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    Scathing article in the UK press

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    Belfast Telegraph

    Jane Graham: Why Material Girl Madonna is looking frayed

    Saturday, 13 November 2010

    Seeing Madonna embarrass her children by dragging yet another star-blinded young stud onto the dancefloor this week, it struck me that the 52-year-old Ms Ciccone has now completed what will probably be her final transformation from the Queen of Pop to a sad, sorry, salutary tale.

    Does Madonna really imagine, as she slaps on a fake smile and pours her punished body into another leather basque, that the world is gazing on in envy and admiration?

    Probably, a lifetime of being surrounded by toadying yes-men looking to bask in the glow of your fame and wealth can do that to a person. But to most of us, she simply seems to grow more delusional with each cruel passing year.

    Of course its the bizarre coping mechanisms celebrities like Madonna employ to combat the deterioration of collagen which have created the cultural consensus that time is cruel to women. Her high profile struggle against getting older cryogenics are surely only a shot of courage away suggests that successful females in the public eye have no choice but battle against the inevitable until the bitter end, looking less heroic and more pitiful with each new photo shoot.

    But this week I went to see Lisa Cholodenkos new film, The Kids Are All Right, and was presented with a 52-year-old with a different approach to middle-aged womanhood.

    Annette Bening aka Mrs Warren Beatty is also 52, and looks it. Her jowls sag a little, her neck has a hint of turkey to it, but shes not only far sexier than Madonna, shes also one of the most dignified and high-achieving players in Hollywood. And she seems gasp! happy too.

    If half of whats written is true, then Madonna is addicted to testing out any new technology which claims youth-injecting properties.

    I dont think theres anything wrong with trying a bit of Botox to cheer yourself up, but the results of Madonnas obsessive experimenting are not attractive. Its not just that she appears, alternatively, puffy, swollen, gaunt or stretched; theres also a haunted look of fatigue and desperation in her eyes.

    Bening on the other hand looks rested, contented, soft and maternal. Her face is full of personality and warmth and exudes calm confidence.

    Madonnas hunt for youth has of course become literal; since her divorce from Guy Ritchie she has paraded a series of men barely out of adolescence alongside her.

    She must believe that her lithe baby-boyfriends make her the envy of other women, but, really, they just make her look like an insecure embarrassing mum who never gets to have an interesting conversation.

    How ironic that Bening is married to Beatty, the old bed-hopper Madonna famously failed to tame but who gave it all up the moment he met the formidable Bening, with whom he settled down and had four children.

    Bening has proved that it is possible even in Hollywood the most looks and career-obsessed neighbourhood on the planet to get off the ladder to have children, allow yourself to be almost forgotten by your peers, and return to make some of the best work of your life in your early fifties.

    Madonna, the most fiercely competitive pop star of the last three decades, hasnt made a good record for five years, though she pedals furiously to keep her profile skyscrapingly high.

    There is so much she could learn from the intelligent, benevolent, self-contained Mrs Beatty but the truth is, she probably cant bear to look at her.

    Madonna concert buzz looks a lot like a prayer

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    Old singers/bands always end up becoming touring acts. When Madonna is 60, what is everyone expecting? music videos of her all overly digitally airbrushed and dance songs hitting #1 with Ke$ha and Willow Smith not far behind :lol: i mean really.

    She's doing great and she's concentrating on where she is actually able to make a proper impact, which is touring and album sales.

    I think some fans are going to have real trouble accepting how Madonna's image/output changes as she gets older and older. It's been 30 years folks, and she's moving WELL into her mid 50's......it's not going to be 1989 forever.

    :clap:

    She's UNRIVALLED amongst HERITAGE ACTS.

    It does amuse me that loons just can't accept that the greatest of creative wells run dry and every dog has its day, with a new puppy evetually replacing it. It happens with all fanbases though - I was on a Blondie forum recently and the loons were bemoaning the fact that their new album is being released in Australia ahead of the rest of the world. Like anyone gives a fuck or it's ever gonna sell/be rememberd like the stuff from their heyday :lmao:

    Madonna concert buzz looks a lot like a prayer

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    How is the singles market fucked up? Gaga has shifted around 20 million singles in the US alone. Eminem, Rhianna and Katy Perry also manage to shift decent amounts.

    It's only fucked up for 50 somethings who's creative well has long since run dry. Elton John has just acknowledged the fact that he hasn't had a hit for five years and that he just can't compete with acts like Gaga :bow: He, like Madonna, kept it going in his early 50s by teaming up with younger stars but there's only so much of that an act can do.

    Is there a 2nd backlash?

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    She's making shit music and doing half arsed tours - what do you expect the media to do - they know she's capable of brilliance so they ain't gonna pander to her when she's churning out shit and there are loads of young female acts around doing what she used to do in her hey day.

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