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Madonna (Entertainer)

  • Music

    April 18, 2012

    Tupac's Hologram Asks, "Remember The '90s?"

    At what point does the nostalgia overwhelm the art?

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Madonna's Album Took a Record Nosedive, Say Insiders

    I'm happy for Madonna's longevity. I don't agree with all the ageist complaints about her. I realize the decks are stacked harder against the woman because of these prejudices. And I applaud her for using a crafty array of marketing devices to try staying on top, as she's always done. The other ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    100 & Single: Madonna's Chart Transformation Into A Classic-Rock Act

    Whatever you thought of her performance at this year's Super Bowl, Madonna's halftime appearance had the desired effect: It drummed up awareness for her first album in four years, the longest recording gap of her career. When the Billboard 200 album chart is tallied in the middle of this week, Madg ... More >>

  • Music

    March 28, 2012
  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Dear Internet: All The Snickering About Madonna's Age Is Getting Real Old

    This week Madonna's 12th studio album and dive into the deep end of the EDM pool, MDNA, came out. I didn't like it very much. But what I like even less is the sexism-tinged age-baiting that the record seems to be inspiring in so many critics. Forbes was likely the worst offender of the bunch, going ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Madonna Searches For Molly, Finds Herself Embroiled In A Brand-New Controversy

    Ultra Music Festival pummeled Miami's Bayfront Park last weekend, motivating innumerable fist pumps over thirty hours of music, but it was the brief speech by a 53-year-old woman wearing a shirt emblazoned with the letters "MDNA" that has prompted disbelief within parts of the electronic dance music ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    Madonna Rips Off Gaga Ripping Off Madonna Ripping Off....

    With Madonna's "Girl Gone Wild" video out, the kids on the gay gossip site datalounge.com have gone wild with observations about which diva is pilfering from whom. Says one poster there: "Madonna rips off Gaga ripping off Madonna ripping off Gaga.

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    Madonna (2) And The Beastie Boys (10) Fight For Their Right To Call Themselves The Greatest New York Musician

    In their more carefree, young-turk days, Madonna and the Beastie Boys went on tour together, shocking parents and delighting the makers of fingerless gloves. After years of big-selling albums and experimentation of all sorts (sonic, sexual, film-making, etc.), both are firmly ensconsed in pop's pant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    New Madonna Song Slams Guy Ritchie Marriage

    According to this British newspaper review of Madge's new album, the song "I Don't Give A" is a tabloid lover's delight filled with wonderfully real recrimination and seething bitterness. Just what we want from a pop song! The song goes: "I tried to be a good girl "I tried to be your wife

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    Girl Gone Mild: Madonna Seems To Be Missing From Her New Single

    Forget that the latest song to be released from Madonna's upcoming album MDNA is biting its title from a noxious DVD series run by one of the worst people ever to be hailed as a "celebrity" by American culture (a pretty impressive feat, that); never mind that it rhymes "fire" and "desire" on its pre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2012

    My Thoughts On The Oscars As They Happen!

    The show started with great dignity. Morgan Freeman came out and a friend of mine said, "Is that the one who fucks the granddaughter?"

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Adele And M.I.A. Bring Back The Middle Finger!

    ​At the Super Bowl Half Time show, famously enough, M.I.A. flipped the bird and uttered an "expletive," unbeknownst to star Madonna, who later expressed dismay that such a juvenile act disrupted the feeling of love and peace that had taken over the stadium. This from the woman who said "Fuck" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Madonna Coming To Yankee Stadium In September

    Fresh off her Super Bowl halftime performance, and its attendant digit-borne controversy, Madonna has announced a world tour in support of her forthcoming album MDNA. Its New York stop is set for September 6 at Yankee Stadium, which has a big wide-open schedule surrounding that date, just FYI. (Mado ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Madonna News! Madonna News!

    ​No, she's not going to do a movie of Cleopatra set in the Detroit cheerleading community. Or start a weight-loss pilattes regimen for women over 50 called Reductives. And no, she's not going away any time...ever!

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Madonna's Lesbian Friends (And Gaga) Comment On Her Performance

    Face it. She did fine at the Super Bowl. She led us through a pop-culture carnival involving gladiators, acrobats, cheerleaders, guest stars, lip-synching, a stumble, and a Wicked Witch of the West exit, followed by the rousing message of "Buy My Album," I mean, "World Peace." (And after she fero ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Raise Your Hand (Or Your Finger?) If You Didn't Realize M.I.A. Flipped Off The Super Bowl Until You Read 4,035 Breathless Headlines About It

    Well! When I went to bed last night I figured I'd be writing about a couple of aspects of Madonna's Super Bowl halftime show, during which she ran through her catalog with the assistance of Nicki Minaj, M.I.A., Cee Lo Green, LMFAO, a marching band, a choir, and gladiators. There was the whole notion ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Madonna Surrounds Herself With Her Past, Football Players, And M.I.A. And Nicki Minaj In "Give Me All Your Luvin'"

    The video for "Give Me All Your Lovin'," the first single from Madonna's MDNA, premiered in full this morning, and there is something vaguely... jeans-commercialish about the way the song sounds? I don't know if it's the stuttery beat or the electronically tweaked guitars accompanying Madge on the p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Madonna Does Marilyn In New Video

    The lady who memorably Marilyn'd it up with "Material Girl" is doing it again in her new video, maybe to show what Marilyn would have been like if she'd lived past 36. The video -- for Madge's song "Give Me All Your Luvin'" (featuring M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj) -- is a glossily photographed romp that ... More >>

  • Film

    February 1, 2012

    W.E.

