Guest Rachelle of London Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Love her new boyfriend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Matter Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I left her a comment Lol she doesn't like sarcasm .... You'll be blocked by mañana my lovely puta! Looool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick00 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Comparing Taylor Swift to Madonna is like comparing a slice of Wonder Bread to a baguette purchased from a Paris bakery. Taylor is definitely as american and wholesome as apple pie! She's a real role model to women as opposed to M who offends sensibilities and shows off her tits! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLVCPR Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I've never encountered anyone who thinks Madonna is a white supremacist elitist! This is all pure BS made up to fill columns. Now that the Western world is finally getting off of its lazy ass after these overly long holidays, they will turn their attention to other things. However, thank you Madonna for making these dull three weeks thoroughly enjoyable and engaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkspur Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 "While Madonna portrays herself as a leader to her followers, Taylor Swift, continues her open armed policy, aligning herself with her fans, suggesting she's one of them. Swift has remained a class act throughout the promotion of her hit album 1989 - further prove that grace and humility never go out of style." I'm gonna puke! They said same things about Lady Gaga three years ago! This shit needs to stop. "She's one of us." Funny this is just one of the things that attracted me to Madonna and like me and I dare say like most, doesn't walk out her house or go online everyday feigning close personal relationships with everyone she meets. Madonna does acknowledge her fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerGirl Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I don't want my superstars to be relatable. Anyway, Madonna has the right idea about boyfriends. Hard and silent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
side_streets Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 This article from "Noisey" is not connected to "Madonna Instagram scandal" directly, but it shows us how modern media works together with social platforms in order to create idiotic headlines for their consumers! Good read. FEATURES THE MEDIA GOT TROLLED INTO THINKING KANYE WEST FANS DON'T KNOW WHO PAUL MCCARTNEY IS INTERNET EXPLORINGBy Luke O'Neil submit 58 On Thursday, Kanye West and Paul McCartney released a song they collaborated on called “Only One,” in what was inarguably a momentous, generation-spanning moment from two musical icons. So was it any good? If you paid attention to the reactions online you wouldn’t really know, as the conversation almost instantly moved on to a much more important question: Who is Paul McCartney? One of the laziest forms of contemporary content creation, which I'm sure by now you're familiar with, is the blog post round up of a series of embedded tweets. It can come in a few different forms: “Look at how outraged people are about XYZ” is the most common variety, but only slightly less so is “Get a load of these dumbass, know-nothing teens.” The purpose is obvious: to leverage our inherent disdain for the ignorance of youth in order to score on a cheap cycle of traffic. And the best part for the dickhead behind it is that it requires almost no effort besides using the search field on Twitter, something only further compounded by the arrival of this news on New Year’s Day, a holiday weekend when most bloggers are phoning it in from the comforts of their hangover couch cocoons. There's a reason why Rando on Twitter is considered a generally disreputable source, however, and that's because while it's a good first stepping stone for finding information, it's also an infinite morass of trolling and blatant disinformation. Case in point, this latest tempest in a teapot over young people allegedly not knowing who Kanye West collaborator Paul McCartney is. Buzzfeed, surprisingly, lead the charge on this one on Friday, headlining a post These Kanye West Fans Want To Know: “Who Is Paul McCartney?” In it, they included screencaps of tweets (not embeds, by the way, which would make following up on them easier) from a series of Twitter users who expressed their confusion over the identity of one of, if not the most famous living musician in the world. This isn't even the first time we've done this dance, incidentally. Remember McCartney appeared on the Grammys back in 2012? Similar phoney posts were ginned up around Arcade Fire and Bon Iver, and when Billy Crystal was on the Oscars, to name a few. This garbage website has probably done a dozen of these types of things for all I know. I was tempted to ignore it, and move on, which is good advice for almost anything you see online, but then, of course, of course, everyone else started piling on. E! Online upped the ante, sayingThese Kanye West Fans Don't Know Who Paul McCartney Is, Which Means All of Society Is Doomed, including many of the same tweets as Buzzfeed. The Daily Mail, lead with, again, the same three tweets, as did Death and Taxes and ABC News. Good Morning America actually ran a segment about the non-troversy on air. This aired in national television. People and The Independent, of all places, seemed hip to the fact that this was all a wind-up on the other hand, which is something that should've been evident to anyone who took five seconds to look at the examples of the tweets being shared as evidence of the erosion of an entire generation's intelligence in the first place. @DesusNice, one of the three, is a very well known Twitter wiseass with 60k+ followers, whose timeline is literally filled with jokes of this kind. “David Duke came back out of nowhere like a racist D'angelo so shouts to him,” he cracked a few tweets later. Anyone capable of pulling off a joke that layered knows who Paul McCartney is, he just does. If you looked at even a few of the tweets from any of these users in either direction it would be obvious that they’re regular bullshitters. Then