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House of Diabolique: Madonna, recruiting her fans to the Kabbalah Centre
Cult?
Excerpts:
What shocks me most (although
it shouldn't) is how brainwashed her most rabid fans are too. Madonna
started as an iconoclast; as one who questioned authority and who
thumbed her nose at religious dogma.
Presumably, then, her fans
would share those beliefs; I know I did. That is what drew me to her.
But her rabid fans don't share those beliefs, or else they wouldn't
be buying her bullshit now. Madonna is attracted to the Kabbalah cult
of comfort and her rabid fans are attracted to the Madonna cult of
personality.
Madonna no longer embodies
iconoclasm. Instead of self-reliance, control, and independence, she
exudes submission, self-deprecation and dependence. She is no longer
in control. She in the control of others.
Her Kabbalah teachers told
her to write those children's books. She obeyed. Her Kabbalah teachers
told her that all money from the books should go to them. She gave
it to them. Her Kabbalah teachers told her to build a Kabbalah Centre
in London. She did. Her favorite Kabbalah teacher complained of his
meager home. She's buying him a mansion.
....I polled 32 ICON [Madonna's
official fan club] members. 18 of them joined ICON before MusicToday
took over. Of those 18, 16 claim to have received Kabbalah Centre
mailings. Of the 14 who joined ICON after MusicToday, just 1 claims
to have received Kabbalah Centre mailings.
Though not a scientific survey,
this indicates a clear correlation. It appears that, before merging
with MusicToday, Madonna's fan club ICON gave members' addresses to
the Kabbalah Centre cult in order to foster recruitment.
Attempts to confirm this
with ICON or Warner Brothers have failed. None of my calls or emails
were returned.
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| Madonna's
Hypocrisy Regarding Fur
Excerpts:
Also wearing fur in her
video for Music and during Holiday in The Drowned World Tour made
her previous messages like "Fur coats are worn by beautiful animals
and ugly people" less meaningful. Recently Madonna made hunting
her hobby, and this also caused some frictions with animals's rights
associations.
Dawn Mellor, British painter
even made this a topic for her painting. Since she took up wounding
English pheasants for fun, she has made herself an even bigger one,
and the habitually angry painter Dawn Mellor cannot resist portraying
her as the leader of a pack of huntin', shootin' hyenas in the Liverpool
Tate's lively examination of the fertile relationship between art
and pop.
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Pop
finds its groove on memory lane, by Suzanne Fields
Excerpts:
Madonna hasn't been "like
a virgin" for a long time, but the Material Girl is desperate
for new material to keep her warm in a cooling spotlight. Sean Penn,
her ex, is in trouble, too. He needs a pen name. Both have been eclipsed
by events that have cast them deep into the shadows.
Madonna lost her direction
and edge looking for the zeitgeist. Her new album dropped off Billboard's
Top Twenty after only three weeks. Her pop vulgarity once tapped into
the rebellious spirit of the times, but her current sensibility is
more suited to the '60s.
Her ex is in the wrong decade,
too. He's locked in lawsuits with the language of the 1950s, accusing
movie producer Steve Bing of "blacklisting" him because
he spoke out against the war in Baghdad.
Penn is an "oldcomer"
to bad publicity, but Madonna managed to get out of the marriage unscathed
by his bad press. She even profited it by it, by looking sympathetic.
But now the national mood
has changed and she's getting bad publicity on her own. She cancelled
a music video of herself decked out in army fatigues, aping Che Guevara,
throwing a hand-grenade at a George W. Bush lookalike.
One music insider calls
her persona a "tired shtick," and she offended the lefties
by trying to capitalize on one of their cherished revolutionary heroes,
selling nothing more than herself.
Trendsetters with a sharp
ear for the buzz hear another message in the decline of Madonna's
pop appeal. The newest generation of teenagers and young adults are
discovering - horrors! - music their parents and even grandparents
enjoy.
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| Madonna,
Kiss This! You're The Worst Kind of Hypocrite, by Rich Smith
Excerpts:
According to recent news
reports, you’ve [Madonna] gone to extreme lengths to prevent
your 7-year-old daughter, Lourdes, from knowing of your on-stage,
sex-soaked persona.
You’re quoted as saying
of little Lourdes Fontleroy, "I protect her from sex full stop....She's
not aware of sex, nor should she be."
How special, you slime-brained,
scum-sucking, worthless piece of subhuman debris. The only difference
between you and a sack of dog crap is the sack – and even that’s
debatable now.
