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| | Madonna: 'We still live in a very sexist society that wants to limit people' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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To promote her new album, Rebel Heart, Madonna covers the new issue of Cosmopolitan. Cosmo actually sent us the image of Madonna?s first Cosmo cover (from back in 1990) too. I personally don?t think they should have chosen Madonna-in-the-mask for this 2015 cover, but whatever. Madonna still wants to be seen as a provocateur, which apparently involves Mardi Gras masks. Here are some highlights from her interview:
On longevity in her career: ?Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you?re here.?
On sexuality and ageism: ?Don?t be fooled, not much has changed ? certainly not for women. We still live in a very sexist society that wants to limit people. Since I started, I?ve had people giving me a hard time because they didn?t think you could be sexual or have sexuality or sensuality in your work and be intelligent at the same time. For me, the fight has never ended.?
On collaborating with Kanye West on her album Rebel Heart: ?It?s a little bit of a bullfight, but we take turns. He knows that he?s walking into a room with a person with a strong point of view, and I do too. I listen to what he has to say, take it in, and he listens to what I say and takes it in. We didn?t agree on everything, but he has good ideas.?
On internet haters: ?You can hide behind your computer or your phone and say whatever you want ? you?re not known. Could you say it to my face? Would you say it to my face? I doubt it.?
[From Cosmopolitan]
The ?would you say it to my face?? question has always intrigued me. Like, I don?t think I would have a problem telling a celebrity to their face that their outfit is ugly. I?m sort of blunt/rude like that. But would I tell Madonna to her 2015-Face that she needs to stop with the plastic surgery? Eh. I would probably chicken out.
As for Madonna?s continued conversation about sexism? her fight sometimes feels dated. And it feels like she only cares about how sexism affects her, not the plight of women everywhere. Is sexual agency a feminist cause? For sure. But is that the main crux of feminism? No.
Photos courtesy of Ellen Von Unwerth/Cosmopolitan and vintage cover by Francesco Scavullo.
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| | Madonna: 'Gay rights are way more advanced than women's rights' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Madonna has a really good new interview with Out Magazine, and it?s actually one of the best pieces I?ve read in a while. Shocking, I know. For some reason, I?ve been liking Madonna?s interviews in particular lately, and this Out piece might be her best one. It?s not just what she says ? although the conversation goes from Joan of Arc to women?s rights to Detroit ? but the analysis of Madonna?s decades-long relationship with the LGBT community. If you have ten minutes, it?s definitely worth the read. Some highlights:
Madonna on the theories that Joan of Arc was gay: ?Why was she gay? Come on! OK, she dressed like a boy and she cut off her hair. That?s what the church tried to say. Also that the dauphin who supported her, that he was gay. According to historians, the dauphin is the one who supplied her with the army, the cavalry, whatever, to take on England. Did they thank her for that? Of course not. They went, ?Wait a minute, how could a girl do that? There must be something wrong with her.? ?
She relates to Joan of Arc: ?I can relate. Sometimes I?m getting burned at the stake metaphorically. Though not right this second.?
On gay rights being ahead of women?s rights: ?Gay rights are way more advanced than women?s rights. People are a lot more open-minded to the gay community than they are to women, period? It?s moved along for the gay community, for the African-American community, but women are still just trading on their ass. To me, the last great frontier is women?. Women are still the most marginalized group. You?re still categorized?you?re still either a virgin or a whore. If you?re a certain age, you?re not allowed to express your sexuality, be single, or date younger men.?
On wishing that she were gay: ?I didn?t feel like straight men understood me. They just wanted to have sex with me. Gay men understood me, and I felt comfortable around them. There was only that one problem, which is that they didn?t want to have sex with me! So?conundrum! I was like, ?How am I ever going to get a date? Maybe if I cut my hair and I lose a lot of weight, someone will mistake me for a guy and ask me out.?
[From Out Magazine]
It seems like Madonna didn?t so much wish she was gay as she wished she was a gay man. Look at her career, look her approach to her career and her life: she?s less a straight woman and more of a gay man. I also think it?s interesting that the ?Queen Bee? of gay culture is telling gay men ? in one of the biggest LGBT publications in the country ? that they still have it easier than the average woman. That male privilege extends to gay men too, and women still have to ?trade on their ass.? She?s not wrong, you know?
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| | Madonna: 'Most men my age are married with children, they?re not datable' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I don?t know what?s happening to me, but I?ve been going through a stage where I don?t immediately hate everything coming out of Madonna?s mouth. Is it just me or does she actually seem a bit calmer? Yes, she?s still flashing her butt at the Grammys, but her interviews are coming off as reflective, a little bit sad and interesting. Madge sat down with the NYDN recently to talk about her new album, feeling nostalgic, why she ends up with younger guys and how Kanye West is the new Madonna.
