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Madonna Sucks

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This old, dumb bitch SUCKS. Let's start off with her acting. She can't act.

...Continuing with her being old... Have you seen pictures of her lately? Holy sh*t, she looks like she is in her goddamn 60's or something already. Imagine hitting that shit.. Ugh, I don't even want to actually. I never thought Madonna was hot before, but at least she used to be doable like a decade ago.

She KNOWS she has become totally irrelevant. That's the reason you see her in all the GAP ads. Trying to promote herself as being relevant still, it just shows how desperate for attention she has become. She is so far out of reality its pathetic.

Don't give me crap about Madonna making some huge impact on popular culture, or challenging the status-quo. Please. She is a mass-produced piece of fungus.

She is also a total hypocrite. She moves to England, and talks about how Americans are so obsessed with material possessions (uh, material girl?), with money, power, and fame... HELLO?

Why I Hate Madonna, by Sriya Shrestha

From Washington Square News, December 2, 2003

Sitting in NYU classrooms, I am struck by the extremely light, tiptoe approach students take when it comes to racial issues. They strain to make sure they leave only tiny marks behind, nothing to offend anyone. Nothing can be said, no generalizations can be made, because that would be prejudiced, stereotypical and negative.

Yet in taking these painfully planned baby steps, most manage to be grossly ignorant, racist and ridiculous - usually without even noticing. ...

And I believe this same deep-seated white fear of reverse racism fueled the sudden, fierce anger expressed by some white (or should I call them Caucasian?) students during a later discussion at the idea that perhaps there was something slightly more offensive about Madonna wearing a bindi, sari and henna then there was about her donning and defaming the Catholic cross. ...

They do not understand that a history exists that makes Madonna's flippant, fleeting usage of South Asian-Hindu fashion and culture a bit offensive. A history in which we have been the source of the West's stories of mystery, enchantment, oddity and the exotic.

We have always been trinkets and charming tales. We are brass pots and spiritual men who can float; and tongue-tickling spices and thick, luxurious rugs; and skinny, starvation-swelled bellies standing in a brown mass waiting to be saved by British food and religion.

We are the women who, due to a lack of a strong Western-style feminism, starve, suffocate and drown our baby girls for not being baby boys. We are anything but human.

And now, many years after British colonialism, in a global market run by U.S. imperialism, we are once again remembered by our trinkets. While South Asian women remain invisible in U.S. pop culture, they are now seen painted on Madonna's hands, glittering on her forehead, wrapped around her personal-trainer-trimmed white body.

We are her toys, her fashion, her flavor of the month. We are alternative lifestyles full of spirituality, meditation, incense, homeopathy and relaxation. We are frozen samosas and TV-dinner channa masala at the local grocery and iced chai lattes at Starbucks.

And suddenly now we are also frightening, fiendish and dangerous....

And Madonna's phase of wearing us on her body has only made it easier for us to be targeted. She reduced us, or reinforced an already existing reduction, to inhuman, fashionable baubles. And it is not difficult to stop giving visas to a bindi or a set of gold bangles.

Nobody has qualms about jumping or shooting several yards of rich, luxurious silk. Who would mind throwing thousands of Buddha, Shiva and Laxmi print T-shirts into detention camps without explanation or lawyers? After all, ultra-fashionable tops do not need legal representation.

So I think that when Madonna stretches the boundaries of Catholicism, uses a cross to criticize the racist, white supremacy and puritanical, sexually-repressive aspects of her religion, it is quite different than her playing dress-up with a culture that no one owns, but that she can still certainly exploit.....

Madonna Song Parody

Excerpts (to the tune of The Beatles "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"):

Oh yeah she, was a pop strumpet
She was her own name brand
But now, she stinks like armpit
Madonna's old and bland
Madonna's old and blaaand
Madonna's old and bland

When she, was young and kinky
She was in high demand
But now, she is just wrinkly
Madonna's old and bland
Madonna's old and blaaand
Madonna's old and bland

Crow Lashes Out At Madonna

from Net Music Countdown, by By Dean Cameron, February 2004

Crow recently said that she believes that the current trend of scantily clad females topping the charts is the fault of Madonna and not because men enjoy seeing scantily clad women.

