For conservative supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, Madonna’s current mega present in Rio had appeared the proper alternative to attain factors towards what they see because the ungodly and morally degenerate left.
After the Queen of Pop threw the largest live performance of her 40-year profession on Copacabana seaside on Saturday, one far-right congressman known as the singer a “satanist”. One other reprehended the “immoral acts” that had unfolded on stage throughout the sexually charged occasion and known as Madonna’s efficiency “an affront to Brazilian legal guidelines”.
There was just one drawback: a number of outstanding Bolsonaristas had been among the many 1.6 million individuals who packed one in all Brazil’s most well-known seashores to see the 65-year-old artist carry out.
Stories within the Brazilian press mentioned Jair Bolsonaro’s lawyer and former communications secretary Fabio Wajngarten; Rio’s Bolsonarista governor, Cláudio Castro; and a Bolsonarista senator known as Jorge Seif all turned out to see the ultimate present of Madonna’s Celebration tour.
Wajngarten was filmed punching the air because the pop celebrity sang her 2005 hit Hung Up, though his self-conscious dance strikes didn’t impress Brazilian choreophiles.
Castro was photographed on the present alongside Wajngarten, a pro-Bolsonaro politician known as Renato Araújo, and the make-up artist of Jair Bolsonaro’s spouse, Michelle. Additionally current was Seif, who was subsequently compelled to publicly apologize for his sinful Saturday night time, which got here as southern Brazil – the place he’s from – confronted what authorities are calling the worst local weather catastrophe in its historical past.
“I’ve let my voters down,” Seif instructed the senate on Tuesday, asking for forgiveness for attending an occasion he thought inappropriate for “defenders of the household and Judaeo-Christian values”.
“After we let individuals down and we come to grasp that we received it incorrect we have to do one thing that the Holy Bible teaches, which is say sorry,” Seif mentioned.
In a WhatsApp message leaked to the information web site Metrópoles, the senator blamed his Madonna-adoring spouse for making him attend the live performance and justified his determination to go by claiming their marriage was going by means of a “horrible” patch.
Castro and Araújo each reportedly claimed they’d left the present earlier than among the extra titillating moments, which included two musclebound dancers pretending to carry out oral intercourse on Madonna and the Brazilian pop sensation Anitta.
At one other level within the live performance Madonna appeared alongside the Brazilian drag queen and singer Pabllo Vittar to carry out Music – one other outrage to supporters of Bolsonaro, who was infamous for his hostility to the LGBTQ+ neighborhood and his self-declared homophobia. To rub salt in Bolsonarista wounds, Madonna and Vittar did so whereas waving Brazil’s yellow and inexperienced flag – the primary image of Bolsonaro’s far-right non secular nationalist motion.
Brazilian leftists celebrated the Bolsonarista embarrassment as the proper instance of rightwing hypocrisy. “Bolsonaristas spent the weekend calling the present Sodom and Gomorrah … however in reality they had been there,” tweeted one critic.
Ricardo Rangel, a columnist for the conservative information journal Veja, known as Madonna’s live performance a “slap in Jair Bolsonaro’s face”.
“Bolsonarismo needs to see ladies at dwelling, demure and obedient, caring for the youngsters and it despises empowered ladies and feminists,” he wrote. “Madonna is the proper consultant of all the things Bolsonarismo detests.”
