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It's the typical lazy ass journalism we have in Britain but you're right about them making a story up just from a few shots on instagram. Who the hell reads the Daily Star now anyway?
No one but the press is picking up the story
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Camille Paglia, who many years ago dubbed Madonna “The Future of Feminists” continues to celebrate Madonna’s impact on the entertainment world by comparing age of Madonna’s reign to the dismal pop acts that have become mainstream – most notably comparing the controversy over Miley Cyrus’s MTV Video Music Award performance.
The Cyrus fiasco, however,is symptomatic of the still heavy influence of Madonna,who sprang to world fame in the 1980s with sophisticated videos that were suffused witha daring European art-film eroticism and that were arguably among the best artworks of the decade. Madonna’s provocations weresmolderingly sexybecause she had a good Catholic girl’s keen sense of transgression.Subversion requires limits to violate.Young performers will probablynever equal or surpass the genuine shocks delivered by the young Madonna, as when she sensually rolled around in a lacy wedding dress and thumped her chest with the mic while singing “Like a Virgin” at the first MTV awards show in 1984. Her influence wasmassive and profound,on aglobal scaleBut more important, Madonna, a trained modern dancer, was originally inspired by work of tremendous quality — above all, Marlene Dietrich’s glamorous movie roles as a bisexual blond dominatrix and Bob Fosse’s stunningly forceful strip-club choreography for the 1972 filmCabaret, set in decadent Weimar-era Berlin.Today’s aspiring singers, teethed on frenetically edited small-screen videos, rarely have direct contact with those superb precursors andare simply aping feeble imitations of Madonna at 10th remove.You can read Paglia’s full article at Time.com. Do you agree that we live in, what Paglia calls, “an artistically bankrupt music culture”? Sound off below!
Original Source: TIME
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MADONNA might need to stock up on those hip hop grillz she’s sporting at the moment.
Madonna's son Rocco is planning to follow his mum into the music industryThat’s because her son Rocco is planning to launch a rap career at the age of 13.
The wannabe gangsta rhymer is recording in his mum’s studio (how street...) and has recorded six demos with school pal Dom Sesto.
The teens call themselves Modoccor – their names spelt backwards – and are reportedly hoping to release music by using Madge’s industry connections.
Insiders revealed: “Modoccor combine rapping with street dance, gymnastics and break-dancing.
“Since forming the boys are virtually inseparable.
“Madge’s blinged gnashers are a step too far for Lourdes and she’s begged her mum to nip it in the bud now”
A source “They’ve recorded six demos and are eager to present them to industry friends of Madonna in the next few months.“Rocco and Dom hope they can get a record deal out of it.
“Madonna is obviously helping them as much as she can.”
Despite this, the Queen of Pop and Rocco’s dad, Guy Ritchie, reckon the boys will soon get bored.
We’re told: “Both Madonna and Guy are behind them but they think it’s just a childish phase.”
We can’t see Rocco’s big sis Lourdes, 16, getting on board, judging by her reaction to Madge’s attempts to be urban.
She’s apparently “mortified” by her 55-year-old mum wearing grillz – and has asked her to quit.
A source said: “Madge’s blinged gnashers are a step too far for Lourdes and she’s begged her mum to nip it in the bud now.”
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/goss/334826/Rocco-follows-mum-Madonna-into-music
He has been working with famous french producer hardy 'indigo' muanza:
He's also gangsta and rides in the back:
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the asshole is using the following excuse
He's probably a monster, then let's replace it with a color photo
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Madonna Makes a $60 Million Deal
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: April 20, 1992
New York Times
Pop music's original Material Girl is about to become a multi-media mogul. Time Warner plans to announce an agreement today in which Madonna, in partnership with Time Warner, will form her own multi-media entertainment company, Maverick. Under a 7-year arrangement, which can be extended to 11 years, Madonna, who is 33 years old, will be advanced as much $60 million, making this one of the most lucrative contracts offered to a pop star. The long-term commitment is comparable in scale to a similar deal that Sony signed last year with Michael Jackson.
Although Time Warner executives would not confirm figures that have been widely circulated, Madonna's renegotiated recording contract is said to give this singer a $5 million advance for each of her next seven albums and a 20 percent royalty rate. This would put her royalty rate on a par with Mr. Jackson's, which is the highest for any artist in the music business.