Think about it. You devote
an entire 20-year career to teaching little girls – including
mine – that harlotry is the greatest virtue to which a young
lady can aspire and that spreading one’s legs early and often
in life before marriage is an uplifting exercise that builds character,
leads to unending joy and ensures the admiration of the multitudes.
However, you now tell us that all of that applies only to OPDs –
Other People’s Daughters. In other words, insane sexual license
for thine but not for mine; perversion’s OK as long as it’s
Not In My Back Yard.
To add insult to injury,
you tell us that you served as a high-priestess in the modern Temple
of Diana simply to make money – lots of it, you filthy rich
bastard-woman – and that "I'm not apologizing in any shape
or form" for any of the societal destruction wrought by your
quest for 30 pieces of silver.
Oh, really? Well, here’s
a little news flash for you, cupcake: eat s**t.
....And may your wealth,
your fame and your power all rot in your face for all the ruin you’ve
brought to families across America – families that wanted the
same thing you today want (and that is to keep their children innocent
just a while longer), a want you have made sure to deny those families
while selfishly coveting it for yourself.
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Stale
Pop Tarts: The Show Is Over, from National Review On-Line
Excerpts:
By Nicole Gelinas
What is up with the old
women?
Madonna bid for the title
of Dirty Old Lady of American Pop last year, when the brittle baby
boomer engaged in some calculated tongue calisthenics with (first)
Britney Spears and (second) Christina Aguilera at the MTV Video Music
Awards. Each young lady is half Madonna's age. Demi Moore provided
some competition for the title with her public display of toy-boy
actor boyfriend Ashton Kutcher. And now, Janet Jackson.
.... MTV's producers can
strip their stars completely naked if they want. But human sexuality
is still governed by natural law. Who's going to be brave enough to
tell Madonna and Jackson that young men haven't evolved so much since
the 1980s that they fantasize about women their mothers' age?
.... Britney is mainstream
sexy because she is young. She is cute. She is blonde. She has big
blue eyes and a pleasing hip-to-waist ratio. She's accessible, not
scary, to teens. Madonna, Demi, and Janet are all over the hill. Let's
be realistic: If all you're selling is sex, you'd better at least
understand that your product has a shelf life. When will the producers
wake up and tell their aging stable of no-talent stars: You're just
too old for the show!
....they do something to
themselves that conservative critics can't do. They make themselves
look outdated, out-of-touch, and silly.
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Madonna
meets middle age: Jewish World Review Sept. 22, 2003 / 25
by Diana West
Excerpts
In times like these —
times of heightened discord and possibly tectonic upheaval —
there's little reason to linger on a culture-blip like the publishing
launch of a series of kiddie books by Madonna.
No doubt there are contrasts
to be drawn between the semi-retired pop queen's latest and most dubious
incarnation as a tea-sipping sort of Mrs. Miniver who writes children's
books, and her extremely sordid, extremely lucrative career as a pop-exhibitionist.
(Said career in pop-exhibitionism includes one prior publishing lark
as a porno-spread subject and author in a book called "Sex.")
Still, anyone who has successfully
parried the thrust of all recent media hoopla — equal parts
pretentious and nauseous-making — over Madonna and the kissing
pop tarts on MTV will understand the reflexive instinct to shield
the eyes from all Madonna news. But the pop-ostrich in me just couldn't
resist something Madonna said — a real mouthful — to the
Times of London Sunday magazine.
It was about her 7-year-old
daughter, Lourdes, and Madonna's long career of mass-marketing her
own vulgar sexuality. Quoth Madonna (given her current and slavish
pursuit of English toff-dom, she's bound to do a lot of quothing):
"I protect her from sex full stop. She's not aware of sex, nor
should she be. You know, we've had little conversations about where
babies come from, but sex is not, and should not be, part of her repertoire
right now." Full stop? Given that Madonna is one of the pre-eminent
despoilers of youthful innocence, this, as her new compatriots might
say, is crust.
That is, there's Bill Clinton
— whose lasting legacy is American youth's working knowledge
of oral sex — and, of course, several generations of relentless
promoters of sex, drugs and rock and roll; nonetheless, it is Madonna
who first shredded virginity and wedding dresses into pop mega-hits,
displaying a leave-us-alone exhibitionism that wreaked havoc on girlhood.
Well and good that Madonna
has had "little conversations" with her daughter about where
babies come from; but what about the conversations about where Mommy's
riches come from? Later, Madonna says.
