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David Hockney said...
your hatred for Madonna is why I rarely come to this site and why I stopped following you on twitter. pointless. ageist. sexiest. tired.
3:25 AM
Kenneth M. Walsh said...
Now David. Using your "logic," my being a 45-year-old gay man automatically makes your criticism of me both ageist and homophobic. Shame on you!
I don't "hate" Madonna. I write about her when she does something admirable or silly -- or any other time I see fit. I became a huge fan because of Madonna's music. But her last two albums have suuuuuuuuuuucked -- and I've said so. And the three before them have been largely forgettable, unlike her "Ray of Light" masterpiece and the ones before it. That doesn't mean I hate her, it just means that her most recent works haven't been as good as her earlier ones. That's true of A LOT of artists, including those "kids" my youth-obsessed mind seems to favor, like Debbie Harry, Chrissie Hynde, Susanna Hoffs and Rosanne Cash.
If Madonna were releasing more things that I liked -- "Celebration" was brilliant -- instead of making more crappy films, behaving like a diva from Central Casting backstage at GLAAD (I know everything about that) and frequently dressing like a fool, I'd write more positive things. But differing opinions on Madonna's work seem to be the least of the reasons why you shouldn't bother coming back here. You obviously don't even "get" me at all, or perhaps anyone who doesn't think exactly like you.
Case in point this post: I was truly stunned that Madonna (or should I say Liz?) would allow a photo to be taken with Kim Fucking Kardashian, someone who -- unlike Madonna -- has become a superstar without ever contributing a single thing to the world. (Sex tapes don't count.) That's the "problem" I was referring to, in a play on words referring to Madonna's hair. (Nobody loves a Hortense Hathaway more than I do!) That your sycophant mind was unable to get that says a lot more about you than it does me. (Are there humans alive with thinner skin than Madonna fans?)
I'm sorry, but I just don't see how it's "ageist" to say that someone with VERY OBVIOUS plastic surgery dressed as a cheerleader looks like a fool. It's not sexiest or ageist -- it's TRUE. If Mick Jagger came out dressed as a quarterback, I'd be laughing at him too. Remember, Madonna is the one who said just before her 40th birthday that if she was "still doing this" when she was 50 you should just shoot her. (How ageist!) I could make 10 analogies, but somehow I don't think you'd get those either. And if I think she is starting to resemble Joan Crawford or Mae West, so what? They're two Hollywood beauties who got older -- just like we all do.
Somehow you managed to find this post, but not my defending her against attacks that she left her homeless brother out to dry or that her speech at the GLAAD awards was heartfelt and funny.
I'm entitled to my opinion -- just as you are yours, going so far as to post it on a site you claim to rarely read. Yet something tells me you will mysteriously be back to respond to this, too. Talk about tired.
2:25 PM
15 comments:
I think he actually called you "sexiest."
Patrick: Oops. Never mind.
Buuuuurn.
Brilliant, Kenneth.
The sad thing is Liz Rosenberg probably wanted Madonna to have her photo taken with that trollop, thinking it was a good idea for the youth demographic. You know, just like it was a good idea to work with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake and so on ...
Madonna had her pic taken w Kowdasian bc, sad but true, Kimmy gets more press time and exposure.
Madge needs that lack of talent to get on page 6 more than Kim needs Madonna.
It's the ugly truth - on all counts.
Well, at the very least Kenneth, YOU HAVE ARRIVED!
Ken, you think Confessions on the Dancefloor sucked? Are you insane?
nick must not be that big of a fan. he doesn't even know that confessions wasn't one of her last two albums!
3:25 A.M. that tells me all I need to know . Drunk commenting , worse than drunk texting. If not that then why would Madge take a pic with her. I love Madge and for the most part she knows gay boys made her like -Bette Does and Cher Does . This picture kind of reminded me of Madonna playing a sort of Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard" and Kim getting ready to have all her blood sucked out of her and the baby so Madonna doesn't have to have more plastique.
Nick - 'Confessions' was not one of her last two albums. And I agree w Kenneth, 'Hard Candy' and 'MDMA' should have started off in the cut-out bin and then been reduced in price shortly after that.
Horrid albums.
Stellar post, Kenneth.
I like a lot of Madonna's music and appreciate her standing up for her big gay audience. But the rest of the Madonna mystique leaves me cold and I resent other gays who act like there's something wrong with you if you don't like or dare criticize her Madge-sty.
YES! BRAVO! as Mike in Asheville stated: YOU HAVE ARRIVED! That was so perfectly written and I could not agree more. TEN STARS!
ooh, snap.
love it, kenneth. agree 100% with your rebuttal, altho being that i am a very minor madonna fan i'd be even more likely to be (falsely) accused of bias.
This, Kenneth. This is why I come back to your blog. Nothing is worse than a gay man without a sense of humor. Or a gay man with a sense of humor about Madonna.
Oh, I forgot about MDNA. Both Hard Candy and MDNA were not as bad as people claim. They have a few fun tracks on them.
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