there's the phrasing of the tweets from @OVOJosh, exhibit A in, I don't know, the decline of civilization or whatever. “I don't know who Paul McCartney is, but Kanye is going to give this man a career w/ this new song!!” he tweeted. Who talks like that? What sort of leaps of obliviousness would a person have to make to convince themselves that this is a person who a.) not only doesn't know who Paul McCartney is, and b.) thinks he's going to get a career out of collaborating with Kanye, but c.) ends the sentence with two exclamation points? The same could be said for @CurvedDaily's tweet, thanking Kanye for shedding light on unknown artists. If you couldn't spot these as deliberate acts of trolling from a mile away, then there's definitely someone stupid and clueless in this story, and it's not who you think it is. All three of those accounts continued to RT all of the outraged (and borderline threatening) Beatles fans in their timeline, or link to posts about the story. Why? Because that's the point in the first place. The reason you troll is because you want to get attention, and to revel in the stupidity of the people who fell for it. I'm not overly concerned with whether or not young people should know who Paul McCartney is; others have been wrestling with that important question. I’m sure many actually do not, but these are not the teens you’re looking for (via Star Trek). What I am concerned with is the intelligence of our media. Never mind not knowing who one of the Beatles is, a better sign of society being doomed is thousands of gullible dupes not being able to recognize a joke when they see one. They say it's hard to detect sarcasm online, but that's an excuse that people too lazy to look for context clues use when they get played. Never mind the ability to conduct interviews and generate stories, the first question in any new media job interview going forward should be: Do you have any idea what irony is? The thing is, with these types of posts, I think many of the content aggregators actually do know, they just don't care, which is a lot worse. We're living through a human centipede of condescension here. It’s like McCartney once sang on his first post-Beatles solo record: “I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round.” The Twitter trolls know that the bloggers are too lazy to discern if they're joking or not, the bloggers know that the general reader is too lazy to realize that they're being cynically manipulated, and self-important media critics like me are too addicted to the smell of our own pedantic farts to realize that we got meta-trolled ourselves by writing a piece like this. Luke O'Neil only tweets serious things. He is a good Twitter boy - @lukeoneil47 http://noisey.vice.com/blog/the-media-got-trolled-into-thinking-kanye-west-fans-dont-know-who-paul-mccartney-is?utm_source=noiseyfbus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Matter Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 The long not even Madonna related article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
side_streets Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Actually it is. It shows us the spreading of false news, false scandals and also it tells us how modern bloggers, consumers are to lazy to see that they have been manipulated. Good article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozo1 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I don't think this was posted yet, but apologies if so. Via Boy Culture... http://m.theneeds.com/music/n6527448/madonna-promotes-human-rights-on-instagram-gets-rantlifestyle I hope more come forward to defend her against this nonsense, although the stupidity seems to be waning a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Gold Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I want that Rebel Heart SnapBack!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raider of the lost Ark Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Actually it is. It shows us the spreading of false news, false scandals and also it tells us how modern bloggers, consumers are to lazy to see that they have been manipulated. Good article. This is all true. But the other sad truth is that young people are actually dumb enough to ask the question "who is Paul McCartney?". This is not the first time one have to wonder how it is possible that the younger generation hardly knows anything about the music (or anything else from all fields of art) from decades ago yet they almost have unlimited access to all of it. A priviledge actually. So why? Desinterest! They don't care. Yet they tend to have an opinion about each and everything. And if they get caught talking shit they even wear this like a badge of honor. When did "being stupid" become a thing to be proud of? It's frustrating. But what do we expect from people who spent more time on Facebook, Twitter or playing shooter games on their PS or Xbox. That's where they find their "friends", their community. It makes me sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 LOL I just made an instagram of Elizabeth Bathory with rebel heart's cover on her face and tagged M HAHAHA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozo1 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 LOL I just made an instagram of Elizabeth Bathory with rebel heart's cover on her face and tagged M HAHAHA Ha fucking awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moka Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I hope she won't stop posting pics of famous people à la Rebel Heart cover. Nothing wrong in doing that, if it pisses haters, well, they can kiss Madge's italian ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario Lopez Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 The thing is tho, Madonna didn't make it to her level of success, power and celebrity by luck or fluke. She possessed a work ethic and drive that Cyndi and Debbie did not posess. If Madonna didn't exist that doesn't automatically mean that one of these ladies would have risen to a Madonna like level. They didn't achieve this level of success for very specific reasons. Madonna was and is almost obsessively driven by the need to not be mediocre. She has said it herself. Her mother's death and a strict catholic