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Anti Madonna

http://www.geocities.com/anti_madonna/index.html

Includes pages such as:

Madonna Sux / Links / Madonna News / Guestbook / Hate Me

The Hall of Washed Up Celebrities

http://www.julianjowl.co.uk/

Madonna is mentioned on the following page of the site:

http://www.julianjowl.co.uk/celebs3.html

(From the Boston Globe OnLine): Is Madonna's New Gig for the Gap her Next Savvy Reinvention or a Gasp of Desperation From an Irrelevant Artist?

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/208/living/Clothing_actP.shtml

By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff, 7/27/2003

Excerpts:

The Gap-Madonna union is all about the bedding down of commerce and celebrity. It's about

cross-marketing in a culture that consumes super-stardom and new jeans with roughly the same zeal. Gap representatives aren't talking, but early word has it the television ads will feature Madonna performing her recent single ''Hollywood'' (which tanked at radio) and hip-hop star Missy Elliott singing Madge's 1985 hit ''Into the Groove'' (lest we forget the potentially lucrative back catalog). It's plain old good business.

And yet the union of Gap and Madonna is as depressing as it is ingenious. It's never pretty watching an iconic pop figure fade, especially when it involves (and it usually does) selling somebody else's product.

. . . ''It seems like a sympton of desperation,'' says Camille Paglia, professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. ''`Swept Away' [Madonna's last film] was a disaster, `American Life' [her last album] was a disaster. Maybe being happy in her personal life, as a wife and mother, is putting her in a creative drought. She's lapsed, her presence is receding, and she's facing the dilemma of the aging star. This is a shrewd decision on her part.''

. . . . For the cover of the September issue of Harper's Bazaar, which hits newsstands Aug. 12, Madonna strikes a serene pose in a ribbed white tank and blue low-rise cords. She gussies it up with what appears to be $10 million in diamond jewelry.

Madonna Just Sux

Madonna and the Children

Desperate Madonna Asks Fans To Promote New Single

http://www.popdirt.com/article14324.html

March 27, 2003

Excerpts:

The Scottish Daily Record reports Madonna is employing fans as salesmen to flog her new single 'American Life'. Fans are urged to join The Madonna Project to sell the digital version of the single in return for credit and prizes.

Warner Bros record company bosses say on their website: "The Madonna Project will revolutionize how music is distributed on the internet. It's also going to revolutionize the amount of cool Madonna prizes you have in your house. We're going to make it worth your while."

Desperate Madge Asks Fans to Promote New Album (from the Daily Record)

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/192/daily/page.cfm?objectid=12783446&method=full&siteid=89488

March 28, 2003

The multi-millionairess [Madonna] is so desperate for American Life to be a hit, she is encouraging people to promote it for her on the internet.

. . . Fans are urged to join The Madonna Project to sell the digital version of the single in return for credit and prizes.

Warner Bros record company bosses say on their website: "The Madonna Project will revolutionise how music is distributed on the internet. It's also going to revolutionise the amount of cool Madonna prizes you have in your house. We're going to make it worth your while."

Of course, Madge benefits financially and, possibly, chartwise. But American Life has been mauled by the critics.

Is Madonna a Copy Cat?

(Plagerism and Ray of Light Music Video)

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=4754

from Rolling Stone magazine

Excerpt:

Italian director Stefano Salvati is claiming that Madonna's "Ray of Light" video was stolen from a clip he shot in 1994 for local pop star Biagio Antonacci. Antonacci's lawyer, Gianni Massaro, said Friday that he will ask Madonna's Maverick Records to pull the "Ray of Light" video from distribution and that he will seek damages.

Salvati, who lives part of the year in Los Angeles, claims that his manager had sent copies of his videos to Maverick before "Ray of Light" was shot. A Salvati video for a song titled "Non e Mai Stato Subito" features Antonacci performing at normal speed against a backdrop of fast-moving images of clouds, traffic and food, somewhat like Madonna in the "Ray of Light" clip directed by Joanis Akerlund.

