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    Loki got a reaction from androiduser in Madonna on Instagram / Facebook / Twitter + other Social Media   
    Today it would have been Keith Haring's 64th birthday. I found this short clip, shot by Andrea Soldani in June 1989 while Keith was in Pisa, Italy, for realizing 'Tuttomondo', a mural painted on one of the exterior walls of the Church of San Antonio Abate. 'Tuttomondo' is believed to be one of his final works, along with the mural he painted for the 'ArtCenter College of Design' in Pasadena, in November 1989. This video was originally part of a series of short documentaries dedicated to Keith's visit in Italy. The longest one, with a 27-minutes length , is unfortunately not available on Internet (At least I didn't find it). Last year the city of Pisa organised a beautiful exhibition in Keith's honor, in collaboration with the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection. 
    Happy birthday, Keith, may you make angels draw in heaven.
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    Loki got a reaction from subversive in Madonna on Instagram / Facebook / Twitter + other Social Media   
    Today it would have been Keith Haring's 64th birthday. I found this short clip, shot by Andrea Soldani in June 1989 while Keith was in Pisa, Italy, for realizing 'Tuttomondo', a mural painted on one of the exterior walls of the Church of San Antonio Abate. 'Tuttomondo' is believed to be one of his final works, along with the mural he painted for the 'ArtCenter College of Design' in Pasadena, in November 1989. This video was originally part of a series of short documentaries dedicated to Keith's visit in Italy. The longest one, with a 27-minutes length , is unfortunately not available on Internet (At least I didn't find it). Last year the city of Pisa organised a beautiful exhibition in Keith's honor, in collaboration with the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection. 
    Happy birthday, Keith, may you make angels draw in heaven.
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    Loki got a reaction from schumakg86 in Madonna on Instagram / Facebook / Twitter + other Social Media   
    Today it would have been Keith Haring's 64th birthday. I found this short clip, shot by Andrea Soldani in June 1989 while Keith was in Pisa, Italy, for realizing 'Tuttomondo', a mural painted on one of the exterior walls of the Church of San Antonio Abate. 'Tuttomondo' is believed to be one of his final works, along with the mural he painted for the 'ArtCenter College of Design' in Pasadena, in November 1989. This video was originally part of a series of short documentaries dedicated to Keith's visit in Italy. The longest one, with a 27-minutes length , is unfortunately not available on Internet (At least I didn't find it). Last year the city of Pisa organised a beautiful exhibition in Keith's honor, in collaboration with the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection. 
    Happy birthday, Keith, may you make angels draw in heaven.
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    Loki got a reaction from momosfantasy in Madonna onstage with Maluma in Medellín April 30   
    Is it truly necessary calling her a whore, a pig, a retarded old woman who lost her mind, forgetting we're speaking about a human being and not about a fucking chair? I think we all are entitled to express dissent or concern (I hate lots of her performances or songs that are commonly seen as the Holy Graal, for example), what baffles me is the total lack of balance and empathy people show towards other humans who live under the spotlights. personally, I'm not hurted by discussions about her health (that's what I study, at the end of the day), as long as they respect her and her integrity as a human. I agree with who say there's something wrong with her, still I'm cautious to express my ideas, since no one has never met her in person and health is a very sensitive and incredibly deep subject, which depends on literally thousands of aspects and, for who's wondering, age plays a huge part, changing for good and dramatically our bodies and how we look at our life and our past. I think it would be more productive and smart asking ourselves why someone acts in a certain way, instead of judging the action per se and dismissing the matter saying 'it's an attention seeker' or 'it's a bad bitch, I'm disgusted', or worst 'she/he should act differently'.
    Said that, for what I saw from Twitter, I found the entire show quite boring and cheap, not only her segment, like any other modern concert. 
    Sorry for the rant. Peace and love, folks. 
