♥ Tuesday, June 06, 2006
"It is sterotypical for gay men to idolize Madonna." What! Hello! That is such a stupid statement to even mention!!! Like I totally LOVE Madonna, and there "sterotypical", er-hem that is so not a word to use, I'm proud to be a Madonna fan and I'll never regret listening to her music. Oh, speaking of Madonna, it brings back sweet memories...
On 2004, if you asked me who Madonna is, I would be like "... Who???", until my friend introduced me to er, Jessica Simpson? Ya, and I'm like "Yuck!", then slowly, I was introduced to rock bands, and in particular Green Day, I remembered how everyone said how great Green Day is. So I tried it, and I was deeply touched by Wake Me Up When September Ends, but I'm very sick of the rest of their songs, especially Boulevard of Broken Dreams, why? Because almost all of Green Day's songs sound the same, there is nothing unique, nothing special about them, oh and they seriously use vulgarities like alot... (Ok, so Liz Phair was using the F word in almsot of all of her songs, sings about cum, but she bothers to re-invent herself...). Then in Nov 2005, with the introduction of Hung Up, and Confessions On A Dancefloor (COADF), I was enticed by the sheer magic of Madonna's songs and personality.
From Like A Virgin in 1984 to COADF in 2005, 21 long years, Madonna has never let her fans down, and continue to "recurit" new fans throughout the years. In the 80s, with the fun-loving, apathetic Like A Virgin and True Blue, Madonna truly is an idol. But in 1989, with Like A Prayer, Madonna has showed the world what the true meaning of introducing your personal life into your songs really is. From the groovy Like A Prayer to the sassy Express Yourself to the touching Promise To Try, Madonna did it. Like A Prayer was her stepstone of the 80s. Then the 90s came and she flopped in 1992 with the release of Sex, a book featuring softcore erotic and pornographic actions and photos, Body Of Evidence, a flim featuring Madonna totally naked in sexual and erotic actions, and the album, Erotica, which features the single, the title track, which has erotic lyrics and an erotic video. But the later singles, which are also flops have less sexual meaning in them, like Bad Girl, Rain, Fever, another hit, Deeper and Deeper, which is a moderately succesful dance hit, until the lyrics were revealed to be a "reflection" of a homosexual man. To counter this sex controversy, Madonna released Bedtime Stories in 1994, a soft R&B-like album, to counter the bad sales of Eortica and to show a nice and soft side of Madonna, since Eortica has introduced sadism and machoism, etc. The singles, Secret, Take A Bow, Bedtime Story are like ok-ok, but still favourites among fans, one single, Human Nature, was to bite back at the critics, with lyrics such as "Did I say something wrong? Oops, I didn't that we couldn't talk about sex.", Human Nature left the critics a painful ass. In 1995, Madonna released Something To Remember, a compliation of Madonna's best ballads. In which at the same year, she starred as Evita Peron in the movie, Evita. In which at The Academy Awards in 1996, she performed You Must love Me, a beautiful song from the soundtrack of Evita. There, she took a break, giving birth to her daughter, Lourdes, and got into the religion of Kabbalah, and the results, Ray of Light released in 1998, when the first single Frozen was played in radio, fans were shocked. Frozen was wonderful and not like any of her previous singles, with techno sounds, far from what Green Day can do, Madonna has re-invented herself, evolving from an idol, to an icon. The collabraton with William Orbit to 1999 where Madonna recorded Beautiful Stranger for the Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me soundtrack. However, in 2000, Madonna abandoned William Orbit for Marwais, some French DJ for her next album, Music, also in 2000 she was preggers with her 2nd child, her son, omg I forgot his name, and got together with Guy Ritchie, which they ended up married. Music was full of house music, enjoyable and danceable. A single of hers, What It Feels Like For A Girl, a personal favourite of mine, because the song related to my problems, its video, controversy, was directed by Guy Ritchie, the video is extremely violent, showing guns and stuff. Madonna defended the video saying "Male artists get away with it." And I sure agree, duh watch Enimem and 50 Cent's videos, they suck, have no meaning, violent, showing extreme sexism, I hate those idiots. Then in 2003, American Life, a serious but not like Like A Prayer or Ray of Light album, it created huge controversy because of its war theme. In the orignal video of American Life, at the last part, a grenade is shown being thrown on the lap of a George Bush look-alike. Finally in 2005, Madonna rose back from the flames, releasing COADF, with Hung Up reaching No.1 in 41 countries, and in the Billboard chart (some billboard chart, not sure which one exactly), Sorry, her 2nd single, was no.1 and hung Up at no.2, and this was the 1st time in history where a singer has two singles at the top 2 position in a billboard chart.
In all, Madonna rocks!
Listened to music @ 7:07 AM
