Roland Barthes

In Paris you'd think the pandemic is over, it's business as usual. Thing is many scientific publications said that there are very low risks of catching the virus outside since its nature is very volatile. The higher risk is being indoors a long time with a lot of people, that's their conclusion when they studied how clusters appear. That said since we keep getting contradictory informations, i personally wear a mask and avoid people, let alone hug them

Is the mask mandatory outside in the UK ?

And on her crutches, nothing can stop her determination !

Bagz is in it too but i linked a medium post where an old acquaintance of Madonna recalls the day of the shooting of the video with Michael and Martin.

Michael was in the Everybody video. This picture of Madonna was taken at the benefit to raise awareness against police brutality https://whitecrossart.com/madonna:-young-pop-star-in-prayer-pose-an-archival-print-1208?tag=You In this medium post a close friend details how close they all were and how it affected them https://medium.com/@JordanGLevinMIA/michael-was-murdered-the-death-of-michael-stewart-and-discovering-police-brutality-ab7fd1fa3347

Michael Stewart was a friend of Madonna, he was from her group that included Keith Haring, Basquiat, Erika, Debi, Martin, Maripol, Futura 2000...i think she even dated him at one point. She talked about him in a Basquiat doc.

Madonna knows that time will prove her right because she already experienced it and she's tough enough to take everything that comes her way, in fact she loves it because she kinda knows she's right when she's met with resistance.

My favourite M boyfriend. The relationship stopped because of his drug taking (i got the info first hand) but they remained friends until the late 90's (she paid for his rehab in Miami). Madonna's life changed a lot when she met Guy and a lot of her friends got pushed away but there's no animosity on his side (he's very nice and shorter than you think he would be especially for a model). Knowing Madonna she probably even forgot she dated him hahaha.

I love her Joy Division sweat shirt

She should keep the guy that did her wonderful hair for the Crave video

On the other hand they are all praising another boy singing for George Floyd on Tik Tok....When in the end it's exactly the same thing.

Elton John hasn't made a decent album since he stopped taking drugs which in retrospect should impose his 70's albums to be renamed "by Cocaine" instead of his name. One should see what David Bowie used to say about Elton in those days because he completly leeched Bowie to be an acceptable light version of him.

Well it's fair to say that Madonna completly missed the social media train (maybe worse than her movie career) and it does not make one a lesser fan to admit it. When it's not the boring Partridge Family, it's well intentioned tweets or videos but wrongly made or executed. Is she scared people would forget about her if she wasn't on social media ? She'd be best remembered if she re-released her previous albums with remastered versions. That's all that matters in the end and all that will be left when you remove the fame and the drama. A remastering of all her warner albums would do better for her than any tweet (people don't care when she tweets or make something positive, they only react when she does something wrong because she manages to unify the very people she defends with the very people who are against her because she defends them (qanons). Well at least she makes people come together even if it's against her. #silverlining

Girl Gone Wild Some Girl Superstar b day song Incredible spanish lesson SEX Funana Auto tune baby Best night Illuminati Revolver Don't Stop Your Honesty Love Makes the world go round

Nope, i was working at the same time i was typing this, i meant MadonnaBible (sorry @Blue Jean, say hi to Chelle, Pud and the whole gang) . Never in a million years i would like to go back to Mnation, i left it after i realized how draining it was. I felt so bad after each visit because of the constant negativity and it felt like being watched, monitored and judged like in a dictatorship. They have more hate than love to share on every subject including Madonna. And they were vicious with members i liked and by vicious i mean racism.

And don't you think you're being highly judgemental yourself here too ? If not then ...well...

Hey BJ from MNation ? (i lost my password there and wouldn't go through the hassle to make a new account. Send my best to everyone there plz) How are you ? Back on topic, Trump made a career saying shit on Twitter and he's still there, still has millions of "fans" no matter what he says and like it or not, Trump and Madonna are from the same school of provocation. Regarding Madonna and MJ, people should go on AllAboutMadonna and read her very early interviews, she constantly cited Michael as her idol and inspiration. I think in the 90's MJ, Madonna and Prince were highly competitive with each other and ALL of them took jibs at each other but in the end Prince they realized they had more in common than what took them apart. Most of "Like a Prayer" album was made with MJ musicians and producer (Bill Bottrell...).

Trump will take over her pretty soon. These things don't matter and the more they happen, the less they matter. Hom many times a celebrity or a politician has trended for having put his or her foot in his mouth ? If at first it caused major problems for the celebrity, people are now over this because they know people overreact to the meanest thing. That said she needs to learn the lesson she keeps forgetting to learn with social media. It's not the scandals it always causes that worries me but the fact that she does that to be closer to people and it keeps pushing her further away in the end. Counter-productive. And she listens to David and her kids too much. She needs to be surrounded by full grown adults who are not on her payroll.

Includind the label owner (Martin Kierszenbaum) himself.

I said exactly the contrary. Warner must have had quality control, something that was missing from M and Prince's albums after they left the company.