The singer says, "There's so much TV and so much exposure that a lot of these young girls can become successful overnight. With Madonna kind of ushering in the whole 'sex is power' thing, I think we got off course a little bit."

"There's so much sex. It's about the look and the image, less about the talent. You have to have a good choreographer, good hair. I just find that females really have to sell a little too much of the image and could maybe get more into content."

Actress Samantha Morton on Madonna's Unoriginality

from The Mirror, Feb 2004

"Madonna is good at seeing what's happening and then snatching and stealing it, reinventing herself in that way."

Simon Cowell (American Idol Judge): 'Madonna Used to Be Good-Looking'

Ap via Yahoo! Launch

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(AP, 01/17/2004 3:41:00PM)

Not content to crush the spirit of unknowns, "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell is training his sights on one of the biggest stars in the business — Madonna .

Cowell, promoting Monday's start of the third "American Idol" season, recently was drawn into a discussion with the Television Critics Association about the physical attributes of today's stars.

"Britney (Spears) is cute, isn't she?" Cowell said. "Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking."

His fellow judges, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson, groaned.

"She's a housewife!" Cowell said.

Same news story available from:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Scotsman: Housewife Madonna Used to Be Good Looking Says Cowell

Madonna Led the Way: Is She Still Relevant?

By Renee Graham, Globe Staff, 8/26/2003

Excerpts:

. . . . It's been a pretty strange year for the performer, hardly the way she probably envisioned her 20th anniversary as an international recording star. Released in April, her latest album, ``American Life,'' has barely sold 500,000 copies; she used to sell that many in a week.

And while she pretty much rewrote the book on transforming controversy into commerce, she couldn't parlay a brouhaha about the title song's video, which some deemed not only antiwar but anti-President Bush, into anything resembling public interest.

Even MTV, as much created by Madonna as it helped create her in the early 1980s, hasn't given her recent videos enough rotation time to gain traction.

...And remaining culturally relevant has always been Madonna's obsession. That's why she's appearing in those Gap ads with hot rapper-producer Missy Elliott, and why it's rumored that Madonna will be performing at Thursday's MTV Video Music Awards alongside Britney Spears...

...For 20 years a gaudy triumph of spectacle over talent, Madonna's success has metastasized into any number of careers more devoted to flashes of flesh than flashes of artistic brilliance.

Still, if Madonna's achievements have been the blueprint, perhaps now they should also serve as a cautionary tale. ...it's never been a career designed to glide into something less transitory than selling youth, sex, and vigor.

Madonna's kind of success has made the world smaller, its attention span even more dodgy in its pursuit of something shiny and new.

...Britney is struggling to be something more than her limiting sexpot image, but that's what happens when you build a career on the belief that image is everything.

Just ask Madonna. At 45, she's older than the combined ages of Britney and Beyonce, and if even Beyonce looks a little silly gyrating and carrying on, Madonna would look downright sad. She calls herself an artist, but where's the art? The fickle music industry has foiled far more talented singers, yet with Madonna, there's never been much behind the curtain other than her blonde - and occasionally brunette - ambition.

So Madonna's latest way of looking to the future is resurrecting her past, whether in a jeans commercial or on the stage at Radio City Music Hall. She'll get a standing ovation if she performs with Britney and J.Lo at the VMAs, much as Michael Jackson did a few years ago when he made a surprise appearance with 'N Sync. And she'll vamp and spin, not only to show the young'uns how to do it, but to prove she still can do it.

And much as we have for the last 20 years, we'll watch, although this may well be the first chapter in Madonna's last act as a pop icon.

Madonna's Body Odor Problem

Contact Music / January 2004

Superstar MADONNA has a body odour problem - according to former supermodel JANICE DICKINSON.

The New York beauty, 51, who claims to have bedded JACK NICHOLSON, WARREN BEATTY, SIR MICK JAGGER, BRUCE WILLIS and SYLVESTER STALLONE during the height of her modelling career in the 1980s, alleges the MATERIAL GIRL smelt horrible in her early days.