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    Loki got a reaction from Starchild in Madonna onstage with Maluma in Medellín April 30   
    Is it truly necessary calling her a whore, a pig, a retarded old woman who lost her mind, forgetting we're speaking about a human being and not about a fucking chair? I think we all are entitled to express dissent or concern (I hate lots of her performances or songs that are commonly seen as the Holy Graal, for example), what baffles me is the total lack of balance and empathy people show towards other humans who live under the spotlights. personally, I'm not hurted by discussions about her health (that's what I study, at the end of the day), as long as they respect her and her integrity as a human. I agree with who say there's something wrong with her, still I'm cautious to express my ideas, since no one has never met her in person and health is a very sensitive and incredibly deep subject, which depends on literally thousands of aspects and, for who's wondering, age plays a huge part, changing for good and dramatically our bodies and how we look at our life and our past. I think it would be more productive and smart asking ourselves why someone acts in a certain way, instead of judging the action per se and dismissing the matter saying 'it's an attention seeker' or 'it's a bad bitch, I'm disgusted', or worst 'she/he should act differently'.
    Said that, for what I saw from Twitter, I found the entire show quite boring and cheap, not only her segment, like any other modern concert. 
    Sorry for the rant. Peace and love, folks. 
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    Loki got a reaction from Andreo in Can someone please educate me on Madonna's alleged "satanism"?   
    In the 'Frozen' video, she condensed different mythological and religious sets:
    -the Greek: 1.Hecate, the goddess of magic and darkness. daughter of titan Perses (according to the classic version of the myth, written by Hesiod in his 'Theogony', he fought against the Olympian Gods, whose leader was Zeus, along with his fellows Titans, the first generation of divine creatures, born from the union between Gea, the mother earth, and Uranus, the sky. This war goes under the name of Titanomachy) and titaness Asteria, Hecate is commonly associated with night, witchcraft, the Moon, ghosts and necromancy, a particular black magic practice that claims to be able to make the user communicate with the dead in order to foretell future events. The original cult saw her as the goddess of boundaries, which later leaded to adore her as a underworld goddess. Her animal symbol is the dog, as widely known, because dogs were used to watch over the cities boundaries at night. According to Greek beliefs, dogs were part of the moltitude of animals which lived in the underworld. 2.Sirius: the star in the sky is allegedly Sirius, from the 'Major Dog' constellation. it's also quoted as the 'Dog Star', because it was believed this star made dogs mad, during the 'dies caniculares', the hottest days in summer.
    -the Irish: the crow is the symbol of Mórrígan, the goddess of War, fate and ghosts, as the name suggests, part of a trinity which included Badb and Macha, her sisters, and Nemain, although this section of the cult is object of debact. Mórrígan was able to change her nature, morphing into a woman, a crow, aging and rejuvenating as she pleased. 
    -the Hindu: Kali, the goddess of death, time and change, depicted as a 4 or 10 arms-woman.
    Sorry for the length xxx
    I have to find yet a serious article that explains her 'alleged' satanism, because I analysed for fun all her videography and didn't see any trace of it. Instead, she exposed a particular and elegant taste in religions and arts, which includes pagan myths, esotheric beliefs and Catholic hagiography. 
    Instead of asking her crap, journalists should focus more on this side of her, which is astonishgly mesmerising. 
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    Loki got a reaction from Spotlight in Madonna onstage with Maluma in Medellín April 30   
    Is it truly necessary calling her a whore, a pig, a retarded old woman who lost her mind, forgetting we're speaking about a human being and not about a fucking chair? I think we all are entitled to express dissent or concern (I hate lots of her performances or songs that are commonly seen as the Holy Graal, for example), what baffles me is the total lack of balance and empathy people show towards other humans who live under the spotlights. personally, I'm not hurted by discussions about her health (that's what I study, at the end of the day), as long as they respect her and her integrity as a human. I agree with who say there's something wrong with her, still I'm cautious to express my ideas, since no one has never met her in person and health is a very sensitive and incredibly deep subject, which depends on literally thousands of aspects and, for who's wondering, age plays a huge part, changing for good and dramatically our bodies and how we look at our life and our past. I think it would be more productive and smart asking ourselves why someone acts in a certain way, instead of judging the action per se and dismissing the matter saying 'it's an attention seeker' or 'it's a bad bitch, I'm disgusted', or worst 'she/he should act differently'.
    Said that, for what I saw from Twitter, I found the entire show quite boring and cheap, not only her segment, like any other modern concert. 
    Sorry for the rant. Peace and love, folks. 