Madge thinks Kanye is the new Madge: ?Kanye is the new Madonna. Kanye is the black Madonna. We know, and recognize, that we have that in common. We?re comrades in the envelope-pushing genre.?
Showing her butt at the Grammys: ?Bitch, this is what my ass looks like ? show me what your ass looks like when you?re 56. I take care of myself. I?m in good shape. I can show my ass when I?m 56, or 66 ? or 76. Who?s to say when I can show my ass? It?s sexism. It?s ageism. And it?s a kind of discrimination.?
She?s still vulnerable sometimes: ?I?m only human. I?d like to get to the point where nothing can shake me. Sometimes I?m there, sometimes I?m not.?
Her new album is about a bad breakup? ?When I started writing the record, I had just broken up with somebody. (Likely either Brahim Zaibat or Timor Steffens)
She?s not just into younger guys: ?It?s just what happens. Most men my age are married with children. They?re not datable. I?m a very adventurous person and I also have a crazy life. I?m a single mother. I have four children. I mean, you have to be pretty open-minded and adventurous to want to step into my world. People who are older, and more set in their ways, are probably not as adventurous as someone younger.?
Ageism: ?People have always judged me, and given me s–t about one thing or another. Now they?re giving me s–t about age. It?s bull—t. And mostly I hear it from women. I feel I should be hearing support ? like, ?Good for you.? It?s like everything else. I?m opening doors for women behind me who one day won?t have to deal with this s–t that I deal with.?
[From The NYDN]
I think she?s kind of right about Kanye being the new Madonna. It used to be that Madonna was the queen of controversy. Nowadays, people just? don?t really care, right? Now Kanye is the one. Everyone either loves him or hates him and you can create massive flame wars by simply defending him or slamming him.
As for Madonna?s habit of dating younger guys? ?Most men my age are married with children. They?re not datable.? At first I was like, ?How rude, she would burned at the stake if she was a man and said that about dateable women!? But I think she means she?s not going to date married men. Which is actually a good call. Still, she should just admit that she likes dating younger guys because she wants to steal their souls and drink their blood.
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| | Madonna admits she has 'a little bit of whiplash' from her BRIT Awards fall | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Madonna out and about in London last night. She had dinner with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian and then they all went to Annabel?s for a party and I guess Madonna gave a private performance. Check out her shoes!!! I know we?re supposed to think that Madonna is bringing back the big-soled shoes that were popular in the 1990s, but those look totally orthopedic to me. Like, she needs a wide, sturdy shoe so she won?t bust her ass again, like she did at the BRIT Awards. Speaking of, Madonna appeared on the Jonathan Ross Show (in an episode to be aired next month) and she talked about her fall at the BRITs.
“I didn’t hurt my butt, I hurt my head,” the Material Girl, 56, said Thursday during a taping of ITV’s The Jonathan Ross Show in Britain, for an episode that will air next month. “I know how to fall. I’ve fallen off my horse many times, and I tucked, and I have good core strength ? but the thing is, I had a little bit of a whiplash, and I smacked the back of my head. So, there was a man standing over me with a flashlight until about 3 a.m. making sure that I was still compos mentis.”
She said the incident was bruising for another reason, too.
“It was a horrible nightmare, because I like to be amazing,” she said. “Seriously, I rehearse and I rehearse and I rehearse, so that when I do the show it’s effortless and I create magic, and I did the opposite. I actually created a horror show for everyone.”
Some people actually thought it was a stunt, based off the “Living for Love” lyrics, which include lines like, “Took me to heaven and let me fall down ? Lifted me up, and watched me stumble.”
“I’m never writing lyrics like that again! The universe was trying to teach me a lesson, I guess,” Madonna joked.
She also described the incident itself in further detail, saying she was thrown off from the very beginning of the number.
“I’m a creature of habit, and I rehearse everything ? everything, everything, everything ? and I was thrown a wrench at the very beginning of my entrance,” she said. “I was told to tie my cape and start much further back than we had rehearsed.”
She added: “Everybody was worried that my cape was going to slide off because it’s quite heavy, so they tied it really tight around my neck ? So here I am marching in like a queen, and I got to the top of the stairs and I pulled my silky string, and it would not come undone. And my two lovely Japanese dancers basically strangled me off the stage. I had a choice: I could either be strangled or fall with the cape, and I fell.”