Dickinson says, "I had to put up with Madonna's body odour when she used to boogie all night at DANCETERIA (New York nightclub) in the early '80s.

"Before she got it together and started removing hair from her pits, she had the most vicious odour coming out from where I don't even want to know where. Believe me, it was no HOLIDAY dancing next to Madonna back then."

I don't understand why this Lydon fellow is confused or surprised by Madonna's behavior - especially at this late date. It has been obvious for years and years now that Madonna routinely steals material, fashions, looks and so forth from other performers and will turn right around and deny having done so, or of having heard of whomever she's ripping off.

Lydon [of Sex Pistols] Slams Madonna

Contact Music / January 18, 2004

LYDON SLAMS MADONNA

Punk veteran JOHN LYDON was disgusted when MADONNA claimed to have never heard of the rocker - only days before sporting a SEX PISTOLS belt.

The musician, who fronted the pioneering Pistols in the 1970s, contacted Madonna's husband GUY RITCHIE, hoping the director would make a movie based on his autobiography ROTTEN: NO IRISH, NO BLACKS, NO DOGS.

But he was left stunned when the director announced they weren't aware of who he was.

John says, "I called Madonna's husband to see if he would be interested doing a film of my book because he comes from the same manor as I do, though he is a bit upper-class. He might stand in the same pub as gangsters, but he ain't one.

"A message came back that they had never heard of me.

"The same week there was a picture of Madonna in a newspaper and she had on a Sex Pistol belt. The f***ing cheek of it. I made an inquiry, f***ing answer it. If you think I'm a c***, say so. F***ing minefield, the film world."

Good for Boy George for continuing to speak out against "The Venereal Girl!"

Boy George Says Madonna Has No Integrity

October 31, 2003 / Contact Music

Former CULTURE CLUB singer BOY GEORGE has hit out at pop superstar MADONNA again - accusing her of having no integrity.

The KARMA CHAMELEON star - who is currently in New York preparing for the Broadway opening of his play TABOO - was left fuming last year (02) when a joke about Madonna had to be removed from the show's London production on her lawyer's instruction.

Now, on the DVD which charts the making of the musical hit in London, George has another dig at the MATERIAL GIRL's behaviour.

He snipes, "I want it to be successful but not at the loss of the integrity of the show - I'm not Madonna."

A source on the show adds, "George won't let the row with Madonna drop. He couldn't believe it when she got the lawyers onto him last year."

Madonna Acts Like Spoiled Rotten Bitch on French Show's Set

1984 / I Hate Madonna Handbook

[This took place in 1984] Asked to perform a song on a French version of "Saturday Night Live," a show called "Sex Machine," Madonna arrived at the beachfront location of the taping and immediately griped, "I don't want to dance in the mud."

"But it's not mud," the show's producer replied. "It's wet sand."

"I say it's mud!" she shot back.

Then one of the letters from her Boy Toy belt fell into the sand.

"She exploded," recalled the producer. "She made the Warner public relations woman, the driver, and two dancers look for the missing letter. 'Find the letter,' she screamed, 'or I'm not doing this f*cking thing.'"

"She had people on their knees," the producer said later. "We were scrambling in the sand looking for the missing letter for half and hour."

His summation of her behavior is blunt: "Madonna was vile! She behaved very badly. I suppose if she did that kind of thing now, people would find her brilliant. At the time, everybody said, 'Why are we putting up with this?'
She was nobody then." (65-66)

[Source: Rosenzweig, Ilene. The I Hate Madonna Handbook. 1994. St. Martin's.]

Madonna's Just Too Wussy For Nashville Pussy

April 24, 2001 / Chart Attack

The material girl just ain't trash enough to fit in with the likes of Nashville Pussy.

According to a press release that came filtering through the ChartAttack offices, Madonna implied that she was interested in hooking up with the band to play bass.

"We're really flattered that Madonna wants to join our band," Pussy guitarist Ruyter Suys commented, after seeing Madonna's latest cover for Interview Magazine that features the mega-pop icon attired in trashed-up cowboy attire. "It was really cool that she got all those fake cool clothes made up and everything. What were they? By Versace or Armani or something? They were kinda wrong, but we got the idea."

