Marc Malkin

The musical battle for headline domination is getting heated. 

Mariah Carey may have grabbed the spotlight with her quickie wedding to Nick Cannon, but Madonna knows how to play the game. 

The queen of reinvention kissed one of her female backup dancers during a private show at the Olympia in Paris Tuesday night. 

But just how French was the lip-lock? "She was having a pretty steamy humping scene with her guitar and on a speaker,” Madge’s rep, Liz Rosenberg, emailed me from the French capital this morning. “But I didn't see any full-on makeout session." 

Tongue or no tongue, I think Madonna pulls ahead of Mariah in the stunt department.

Ball’s in your court now, Mimi.