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[holy13nation]

Reading through the newspapers early this evening at the local I noticed there was some fuss about Madonna making some reference to MDMA at a gig. Calling out "So, who has seen Molly?" (Molly apparently being slang for MDMA

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[holy13nation]

No, indeedy. Nor her it would seem.

[titoagogo]

Madge's daughter was caught smoking a cigarette the other day. OOOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

[holy13nation]

Well, given that smoking is responsible for thousands more deaths annually than all hard drug deaths combined she has a point. But, there's the rub. How else can the poor kid rebel?
By becoming a chain smoking nun who eats at McDonalds.

[fingertrouble]

'Then DeadMau5 (a dj type person) called her on it as being a bad example to, you know, the kids

[delko]

Uh, wtf, with the MidWest crack. And it's midwest, btw.

[fingertrouble]

Brostep - the music I was talking about - is big in those areas, loads of jock-type kids moshing to this very monotonic music, based on dubstep but turned up to 11...

[holy13nation]

I'n afraid the squabbles between different musical factions pass me by these days. The US is such a huge land mass that it doesn't surprise me that things get watered down. However, surely all music steals? Certainly from rock n roll to the present day. No one is innocent of that. Or at least, very rarely.
I don't understand the colour thing now as music is dominated by black artists (not before time) and so some semblance of balance is being redressed.

I am blissfully at an age where I couldn't care less about most of it anymore.

[fj]

Madonna has been described as "trying too hard" from when she was writhing on a street, singing she would do anything because she had no shame, for the video of her first hit, "Burning Up" in, oh, what, 1982? She was "trying too hard" with the underwear, she was "trying too hard" with the Marilyn, she was "trying too hard" with the burning crosses, she was definitely "trying too hard" with the Sex, the Gaultier, the fetish, the Evita, etc, etc. Still being told she is "trying too hard"--30 years later.

If Madonna isn't being told she is "trying too hard", it's not a Madonna product. It's like telling Hello Kitty it's being "too cute". The woman is driven.

The Guardian is right about MDNA, btw: the singles are incredibly safe, but genius in context of the whole album, and it has some bonkers gorgeous moments. I'll take it over the blandness of the Rolling Stones or leftover-Beatles elevator music or Kate Bush blandness any day for at least trying to be part of now.

[holy13nation]

Have to disagree with you about 'Kate Bush' blandness. Although the last record was steering itself that way unfortunately she does write about things other than, like, 'girls wanting to have fun' and rehashing all that, which Madonna seems to be doing. Endlessly

[holy13nation]

I think it should be written into their contracts that if the make so many millions by a certain age then they should just STFU.