And if the first burn isn't enough to convince Madonna to steer clear of her raunch 'n' roll aspirations, Suys has some serious doubts about her ability to replace current bassist, Tracy "Kick Ass" Almazan.

"I guess Madonna thought playing guitar with only four strings on it would be easier," she said. "She should stick with acting instead of trying to be bad at guitar as well. But if Madonna wants to play guitar, I just hope she doesn't get any lessons from Courtney [Love]."

Referring to her videos, Suys then proceeded to mock Madonna's "boot scooting" and bull-riding capabilities (referring, of course, to a mechanical bull) before adding, "And hell, if she's gonna be around us, she's got to have a lot more respect for cars and old folks."

The way-too-cool-for-Madonna Nashville Pussy are currently in the studio working on their next album and gearing up for their world tour. Yee-haw.

See Also:

Getting Inside Nashville Pussy: An Exclusive Interview with Ruyter Suys

August 26, 2002 / By Jeff Kerby, Contributor

...had their style lifted by Madonna...

MK Magazine Interview with Nashville Pussy

November 01, 2003

Sharon: Is it true Madonna wanted to play bass for you guys?

Ruyter: (laughs) No. But it's a good rumor.

Katie: Yeah, I read that and I was like, "Oh, they picked me over Madonna! I'm better than Madonna!"

Ruyter: We were on National Enquirer TV one time, and we were bitching about Madonna ripping off our style.

'Cause we played Irving Plaza in New York, and then she played Irving Plaza, and you know she was at our f*cking show.

I don't know what the deal was, but like a week later, she's got a cowboy shirt on and she's doing the whole hip-grinding thing. It just pissed me off. And we started bitching about it enough that it got picked up by AP that Madonna's coppin' our licks and that she wanted to be in the band.

It wound up being on National Enquirer TV, and they showed a picture of me in my black cowboy shirt, and then a picture of Madonna in her black cowboy shirt--it was f*ckin' great!

And all these people saw it. Ross the Boss from The Dictators saw it, and he called me, "I saw you on TV with Madonna!" Completely unsubstantiated--they didn't phone anybody to ask about anything, they just threw it on TV, which was great. We wouldn't let Madonna in the band. Ever.

A question we'd all like to have the answer to:

Kelly Osbourne Asks: Why Is Madonna Still Acting?

November 6, 2003 / Contact Music

MADONNA's refusal to give up acting despite constant critical pannings has left teen singer KELLY OSBOURNE bemused.

The 18-year-old daughter of rocker OZZY OSBOURNE has watched Madonna conquer the music arena but face relentless slammings for her acting - most recently in the 2002 movie SWEPT AWAY.

And SHUT UP! singer Kelly, who hopes to try out acting herself, doesn't understand why Madonna won't get the message and just quit.

She says, "My thought is, try it once and you suck at it, at least you know. I'm not going to do any Madonna movies. For example, she did a movie and she played herself, then she did another movie and it sucked and did another movie and it sucked and she did another movie and it sucked.

"Give her credit for trying, but why keep at it if you suck?"

Age Against the Machine: Ray of Fright

Oct. 31, 2003 / Inquirer News Service

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...So before an audience of overworked PR people, cynical stylists, and confused allies, she asks how the trajectory was reversed despite help from a phenomenally less pudgy Missy Elliott.

"We saw the same kiss from tATu and it was way hotter," answers Gwyneth Paltrow, stroking Chris Martin's bean-shaped head.

...With tears in her eyes, she realizes that "American Life" is a clunker, that it's been reduced to the most debased musical currency there is: the hastily-put-together remix CD.

The faux-Brit accent downgrades to her old Detroit drawl as she assumes her favorite yoga position, the Corpse. Guy Ritchie rushes to his wife's side and strokes her hair which, after years of bleaching, feels like really expensive hay.

Since her acting career is one long mockumentary, Madonna has resorted to co-branding to remain musically relevant. She allowed Kelly Osbourne to cover "Papa Don't Preach" and revisited herself with "Into The Hollywood Groove," obviously scraping bottom both times.

