Single link to a crappy article about a crappy singer. Only way this post could suck more is if your real name was Alan McGee. posted by cjorgensen at 1:22 PM on October 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
For some reason, I find it incredible that Mick Jagger is only fifteen years older than Madonna. posted by cgc373 at 1:23 PM on October 28, 2008
For some reason, I find it incredible that Mick Jagger is only fifteen years older than Madonna.
To be fair though, she's only 7 in human years. posted by mandal at 1:25 PM on October 28, 2008 [2 favorites]
Sadly I am not the creator of Creation Records and have never signed Oasis. posted by Artw at 1:26 PM on October 28, 2008
Keep pushin' me, PeterMcDermott. posted by cgc373 at 1:30 PM on October 28, 2008
Should I read this article? posted by swift at 1:32 PM on October 28, 2008
swift, the article is okay and brief, and suggests Madonna used a template fashioned by Andy Warhol to invent a persona as a work of art, and that said invention is her most important production as an artist, rather than any given album, book, video, or tour she's participated in. It's slight but okay. posted by cgc373 at 1:34 PM on October 28, 2008
It neither harms nor helps MetaFilter to have it on the front page. posted by cgc373 at 1:35 PM on October 28, 2008
Stop wringing your veiny, old woman's hands -- I like Madonna, and I like ArtW. I just recall him having a similar, single-link Madonna post deleted recently. posted by PeterMcDermott at 1:45 PM on October 28, 2008
Er, no. But you might be thinking of the multi-link FPP mentioned in the meta above. posted by Artw at 1:48 PM on October 28, 2008
Blah blah so obsessed with Madonna?
Sonic Youth
Speaking of whom, guess who else is 50? That's right, it's perpetual teenager Thurston Moore! posted by Sys Rq at 1:52 PM on October 28, 2008
Just quotin' "Borderline," PeterMcDermott, not pickin' a fight. posted by cgc373 at 1:56 PM on October 28, 2008
I didn't *really* think you had veiny, old women's hands cgc373 -- those were actually Madonna's hands I was talking about. posted by PeterMcDermott at 1:58 PM on October 28, 2008
Meh. Sure, yeah, Madonna's public persona is the most popular such identity-as-art, but we've known that for years. I mean, even Chuck Klosterman's written essentially the same article, like ten years ago, and Klosterman's always late to the party and shallow with his observations.
Part of the problem with this sort of crit-lette is that Madonna's been mining essentially the same vein for what, nearly 30 years now? Sure, her persona-as-art may have been interesting once, and it has sort of an ancillary longevity as an aesthetic, but it's like looking at a Cindy Sherman show and realizing that once you get the gimmick, it's just not that interesting. Artists whose only material is themselves are inherently more limited than artists whose material is the whole world.
Also, facile blog writers, y'all should know that pop art isn't just Warhol, easy as he is to reference.
Look, there's nothing wrong with veiny, old woman hands on a veiny old woman. However, when they're attached to someone with the face of a 25 year old, there's something very disconcerting about them. All of a sudden, they're transformed into something from a horror movie: The Hottie With the Hands From Hell.
No, no, it's a consommé - rather thin and uninteresting to the healthy, but comfort food to the sickly. posted by CynicalKnight at 2:49 PM on October 28, 2008
Can I ask why this article is dated October 2008 but reads as though it were written in October 1991? Wasn't that the last time she really broke any cultural barriers? posted by blucevalo at 4:38 PM on October 28, 2008
What the fuck is this? Delete. posted by mrgrimm at 4:48 PM on October 28, 2008
No matter how many veils/levels of irony Madonna’s conceit poses as posing she was never better than a third rate pop tart... albeit with clever marketing. posted by Huplescat at 6:42 PM on October 28, 2008
Boy, if there is anything more boring than a paragraph about Madonna it would be two paragraphs. Talk about irrelevant... I felt my eyes glaze over as I neared the end of the second sentence and had to bail. Who cares about this over the hill narcissist who had so much and helped so little... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz posted by jcworth at 8:00 PM on October 28, 2008
I feel so sad about Metafilter sometimes.
Yesterday my post was deleted. Maybe it wasn't the greatest post, but it did have actual content. The comments weren't crying out for it to be deleted, but nonetheless, deleted it was.
It saddens me that a post like this survives the same deletion process that killed my post.
Sometimes I curse the gods that rule this universe. Really. posted by twoleftfeet at 4:39 AM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
For a fortnight now, the world has struggled to share the burden of Madonna and Guy Ritchie's divorce - a turn of events not even the most embittered of cynics could have anticipated.
Each of us has self-medicated the best way he or she knows how. For Lost in Showbiz, this involves drinking tumbler after tumbler of whisky-and-Kabbalah-water, whilst watching Swept Away on a loop and howling a simple inquiry at the screen: why? WHY? You will have your own method of dealing with the situation, and whilst this column has no wish to intrude on private grief, sometimes it's important to just realise we're all going through this together, even if we have to do it apart.
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