The 100 Most Irrelevant People of the 20th Century

http://www.seespanrun.com/figure57.htm

The caption below Madonna's photo on that page reads:

Gee, if Madonna had never come along, I wonder if the world would have ever found another hot-looking, crotch-grabbing, lip-syncher whose fashion styles blatantly rip off those of movie starlets from the 40's and 50's...

The Top Five List: Sixteen Titles For Madonna's Children's Books

http://www.topfive.com/arcs/t5031203.shtml

A few samples:

Harlot's Web / Are You There, Lucifer? It's Me, Madonna / Curious George and the Big Cone Bra

Madonna Weds - Jesus Not Invited

Tatu Out Madonnas Madonna

http://www.moviecall.org/updates/index.php?article=867

Excerpts:

After collaborating on a parade of books, videos and movies on the subject, people finally stopped caring. Around this time [Madonna] played herself in the horror film Truth or Dare. The film was shot in black and white because, according to director Alek Keshishian, "It made it easier to hide her zits."

Indifference to [Madonna]swelled through the 90's until she magically duped her entire fan base into thinking that she somehow transformed herself into a new cutting edge electronic artist. At that time (1998) there wasn't anything particularly new about what she was doing.

Apparently Madonna's fans hadn't noticed what Bjork had been up to since 1993 but it's probably asking too much for Madonna fans to pay attention to anything but Madonna. What Ray of Light provided more than anything else was a reason for her fanbase to think she was cool again.

. . . . [Regarding] Tatu the teenage Russian lesbian duo. How can someone who built their career around tiptoe-ing on taboos [as Madonna has done] compete with a two headed monster like that? Whether or not you believe they're lesbians, one would have to believe their goal (or more accurately their producer, Ivan Shapovalov's goal) is to stomp up the ladder with little tantilizing acts and scandals in much the same way Madonna did.

Madonna: Icon of Postmodernity, Jock McGregor

http://www.facingthechallenge.org/madonna.htm

Includes wonderful quotes and observations, such as

The New York Post columnist Ray Kerrison said this about her [Madonna]:
She will do anything, say anything, wear anything, mock anything, degrade anything to draw attention to herself and make a buck. She is the quintessential symbol of the age; self indulgent, sacrilegious, shameless, hollow.

.... In postmodern society any authority, any framework, any dogma, that claims a base in absolutes is automatically subject to ridicule and subversion.

.... She [Madonna] has said:

Sometimes I feel guilty because I like travel through people. ...You take what you can and then move on.

Nietzsche said God is dead, we only have ourselves. The result has been the steady disintegration of Truth, the fragmentation of our Culture into the meaninglessness of postmodernism, and ultimately the loss of our very selves.

But God is not dead. He is alive and he has revealed himself in Jesus Christ. Christianity is not a Philosophy, a clever metaphysical framework designed by people to explain the unknown.

Christianity is not even a Religion, an intricate system of rituals developed to give emotional comfort. Christianity is Historical Truth. In the Bible God has spoken an objective Word. In Jesus, God has entered history. A concrete event in Time and Space.

Postmodernism is about Images. Christianity is about Reality...

E! On Line Gossip: Diary of Madonna's Baby, Postpartum Tales, page 1

http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Madonna/

Series of pages, written from the point of view of Madonna's daughter, Lourdes; tongue-in-cheek.

Sample:

Month 34

September 6
Gosh, Diary, I [Lourdes] guess it's a good thing my nanny reads the tabloids, or I never would've found out that Mommy [Madonna] is planning to ship me off to boarding school! She's looking to drop a cool $7 million on a swanky abode overseas just so I can attend some highfalutin school called Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle.

I guess Mommy doesn't think an American education is good enough--she wants me to be "immersed in a different culture," like she's done herself since she became a big star.

