She bores me. She sort of makes me shudder, actually.
I know she 'works hard' for that body (big flippin deal), but if I have to see her gyrate in tight outfits anymore I will have to gouge out my eyes. It looks horrible. Completely unarousing. Embarrassing. Overdone. Unimaginative. Boring. Arms like a gay body builder. Voice like a metal piss pot. Biggest case of emporer's new clothes ever.
Boooooooring.
Oh, and I wish it was issues from her childhood religion that she needs to work through, rather than the fact she has no original, intelligent thoughts and thinks, 'I know, I'll be OUTRAGEOUS, that'll show them.'
God. I'll give her macrobiotic.
ha ha - it would be nice if I was jealous of Madonna missi, but she makes me feel grim. If she actually did something interesting I might be interested.
Yawn indeed. She seems to think she's saying something profound, when in fact she's just dressing up. I reckon she's pretty pleased she had a Catholic upbringing - all those images she can milk for theatrical purposes. Doubt she'd bother if it meant coming out on stage in a cardi and playing folk guitar.
OK, I'll play devil's advocate. I like Madonna. Well, I like her music, and I -do- admire those arms! I admire her drive and her mastery of her genre (and she wouldn't have stayed around for so long if she hadn't mastered it somehow...).
She has gone a wee bit OTT with certain things, but I don't think her exploring her issues and personal evolutions are any different from any of ours, except she does them in public, and gets paid far more than this civil servant to do so. Writers 'write out' their issues, so why shouldn't a performance artist 'perform out' hers?
So bring on the purple leotard, Madge. Why the hell not? She looks damn good.
I like the music, well some of it ...it's just the prancing I don't get but AG, you make an interesting point that has made me think about the difference between 'performer' and 'musician'.
It is a good point about 'performing issues'. I think I'd conclude I appreciate her as a musician but not a performer - as Ferg points out it all seems like a desperate effort to shock in the absence of having anything a bit more concrete AND she's been using the Church's imagery for DECADES. However more irritating than this is the fact that the Church bites the bait every time, giving her what she wants.
So I'll buy the album but not a concert ticket.
jude
"Cacoethes scribendi"
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As you say, during her shows her music does play a secondary role to her 'performance'. As a civil servant, I could never afford one of her tickets, anyhow, although I hear her shows are brilliant (for those who aren't terminally bored with her! :-)). I have a plasterer friend who's been a lifelong (he's the same age as M) Madonna fan. He attends -every- show when she plays in London, he's seen her plays, I think he's even gone to LA for a gig. How he affords this is beyond me. Maybe I should become a plasterer...
I've never understood the Madonna phenomenon. I don't like her music. I don't find her attractive at all. I don't get it.
As for the Biblical references, she is hardly unique in using imagery and plots from the Bible/Church. It is a major source of reference for all manner of arts, including writing. I don't fault her for that, especially since I do the same thing myself. I just find her boring.
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"You don't need the light of the Lord to read the handwriting on the wall." Copies of Warsaw Tales available through www.new-ink.org
The attraction was partly based on the fact that she was a porn star that would apparently flash her twat at the drop of a $10 bill. She used her nut to accumulate lots of dough by utilising her doughnut.
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