Madonna: Third Way icon

[Gordon Fitch]

> > >You could perhaps see it as a metaphor for the corporate takeover of
> > >pop music. That its controller-in-chief is not a man in a suit but a
> > >middle-aged bottle blonde in tartan and rhinestone, who urges her
> > >devoted fans, via a video clip from a showbiz chum, to piss off home
> > >because there are no more encores, is a curious development and
> > >arguably not a positive one.

Dennis:
> Nice. Madonna has gotten worse and worse, ever self-conscious and now beyond
> self-parody. She's ripped off countless people, from Bjork to Philip Glass,
> but cannot seem to merge all these sounds into something new or even her
> own. Plus, she's a rotten actress. "Evita" was laughably bad. Well, at least
> she's rich.

Poor Maddie!  Is she worthy of such fury?  What was she
before she became what she is now, and did you love her
then?

Personally, I have the greatest respect for the fortitude of
anyone who can sit through _Evita_, much less perform in it.