[From People]
I believe her. I think that?s what happened ? she had rehearsed it differently and the cape was tied too tightly. The question I have is: who choreographed this mess? Madonna?s performances at the Grammys and the BRIT Awards have been very, very careful. Even before the fall, she?s been moving like she?s afraid she?s going to hurt herself. Who has been choreographing these complicated routines for her and why does she agree to it?
Incidentally, Madonna talked about ageism in her Rolling Stone interview this week, saying:
?It?s still the one area where you can totally discriminate against somebody, and talk s**t. Because of their age. Only females, though. Not males. No one would dare to say a degrading remark about being black or dare to say a degrading remark on Instagram about someone being gay. But my age ? anybody and everybody would say something degrading to me. And I always think to myself, why is that accepted? What?s the difference between that and racism, or any discrimination? They?re judging me by my age. I don?t understand. I?m trying to get my head around it. Because women, generally, when they reach a certain age, have accepted that they?re not allowed to behave a certain way. But I don?t follow the rules. I never did, and I?m not going to start.?
[From RS via Pink News]
Yeah? I mean, I see where she?s going and I sort of agree. But I also think that it?s ageist to expect a 56 year old woman to compete at the same level with the 20-something pop stars of the moment. Is Madonna perfectly capable of being a badass in her 50s? For sure. But seeing her so desperate to appear younger, like one of the kidz, makes me uncomfortable and sorry for her.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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| | Madonna claims her Grammys flash was an 'inspired wardrobe malfunction' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Let?s be generous to poor Madonna. If Kanye West hadn?t Kanye?d all over the Grammys, we probably would have given more attention to Madge and her somewhat desperate need to be the most controversial person in the room. We talked about her, for sure, but I think it makes Madonna sick that Kanye was and is still a bigger ?controversy?. So Madge did an interview with Ryan Seacrest to talk about how she literally flashed her butt on the red carpet (NSFW photo here) and how we are living in The Golden Age of Butt so of course she had to ride that trend. Some highlights:
She claims she didn?t deliberately flash her butt: ?I had an inspired wardrobe malfunction moment. As I was walking away, I wasn’t mooning – I just lifted my dress up. Mooning is like naked butt. Everyone’s seen my naked butt already? not for a while, not since the ?90s?
The Age of Ass: ?It’s the age of ass, isn’t it? It was me having fun and being cheeky, no pun intended.?
Being in a harness for her Grammy performance: ?The one thing everyone forgot to do, was tell me when I could sit up [in the harness]. So, I’m laying back there, like forever in this super extreme back bend, hanging over the audience. I was like ‘Can I sit up now? Is the camera off of me? No one said, ?M you can sit up now? in my ears. It was the one moment everyone overlooked. Eventually, I sat up and was like ?Screw this, my back is killing me.??
Whether she?s got a boyfriend: ?Not really ? not a special, you know? Not a steady dude, no.?
Whether she would have remarry: ?I?m not going to say never, no. Maybe.?
[From The Daily Mail]
She?s so full of it if she?s trying to pretend like that flash was a ?wardrobe malfunction.? She literally stood in front of a bank of cameras on the music industry?s biggest night and flashed her butt as soon as she got on the red carpet. And that?s who she is at this point ? a 56 year old woman who meticulously plans out her stunt-queen moves to impress the kidz.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Madonna Gets Her Groove on at the Grammys | | Added 9 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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With almost four decades of pop music dominance under her belt, Madonna showed up onstage at the Staples Center during the 57th Annual Grammy Awards last night (February 8).
Following her matador-themed arrival on the red carpet, the ?Like a Virgin? songstress fought bulls and brought out a gospel choir for her performance of ?Living for Love? as the crowd cheered.
Madge?s appearance comes one year after she joined Macklemore and Ryan Lewis? rendition of ?Same Love? at the 2014 Grammys that culminated in the marriage of over 30 gay and lesbian couples.
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| | Madonna in Givenchy at the Grammys: matador realness or try-hard? | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Let me start off with something nice about Madonna: her new face looks pretty good. I was genuinely worried because Madge hasn?t wanted us to see her new face in candid photos, and even on the Grammys red carpet last night, she was still wearing some netted hat to cover up some of her work. But we got a better look at her face and it moves and everything. Granted, she?s had MAJOR work done to her face and body over the past year or so, but it?s quality work, so good for her, I guess. Her girls look very new as well.
Madonna wore this Givenchy on the red carpet, and she wore Givenchy for her performance too. Ugh. None of the outfits were cute and she already did the matador thing like 20 years ago. Is Madge recycling? Perhaps. Madge also had a NSFW surprise with her red carpet outfit once you saw her from behind ? go here to see the NSFW photo.