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    Loki got a reaction from 50ft Queenie in Can someone please educate me on Madonna's alleged "satanism"?   
    Glad my post was helpful xxx
    well, the 'gothic' trend of the XIX century is largely based on East-European and Ancient Roman/Greek myths: witches, vampires, ghosts and so on populated the collective imaginery since the beginnings of the European culture as we know it. Romantic poets and writer just appropriated these, turning them into the expressions of the unconsciousness and primordial impulses. Calling 'Frozen' a gothic video is not technically wrong, but this means watering down and minimizing the efforts she and Chris made to collect and depict in a 5 minutes-video a moltitude of references to different traditions with coherent development and transitions. Nothing is casual in this little masterpiece. 
    I was raised as a Catholic, then I stepped away from it, because I felt betrayed and condamned by the Church for my homosexuality, although I still read and analyse the Bible quite often. I can assure you that whatever she has done in these 40 years is a simple consequence of her being born and raised in a Southern-European Catholic family: 'our' Catholism is filled with peculiar features that make it very different from the Irish or the French one. For an esternal eye it can be seen as 'strange' or 'pagan'. but for explaining it I'd need 345 posts 😂. 
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    Loki got a reaction from Pootz333 in Can someone please educate me on Madonna's alleged "satanism"?   
    Glad my post was helpful xxx
    well, the 'gothic' trend of the XIX century is largely based on East-European and Ancient Roman/Greek myths: witches, vampires, ghosts and so on populated the collective imaginery since the beginnings of the European culture as we know it. Romantic poets and writer just appropriated these, turning them into the expressions of the unconsciousness and primordial impulses. Calling 'Frozen' a gothic video is not technically wrong, but this means watering down and minimizing the efforts she and Chris made to collect and depict in a 5 minutes-video a moltitude of references to different traditions with coherent development and transitions. Nothing is casual in this little masterpiece. 
    I was raised as a Catholic, then I stepped away from it, because I felt betrayed and condamned by the Church for my homosexuality, although I still read and analyse the Bible quite often. I can assure you that whatever she has done in these 40 years is a simple consequence of her being born and raised in a Southern-European Catholic family: 'our' Catholism is filled with peculiar features that make it very different from the Irish or the French one. For an esternal eye it can be seen as 'strange' or 'pagan'. but for explaining it I'd need 345 posts 😂. 
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    Loki got a reaction from into the erotico in Can someone please educate me on Madonna's alleged "satanism"?   
    In the 'Frozen' video, she condensed different mythological and religious sets:
    -the Greek: 1.Hecate, the goddess of magic and darkness. daughter of titan Perses (according to the classic version of the myth, written by Hesiod in his 'Theogony', he fought against the Olympian Gods, whose leader was Zeus, along with his fellows Titans, the first generation of divine creatures, born from the union between Gea, the mother earth, and Uranus, the sky. This war goes under the name of Titanomachy) and titaness Asteria, Hecate is commonly associated with night, witchcraft, the Moon, ghosts and necromancy, a particular black magic practice that claims to be able to make the user communicate with the dead in order to foretell future events. The original cult saw her as the goddess of boundaries, which later leaded to adore her as a underworld goddess. Her animal symbol is the dog, as widely known, because dogs were used to watch over the cities boundaries at night. According to Greek beliefs, dogs were part of the moltitude of animals which lived in the underworld. 2.Sirius: the star in the sky is allegedly Sirius, from the 'Major Dog' constellation. it's also quoted as the 'Dog Star', because it was believed this star made dogs mad, during the 'dies caniculares', the hottest days in summer.
    -the Irish: the crow is the symbol of Mórrígan, the goddess of War, fate and ghosts, as the name suggests, part of a trinity which included Badb and Macha, her sisters, and Nemain, although this section of the cult is object of debact. Mórrígan was able to change her nature, morphing into a woman, a crow, aging and rejuvenating as she pleased. 
    -the Hindu: Kali, the goddess of death, time and change, depicted as a 4 or 10 arms-woman.
    Sorry for the length xxx
    I have to find yet a serious article that explains her 'alleged' satanism, because I analysed for fun all her videography and didn't see any trace of it. Instead, she exposed a particular and elegant taste in religions and arts, which includes pagan myths, esotheric beliefs and Catholic hagiography. 