She says she someday plans
to tell Lourdes her career as a sexual provocateur was all an act,
which may or may not be comforting. "I'd explain that's me putting
on a show. I'm playing a character, it's not really me. I'm being
an actress. This may work for Madonna-the-delusionist.
Indeed, the 45-year-old
wife and mother may have moved on permanently to floral prints, matching
pumps and a kiddie book that is rooted, Madonna is quick to emphasize,
in her seven-year study of Jewish mysticism.
The rest of us, meanwhile,
remain stuck among her true spawn — little girls and big, baby
Britneys and Madonna-wannabes, who believe that exhibitionism is liberation,
that the birds and the bees equal "hooking up," and, almost
worse of all, that bra straps and navels are outerwear.
Thus, has sexuality —
to borrow a phrase from the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan —
been defined down, down, down. Little mystery here — let alone
mysticism.
No wonder Madonna hopes
to protect her wee one. Which is precisely what many of us spend our
own children's early years trying to do: We resist the extent to which
sexuality, particularly female sexuality, has been snatched from its
traditional time and place in human development — as a rite
of passage to adulthood, to marriage, to having children — and
grafted onto girlhood.
The sexualization of childhood
may not have started with Madonna, but under her pop influence, and
under that of her pop descendants, it became pretty irreversible.
Madonna says she has no
regrets. But neither does she appear to understand her own leading
role in coarsening the culture against which she now guards her daughter.
She does admit that what
was cast as a crusade for sexual honesty in the 1980s and 1990s was
really something of a scam. "Was I really trying to liberate
people?" she asks rhetorically. "Or was I just being an
exhibitionist and basking in the glory of being able to do what I
wanted. I think that probably was mostly what it was." So do
I.
But while she exhibited
and basked and did what she wanted — and grew wealthy beyond
exaggeration — she could always take shelter in an impervious
cocoon of wealth and cultural influence. (The multitudes she influenced
to bare all and do all, alas, had no such protection.)
Now that she has moved on
a little bit, wearing specs and writing children's books, maybe she
is finally trying to hide her tracks. We know for sure she is trying
to hide her daughter. Not that she can, of course. Which is too bad,
because the real Madonna — the notorious global persona —
isn't too savory an influence on anybody's growing girl.
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| The
Cleansing of Madonna
Excerpts:
Madonna stared to get really
boring when she married Guy Ritchie. She got boring when she started
to take up and actually spout how much she enjoyed modern domesticity.
She got even more boring
when she took up with the fad that it seems that every Hollywood celebrity
seems to get caught up in: strange religious cults… in this
case, Kabala.
Her record sales have been
steadily declining, and save for her strong fan base in a few key
communities; she obviously isn’t attracting any new fans. There
was a time she would not have pulled a video just because she thought
it would not get played or because it may have offended some people.
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| Will
Madonna Stop The Act?
By Mary McNamara
Los Angeles Times
Camille Paglia on Madonna
...the well-respected feminist
and overall cultural icon camille paglia was recently asked by the
Los Angeles Times for her thoughts on madonna's recent activities.
here's how she responded...
"Madonna is a dancer
and musician, not an actress. She has no ear whatever for speech --
hence, subtle vocal inflections escape her. This is partly because
she has no conversational skill. In every social occasion, she must
flirt, dominate or act up like a teenager.
She's too restless to sit
and talk...Madonna is in frenetic circus mode, as shown by that awful
'Drowned World' tour, which threw everything at the audience but the
kitchen sink. The jerky, manic 'Swept Away' suffers from the same
problem -- Madonna and Guy Ritchie seem to confuse art with attention-deficit
disorder." --Camille Paglia
See Also:
Holland
Sentinel.com |
| Madonna's
Newest Flop
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/antoniaville/madonna.html
Excerpts:
The Gap is paying Madonna
$10 Million to appear in ads with Missy Elliot promoting their new
jeans. Now normally this wouldn't raise my ire but i saw something
in US Weekly that did. It ws a photo of Madonna with Missy Elliot.
The story mentioned that Madonna needed a small army to protect her
because she was wearing over 5 million dollars worth of Neil Lane
jewelry.
Now a few of you may be asking...Why
the hell do you care about this?
Because, for the record, I'd like to point out what a hypocrite Madonna
is.
Her latest record "American
Life" speaks of the evil of materialism yet her she is covered
in diamonds, raking in the money preaching to us about how shallow
and materialistic we are? Of course her fans will tell me..Oh your
too stupid to understand her depth. I will counter you with this:
She's never been deep. Never. "Music" Is that deep? "Into
the Groove"? What's deep about that? I will say she's a clever
calculating woman.