upbringing drove her out of Detroit and the mean streets of New York until she achieved her dream to be 'as famous as God' and she more than achieved that goal, she also sold a couple of records on the way too and made a few bucks. It was never on offer for Cyndi or Debbie for the taking because Madonna created her place in pop culture by sheer force of will and talent. No one else possessed this magic combination and that is why no one else has ever achieved her level of success or threatened her throne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sloane Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I can't even w/ ppl who say this era is a bit of bummer now bc of this "controversy." You could have never survived your fandom back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moka Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I can't even w/ ppl who say this era is a bit of bummer now bc of this "controversy." You could have never survived your fandom back in the day. And this is just the pre-hype for the album. These people will die when M will kiss the hologram of Martin Luther King at the Grammy Awards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I would DIE!!!! yasssss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sillybilly Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 And this is just the pre-hype for the album. These people will die when M will kiss the hologram of Martin Luther King at the Grammy Awards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rachelle of London Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I can't even w/ ppl who say this era is a bit of bummer now bc of this "controversy." You could have never survived your fandom back in the day. I actually thought of you when I was reading the meltdowns about the "controversy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sillybilly Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 The thing is tho, Madonna didn't make it to her level of success, power and celebrity by luck or fluke. She possessed a work ethic and drive that Cyndi and Debbie did not posess. If Madonna didn't exist that doesn't automatically mean that one of these ladies would have risen to a Madonna like level. They didn't achieve this level of success for very specific reasons. Madonna was and is almost obsessively driven by the need to not be mediocre. She has said it herself. Her mother's death and a strict catholic upbringing drove her out of Detroit and the mean streets of New York until she achieved her dream to be 'as famous as God' and she more than achieved that goal, she also sold a couple of records on the way too and made a few bucks. It was never on offer for Cyndi or Debbie for the taking because Madonna created her place in pop culture by sheer force of will and talent. No one else possessed this magic combination and that is why no one else has ever achieved her level of success or threatened her throne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario Lopez Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I can't even w/ ppl who say this era is a bit of bummer now bc of this "controversy." You could have never survived your fandom back in the day. I totally agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozo1 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I can't even w/ ppl who say this era is a bit of bummer now bc of this "controversy." You could have never survived your fandom back in the day. The Justify My Love video alone would have killed these hothouse flowers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vocalism Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 So I guess The Talk and The View didn't mention the so-called "controversy" today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozo1 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 ^ Nope. Listening to Howard Stern and Robin's news now and not a word either. Guess M.'s career is officially destroyed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSD Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I think after her statement (won't call it an apology because it wasn't really that) she left very little room for people to continue to harp on about it. It was very effective in that sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeMySoul Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Wendy spoke about it she said nobody cares about her anymore and what she did was insensitive not racist asked her audience if they would buy her new album and they all said NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andra Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Wendy spoke about it she said nobody cares about her anymore and what she did was insensitive not racist asked her audience if they would buy her new album and they all said NO Wtf, seriously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacket Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 So guys, since I've complained so much about M's insta today, lemme get it all off my chest lol Another thing I didn't like is that she posted a a photo of Lady Pizda right after Two steps behind leaked, it did not seem genuine, it actually seemed like she lied to her fans, I wasn't happy with that Also, when she was accused of racism she immediately posted a pic of Lady Diana with ropes on her face, it seemed a bit forced, look .. I post white people too lol Other controversies made me feel bad for her, when Rocco had a bottle of alcohol, I didn't think that was wrong at all, I think she's an amazing mother and I felt bad that a silly little photo brought negative press I do like her bathroom pics though haha, and love pics with her kids and of course I love pics with her when she wears a lot of make up lol, I've always loved her eyes Before you're rude to me please remember that I'm a massive fan and I'm allowed to an opinion too :-) :-) 1 week ban. Effective immediately, tbh. She was posting white people before Bob Marley, MLK, and Mandela... so you're wrong. And you still haven't explained how it is racist or insulting? We have black members on the forum whom would like to know where the racism is as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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