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At their recent kindergarten graduation ceremony, a very talented group of kids decided to put on their fiercest faces and strike a pose to Madonna's 1990 classic "Vogue." Lucky for your Friday and mine, their teacher decided to post the video online. It is adorable!

We think Madonna, who is known for her elaborate sets and costumes, would be impressed with these kids' hustle. They hit the stage in top hats and with fans, and even break out some familiar choreography between some stellar hula hooping and baton twirling.

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Allegedly, of course!

The riders for touring musicians run the gamut from pretty basic (Adele) to lavishly extravagant (hello, Jennifer Lopez), but if you pick up this week's In Touch Weekly (via Boy Culture) (and if you believe In Touch Weekly … which, you know, you do at your own risk), Madonna is quite the demanding diva.

The pop superstar has been making headlines around the world on her "MDNA Tour." Last week, she was flashing her breast in Istanbul, Turkey, and the other day she mooned the audience in Rome. She got a reaction out of Lady Gaga after she performed an on-stage mash-up of her 1989 classic "Express Yourself" with Gaga's hit "Born This Way" (hint: they still sound kind of the same-ish), and is encountering threats of legal action from French politician Marine Le Pen because of an image of the conservative leader with a swastika on her forehead used in the "Nobody Knows Me" video interlude shown during her show.

So, yeah, Madonna's been busy.

But if the tour demands In Touch is talking up are true, at least she's pretty comfortable on the road. The rag mag reports that Her Madgesty has a 200-person entourage (!) on tour with her – including 30 bodyguards, an acupuncturist, a yoga instructor, an on-site dry cleaner and several personal chefs. That's pretty intense, but not particularly surprising (of course Madonna has chefs and yoga instructors on the road with her … and so does everyone else), but we can't help but wonder if that very large number includes crew members that would be backstage on any artists' tour.

Why not provide further details about this enormous entourage unless that's the case? Seems like a sneaky, concerted effort to make Madonna look like an even bigger diva than she is…which isn't something you'd think they'd need a lot of help with.

Her backstage demands reportedly include a strictly vegan menu – which, unless things changed recently, is also suspect, because Madonna is not vegan. Additionally, the Queen of Pop would like there to be 20 international phone lines in her dressing room, for the furniture to be "draped in a special fabric" and decorated with lilies and white and pink roses with their stems cut to exactly six inches.

Most interestingly, though, are her alleged hotel demands. Madonna likes to take home on the road with her and "requires all be removed from the rooms and replaced with her own pieces that she has shipped in."

Now, if that's true, we bow down to the Queen!

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Madonna caused quite the ruckus when she flashed her right breast during the the Istanbul, Turkey stop on her "MDNA Tour." It's nothing we haven't seen before – Her Madgesty published a coffee table photo book called "Sex" in 1992, after all – but it certainly has been a while. It was like being greeted by an old friend we haven't seen since high school!

The kerfuffle got us thinking about something we remember Madonna saying while she was out promoting her appearance at this year's Super Bowl.

We're big M fans, you see, and have a tendency to remember when she sits for a particularly fun interview, which was the case when she visited "The Tonight Show" back on January 30. She was in good spirits and was being more playful than usual when host Jay Leno asked her if there was anything the NFL had asked her not do during her performance.

"Well, for sure no nipples," Madonna joked. "I wasn't going to go there. I mean, I don't like to repeat myself … or do what other people have done before me."

We guess she was being Super Bowl specific. Check it out below (M talks nips at the 2:24 mark):

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Madonna has been famously laying low when it comes to promoting her MDNA album. She hit Facebook for a chat with Jimmy Fallon and, well, that's about it. No magazines, no talk shows.

(Maybe she's letting the set's great reviews and that killer Super Bowl performance do the talking for her?)

Across the pond, however, she is covering at least one mag, but with a twist. According to a tweet from her manager Guy Oseary, her cover image for Italian Vanity Fair is from the same Mert & Marcus photo shoot as the print ads for her Truth or Dare fragrance. That Madonna, always multitasking.

Check it out:

Photo by Mert & Marcus; Guy Oseary, Twitter

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