....Madonna, though a Pop
Icon, is no were near as relavent in today's society as she used to
be. The Gap is nowhere near the seller they used to be. So what do
two people do when their down and out? Join Forces!
But can it work? Can any
company justify spending 10 million dollars on someone? Not this time.
Madonna doesn't start trends like she used to. If she did we'd all
be tromping around like Patty Hearst using our Jewish Names. Her's
by the way is apperently Esther.
She's said to be using it
because Esther, like her was an icon. Though she was an icon for a
very different reason. Madonna probaly doesn't read the bible so i'll
let her in on a secret. Esther in immortialized in the bible because
she saved her fellow Jews from genocide not because she danced around
halfnaked singing about sex.
....The fact is this venture
will go nowhere. People are not going to run out and buy 60 dollars
jeans because Madonna wore them.
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| Kiss
Off Madonna!
Pop Tart Britney Spears
is so swoony-moony over her MTV face-sucking by publicity-junkie Madonna
she's installed video of the notorious smooch on her computer as a
SCREEN-SAVER! Memo to Barbie-Doll Brit: Your idol refuses to have
a TV in her own home, piously carping that it corrupts kiddies --
so how come Hypocrite Harpy stages a lubricious lesbianesque tonsil-wash
when she knows OUR kids are watching the MTV Awards?
Published on: October 6,
2003
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| White
Trash Cafe
http://wtc.craftwerks.com/week/980906.html
The Material Girl turned
Maternal Girl has been treading the thin line between "trendsetting
icon" and "desperate moron" the past few years. Her
latest publicity-seeking stunt has put her on the wrong side again.
....But the Maternal Girl
simply lost her edge in her old age. She thinks she's still hot, but
the new generation could care less about her. Techno-punks Prodigy
told her to 'piss off' when she asked them to work on her latest album.
Now comes desperate times
and disparate measure to keep in the public eye. And it's sad. Apparently
Madonna has filed a court affidavit supporting a lawsuit that seeks
to block a planned construction project near Manhattan's Lincoln Center.
The local YMCA wants to build
a new high-rise for single women in Madonna's neighborhood. Not good
for Madonna. She's afraid that the construction scaffolding will pose
a threat to her upper-crusty lifestyle. In the affidavit, Madonna
says she thinks the project is dangerous and a "hazard for me
and my child."
Hello? Reality check! Is
paranoia a by-product of fame? I can understand 'M' being upset by
the recent collapse of scaffolding in Times Square. But how could
scaffolding ever be a risk to Madonna? This is a woman who is so famous
she can't walk the streets! Perhaps she's worried that something might
hit her limo as she drives by.
But what's stopping scaffolding
in another part of the city from hitting her too? New York City is
teeming with construction. The only way she could possibly avoid this
problem is to just stay home (As if she's going to be seen running
to the corner deli). And then to claim concern on behalf of her toddler
is just plain silly. I suppose the real reason behind the affidavit
is that it will disrupt the view out of her zillion dollar apartment
window.
... the one thing that bothers
me more than self-righteousness is celebrity self-righteousness. The
YMCA building is for housing single women. But apparently Madonna
thinks her neighborhood is only good enough for RICH single women.
I smells 'hypocrite' here...
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| Too
Much To Dream: Immaterial Girl
http://spleenville.com/journal/archives/001541.php
Comments
by various posters, including:
not to mention on her site
she's asking people to put a link on their sites (and even aol IM
icon) that you can click on to purchase her album to help her...sell
records..to help her...make money...to buy her...more houses?
oh wait I'm sure it's not about the money, I'm sure she'd say she's
enlightening people's minds with her holier than thou lyrics.
but then again what do I know? maybe if I made millions of dollars
I'd feel like money isn't important either
Posted by: michelle at April 24, 2003 at 07:05 PM
Hmmm....her latest album's
not selling and her last movie was a flop......must be because we
are keeping too much cash in the bank (rather than spending it on
her movies and CDs)....
Posted by: Susie at April 24, 2003 at 07:24 PM
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| Hyper
Allergic
http://hyperallergic.blogspot.com/
Madonna is a hypocrite?
Ok, there were some things that I used as touchstones in my life and
frankly Madonna was one of them. But now, an article (Ananova - Madonna
'hides sexy stage persona from daughter') punctures my fantasy that
Madonna was more real and in your face than the average person. Little
did I realize my mother was far cooler than this pseudo-cool "has
been."