Both in its size and in the autonomy it confers, the agreement is unprecedented for a female pop entertainer.
Since her recording debut in 1983, Madonna's albums, released through Sire Records, a Time Warner label, have sold over 70 million copies worldwide. Her most recent release, "The Immaculate Collection," an anthology of her hits, has sold 11 million copies, 3 million in the United States. Her five home video collections have sold three million copies around the world and "Truth or Dare," the 1991 concert tour documentary, grossed $16 million in the United States. Time Warner said that over the last decade sales of Madonna-related ventures have grossed $1.2 billion.
Maverick will be run by Madonna and her longtime manager, Freddy DeMann, and have its headquarters in Los Angeles. It will consist of a record company and a music publishing company, and will have television, film, merchandising and book-publishing divisions. 'To Have More Control'
Madonna said in a recent interview from Los Angeles that she envisioned the company as an "artistic think tank" and likened it to a cross between the Bauhaus, the innovative German arts institute formed in Weimar in 1919, and Andy Warhol's New York-based Factory of artists and assistants.
"It started as a desire to have more control," Madonna said. "There's a group of writers, photographers, directors and editors that I've met along the way in my career who I want to take with me everywhere I go. I want to incorporate them into my little factory of ideas. I also come in contact with a lot of young talent that I feel entrepreneurial about."
Time Warner is thought to have committed over $2 million a year in operating expenses for Maverick, whose most significant component will be a record company run in 50-50 partnership with the parent corporation. The first project for the label will be a new Madonna album, as yet untitled, to be released in the fall.
"In my view, we are not taking a risk here," said Gerald M. Levin, the president and co-chief operating officer of Time Warner. "There are certain people on whom you could stake everything and still sleep comfortably at night, and Madonna is one of them."
Mr. Levin cited the Madonna agreement as a critical step in helping to bring the divisions of Time Warner closer together through Madonna-generated work that had multiple lives in music, film, video and book formats. Time Warner has a similar but looser arrangement with Quincy Jones, the record producer and former jazz trumpeter who has developed a number of television projects for the company and has his own Warner record label, Qwest.
Time Warner has three major divisions: publishing, music and entertainment, with the entertainment division encompassing the film studio, television production (including HBO) and a cable company.
Within the entertainment industry, Madonna's arrangement with Time Warner is not receiving the skepticism that attended the announcements of several other major record deals in recent months. The record deals of $30 million to $50 million for such aging rock bands as the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith and for singers including Janet Jackson were sharply criticized by many for being risky and for bidding up the price of talent. Even Michael Jackson's contract with Sony, which guarantees him roughly the same terms as Madonna's arrangement with Time Warner, raised some eyebrows.
"Madonna's deal is certainly extraordinary," said David Geffen, the entertainment mogul. "But I think she's a great talent with a great will, and if she wants to do something she'll do it. She works very hard, takes big risks and stays at the cutting edge of what's happening."
Charles Koppelman, the chief operating officer of EMI Records North America, concurred."If anyone is going to get a deal of this magnitude, she is the kind of artist to give it to," he said. "She's the exception: someone who taps into artists and musical genres before the rest of the world does. In other deals where artists get their own labels, such perks are usually window dressing to satisfy their egos. Madonna's different. I would bet on her to make something more of it."
The first two projects to come under the umbrella of the new agreement are a forthcoming Madonna album, as yet untitled, and a coffee table book of photographs featuring Madonna.
Madonna described the album, whose songs she has already written, as "soulful, with a jazzy undertone and lot of beatnik-style poetry in it."
Under the agreement, Time Warner's film division has the right of first refusal for any film projects developed by Maverick. One project that Madonna is seeking to develop is a film version of James Baldwin's novel "Giovanni's Room," to be directed by Alek Keshishian, who directed "Truth or Dare."
She has also been talking with HBO about developing another longtime pet project, a film biography of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who was married to the muralist Diego Rivera and who Madonna says is among her idols. ///
OMG after having read this I feel like Gaga is rehashing Madonna's career X_x
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Yes! I shoved it in her face and she ignored me....many dancers saw it and acknowledged...but M....nup
My sister had one too and I gave two others to some other Australians we met.Guy O called me over around Like a Prayer to ask my name because I was like the only one enjoying myself with my sister...I showed him my sign and he was very, very thankful, so that was nice I guess.
