since the beginning of my career, and I can honestly say that a DJ saved my life”. But then she had a question for the cheering crowd that we didn’t expect, “How many people in this crowd have seen Molly”? Molly is a slang term for ecstasy, the main ingredient is known as MDMA, ironically her shirt read MDNA and yelling the drug reference into the crowd had them in an uproar! Deadmau5, one of the leading producers of progressive house music, took to twitter and Facebook to respond to the diva’s choice words. Deadmau5 writes, “very classy there Madonna, HUR DUR HAS ANYONE SEEN MOLLY???? Such a great message for the young music lovers!” (Huffington Post) Now this is especially funny because Deadmau5 is very anti-drug and her Molly reference is the very thing that gives EDM a bad rap. It shouldn’t be needed to reference drugs with music, and it does show the age or responsibility factor of our listeners when drugs are needed to listen, referenced, or used at shows. Madonna did respond back to Deadmau5 recently and it was with a photo on twitter. The photo says it all, I believe she wants to try and save face a bit. This picture is kinda small but you can click the link above to see it on here twitter.