Needless to say, I'm very mad.
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| In
the "Music News" section of Rate
The Music
May 2004
Excerpts:
Age Tells as Madona Heads
Off On Tour
Madonna's age is beginning
to tell as she opens her REINVENTION tour.
[Madonna injured knee while
rehearsing for show]
She says, "I'm a mess...
it's exhausting. I had no idea, actually, what I'd got myself into."
In another story on ratethemusic.com:
.. Madonna, 45, complained
of sore knees and a stiff back after Monday night's show...
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| Madonna's
Concert Bombing, from the New York Post
by Mary Hunh | June
16, 2004
June 16, 2004 -- Maybe Madonna's
"Re-Invention Tour" needs a little retooling.
Thousands of tickets are
still available for the Material Mom's six-night stand at Madison
Square Garden that begins tonight — many at cut-rate prices.
Late yesterday, Ticketmaster,
the official retail outlet for Madonna concert tickets, had seats
in all price ranges ($50 to $300) for all six nights.
And some ticket brokers —
who usually offer seats at a premium — were desperately trying
to clear their bloated inventories with discounts of up to 30 percent
off face value.
"We're losing money
on these tickets," said one broker offering deep discounts. "The
bottom line is she's doing too many shows."
Besides the six MSG shows,
the 45-year-old musical artist has two shows slated for Continental
Airlines Arena across the Hudson in New Jersey next month as part
of her 19-city world tour.
"Tickets are selling
well, but not as well as anticipated," said Mi chael Issac, president
of broker Preferred Ticket.com. "Three years ago was a much stronger
tour."
That tour, "Drowned
World," "was a whole other ballgame," Issac said. While
his agency isn't discounting tickets for this stand, the last tour
drew prices "five times" the current stand.
A broker at greattickets.com
said the phone was ringing off the hook, but not for Madonna —
for the NBA's Detroit Pistons, who are close to winning the league
championship series from the Los Angeles Lakers.
"Her public opinion
might be shifting," said the broker, who did not want to be identified.
A few brokers remained optimistic
yesterday, offering $300 second row center seats for tonight for up
to $1,700.
And a $300 front row center
seat for Sunday's performance was offered for $2,400.
Front row seats for tonight
may not be available through Ticketmaster, but as of last night, $300
tickets on the floor in Row L were available for face value plus the
usual processing fees.
The show was initially reported
sold out, but last week hundreds of tickets were released as more
seats became available after the stage was set up.
Liz Rosenberg, Madonna's
publicist, said she's not worried.
She remained confident that
tonight's show will "absolutely" sell out.
"A lot of people know
that last-minute tickets are available," says Rosenberg.
She's doing well nationally.
According to Pollstar, the first 10 shows averaged $2.6 million in
ticket sales, selling more than 136,000 tickets over 10 shows in four
cities. The average ticket price is $175.
The tour is on track to be
the top-grossing tour of 2004, with a gross in the $120 million range
and attendance of about 920,000. "New York has always been an
exceptional market for Madonna," says Gary Bongiovanni, editor-in-chief
of Pollstar. "It's hard to believe she's not selling tickets.
It could be she held back tickets, and people are just finding out."
Meanwhile cable channel Trio
TV is having a little fun at Madonna's expense, hosting three Madonna
silver-screen bombs at the Loews Theater on 34th Street.
The schedule: "Who's
That Girl," tonight; "Body of Evidence" next Wednesday,
and "Swept Away," on June 29.
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| Rabbi
Boteach Responds to Madonna's P.R. person, Liz Rosenberg
June 2004
Excerpts:
“How tragic that sixty
years after feminism rightly demanded that women cease being treated
as the lecherous man’s plaything and instead be accorded the
dignity of an equally intelligent and dignified member of society,
Madonna has been allowed to undo so much of that progress with barely
a whimper of protest.
“But while it is unbecoming of responsible feminist leaders
not to speak out at Madonna’s wholesale vulgarization of the
female image, it would be downright scandalous for Jewish religious
leaders not to object to Madonna being promoted as the foremost practitioner
of Judaism in the world. Judaism and Kabbalah are, above all else,
moral disciplines that demand a striving for moral excellence. Stripping
on stage and calling oneself a Kabbalist are mutually exclusive.
