Update: According to Billboard, superstar deejay Paul Van Dyk has also now moved to condemn the singer, calling the reference “the biggest mistake of her career”. In his words: “I don’t think she was thinking much. The only thing she was probably thinking was, ‘I need to connect with a young crowd,’ and she made the biggest mistake of her career. Madonna was so stupid to actually call out drug abuse in front of a crowd of 18-year-olds. This is not what our music is about. It’s really counterproductive.”

Depending on who you ask, the title of Madonna’s latest album MDNA, is either pretty clever or pretty desperate.

FACT’s office was generally in the former camp, though the content of the record didn’t live up to it. What definitely did come across as desperate however, was the aging Queen of Pop asking the crowd at her Miami concert this Saturday how many of them had “seen Molly” (Molly being a slang term for MDMA). Someone else who thought so was electro-house titan Deadmau5, who promptly lost his rag on Twitter.

“Very classy there Madonna”, wrote Deadmau5, “Such a great message for the young music lovers at ultra. quite the f’n philanthropist. but hey, at least yer hip and trendy! Fucking cant smack my head hard enough right now.”

“You’re a role model to 100’s of millions. You have a powerful voice, EDM could use your positive influence, not “molly talk”.

Madonna replied, claiming that “From one mouse to another [she linked to a picture of herself wearing Minnie Mouse ears], I don’t support drug use and I never have. I was referring to the song ‘Have You Seen Molly?’, written by my friend Cedric Gervais who I almost worked with on my album.”

This seems a little weak from where we’re sitting, given the fact that a) calling your new album MDNA seems pretty supportive of drugs, and b) regardless of what the Molly line was intended to reference, Madonna’s smart enough to know how a crowd of thousands of people in Miami will take it. Deadmau5 has since blogged on the incident, though his claim that drugs have “really held EDM [electronic dance music] down for years” is a disputable one, to say the least.

You can read Alex Macpherson’s review of MDNA for FACT here.