Last night on stage in San Diego, before launching to a crowd sing along of "Express Yourself" Madonna orated about Obama’s victory as posters of president-elect flashed on screen:

This is a historical evening. This. Is. A motherfucking important evening! And we are lucky to be sharing it with each other….This is the beginning of a whole new world. ARE YOU FUCKING READY?!!!

On his blog, a more reflective John Mellencamp, who recorded a radio spot for Obama heard throughout his native Indiana in the last few weeks leading up to the election, posted this commentary:

"This for me is something I never thought I would see in my life," said Mellencamp, echoing a feeling common to millions of Americans black and white and all colors in-between—especially those who came of age in the 1960s.

"I remember the assassination of Martin Luther King and the marches in Selma, Alabama, and seeing Rosa Parks, demonstrators getting sprayed by fire hoses and attacked by police dogs and all the other horrible things that happened at that time in our country,” he continued. “Then I played at the 2004 Democratic Convention, which was my first introduction to Barack Obama, and after his keynote address I looked at my wife Elaine and said, ‘Man, what a poet! He could be president of the United States!’ And that’s absolutely verbatim.

"But even I, who have written countless songs about race, could not believe that a man of color could be president of the United States. But today I am so proud of America. I am so happy for all Americans, that we have finally started to fulfill our obligation to the immortal words of our Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal. We cannot expect this man to immediately change the last eight years of fear and deception, but I think we can rejoice in the fact that there is someone speaking not just for his own interests, now, but hopefully as a voice for us all."

Mellencamp also posted the beautiful video for his song "Peaceful World." Amen.