    The lady who memorably Marilyn'd it up with "Material Girl" is doing it again in her new video, maybe to show what Marilyn would have been like if she'd lived past 36. The video -- for Madge's song "Give Me All Your Luvin'" (featuring M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj) -- is a glossily photographed romp that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Madonna vs. Elton And Gaga: This Reminds Me Of Something

    Feuds have made Madonna exciting again, from Elton John snarling at her at every swivel to Lady Gaga appropriating Madonna's chord progression -- not to mention her spotlight -- in a "reductive" way. And I've figured out what this all reminds me of!

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    Madonna Won't Do a Janet Jackson At The Super Bowl

    David Shankbone/Wikipedia​On February 5, Madonna will be the half-time entertainment at the Super Bowl, doing the impossible by turning a sports game into a Gay Olympics event. Her guest star will supposedly be Cee Lo Green and Madge will probably also be joined by her recording costars Nicki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    Madonna Is Sizzling Hot Again!

    Madonna has done the impossible. Just by sticking it out, playing the game, and being simultaneously fabulous and appalling, she's made herself buzz-able again. Among her strokes of genius: *The annoying but hugely watched fashion-line promo video with the daughter, which some slow-witted observe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    Elton John's Husband Trashes Madonna For Golden Globe Win And Speech!

    ​Madonna had just won Best Song for cowriting something that pops up in the February release W.E.. Sir Elton (who's British royalty just like Dame Madge herself) hadn't won for "Hello Hello" from the animated movie about lawn gnomes in love.

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Madonna Gets Back In Time With "Give Me All Your Love"

    ​Earlier today snippets—totaling 24 seconds—of Madonna's newest single, entitled "Give Me All Your Love" and scheduled to serve as an amuse for her forthcoming 12th album, hit the web, causing amateur popmusicologists to scramble for meaning. (Lots of people went the "ooh trending ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Britney Spears Covers Madonna, Because Hey, Why Not

    ​Perhaps trying to corral back the "next Madonna" territory that Lady Gaga has gained in recent months, Team Britney Spears has released a version of the Material Girl's 1983 single "Burning Up"; the studio version seems to have been leaked as a way to jolt interest in her looming tour, the se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Madonna Was Into Traci Lords' Pornography

    ​This is an oldie but goodie: In the early 1990s, Madonna was preparing to do her infamous Sex book--a classic of ecdysiastical literature--and wanted to be inspired by the copious porn achievements of blonde vixen Traci Lords. The problem is that Traci had been underage when she did the por ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2011

    Kabbalah Pulling Wool Over Madonna's Eyes; Tornado Death Toll Climbs To 35

    ​The Daily reports that Kabbalah has been using Madonna's charity donations for real estate deals instead of putting them towards their promised school-building ends. The debacle of Madge's Raising Malawi project -- which lost $3.8 million -- isn't the first time a Kabbalah-backed school has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Madonna Wanted For Sunset Boulevard

    ​I recently April Fooled you about Madonna getting a special Oscar for acting, but there's finally a role that she could garner some gold with. And she doesn't want it! On Piers Morgan's chat show on CNN, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber said he feels Madonna would be a ''great Norma Desmond'' i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Madonna To Receive Special Oscar!

    ​This is an exclusive, folks. The people that control the Academy Awards have decided that next year they will give a special Oscar to Madonna! For her screen work! A memo that was just leaked to me cites Madonna's "brash charm and deft, chameleon-like skill, as evidenced by her performance ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 30, 2011

    GAGA FOR MADONNA

    Get both for the price of one, sort of

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Hear MNDR's New Single, "Cut Me Out"

    ​Magnificently bespectacled electro-pop siren Amanda Warner, a/k/a MNDR, remains a bona fide SOTC obsession, combining tech-heavy Tigerbeat6 gearhounding with sharp hooks that make you think of Madonna and then make you feel ridiculous for thinking of Madonna until you conclude that thinking o ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 17, 2010

    ALL HAIL THE QUEEN

    Paying tribute to the holy one

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Is Madonna Using Lourdes?