    Instead of asking her crap, journalists should focus more on this side of her, which is astonishgly mesmerising. 
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    Loki got a reaction from Pootz333 in Can someone please educate me on Madonna's alleged "satanism"?   
    In the 'Frozen' video, she condensed different mythological and religious sets:
    -the Greek: 1.Hecate, the goddess of magic and darkness. daughter of titan Perses (according to the classic version of the myth, written by Hesiod in his 'Theogony', he fought against the Olympian Gods, whose leader was Zeus, along with his fellows Titans, the first generation of divine creatures, born from the union between Gea, the mother earth, and Uranus, the sky. This war goes under the name of Titanomachy) and titaness Asteria, Hecate is commonly associated with night, witchcraft, the Moon, ghosts and necromancy, a particular black magic practice that claims to be able to make the user communicate with the dead in order to foretell future events. The original cult saw her as the goddess of boundaries, which later leaded to adore her as a underworld goddess. Her animal symbol is the dog, as widely known, because dogs were used to watch over the cities boundaries at night. According to Greek beliefs, dogs were part of the moltitude of animals which lived in the underworld. 2.Sirius: the star in the sky is allegedly Sirius, from the 'Major Dog' constellation. it's also quoted as the 'Dog Star', because it was believed this star made dogs mad, during the 'dies caniculares', the hottest days in summer.
    -the Irish: the crow is the symbol of Mórrígan, the goddess of War, fate and ghosts, as the name suggests, part of a trinity which included Badb and Macha, her sisters, and Nemain, although this section of the cult is object of debact. Mórrígan was able to change her nature, morphing into a woman, a crow, aging and rejuvenating as she pleased. 
    -the Hindu: Kali, the goddess of death, time and change, depicted as a 4 or 10 arms-woman.
    Sorry for the length xxx
    I have to find yet a serious article that explains her 'alleged' satanism, because I analysed for fun all her videography and didn't see any trace of it. Instead, she exposed a particular and elegant taste in religions and arts, which includes pagan myths, esotheric beliefs and Catholic hagiography. 
    Instead of asking her crap, journalists should focus more on this side of her, which is astonishgly mesmerising. 
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    Loki got a reaction from nito84bcn in The Break Up   
    here we go again. predictable, in my opinion, since day 1. if there's a rule in this world, that is her love affairs will always turn out to be a fiasco, as if was a counterpoise for her massive, insane professional success: the woman with society at her feet, loved, hated and envied by press and fans, treated like a doormat or a walking bank account by her partners, regularly ending up with a tissue box at her side and a bleeding, broken heart. Tol'stoj would have adored her and somehow she seems to have stepped out from a novel of his, like a modern Anna Karenina, incapable of handling her own loneliness and living without two mediocre crumbles of love, at the endless research of the fairy prince who can make her feel loved like never before. Irony of the fate, both of them have horrid taste in men.
    I'm so sorry for her, I wish she treasured these bad experiences, accepting the ugly truth she has to search for her own happiness relying only on her own strength and on her kids and family's love. I wish her all the best, all of us deserves to be loved as a human being, and not for a mere bank account or powerful friendships. 
    Anyway, if I was her, I'd call my pal in Miami: she seemed very happy when she was dating her, or whatever it was that. 
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    Loki got a reaction from xrayeyes in Madonnas current state of mind   
    We should ask Siegmund Freud and his pal Carl Gustav Jung. There are so many factors to consider, from her istagram page (hence my eye roll) to her most recent interviews, and still the answer would be partial. Anyway, speaking for myself, there's something tragicomic about her. Take her instagram: every photo is unnatural, cringe and horrible (she's oddly similar to the women painted by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, by the way) and it's foolish to take this fcking app seriously (I mean, it's Instagram, folks). I wouldn't be surprised if she used it to mock our society, its obsession with physical appearance and the abnormous amount of manipulated news, imagines and sounds that invades our world: as she often repeats, no one of this is real. This is the comic part. The tragic one is that she stopped smiling long long time ago and franckly I don't remember the last time I saw her doing it (well, maybe when she suddendly appeared with Sean Penn for a charity event and we all know why she was beside herself with joy). Every time I see one of her post, I cannot help noticing a shadow in her eyes and her bored, annoyed, depressed expression: it seems that no one of her useless toy boys, supposed friends and collaborators cares about her, everyone just uses her, her fame, her power and friendships for personal purposes, in exchange for two crumbs of love and the illusion of being appreciated for who she is and not for what she represents in the industry. It's tragic and heartbreaking. I don't wanna lie: in these recent years she reminds me a lot of Marlene Dietrich, who, in her 50s, tried to satisfy her desperate need of being loved searching for the adoration of her fans. I can't blame her: it's an obvious  attitude, considering that only her sons and daughters and a bunch of old friends truly love her unconditionally.
