Kindly pardon Madonna -- she's nervous.
The Material Mom took to the podium at a Thursday news
conference to talk about her halftime show for Sunday's Super Bowl XLVI and
said that she's freaking out a bit about performing for such a large audience,
with the broadcast expected to draw more than 100 million viewers in the U.S.
"I am so excited to be here and kind of nervous. This
is a Midwestern girl's dream," she said.
"So if I speak fast or run out of breath, you'll know
why. I have to say over 25 years of performing that I've done, I have never
worked so hard or been so scrupulous or detail-oriented or freaked out as much
as I have. ... I want to make the most amazing show for the Super Bowl."
The former suburban Detroiter talked up her Midwestern roots
a great deal and said she will dedicate the performance to her father, Silvio
Anthony Ciccone, who is a winemaker in Suttons Bay.
"Because I was raised in the Midwest, and he is the
personification of Midwestern values," she said. "He gave me the work
ethic that I have. If I'm a hard-working girl, that never stops. It's because
of him. Of all the things that I've ever done in my life, this would be the thing
he's most excited about."
Madonna's show is being put together by her longtime
collaborator Jamie King and the Cirque du Soleil. She kept mum on what she
would be performing -- except to say that she would be doing three vintage
Madonna tunes and a new one, likely "Give Me All Your Love," which
drops on iTunes today.
"We started rehearsing in December, then we took a
Christmas break, and we've been rehearsing again for three weeks," she
said. "I have to keep pinching myself. I can't believe that I'm
here."
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