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New M photos from Ladies Home Journal; -from 2005
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Topic Started: Jun 2 2005, 11:43 PM (1,108 Views)
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MissThang
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Jul 10 2005, 09:57 AM
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Mommy Madonna changes her tune Sunday, July 10, 2005 By John Sinkevics The Grand Rapids Press
Almost sheepishly, Madonna smiles at readers from the cover of the July Ladies' Home Journal.
Ladies' Home Journal?
What next? Eminem's landscaping tips in Better Homes and Gardens? Marilyn Manson waxing philosophical in Reader's Digest?
But there she is. No bared, pierced belly button. Not even a bared shoulder.
Madonna, the mom, has crawled out from the drain pipe of a wildly successful-albeit-overrated career as a pop idol to confess: "I didn't help people by being an exhibitionist. I think I hurt myself, too ... I hurt people by confusing them. Sometimes I was being overtly sexual for the sake of showing off."
Then there's this "well, duh" revelation from the "Material Girl," the grand poobah of all musical hype, marketing and image inflation: "Everything is about marketing, advertising ... If you want to have a spiritual life now, you're considered a geek or a weirdo ... We live in a world that's full of distraction and tinsel."
And this nugget: "Making my marriage and my children and my spiritual life work are my priorities ... Motherhood was my triggering point for trying to understand the meaning of life."
So, the new Madonna embraces family values. The new Madonna has found religion. The new Madonna rejects the over-the-top sexual circus of the old "Papa Don't Preach" Madonna. The new Madonna writes children's books fer Ciccone's sake!
Funny how being a parent makes one more discerning, more insightful, more careful about one's art, especially after earning hundreds of millions of dollars by hyping, marketing and wallowing in gratuitous sexual imagery that sent a jarring message to countless teenage girls that it's OK to "Flaunt it if you've got it" and made countless guys roar, "Bravo!"
Strangely enough, I ran across Madonna's soul-baring cover story in this most unlikely of magazines the same day I opened a fascinating e-mail from a hip-hop artist dubbed Future Austin, touting a new www.KillGangstaRap.com Web site. The release proclaimed that Austin (or is it Future?) "had an epiphany" which he desperately wanted all of us in the news media to know about.
The California artist started a movement aimed at stemming the tide of rap albums that "celebrate violence, meaningless sex and extreme materialism." That got my attention, so I read on.
"Our kids are listening to this on a daily basis," wrote the ex-gangsta rapper and father of three. "My little girl wanted to listen to my last album, and it was not something I wanted her to hear. That was a major revelation in my life, and I immediately decided to turn my music around." So, his new rap CD, he asserted proudly, contains "no profanity or explicit lyrics."
Gee. Gangsta rap without the gangsta. Isn't that like trying to hawk a brand new breakfast cereal for kids that contains absolutely no sugar or artificial fruit flavors or cheap hidden toys?
Hypocrisy aside, give Madonna and Future Austin some credit for having the guts to finally admit many "artists" in a pop-star-dazed world take the easy, crude way out for the sake of the almighty dollar.
For consumers, this isn't about being a prude but being a smart buyer. Are you blindly devouring junk music because of savvy marketing or seeking out truly talented artists who have something meaningful to say without resorting to sexism, thuggery and four-letter words?
The message isn't that art should exclude sex or that violence should remain off limits. Indeed, music and art should, and must, continue to thoughtfully explore these themes just as they explore love, death, pain, happiness, relationships, social change, spirituality, grief, passion.
And parenthood. MLive
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flea dip
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Jul 10 2005, 02:37 PM
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Rock Star From Mars
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I was considering starting a new thread on this item that Anna posted, Mommy Madonna Changes Her Tune (published July 10, 2005), but I guess I'll comment on it here. It was written by John Sinkevics - from The Grand Rapids Press.
I can give the guy some credit. He slams Madonna here and there, but then he ends on this:- Hypocrisy aside, give Madonna and Future Austin some credit for having the guts to finally admit many "artists" in a pop-star-dazed world take the easy, crude way out for the sake of the almighty dollar.
For consumers, this isn't about being a prude but being a smart buyer. Are you blindly devouring junk music because of savvy marketing or seeking out truly talented artists who have something meaningful to say without resorting to sexism, thuggery and four-letter words?
How can he be so naive? Not only is Madonna's slutty behavior a form of marketing (albeit a part of her personal life as well), but so is her supposed regret and retraction of it.
Just a few weeks after this interview was published, after all, we see her on stage at Live 8 using obscene hand gestures and repeatedly using the most vulgar word in the English language (i.e., the "F" word).
Everything (or 99.9% of everything) - and I mean everything Madonna does publicly - is marketing, even when she denounces her slut past. I'm amazed that Mr. Sinkevics doesn't realize that.
Madonna has kiddie books to sell right now, so of course she's going to seek out "Mommy-friendly" magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and say, "Gosh golly gee whiz, do I ever regret acting like a whore!" in that interview - rather than say something truer to who she really is, e.g., "F__k you, you $#@$#@$ and $@#$@! You can kiss my #@#@, you $@$@."
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MissThang
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Jul 10 2005, 08:53 PM
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She is still the hypocrite she was when she first began, now she is way worse.
I still can't believe people actually buy that "Mommy Dearest" act.
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Apr 30 2006, 01:15 PM
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This was on madonnalicious.com, - Lorenzo Agius on Madonna
Posted: 30 April 2006 - Thanks to Felicity
Lorenzo Agius, the photographer of the Ladies Home Journal shoot, was interviewed in the UK Telegraph Magazine and he had this to say about working with Madonna last year:
I wanted to do something that wasn't typical. Something more traditional. We ended up shooting in a prop house in west London. I was quite surprised, she really needed guidance. I suppose we were going for something that she hadn't done before. She couldn't just go crazy and ham it up to music.
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