    ​I remember a time when Madonna was so sheltering of her daughter Lourdes that the girl wasn't even allowed to watch TV (though I bet a sneak peek at the occasional Madonna video was perfectly OK, yuck yuck). But once Madonna hit the age where radio turns a chilly shoulder to you -- and the y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2010

    Madonna's Publicist Will Make a Bitch of You

    Madonna and Reporter​You don't get to be a publicist for one of the world's most famous people without biting off a few heads, letting the blood dribble down your chin and trampling on the lifeless body. Madonna's longtime right-hand lady Liz Rosenberg showed a glimmer of this necessary evil w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Madonna's Stalker, Robert Linhart, Gunning for Stalker of the Year Award

    ​So, you may have heard: Madonna has a stalker. Retired firefighter Robert Linhart, 59 -- gaunt, ice-pick-wielding, crazy-sign-writing, sidewalk-message-scrawling -- is determined to meet her, just determined. So he's pulling out all the stalker stops. Upon his arrest outside of her apartment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Brooklynite Tells Madonna, "Fuck You!" at Her Film Shoot

    ​The Material Girl is directing a film shoot in Brooklyn, and one man says that her crew was less than polite in telling him to walk on the other side of the street. "A chick with a headset held up her arm and said, 'You have to cross the street, sir!' I replied: 'I don't have to do anything. ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 15, 2010

    MADONNA'S FINEST

    The 25th anniversary of a classic NYC movie

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    Material Hurl: Our Top 10 Issues with Madonna and Lourdes' New Clothing Line

    ​Yesterday, in a maelstrom of glitter and Pixie Stix, Herald Square unveiled Material Girl, their new, tween-oriented in-house fashion line. Their collaborators: Madonna and her daughter, Lourdes. The face of the brand: panda-eyed Gossip Girl actress and the Pretty Reckless singer Taylor Momse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Lourdes Ciccone's Blog, For Realzzzz

    ​As you may have heard, enterprising 13-year-old Lourdes Ciccone has started a blog to promote the Material Girl line that she and mama Madonna have launched in order to dress you up with their love. Take a look at her introductory posting and see if it doesn't sound like the work of some hir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    The Voice Fashion Crew Weighs in on Lourdes' New Juniors Line

    ​As if the Material Girl's eldest spawn wasn't busy enough with her new enrollment at LaGuardia High and her ever-changing parental visitations with her real poppa, step-poppa, and baby Jesus, little Lola, ahem, Lourdes, is also debuting a Juniors clothing line via Macy's on August 3. On Wedne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Madonna Hawks 'Material Girl' Line While Lourdes Is Kept Under Wraps

    ​You gotta love Madonna. She's doing a "Material Girl" fashion line with daughter Lourdes in order to stay cool with the kids. But SHE'S doing the press for it herself right now, supposedly so as to protect Lourdes.

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Madonna's Daughter Lourdes Is Now a Fashion Designer, For Macy's

    ​Madonna has done it all. What worlds are left for her to conquer? None. Well, there's always the kid. Madonna has done a deal with Iconix to create a Juniors line for Macy's called -- koff -- Material Girl, and her daughter Lourdes, 13, joins her on the design team. The girl hasn't really ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Who Fared Best on the "Hope For Haiti" Telethon?

    ​The stars wore dark, solid colors and radiated tasteful concern on the telethon Friday night, most of them digging up standard tunes of hope-through-the-wreckage. I think the most powerful performers that night were: Jennifer Hudson wailing beautifully on "Let It Be" and reminding us of her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    See Madonna's Boy Toy In Person!

    Photo by W Magazine​Jesus Luz, the comely young Brazilian whom Madonna has taken under her wondrous wing, is going places. To the Maritime Hotel's Hiro ballroom, to be precise.

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    Madonna Tells Off Romanians, Who Tell Her to Get Out and Take Those Filthy Gypsies With Her

    ​Madonna's world tour seems destined to provoke international incidents. She had already riled Poles by planning to perform on the Feast of the Annunciation, and they retaliated by sending prayer-bombs to kill two of her stagehands. Now Madge has done the unthinkable in Romania: spoken in defe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Madonna Ex Auctioning Her Phone Messages, Erotic Faxes

     Here's a new way a high-roller with a Madonna fetish can spend his or her money: some guy who used to date Madonna is auctioning off her phone messages to him, among other stuff. At the Rock and Roll Pop Art Auction, commencing Monday, you can obtain "two original microcassettes from Jim Albri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    2 Madonna Stage Workers Killed in French Collapse; Virgin Mary Suspected

    It is a well-known principle of modern life that you don't fuck with Madonna. But what if Madonna fucks with Madonna -- that is, the Mother of Christ? Earlier this month Lech Walesa and other angry Poles denounced Madonna Ciccone for threatening to perform in Warsaw on August 15, the Feast of the As ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    From The Archives: I Dressed Like The Pope For Madonna!

    I was just google-imaging myself, as I do about every two and a half minutes, and I came up with this de-gorgeous shot of moi at Madonna's Industria bash for her illustrious Sex book way back in 1992. I dressed as the Pope--just to have some serious clerical presence there--and carried a Madonna sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    Does Madonna Really Care About Malawi?

    "Madonna doesn't have an altruistic bone in her body," states a friend of mine, flatly. "She's the most use-people-and-spit-them out type of driven manipulator in history." Point taken--but let's be uncharacteristically kind for a second. Maybe that was the old Madonna. Perhaps maturity and longtim ... More >>

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