Madonna Firing Off At Ex-Husband Guy Ritchie On MDNA Tracks?

Maybe she's never been the "diss-song" sort, but when Madonna has a bee in her bonnet, it's rare she minces words.

Though she doesn't name names, signs point toward some tracks from her forthcoming set MDNA jabbing aggressively at ex-husband Guy Ritchie. "Bang Bang" is a trifle vague in that there's no distinctive, telling nods at one past tryst or another, but it's clear she wants the hammer brought down upon somebody's head.

"Bang bang, shot you dead/Shot my love in the head/Now my love is dead/And I have no regrets/He deserved it/And I'm going straight to Hell/And I got a lot of friends there/And if I see that bitch in Hell/I'm gonna shoot him in the head again/'Cuz I want to see him die/Over and over."

She's homicidally cute, isn't she?

On the other hand, there's "I Don't Give A ....". It seems that Madge has foreseen that some might be so quick on the uptake concerning whose head has the bulls-eye on it. Either that, or "Bang Bang" really was her trying "subtle" on for size and just got bored being indirect. The little details here don't leave much doubt that it's the British "Snatch" and "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" director she'd greet in Hell with strangling hands wide open.

"I tried to be a good girl/I tried to be your wife/Diminished myself/And I swallowed my light/I tried to become all/That you expect of me/And if it was a failure/I don't give a [bleep]."

Maybe Ritchie should have chosen his words a tad more carefully last November when he remarked upon the pair's eight-year marriage that ended in 2008. Ritchie took up a pragmatic outlook that he "stepped into a soap opera, and [he] lived in it for quite a long period of my life."

"I'll probably be more eloquent on it 10 years from now," he added. "The experience was ultimately very positive. I love the kids that came out of it [referring to their 11-year-old son Rocco] and I could see no other route to take. But you move on, don't you?"

Ritchie added that "lots of hollow victories" eventually made him "deeply philosophical." Still, getting a 50-60 million British pound settlement that included shares of the pub and home the couple shared had its upside, Ritchie claimed.

"I'm quite happy that that experience was accelerated for me," Ritchie said. "I'm glad I made money, in other words. And I'm glad I got married."