“For Madonna to put
herself forward as a spiritual spokesperson while continuing to degrade
women by simulating sex acts at music concerts, portray full nudity
in her movies, and to ridicule lesbians by performing same-sex kisses
merely for TV ratings, is a mockery of her claims to a life of spiritual
renewal based on the teachings of the Kabbalah.
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| Madonna
Wimps Out, From NY Post
by By JULIA
GORIN June 8, 2004
ISN'T Madonna supposed to
be controversial and independent? Then why did she cancel all three
Israel stops on her "Reinvention Tour"? At least now we
know how she's reinventing herself: as someone who plays it safe.
The whole tour, in fact,
plays it safe.
It takes nothing to spout
antiwar messages and to bash Republicans, President Bush and the U.S.
military. Nor is there any longer anything provocative about getting
naked and simulating heterosexual and lesbian sex.
Antics that target "decent
folk" aren't risky — she's made herself very rich over
the years by selling that tired shtick.
The truth is, Madonna hasn't
pushed any envelope in a long time. Similarly, she understands that
it's a lot safer to diss Jews than to diss Arabs. Jews only kvetch;
Arabs might kill.
To be fair, Madonna is still
shameless. After all, she's snubbing the Jews after flaunting her
study of the Kabbalah for years now.
It gets more pathetic.
Madonna told "Access
Hollywood" that it's her manager who isn't letting her do the
Israel shows, and that if she had her way, she would go.
No, Madonna isn't one to
get her way.
Contrast this with Melanie
Chisholm (formerly Sporty Spice), who played a concert in Tel Aviv
in 2001 just months after Intifada II broke out.
The Associated Press reported
then that she told the sold-out crowd, "I am not at all afraid
to be here. I have seen reports of what is going on in this country.
I have fans here, and if they are living here and are OK, then I'm
OK, too."
In other words, the former
Material Girl turns out to be more timid than a Spice Girl.
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| Strike
A Pose, There's Nothing to It! Rogue! by R. Elfline
2002(?)
Excerpts:
Friends and colleagues,
I loathe Madonna.
...But the Material Girl
is anything if not consistent in her unremitting ability to blatantly
steal from any morsel of originality she finds in front of her and
serve it up to us "anew," in an embarrassingly adulterated
form.
... There are some high
points though. Of course, they are all when Madonna is off-stage during
a costume change
... The gal has done nothing
to help the stereotype of the gay man as the bubbly next-door neighbor
who has the looks and fashion sense, but whom the leading lady can
never have because he likes c*ck too much.
So how about cowboy glam,
eh? "Brilliant!" one friend exclaimed, "Who else would
have thought to put together Country and Western style with disco?"
Gay men, that's who. Anyone who has visited Charlie's up in Boystown
on a weekend night will know what I am talking about.
Sometime around 2:00 a.m.,
the two-stepping gives way to thumping break beats underneath a disco
ball in the shape of sequined cowboy boots. (Matthew Barney had to
get it from somewhere too.)
And perhaps the best example
of this style also came out of England in the form of Isaac Julien's
breathtaking 1999 work "The Long Road to Mazatlan," a video
which shows two gorgeous men in 10-gallon hats getting it on after
a cattle auction followed by drag queens strutting down a dusty road?
You can't tell me that Madonna was not in some way inspired by this.
And of course there are
other embarrassing moments in the show. The blatant rip-off of Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, complete with mid-air acrobatic sword-fighting;
a gratuitous Austin Powers redux; and, of course, lots and lots of
glitter.
Another friend agreed that
Madonna has brazenly appropriated from anywhere she could find it,
but wondered, "Well, isn't that what all artists do?"
Perhaps they do, but the
good ones at least comment on what they are stealing or add a new
twist to an old theme. Madonna simply bores me with her unflinching
ability to take all these bits and pieces and pass them off as original
examples of art without so much as a nod to the true originators out
there in the world.
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| Las
Vegas Sun
June 1, 2004
During his show Prince took
a few digs at some other artists currently on tour.
"Las Vegas, you made
the right choice tonight," Prince said, making a clear reference
to the Madonna concert going on at the same time at the MGM Grand
Garden Arena.
He also said several times
that there was "no lip-syncing going on here tonight," nor
canned music, a gentle swipe at Britney Spears as well as Madonna.
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|
NY
Daily News: Madonna's Drawing Power Not as Strong in Some Areas
June 2004
In fact, Madonna could have
packed Giants Stadium for several nights. But her drawing power isn’t
as strong in some other cities, so her show had to be scaled for 20,000-seaters
rather than the 50,000-seat jumbo types.
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