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| Madonna Slams American Values |
| 2003-04-25 |
| Words kinda fail me here... U.S. pop superstar Madonna, one of music's richest performers, has attacked her fellow Americans for being obsessed with the "wrong values" such as getting rich and looking good. Those bastards! Madonna told the Radio Times that Americans had opportunities people in other countries did not have but got caught up in superficial dreams. "We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values -- looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous," Madonna told the television listings magazine. Thank God I'm not like that... "It's the most superficial part of the American dream and who would know better than me? The only thing that's going to bring you happiness is love and how you treat your fellow man and having compassion for one another." So you're gonna give it all up, right M?......NAAAAH. The interview coincided with the release this week of Madonna's latest album "American Life." The album -- her first in three years -- received poor reviews and left many critics asking if pop's most successful chameleon had lost her touch after 20 years at the top. "American Life" comes hard on the heels of the biggest flop of her career as a movie actress -- "Swept Away" which was directed by husband Guy Ritchie (news) and widely panned by critics and audiences alike. Sounds like that deal with Satan had a time limit...maybe 20 years? But Madonna, who has embraced domestic bliss in Britain with Ritchie and her two children in recent years, brushed off the criticism. "The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews." Suuuuure, you don't.Pretty soon she'll be buying a monkey, dangling her kids off of balconies, and buying her own amusement park... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #15 Where's Wierd Al Yankovic when you really need to spank this skank? Remember, 'Madonna' is a product with no more cultural significance than a can of Diet Pepsi. She's nothing more than something cheap to be consumed and thrown away. |
| Posted by: Ned 2003-04-25 21:40:58 |
| #14 "We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values -- looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous..." "The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? Does this make any sense whatsoever? First she slams American values for wanting to be rich and famous, then she defends herself from the critics by saying she still sells lots of records (is rich) and has lots of fans (is famous). She has become a parody of herself. Sheesh. |
| Posted by: Jonesy 2003-04-25 16:42:50 |
| #13 Madonna should exercise her fetish for exhibitionism and perform an unnatural sex act upon her self.......at least then we might be amused by her. Hanoi Jane, The Baghdad Chicks and now Mosul Madonna. |
| Posted by: SOG475 2003-04-25 15:52:02 |
| #12 Pink & Fluffy, It's called projection. |
| Posted by: Craig 2003-04-25 14:47:25 |
| #11 JTE has a point. Madonna is correct when she says that only caring about "looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous," is not a path to a satisfying life. But where did she get the idea that we share her narcissistic values? |
| Posted by: Pink & Fluffy 2003-04-25 13:26:38 |
| #10 Don't look at me. I've never understood why this talentless, gap-toothed skank is a "star"... |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-04-25 12:51:42 |
| #9 She's preaching to us, while probably making a new documentry about the inner workings of her overused fish taco, yeah your right madonna we have our values all backwards... maybe I can do a picture book of my bowel movements....thats what madonna would like yeh yeh..... |
| Posted by: Wills 2003-04-25 12:08:06 |
| #8 When a woman who simulates masturbation on stage in front of thousands; who records such bastions of morality as "Like a Virgin", "Material Girl", and "Hanky Panky"; and who has had two children out of wedlock--her first with her "personal trainer" and her second before her marriage to Guy Ritchie--starts lecturing me on morality and values all I can say is I must have really made a wrong turn somewhere! Wow, I am feeling totally chastised right now. Maybe I'll blame my parents... it must be their fault I'm such an amoral wreck. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-04-25 12:04:06 |
| #7 Pot calling the kettle black from a safe distance, after getting hers. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-04-25 11:44:58 |
| #6 The hypocrisy is breathtaking. |
| Posted by: Hiryu 2003-04-25 11:37:57 |
| #5 Sounds like that deal with Satan had a time limit...maybe 20 years? ha ha! Seems like a lot of Satan's bonds have suddenly come due. Must have had a really good special on souls running several years back. |
| Posted by: becky 2003-04-25 11:03:58 |
| #4 Okay - what follows is very, very crude - sensitive readers, look away. . . Whenever I hear Madonna and Brittney Spears and Christina Aguilera speak out on just about anything, I find it difficult not to imagine any one of these idiots on all fours being f**ked by Ron Jeremy. "Oh, yes!" says Madonna. "Empower me, baby! Empower me right up my hot c**t!" But it's not enough for Madonna. "You're not doing enough for the empowerment of women and the advancement of the feminist movement!" she cries, her whole body shaking to Jeremy the Hutt's physical administration of male cooperation in the relativising of gender politics. "Empower me up my ass!" "You got it, bitch," belches Jabba, I mean, Jeremy, who takes the studded leather leash off her neck just long enough to change positions. "Now get on your back like a good feminist." And so on. Fact is, on the values issue, Madonna still has quite a bit to answer for. |
| Posted by: FormerLiberal 2003-04-25 10:51:20 |
| #3 Well, of course this is how she perceives "American values". I think she accurately describes the values of all the Americans she hangs out with -- other spoiled, wealthy celebrities and media elites. If I hung out with those people all the time, I'd get jaded pretty quick too. |
| Posted by: JTE 2003-04-25 10:50:44 |
| #2 She dissed the Britts last week. I think she's desperately trying to drum up some media attention, any media attention to increase sales before it goes into the bargain bin. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-04-25 10:50:07 |
| #1 "'...we are living in a material world..." |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-25 10:44:28 |