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In 2008, during the Sticky & Sweet Tour, she performed "Express Yourself" as the request song in some of her shows, including at Madison Square Garden in New York. In 2012, she performed an excerpt of the song at the Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show with Cee Lo Green and a large marching band. The same year, "Express Yourself" was included on the MDNA Tour where it was performed as the opening song of the show's second segment titled Prophecy, where a mix of joyful songs that "bring people together" were performed. Madonna appeared onstage to perform the song dressed in a white majorette uniform with red-ruby stripes and knee-high white boots designed by Miu Miu, while her female back-up dancers wore similar costumes in red and acted as a majorette band. During the performance Madonna also twirled a baton and marched around th stage leading a group of back-up dancers who played the drums and acted the role of a marching band. Halfway through the song, Madonna sang the chorus of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way", as the chord progression and melody of "Born This Way" was heavily compared to that of "Express Yourself" upon its release, many speculated that Madonna was "dissing" Gaga and the song. Towards the end of the performance Madonna also sang the chorus of her own song "She's Not Me" from her eleventh studio album Hard Candy (2008). Critics were positive towards the performance, Melissa Ruggieri from Access Atlanta felt that by singing the chorus of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" while performing "Express Yoruself", Madonna was "proving how it swipes the same melody line, then twisted the knife in that perfectly Madonna way by adding the chorus of her own 'She's Not Me'".