This is what is going to happen next:
- The mainstream media will pick up on it.
- Mail Online will run a piece questioning whether Madonna has 'lost it'. It will feature sexist overtones, 600x800 pixel photos of her 'veiny arms' and 100 sniping comments from the likes of 'Barry, Ex-Pat in Spain'.
- The Guardian will run a counter-piece asking if this has anything to do with ageism and more specifically sexism - Brian May and Mick Jagger are currently on the A List, so why hasn't Madonna been added? Her last two comeback singles went straight to the A List after all, and that's quite a rare occurrence. It will also have a dig at the Mail article. Comments will flood in complaining that 'The Guardian should only cover stories on real musicians, like Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin'. Or something.
- A Radio 1 spokesman will offer up a line about 'demographics'.
- Mail Online will realise that a) they don't like the BBC and b) ageism aimed at females is, bizarrely enough, one of the sticks they've used to beat them with in recent times. Then they will experience cognitive dissonance when remembering that c) they don't like Madonna either, before settling on their original editorial stance.
- The Guardian will then run another, more light-hearted piece, listing other occasions on which Radio 1 has 'snubbed' older artists.
- Some people will suggest that maybe it wasn't added because 'it isn't very good'.
- Cliff will chime in.
- It will be discussed on Loose Women.
- Radio 1 will add it to their playlist next Wednesday.
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