I hope this means no more collabs with Maverick's artists for Madonna. I think the decrease in terms of quality control on the post Warner albums is due to the fact that someone at Warner was checking things and making suggestions. It can't be coincidence that Both Madonna and Prince made less thrilling albums after they left Warner and imo the contrast in quality is even bigger in Prince discography. His Warner years are extraordinary (except maybe in the end, starting when he had his own recording studio in Paisley Park) and the albums he released after that pale in comparison.

The only song she talked about and didn't cover is "Limit to your love" by Feist (but she referred to the James Blake version). I woud like to have an album of the songs she covered these last few years (Between the bars, If i had a hammer, Falling i love, Hallelujah...) but an album of covers ? Nope. Maybe deep tracks from albums of her favourite artists but no super well known songs.

I wish i was more like her and giving zero fucks.

Thing is Cher has never been taken seriously as a recording artist. You had to live in the 80's and 90's to remember how she was mocked for dating younger men (including Tom Cruise). Thing is she embraced the ridicule that was thrown upon her and ran away with it. In the process she left the power she could have had. Older performers are being ridiculed when they reach a certain age. Look at Mariah Carey. An older woman can't be sexual. Why ? So if they tame the sexual aspect of their personality they are accepted because they submit to society's standards. For Madonna it's hard to be someone she is not. She's sexual, no matter what she does and from the get go, from before she was famous, That's part of who she is not a character she plays. When she did the SEX she was ridiculed too because Madonna never was sexy but sexual. Sexy is how record companies sells you to the masses. Madonna owns her sexuality. What she does today is not different from what she did in the 90's. She got acceptance when she complied with "Ray of light". Nothing sexual about it. Why society is threatened by women's sexuality is the real question here ? And why older women in entertainment are accepted as long as they accept to be ridiculed ? Cher was saved by Hollywood because she 's a fucking good actress. She was saved by Twitter later because she's good at it. But musically, excuse me, to her own admission her discography is shit (even though Take me home is a bop and she hates it just like she hates Believe and that i understand), the worst of pop rock and dance has to offer. The Sonny & Cher records are the saving grace. The ones who are putting Madonna down for her sexuality are the same ones (including fans who think they are not sheeps ans think they know better hence why they ahve such a brilliant career in show business themselves) who put her down for SEX. Years later this era is seen as pioneering. So don't miss the train or you'll hop on it in 20 years from now. Maybe Madonna does it over the top, not very subtly but she never was subtle and when you want to kick a door down you don't ring or knock on it, you smash it. Yes grillz are off putting and some of the things she does as well but she has to be over the top so that the idea that lies beneath can find its way through that door. Maybe too we should all reflect on what our personal differences are and not so much accepted by society's standards and understand that when someone is freeing herself from these silly standards she's freeing us all, not to emulate her the exact same way she does it but as widening the possibilities for each and everyone to live their lives on their own terms. She's not forcing anyone to be like her, she's just saying "don't be afraid to be your true self because life is short and one day you'll wake up feeling you have not lived your life the way you wanted it because you were scared of what others would have thought of you". I understand that the grillz may obturate the view so we can't see the big picture here but when you focus on them you are not trying to see the big picture either. The backlash she gets and critics re off putting to some fans because they feel like they are directed at them by association. They are not. She's willing to take them. If you are not maybe you should follow a safer popstar because she won't change, this is who she has always been. If the ride is sometimes rocky, most of the time it's fun and even better in retrospect because as we grow older and learn we finally get what she wanted to say and it makes sense, not only because we are more mature but also because society changes thanks to people who are not afraid to question standards and the limitations that are constantly thrown upon us. Maybe Sharon Osbourne should free herself from her own inhibitions, she'll be less judgemental and agressive about everything but what would be left for her to say or do ? Because that's basically her whole "career". Whenever something bothers me i try to understand why, what does it triggers in me ? When i'm mad at Sharon Osbourne it's not because of Madonna, she's like this with everybody...it's her constant agression that i find off putting, not very pro-active like she's the guardian of the temple of all inhibitions people should keep. When Madonna tells us to not be afraid, the constant criticism of sharon Osbourne and others are here to tell us to be afraid of people's judgement and acid tongues. Telling us in the end : "stay in your place". And these people usually don't follow the rules they press on others too. I'd rather grow old like Madonna, enjoying life than like S.O being bitter and angry. And going back to Cher, if being a character helped her in movies and on social media, she should have tried to not be one on record because i've always felt that there's a great album this artist can finally make if she dropped the act. Why an older female artist must erase her sexuality in her work and life and accept to be kitsch ? Because it makes people feel safer ? Why people don't feel safe when a woman is sexual especially older female artists ? Mommy complex ? It bothers me more than in your face sexuality and saying that i hate all the sex songs on Rebel Heart because i think they are too much but i understand why she did them. The more we are going to tell her it's bad, the more Madonna will come up with something even more over the top because she'll just see a fence she needs to break down until everybody shut up. So pray society will evolve soon if you want another "Ray of light", do you part and don't put up fences before her.