I'm so sad It's over, but truly thrilled that I got to go in the GT and meet Kat and Kyle....who is the NICEST most awesome person EVER.....
Kydonna!Oh, and Mercy and David were both in the pit dancing pre show. And then Nicole Ritchie was one celeb I recognized in there two. It was filled with random tourists mostly I thought which is a real shame. If she wants energy from the pit, they have to actually fill it with fans....der!
So thank you once again Hector for making my dream come true!!!......It's so sad that it had to end.
Lol what for? Like is he making a list, possibly recruiting for when the Gaga wars heighten again?
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Alright so I once played the instantly forgettable "Smirnoff" edition on my iPod
enough to put me off for life!Yet you are still here...
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There's a rumour on britney forums that she might be attending the next L.A. show, and supposedly she tweeted a while ago she would attend in October
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Lol stop making them all gays, the only gay one will be Rocco
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The performance drew a huge crowd to LA's most famous stadium, including a host of Hollywood stars.
Jessica Alba wore a pair of skin-tight floral trousers.
Rose McGowan went all out as she donned a white basque, short black short and high heels for the show.
Rose McGowan channels Madonna
The actress paired the shiny trousers with a black leather jacket, paired with black high heeled boots, looking the epitome of a rock chick.
Late-night show: Emma Roberts and Robyn show up to see the Queen of Pop perform in LA.
Going to be a late one: Backstreet Boy AJ McLean and pregnant wife Rochelle Karidis headed to the VIP area. Backstreet boy AJ McLean dressed down for the once in a lifetime concert, bringing along his pregnant wife Rochelle Karidis.
Actor David Arquette turned out to see the racy concert and seemed to have had the time of his life when he left the stadium.
Actor Neil Patrick Harris tweeted this picture of him at the show with the caption: "Sorry Elton".
Other stars attending the show included the cast of Glee, Heidi Klum, James Caan, Mark Salling, Jillian Michaels, One Tree Hill's Sophia Bush and Madonna's infamous brother Christopher.
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Madonna's son David performs first DJ set at MDNA concert L.A.
Rocco Ritchie took to the stage with his mom during the first leg of her MDNA tour in Philadelphia in August and now it seems that Madonna's son David also wants to get in on the action.
The seven-year-old, who was adopted by Madonna in 2006, certainly seems to have taken on his mother's lifestyle as he performed for the first time as part of the superstar's world tour at the Staples Centre in LA on Wednesday night.
Taking to the DJ booth with DJ Martin Solveig, David seemed to have got the hang of it at such a young age.
The youngster sported a red adidas hoodie and sung all the way through his mum's concert, helping the DJ with the music.
David seems to have embraced his new life and looks set to follow in his mother's footsteps, showing an enthusiasm in the music industry, which seems to run in the family.
He might still be at school but the young star, who started his life in a Malawian orphanage, looks set to carve out his own career as a DJ.
Staying true to form, Madonna delivered a raunchy and sexed up performance.
The superstar didn't disappoint in her energetic set, incorporating a number of outfit changes into the show. The imaginative routines included being dressed up as a drum majorette, being bound and gagged by masked militia and a take on her iconic conical bra outfit.
After performing a number of her classic hits and a few new tracks, the star stripped from a pinstripe suit, down to a black bra, a thong and a pair of fishnet tights, showing off her well-toned behind.
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Madonna's dad cried when he seen the Erotica video
Where did u read that?
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What are they wearing on their ears? Do they have special soundboard plugs that we dont get?
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Yeah, he seems to be really friendly. I used to see him on other forums way back when.
Hi branko nice to see you here <3
Ppl hate me on this forum but hey what's new?
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Isn't TUTR still to be released in the US? 25th Sept?
*hot mess*
They might as well release it in December at this point
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from Montreal
Fucking amazing, we need this in high resolution, love the new hair color
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oh..... ok
do..... ok
bother..... ok
oh, do, bother. Ohdo BOTHER. Oh DO bother. Ohdobother.
Nope. Give up.
The meltdown
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So what's the haters' point?
Yeah she is performing to half empty venues
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but in Chile tickets are not sold out yet...and the media claims Gaga the new Pop Queen. She has sold out most of her tickets in just a couple of weeks. Well...Gaga has never been here and is the hottest act right now. Nobody mentions that
And Gaga's ticket prices are shit
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