I mean, we all know Mommy's idea of learning a foreign language is adopting a fake [British] accent.

Archive

http://members.lycos.co.uk/mathunt/archive7.html

Excerpts:

Anti-Madonna
During the filming of A League Of Their Own in Evansville, Ohio, Madonna caused controversy by degrading the town in an interview with TV Guide magazine. Evansville is now self-styled 'the town that hates Madonna'. She later released a statement from New York, saying she meant no offence to the town...

Sex
The title of Madonna's forthcoming pictorial book Madonna's Dreams has been changed. It will now simply be called Sex. The Daily Mail newspaper describes the book as "degenerate pornography".

`Don't Cry For Me . . . I'm a Nazi!" '

How Madonna and Hollywood Whitewashed Eva Peron's Nazi Past,

(By Barry Lituchy / 10 March 1997)

http://www.web.net/~ara/documents/news/evita.html

Shakira blasts Madonna as 'spineless'

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_773998.html

Abstract:

[Columbian pop rock singer] Shakira has called Madonna "spineless" for axing the controversial anti-war video to new single American Life.

Hollywood Bitch Slapping, by Grouchy Old Cripple

(February 12 2002)

http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/cat_bitch_slapping.html

Madonna. The material slut. I hear she's making an antiwar video. BFD [big freaking deal]! Does anyone really care about Madonna anymore? And if so, why? Whap!

Madonna Sh*ts Out Another TURD!

http://www.celebrityshitlist.com/

Excerpt:

Madonna Sh*ts Out Another TURD!

Posted by BiteMe on Sunday, March 30 @ 19:34:51 PST (98 reads)

Anonymous writes "Madonna thinks it's hip to move to England, put on a phony brit accent and dis' our president.

Madonna really is a moron of the first order. She seems to think she can regain her popularity with her same old "rock 'em, shock 'em, schlock 'em" routine. That worked when she was young and kind of sexy, but now that she's a dried up old hag, it's just not working.

Throwing a grenade at President Bush [in her American Life music video]? If I thought Madonna had a brain, I'd ask "What was she thinking?"

Read the longer item

Review Online / Madonna by BY APRIL CAPOCHINO

http://www.review.udel.edu/archive/1998_Issues/03.13.98/current/b1.html

Excerpts:

She has burned crosses, masturbated on her Blond Ambition tour and openly admits to having affairs with women.

Thomas Leitch, professor of English, says, "Madonna is a woman who is in a person's face so much, who is so over powering, that after a while her negatives add up."

He says he does not feel her impact is as great on people today as it used to be because her image has died out as a sexual icon, and people are bored with her.

Junior Michael Mandato agrees. "I haven't really paid much attention to her." He adds that the recent birth of her daughter has decreased her sex appeal, he says.

"That and she's getting old," he says.

... At the beginning of her career, she appeared on "American Bandstand" claiming that she would "rule the world."

Celebrity Rants: Hear Madonna Cuss Out Her Fans

http://www.celebrityrants.com/content/celeb_madonna.html

(The Celebrity Rant page requires Flash plug-in)

Excerpt:

MADONNA may have minimal talent when it comes to singing, but she's extremely gifted when it comes to shamelessly promoting herself. As she gets older and less relevant to the world of pop culture, she has begun to pursue cheap, desperate stunts to keep her name in the papers.

In an effort to push her latest flop album, she released a "decoy" MP3 recording spewing profanity into popular file sharing networks such as Kazaa, Morpheus and LimeWire. This rant features the material girl doing what she does best.

Hugs and Slugs

http://www.maximag.com/issue/archive/media/rocker/rocker.html

The Gossip Show on E! blabbed that Madonna asked her close friend Rosie O'Donnell to never invite [rock band] No Doubt on the Rosie show, apparently citing that Gwen [who is the lead singer of No Doubt] has lifted Madonna's persona. This, from Madonna, the woman who blatantly borrowed Marilyn Monroe's look straight up in her Material Girl video.