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    Loki got a reaction from heikeeduardo in Madonnas current state of mind   
    We should ask Siegmund Freud and his pal Carl Gustav Jung. There are so many factors to consider, from her istagram page (hence my eye roll) to her most recent interviews, and still the answer would be partial. Anyway, speaking for myself, there's something tragicomic about her. Take her instagram: every photo is unnatural, cringe and horrible (she's oddly similar to the women painted by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, by the way) and it's foolish to take this fcking app seriously (I mean, it's Instagram, folks). I wouldn't be surprised if she used it to mock our society, its obsession with physical appearance and the abnormous amount of manipulated news, imagines and sounds that invades our world: as she often repeats, no one of this is real. This is the comic part. The tragic one is that she stopped smiling long long time ago and franckly I don't remember the last time I saw her doing it (well, maybe when she suddendly appeared with Sean Penn for a charity event and we all know why she was beside herself with joy). Every time I see one of her post, I cannot help noticing a shadow in her eyes and her bored, annoyed, depressed expression: it seems that no one of her useless toy boys, supposed friends and collaborators cares about her, everyone just uses her, her fame, her power and friendships for personal purposes, in exchange for two crumbs of love and the illusion of being appreciated for who she is and not for what she represents in the industry. It's tragic and heartbreaking. I don't wanna lie: in these recent years she reminds me a lot of Marlene Dietrich, who, in her 50s, tried to satisfy her desperate need of being loved searching for the adoration of her fans. I can't blame her: it's an obvious  attitude, considering that only her sons and daughters and a bunch of old friends truly love her unconditionally.
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    Loki got a reaction from xavier in V Magazine Short-Film   
    With all due respect to Klein and his artistic intentions, this is what I expected from this photoshoot. It's classy and on point, from the outfits to the pieces of jewelry. Overall, IMHO, it's a hidden tribute to the entire Hollywood's Golden Era, from Mae West for the sunglasses to the couple Garbo - Dietrich for the black cigarette and the tailleur. Obviously Marilyn remains the main model and the focal point of the project. And about her, well, I have no words, she's fabulous, simply fabulous. As years pass by, she still exudes a kind of magnetism and allure that I've seen only in a bunch of Hollywood superstars, the brightest ones in that crazy universe. It's amazing, she is still amazing.
    I don't wanna sound whiny or boomer-ish, but I wish she looked like this way on Instagram: these photos are another evidence that, with the righ tricks and elegant outfits, beauty is ageless and current edits/filters are just a disgrace.
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    Loki got a reaction from madaboutM in V Magazine Short-Film   
    With all due respect to Klein and his artistic intentions, this is what I expected from this photoshoot. It's classy and on point, from the outfits to the pieces of jewelry. Overall, IMHO, it's a hidden tribute to the entire Hollywood's Golden Era, from Mae West for the sunglasses to the couple Garbo - Dietrich for the black cigarette and the tailleur. Obviously Marilyn remains the main model and the focal point of the project. And about her, well, I have no words, she's fabulous, simply fabulous. As years pass by, she still exudes a kind of magnetism and allure that I've seen only in a bunch of Hollywood superstars, the brightest ones in that crazy universe. It's amazing, she is still amazing.
    I don't wanna sound whiny or boomer-ish, but I wish she looked like this way on Instagram: these photos are another evidence that, with the righ tricks and elegant outfits, beauty is ageless and current edits/filters are just a disgrace.
