I remember visiting my Grandma Ruth when she moved from Forest Hills, Queens to Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. She had the same shoes, the same hair, the same, strangely puffy lips, the EXACT same car and the same, overwhelming air of self-pity.
That's the first time I really "got" how tough life is for Madonna. Imagine being an almost-pathological attention seeker who just wants to be left alone.
I think it would have been better if the driver lip-synched the first verse. But I guess she doesn't want to shake up the system or break all the rules.
P.S. What exactly does she mean when she keeps saying she's "stuck like a moth to a flame."
I had my hopes up for travelogue gorgeousness with all that pre-publicity the video got. Luckily, Woody Allen more than compensates with "To Rome With Love."
I'm not even sure it's a single. Spotify has tons of remixes of Girl Gone Wild, and all the other singles. I'm beginning to think "Turn Up the Radio" doesn't exist at all.
Well I think she looks pretty good, anyway. The video is obviously too deep for me (like why is her chauffeur suddenly in his underwear and for that offence they kick him out of his own car). I know she filmed it on tour so all her "friends" are her dancers, but, while the age thing for Madonna always bugs me when people bring it up, she could maybe feature a few other people closer to her generation in the video...
This will be her cross for the rest of her life. Supporters feel they have to start every discussion with a notation of how good/great/amazing she looks. But then when the music isn't good and it doesn't sell, it's AGEISM.
God. She's not even trying anymore, is she? It's a shame "I'm Addicted" wasn't the next single. It's one of the few moments on the album in which she doesn't sound like she's desperately chasing her youth. She sounds like a mature, confident, strong woman on "I'm Addicted".
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Posted: 7/16/12 at 03:14pm