Madonna's Twisted Values:

The Pop Princess gets American materialism all wrong, By Brian Doherty (April 24, 2003)

http://reason.com/links/links042403.shtml

Excerpt:

Madonna's take on what's wrong with American values is as misguided, alas, as her decision to release the "Justify My Love" video. This latest calculated outburst falls in a long line of statements and gestures from the pop princess misreading the American psyche.

She operated for the first half of her career, for example, under the delusion that there was some sort of puritanical impulse dominating the contemporary American mind, and that we needed her help to break it down. We can assume she is sincere, if only because we know what a bad actress she is.

From the Washington Post Who Says Telecom Is In the Dumps?

(Feb 2003)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A64358-2003Feb25&notFound=true

Okay, Madonna wants us to believe that she is not really a greedy, materialistic jerk, but she bought at least one $20,000 telephone. Keep reading.

Excerpt:

... the price of a fancy mobile phone with a $20,000 price tag, hawked by "luxury communications company" Vertu. I've mentioned this high-falutin' phone in an earlier Filter, but Filter reader Roger Yee points out an updated article in The Economist that indicates sales of the phone -- sold in stainless, gold and platinum with a sapphire-crystal screen -- are hot with the Hollywood jet set.

"Gwyneth Paltrow, an American actress, was the first customer. Madonna and Mariah Carey are said to be Vertu fans; another singer, Jennifer Lopez, is reported to own three.

Vertu is the brainchild of Frank Nuovo, a design guru at Nokia, the world's largest handset-maker, of which Vertu is a subsidiary." Still, The Economist ponders the question that keeps us all up at night: Whether there really is a big enough market to support such a high-priced gadget.
• The Economist: The Origins of Vertu

The origins of Vertu ( Feb 20th 2003): From The Economist print edition:

Excerpt:

Is there really a market for a $20,000 mobile phone?

IF YOU can spend $20,000 on a watch, why not on a mobile phone? That is the idea behind Vertu, which describes itself as “the first luxury communication company”.

Its stylish handset—the company prefers to call it an “instrument”—features a sapphire-crystal screen and ruby bearings, and is available in stainless steel, gold and platinum finishes, with prices ranging from $4,900 to $19,450.

Since its launch, the phone—sorry, instrument—has become a celebrity favourite. Gwyneth Paltrow, an American actress, was the first customer. Madonna and Mariah Carey are said to be Vertu fans...

New York Times: Madonna, Institution and Rebel, but Not Quite the Diva of Old, March 31, 2003 (the Abstract Version)

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00710F73E5D0C728FDDAA0894DB404482

NOTE: I have the full version of this article. I would be happy to send it to you for free if you e-mail me for it However, I've already quoted some of the very best negative comments below. The rest of the article was either neutral or actually (gag!) favorable.

Excerpts:

This is how the music world is changing: Madonna, who has been a pop diva for two decades, may be looking at the final stages of a long career.

She crashed and burned last year in the movie ''Swept Away,'' a project with her husband, Guy Ritchie, who directed the film. And her most recent albums, with their underground European techno beats, have failed to capture audiences anywhere near the size of those that bought her earlier albums. She has sold about $200 million in CD's and other products throughout her 20-year career.

...But it has been so long since Madonna has had a hit that radio stations are wondering if listeners want to hear her new material.

''Radio is still searching for her relevance,'' said Robert P. Burke, vice president and managing director at Friday Morning Quarterback, a radio trade publication.

Madonna is a Talentless Piece of Crap (A Discussion Board Thread)

http://www.voy.com/134162/957.html

Madonna's bust-up over 'baby lamb' coat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/music/newsid_2569000/2569157.stm

( 12 December 2002)

Excerpts:

Madonna is in trouble with one of her best mates cos she wore a coat made out of unborn baby lamb fur.

The star's pal, designer Stella McCartney, said she went mad when she saw Madonna wearing the item.