Her collaborations with Mirwais were inspired, but the high-octane electronic purring soon sounded like a computer farting underwater.

For much needed street cred, her unsexy groaning in "Justify My Love" is sampled on "Justify My Thug," one of the tracks on Jay-Z's "The Black Album: The End of an Era." Is this an omen for Madonna? I can only hope.

...The desperation [as evidenced by Madonna's kissing of Britney Spears, duet with Spears etc] made her catch the wave, but even hardcore Madonna fans admit that she has already missed the boat.

And despite her undeniable influence on pop culture, sociopathic devotion is completely unnecessary and frankly, quite pathetic.

Since reinvention is something that anyone can easily do these days, should we wait for her next makeover? A Junior Vasquez club hit from 1996 has the fitting reply: "If Madonna calls, I'm not here."

Kylie Minogue Offends Madonna

November 9, 2004 / Contact Music

Singing superstar KYLIE MINOGUE has caused major offence to MADONNA by refusing to even record a demo of a song specially written for her by the pop queen.

Madonna, and producer RICK NOWELLS, wrote ALONE AGAIN to be included on Kylie's latest album, BODY LANGUAGE, but the diminutive Australian singer did not even bother to record it.

Music insiders are shocked, especially since Kylie once observed, "I don't think Madonna has ever given a song to another artist."

However, while the SLOW singer has rejected Madonna's offer, she is working with several other showbiz names.

Among others, R+B sensation MS DYNAMITE appears on the track SECRET, which she also co-wrote; and CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD writer CATHY DENNIS has penned AFTER DARK. 09/11/2003 14:02

Madonna Slammed By Mentor [John "Jellybean" Benitez]

May 16, 2003 / Contact Music

The man who discovered pop superstar MADONNA has slammed the singer's latest single AMERICAN LIFE - calling it "garbage".

JOHN 'JELLYBEAN' BENITEZ picked the aspiring dancer and singer out from the New York club scene and went on to produce her early 1980s hits like BORDERLINE, CRAZY FOR YOU and HOLIDAY.

But he believes Madonna is no longer making the kind of ground-breaking music she had for the best part of her 20 year career.

He says, "I don't like American Life. It's garbage. I perceive Madonna as always being on the edge and ahead of the curve, but this song is mediocre. She's better than American Life.

(Satire): Madonna in Intensive Care / Madonna's 31 Fans

Circa April 2004 / The Spoof

...A statement by the Buenos Aries clinic described Maradona's [Madonna] condition as "Unstable". It said, "Maradona is is receiving medication to strengthen her acting ability. She has developed acute ego failure and therefore is heavily sedated".

The Spoof's South American correspondent said Maradona's lousy acting has been a concern for many years.

"She's put on a lot of weight and when, hopefully she recovers from this, she really does need to be offered a part that reflects her mediocre stage presence".

Despite her well-publicised problems, Madonna still has a widespread fan club with 31 members as far afield as Luton and Southend.

While it is true that Madonna stole from Debbie Harry, this article is incorrect in its statement that Madonna did not rip off Marilyn Monroe: see the Madonna Rips Off Marilyn Monroe A Lot More Than Most Realize section of Flea Dip

Madonna Ripped Off Debbie Harry, by Michelle Goldberg

Salon.com

There's hardly a single major '90s pop music phenomenon that doesn't have its antecedent in the sugary, ironic, thrilling pastiche of Blondie. Madonna's obvious inspiration was Debbie Harry, not Marilyn Monroe ("Everybody admits that but Madonna," says Blondie keyboardist Jimmy Destri). The Spice Girls, too, are Harry's daughters.

An ex-Playboy bunny, Harry perfected the marriage of airbrushed, blow-up doll glamour and tough, me-first attitude that every MTV nymphet strives for -- the insistent, carnally aggressive chorus to "Call Me" prefigured do-me feminism by a decade. Even hip-hop, which everyone from Vibe to Time magazine acknowledges as the music of the '90s, has a few blond roots, for while Grandmaster Flash and Kool Herc invented it, Blondie brought it to the masses -- "Rapture" was, after all, the first No. 1 rap song ever.