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    Loki got a reaction from Andreo in V Magazine Short-Film   
    With all due respect to Klein and his artistic intentions, this is what I expected from this photoshoot. It's classy and on point, from the outfits to the pieces of jewelry. Overall, IMHO, it's a hidden tribute to the entire Hollywood's Golden Era, from Mae West for the sunglasses to the couple Garbo - Dietrich for the black cigarette and the tailleur. Obviously Marilyn remains the main model and the focal point of the project. And about her, well, I have no words, she's fabulous, simply fabulous. As years pass by, she still exudes a kind of magnetism and allure that I've seen only in a bunch of Hollywood superstars, the brightest ones in that crazy universe. It's amazing, she is still amazing.
    I don't wanna sound whiny or boomer-ish, but I wish she looked like this way on Instagram: these photos are another evidence that, with the righ tricks and elegant outfits, beauty is ageless and current edits/filters are just a disgrace.
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    Loki got a reaction from judas2015 in V Magazine Short-Film   
    With all due respect to Klein and his artistic intentions, this is what I expected from this photoshoot. It's classy and on point, from the outfits to the pieces of jewelry. Overall, IMHO, it's a hidden tribute to the entire Hollywood's Golden Era, from Mae West for the sunglasses to the couple Garbo - Dietrich for the black cigarette and the tailleur. Obviously Marilyn remains the main model and the focal point of the project. And about her, well, I have no words, she's fabulous, simply fabulous. As years pass by, she still exudes a kind of magnetism and allure that I've seen only in a bunch of Hollywood superstars, the brightest ones in that crazy universe. It's amazing, she is still amazing.
    I don't wanna sound whiny or boomer-ish, but I wish she looked like this way on Instagram: these photos are another evidence that, with the righ tricks and elegant outfits, beauty is ageless and current edits/filters are just a disgrace.
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    Loki got a reaction from Andreo in Harlem performance Oct. 9, 2021   
    Very impressed by the jazzy/stripped down version of Dark Ballet, without the vocoder it's so good. Once again, I'm surprised how happy she is while she's on a stage recently and let me say that seeing her smiling nowadays is such a rare event. I've always seen her as a damn robot, but being able to observe how much she wants to be drowned by fans love just melted my heart. And...for who wonder if she is depressed, I'd like to say she's always been prone to melancholy (Jesus, the word 'depression' is so overused without knowledge) and it emerges from every single interview she has had thorugh the years, especially in the early '90s. maybe you missed it. Last thing, lots of comments about her general physical appereance make me wanna bleach my eyes and throw my medical textbooks in the bin lol.
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    Loki got a reaction from into the erotico in V Magazine Photoshoot ( November Edition)   
    These photos made me feel so uncorfortable because basically she recreated the last photoshoots Marilyn did between 1961-1962, before her death. There are referencies to The Last Sitting, by Bert Stern, shot 6 weeks before Marilyn died (the notes she posted and the glitter on her body suggest it) and other ones to The Misfits, the last completed movie  for Marilyn, shot in 1961: in particular she recreated a nude studio photo where Marilyn turns her back to the camera, taken by Eve Arnold. Then, as someone posted before, the set is sinisterly similar to the room where ms Monroe was found dead. Dulcis in fundo, she brought Louise Oriole back to life: I don't know if it's merely a coincidence.
    Seeing these photos, I can't help thinking of an article published by Vanity Fair in 1991, where Madonna was compared to Marilyn, with a majestic photoshoot by Steven Meisel. The title was...The Misfit: https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/bd86a835-b84c-47a7-bbec-60b9af6ea282. 
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    Loki got a reaction from TOpher in V Magazine Photoshoot ( November Edition)   
    These photos made me feel so uncorfortable because basically she recreated the last photoshoots Marilyn did between 1961-1962, before her death. There are referencies to The Last Sitting, by Bert Stern, shot 6 weeks before Marilyn died (the notes she posted and the glitter on her body suggest it) and other ones to The Misfits, the last completed movie  for Marilyn, shot in 1961: in particular she recreated a nude studio photo where Marilyn turns her back to the camera, taken by Eve Arnold. Then, as someone posted before, the set is sinisterly similar to the room where ms Monroe was found dead. Dulcis in fundo, she brought Louise Oriole back to life: I don't know if it's merely a coincidence.
