In an interview with US Weekly, Madonna was not complimentary of her home state.

And according to the response to her comments, the feeling is "Madonna who?"

Madonna was born in Bay City, and grew up in suburban Detroit in the Oaklnd County town of Rochester Hills.

However, she apparently she doesn't have any pleasant memories.

In "25 Things You Don't Know About Madonna", the Material Girl (and I call her that because she hates that song) said this about growing up in Rochester Hills: "I miss absolutely nothing about growing up in Michigan. Nothing at all."

She followed that up by referring to people here as "basic, provincial thinking people" on Thursday's "The Howard Stern Show."

This drew an instant response from Rochester Hills' mayor, Bryan Barnett, who in an open letter in the Detroit Free Press, told Madonna:

Our neighborhoods have long been filled with innovative, free-thinking leaders not afraid to make a difference; by generous, charitable people who care more about doing what they believe is right, than by what they read in the media. We are many things, Madonna, but basic and provincial minded we are not!"

In the comments section of the Michigan subreddit on Reddit.com, there were some who understood her loathing of the Detroit suburbs, but many took her bashing of the state a bit personally, including one writer who kind of called her a hypocrite, pointing out that her daughter, Lourdes, attends the University of Michigan"

Big deal -- she's still springing for her daughter to go to U of M, so if she thought the state was full of cretins she probably wouldn't be doing that. 

The show is selling well, so it appears there are no hard feelings -- unless it's just people from Toledo buying all those tickets.

Just a few months back, she called Ann Arbor an "awesome place" in an interview with the NFL quoted in the story below.

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