Madonna Blows Chunks - An Anti Madonna Site

Introduction

May 2003

Oh no, not another Madonna web site, you must be thinking. Isn't the web and the rest of the world already saturated with enough about American pop singer Madonna?

Fear not, this is not another fan site, nor is it a scholarly analysis of Madonna and her impact on feminism or culture at large, (which is not to say that I may not add my two cents on those issues).

This is primarily a site by someone who has disliked Madonna going back to the 1980s. I am speaking out against Madonna and chronicling her stupid remarks, examples of how she uses others, and her mistakes.

Madonna herself would no doubt embrace this site, as her motto through the years seems to have always been 'all publicity, even negative publicity, is good publicity!' But this is not a good enough reason for me to keep criticisms of Madonna silent.

Why have I chosen to make this site?

Partly out of boredom, partly because there is a dire lack of anti- Madonna material on the web...

American Life coverBut largely, and most importantly, because of Madonna's latest comments regarding her May 2003 release of her "American Life" album, as well as the album itself (more on this elsewhere at the site).

I was perfectly willing to let all my Madonna disllike remain bottled up and unspoken. I would have left things well enough alone, but then Madonna had to release "American Life," and all that it entailed.

I find it absolutely amazing that there are not more anti- Madonna sites on the web.

After doing many a search with "google" and "yahoo" recently, and other than personal postings by people on various discussion boards who say they hate Madonna, her music or her movies, I found only one website (hosted by geocities) dealing exclusively with this issue.

A few years ago, out of curiousity, I tried looking for anti- Madonna material on the web, and I came across an "I Hate Fiona Apple" site or two. But no "I Hate Madona" sites. About the closest I have come was finding Ilene Rosenzweig's The I Hate Madonna Handbook for sale on some web pages.

I have come across many anti- Britney Spears sites, clubs, and postings on the web, but nary a bad word about Madonna.

And so I have to wonder exactly why there is currently a site on the web called "Madonna power: the POSITIVE site about Madonna," (www.madonnapower.com) which seeks to publicize the supposed "positive" aspects of Madonna or Madonna's career.

(2007 update: the madonnapower.com site was pulled from the web a couple of years ago. While that site is gone, fan sites such as "Madonna Tribe" have their associates write regular columns defending Madonna.)

What is the purpose of having such web sites or columns "defending" Madonna, when really, outside of the occasional bad movie or album review, there is very little anti- Madonna writing and exposés on the web?

I think the lack of anti- Madonna sites may be due to the fact that those who hate her the most were teenagers in the 1980s but now, as adults, busy with careers and raising children are too busy with to care enough to make such a site, or to have the time and energy to do so.

Secondly, the overall lack of anti- Madonna sites and pages could be an indication that, as the New York Times and the BBC News recently stated, Madonna is largely irrelevant in contemporary pop music at this stage, as well as being irrelevant to today's female teens, who are more apt to listen to Spears, Pink, Avril Lavigne, and Christina Aguilera.

Were this 1985 and the net is what it is today, there would probably be many anti- Madonna sites out there.

Other than the fact that I grew up during the 1980s (I graduated from high school in 1989) and was subjected to Madonna from childhood into adulthood, my other qualification for this site includes the fact that I have actually sat through Madonna related shows and products.

That's right, you are not reading the disjointed ramblings of a 65 year old, grouchy, white, male Independent Fundamentalist Baptist preacher who has never even seen a Madonna video but still snipes away at Madonna regardless.

My unfortunate exposure includes the following:

» I saw Madonna's Pepsi commerical as it originally aired.

(I think that was the first and last time it was ever shown, and it was aired one evening around 1988-89. I remember that Pepsi yanked the Madonna commerical after her controversial Like a Prayer video came out.)

» I have seen some of the photos from Madonna's Sex book, including some of the nudie photos, thanks to one Madonna fan's site that has it posted.

» I saw one of Madonna's concerts on HBO (which is an American cable television station) in the late 1980s or early 1990s

(I think it was The Blonde Ambition tour. It's the one where she simulates masturbation while laying on a big, red bed to the tune of Like a Virgin - so tasteful she is, and some may wonder why I hate her).

» I saw maybe five to 10 minutes worth of her Confessions on a Dance Floor concert on television.

» I have seen many of her music videos, though not all of them.

I have seen all of Madonna's videos from the 1980s, including the ones from Like a Prayer, (though some of these may have aired in 1990; I do not recall). I have seen the videos for Justify My Love and Vogue.

The music videos I have not seen are ones from the mid 1990s to the present.

From that time period, I have seen only a few, such as all of Fever, all of Human Nature, and parts of Music, Ray of Light, most of Frozen, and clips from American Life. I saw part of another one, though I do not remember which one it was.

» I watched the documentary film Truth or Dare (thanks again to HBO). I saw part of her newer documentary; I believe it was called I'm Going to Tell You a Secret.

» Other Madonna films I have viewed (in full or partially) and am still recovering from are

• Desperately Seeking Susan

• Shanghai Surprise

• Who's That Girl

• Dick Tracy

• A League of Their Own

• Swept Away

» I own several Madonna tapes, albums, or CDs. I think that Madonna is a slutty, arrogant, hypocritical trollop, but to her credit, she does have some decent songs (or rather, the song writers who penned the works made some decent songs).

The last point brings up the fact that I am a fair person. I will give credit where credit is due, but there is very little that is positive about Madonna, so she'll be getting very little credit.