    Seeing these photos, I can't help thinking of an article published by Vanity Fair in 1991, where Madonna was compared to Marilyn, with a majestic photoshoot by Steven Meisel. The title was...The Misfit: https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/bd86a835-b84c-47a7-bbec-60b9af6ea282. 
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    Loki got a reaction from Enrico in V Magazine Photoshoot ( November Edition)   
    These photos made me feel so uncorfortable because basically she recreated the last photoshoots Marilyn did between 1961-1962, before her death. There are referencies to The Last Sitting, by Bert Stern, shot 6 weeks before Marilyn died (the notes she posted and the glitter on her body suggest it) and other ones to The Misfits, the last completed movie  for Marilyn, shot in 1961: in particular she recreated a nude studio photo where Marilyn turns her back to the camera, taken by Eve Arnold. Then, as someone posted before, the set is sinisterly similar to the room where ms Monroe was found dead. Dulcis in fundo, she brought Louise Oriole back to life: I don't know if it's merely a coincidence.
    Seeing these photos, I can't help thinking of an article published by Vanity Fair in 1991, where Madonna was compared to Marilyn, with a majestic photoshoot by Steven Meisel. The title was...The Misfit: https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/bd86a835-b84c-47a7-bbec-60b9af6ea282. 
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    Loki got a reaction from madfactor in Did Madonna Become Cheesy?   
    This is interesting. From my point of view, our relationship with the Hollywood world has changed for the worst: singers, actors and actresses are required to be pretty, cute, impeccable and with no strange ideas in their heads and obviously they must be our clowns, who are demanded to please everyone, without disctintion, even if this means they have to hide themselves. Social media gave us the illusion we can influence other lives, we can control the life of celebrities, because, as I wrote above, they are expected to be exactly what we want them to be. This is a form of slavery. Another thing is that we live in a world where everything must be perfect, no one is allowed to make mistakes or people will be ready to judge you and drag you, with no esitation, ferociously. I mean, we can disagree with what we see or listen to, but I've never seen this amount of toxicity about someone or something. It's clear that our society needs a scapegoat where we should be allowed to focus all our frustration on, but today it's too much. The "victim" of this toxic system won't escape this game unless she/he chooses to disappear from the scene (that's why I hate legacies acts, they're the most evident example of the moment when an artist decides to interrupt the game and resigne his/herself to the fate the society has reserved to his/her). This is a form of torture. I could enumerate lots of performances from current starlets that aren't worth the half of what her performances are worth, but people, since 1982, will still focus their fears, their anger on her and other ones. That's the game. But hey, younger generations are better than her: I'll never understand how people can find interesting current mainstream artists, they're the pale copies of who are actually derided because they're too old to offer something meaningful to this silly planet. I don't mean I don't like actual songs, but we can't pretend we have the new MJ or the new Madonna or the new Prince, they're on a league of their own. All this pamphlet didn't mean I like everything she did through her career, but it's a resigned observation of how we approach to other people.
    P.S Form me her most cheesy moment is her Confessions era: you can't release Confessions on a Dancefloor after American Life, it's a crime. But, you know, you're only a clown in your fans' hands. After she gave the general public what they wanted form her, suddenly she was in the way and people turned their back to her, no matter what she has done in the last 15 years.
    P.P.S I preferred when social networks didn't exist, when you could see you favorite artist only on the cover of a magazine and you could read their thoughts and inner feelings only in detailed interviews.
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    Loki got a reaction from NowRadiate in Drowned World Tour 2001 - 20 Years   
    Along with The Girlie Show, it's my favorite tour from her. I love everything about it: the setlist, the arrangements, the outfits and the leaked soundboard is...magic. I'm a bit envious of you who attended the show, you were so lucky! I'd have given everything I have to be there...
    20  years old and still so modern, it didn't age at all.
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    Loki got a reaction from Voguerista in Drowned World Tour 2001 - 20 Years   
    Along with The Girlie Show, it's my favorite tour from her. I love everything about it: the setlist, the arrangements, the outfits and the leaked soundboard is...magic. I'm a bit envious of you who attended the show, you were so lucky! I'd have given everything I have to be there...
    20  years old and still so modern, it didn't age at all.
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