So, let?s talk about Madge?s whole vibe last night, starting with the red carpet interview with Ryan Seacrest. As she was talking, only Diplo was paying attention, because Nas looked SO embarrassed. Everything about Madonna just seemed like ?Look at me, I?m so young and ageless and I?m hip like all the kidz!!!? But what really made her seem flat-out OLD was her performance of her new single, ?Living For Love.?
I actually laughed out loud whenever Madonna tried to ?dance?. Her poor backup dancers, you guys. They were just throwing her around and trying to make it look like she was so flexible. And she wasn?t. She was moving so gingerly, like she was afraid she would break something (a very real possibility). I just want to ask her: what?s so wrong with just accepting your age? Is it really that horrible? There’s nothing so aging as trying so desperately to cling to one’s youth.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Madonna Snags Unique Grammy Awards Getup | | Added 9 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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It?s no secret that she has a tendency to push the limits of fashion, and earlier tonight (February 8) Madonna decided to see if she could get away with a one-of-a-kind ensemble at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.
The ?Material Girl? songstress was all smiles as she sauntered down the Staples Center red carpet in a black lace outfit that seemed to be equal parts burlesque dancer and sexy matador, and at one point she pulled up her skirt in the back to reveal her thong-baring booty.
Madge is slated to perform tonight along with top acts like Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, Katy Perry, Adam Levine, Gwen Stefani and John Mayer.
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| | Madonna Unveils 'Living For Love' Video Via Snapchat! | | Added 9 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She?s always been an innovator, so when Madonna was looking for unique ways to debut her latest music video, she decided Snapchat would be an interesting venue.
Madge launched ?Living For Love? on Thursday (February 5) by way of the picture messaging app, and there?s definitely an S&M vibe going on.
Directors Julien Choquart and Camille Hirigoyen put Madge in a battlefield-like setting filled with dancers clad in black and a hunky guy dressed as a bull. She sings, ?I could get caught up in bitterness/But I'm not dwelling on this crazy mess/What was lost, now I'm found/I picked up my crown, put it back on my head.?
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| | Madonna shades pop 'princesses?: 'There's lots of pretty dresses around' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Madonna took a break from being wildly offensive and inappropriate to chat with Australia?s Today Show yesterday. She?s still promoting her new album, six songs of which she?s already released because the incomplete songs were hacked and released. I have to apologize to Madge, actually. I thought the ?hack? of her music was a PR stunt to build momentum for her album, but she really was hacked and an Israeli guy was arrested for it. Anyway, Madonna is still Madonna, which is to say? she?s still a shade-throwing diva. The Taylor Swift part of this interview got all the headlines, but Madge threw some amazing shade on the ?princesses? of pop. Some highlights from the interview:
On Miley, Rihanna and Katy Perry: “It’s good to have princesses? It means there’s lots of pretty dresses around.?
On Taylor Swift: “I like Taylor Swift. I think she writes some really catchy pop songs. I can’t get them out of my head.”
Her reinventions: Madonna rolled her eyes at “the reinvention question? I’m not calculating anything. I’m just a changing, evolving creature, expressing myself as I go.”
Lourdes going to college: ?It’s hard letting them go out into the world but when she left home to go to college I was a mess. It was really hard letting her go. I’ve come to terms with it but yes I miss her and she’s a part of me, it was like losing my arm.?
Having her music hacked: “I was devastated by it. For an artist, it’s the ultimate violation to have your work taken from you before you’re finished and put out into the world for people to hear, to judge, to experience. I can’t begin to tell you how betrayed I felt?It’s a great relief to know (a suspect has been arrested) but also extremely disturbing. We couldn’t figure out, ‘What’s the common denominator?’ We were all ripping our hair out trying to figure out, ‘Who’s leaking this information? How is it getting out there?’ It was a great relief to know, but also extremely disturbing. And then if we don’t make music, what will people listen to? So they’re really just f–king themselves over.”
[From The Daily Mail & Yahoo]
I LOVE ?It means there’s lots of pretty dresses around.? That is some world-class shade there. Oh, Katy Perry was the top-selling female artist of 2014? Pretty dress, says Madonna. It?s her equivalent of patting them on the head and telling them to get out of her light. You?d think Rihanna had handed Madge some hydrangeas.
Also, I totally believe that Madonna was devastated when Lourdes went to college. I?m not saying Madonna plays favorites with her kids, but Lola is her oldest, her firstborn. That was probably really, really tough.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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