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| Shakira blasts Madonna as ’spineless’ |
| 2003-04-25 |
| Wow!.....Who's Shakira? Shakira has called Madonna "spineless" for axing the controversial anti-war video to new single American Life. She says the star should have stuck with the promo for American Life, rather than axing it weeks before its release because of the Iraq war.In the video Madonna dresses as a soldier and throws a grenade into George Bush's lap.She told fans she had withdrawn the video out of "sensitivity and respect" to the armed forces involved in the Iraq War. ...and because she's not exactly on a roll lately. But Shakira said: "I'd expect a little more backbone from Madonna. Good pop music is always political in times of crisis." Shakira made a strong anti-war statement by projecting images of Saddam Hussein and Bush as puppets during her tour.But they lose control of the game and the puppeteer is revealed as the grim reaper. Wow. That's deep. Again, who is this bitch? |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #14 Capsu78, They've been lying low on this. Can't see they're keeping quiet to protect their careers, as they don't have 'em any more. They might have been on the big Red Bus to Baghdad a couple of months ago, but I doubt whether anyone would have noticed. In general, our poplets have been reassuringly quiet over Iraq, with a few semi-muted exceptions. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-04-26 07:51:17 |
| #13 Damn...and now I have to get rid of all my Shakira albums... |
| Posted by: Porps 2003-04-25 19:27:25 |
| #12 Another reason to stick with Coca-Cola. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2003-04-25 16:29:47 |
| #11 Maddonna, Dixie Chix, now Shakira... You know, this debate can't end until the Spice Girls chime in. Bulldog, anything on your radar screen concerning their important foreign policy perspective? |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2003-04-25 15:47:26 |
| #10 If that last comment looks like a collection of incoherent choughts, that's because it was. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2003-04-25 15:41:29 |
| #9 Arab ex-patriates? Does that explain the Mebarak in her fathers name? I've always described her as the dirty-no-talent-puke-import-slut. "Good pop music has always been political in times of crisis" Good pop music? Has anyone ever heard a "Good" political pop music song? Jesus, this gash needs to move to Venezuela so she can support my 2nd. favorite Central American Dictator. I love it when one-hit-wonders come out in support of Despots. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2003-04-25 15:40:32 |
| #8 Sidenote: Columbia contains a small but vocal group of Arab ex-patriates who moved from Lebanon and the Palestinian territories a couple of generations ago. My roommate in college 23 years ago was a "Columbian Palestinian" and boy but did he hate Jews. |
| Posted by: ColoradoConservative 2003-04-25 14:49:51 |
| #7 "Shakira made a strong anti-war statement by projecting images of Saddam Hussein and Bush as puppets during her tour.But they lose control of the game and the puppeteer is revealed as the grim reaper." Guess I missed all that while I was staring at her boobs... You know, I suspect she is not a real blonde... |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2003-04-25 14:42:21 |
| #6 Oh, the Pepsi commercial. Okay. I thought that was, like, Jenna Jameson's little sister. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-04-25 14:19:23 |
| #5 Shakira makes Madonna look like a Mormon schoolgirl. |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-04-25 14:18:43 |
| #4 Shakira's the blonde Columbian chick who's in the new Pepsi commercials. While I don't agree with her politics, I do agree with her statement. Madonna's always claimed to be controversial, if for nothing more than the sake of being controversial. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-04-25 14:14:10 |
| #3 Just another ditzy pop-rock singer. Here's a quick bio: Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, on February 2, 1977, Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is the youngest sibling of her parents' eight children. Her father William Mebarak, who is American of Lebanese descent, and Colombian mother, Nidia Ripoll, both supported their daughter's ambition of becoming a singer. Another Alpha-Hotel. Nothing to see here....move along....... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-04-25 14:12:14 |
| #2 She's a big Latina pop star right now -- you can see her in that Pepsi commercial where the convenience store clerk is dancing with this cardboard cutout of a bleach-blond, but salsa-esque vixen, she turns into a real person, yada yada... I think she originally hails from Columbia or Venezuela but has made a big cross-over in the last year or so. |
| Posted by: JTE 2003-04-25 14:11:57 |
| #1 Some Colombian floozie. Not much else worth mentioning. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-25 14:11:35 |