Is it right to wear fur for fashion? Vote here

Animal rights people claim lambskin coats are often made from the fur of unborn lambs.

Caught out

Stella said Madonna insisted she never wears anything that she doesn't eat.

Madonna and Stella McCartney are good friends
"But the other day she was wearing this lamb foetus coat, made from baby lambs that haven't even been born.

"It's like wet curls. So I said, 'I didn't know you ate foetuses,' and she was like, 'Eeew!' I haven't seen her in it since."

See also:

Stella angry over Madonna's fur coat

E! Online: The Mile High Club

http://att.eonline.com/Features/Features/Milehigh/index5.html

... or another flight, Madonna had a special couch custom-made for the plane to hold her overexposed body and ego. It cost only $25,000. Not that money really mattered. What mattered on this particular charter were the rules.

Rule Number One: Only three people were allowed in the main cabin with Madonna.

Rule Number Two: Only one flight attendant was allowed up front with her--"males only."

Rule Number Three: She insisted that a curtain be hung behind the cockpit door because she didn't want to see the crew when they came out to use the lav [bathroom].

Rule Number Four: Dancers, staff and band members were sequestered to the back section.

More Madonna magic: During that short span when the Material Girl was dating Warren Beatty, the pair showed up in the MGM Grand Lounge in New York.

Among the celebs present were Veronica Hamel and Elaine Stritch. Madonna took one look, turned to Warren, and said loud enough for all to hear: "Let's not sit with those assholes." Funny, that's exactly the same word the other passengers used for her.

Diana Benson's Mile High Club has just been published by Dove Books.

Madonna: Another Useful Idiot for Saddam

http://www.beakerscorner.com/archives/000209.html

from Beaker's Corner

See also: Bite Me

Excerpt:

God forbid I expose Madonna for what she is. It's really amazing what kind of a response you get from the ignorant masses when you're the one that points out that the Emperor (or Empress) has no clothes.

Madonna was, is, and will always be a selfish media whore. Her most rabid fans consist of either women who want to be her, or gay men who want to be her.

Either way, her knee-jerk, anti-war reaction is at best laughable and predictable.

Madonna said what?

http://www.observationdeck.org/katiskorner/justatheory/madonna.html

By Kathleen Stephens-Hawke

Excerpts:

Did I miss something? When did Madonna become the Queen of morals? Or is the Queen of sleaze just looking for a little “Suzy Homemaker” type publicity?

In Australia, this story appeared in the Herald Sun News Paper on Friday 8th of November 2002.

MADONNA has demanded higher standards of decency on TV after a US station broadcast footage of a mother breast-feeding her eight-year-old son.

The singer who is famed for her controversial videos, said she was outraged the image was shown to millions of viewers on Good Morning America.

”People have no morals, I swear to God, “she said. “The things that people do for ratings”.

Lynn Stuckey, 34 of Illinois, gained notoriety after ABC ran the tape in July.

A judge has since ordered child welfare officials to investigate.

Mother-of-two Madonna, 44 said the TV station should never have aired the footage.

”Why is there a tape of it? It’s terrible. That child will never recover,” she said.

Even though I agree 100% with what she said I still haven’t stopped laughing because of Madonna saying it. Now Madonna can add hypocrite to her dossier. It surprises me she didn’t choke on those words.

For Madonna to say, “people have no morals” would be to say the least the pot calling the kettle black! Madonna has always been proud to shock the world with her lack of morals while telling us to “lighten up”.

. . . Isn’t it amazing how these stars have no problem destroying the morals we try to teach our children so they can become rich and famous. But then they are the ones who scream the loudest when they become parents and have their children being raised in the aftermath of their actions. If people have no morals today, then maybe Madonna shouldn’t look any farther than her own mirror when she is looking for somebody to blame.

I’m not hypocrite; I’ll tell you that I was a Madonna fan in the beginning. But lost interest fast when I felt she was getting a bit too sick and twisted.