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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsmadonna comes under fire for using n word
http://wonderwall.msn.com/music/madonna-comes-under-fire-for-using-n-word-1792597.story?ocid=answw11"Madonna has courted controversy once again after using a racial slur on her Instagram page. The pop superstar uploaded a snap of her teen son Rocco fighting in the boxing ring on the picture-sharing website on Friday alongside the caption, "No one messes with Dirty Soap! Mama said knock you out! #disn-----."
Ok. Ms. Ciccone, or whatever the hell you call yourself nowadays. Now, I know many defend you as some sort of goddess. Many feminists hate you, many worship you. However, let's be real frank; you made your career because you understood, as few people ever do, how the media operates. You made sure to stay relevant by making sure there was always a big juicy scandal to keep the cameras on you. This latest bit reminds me if when you tried to actually rap on "American life" aka your biggest flop. You tried to be Eminem and came out looking like Insane Clown Posse. Still, as someone who did make money by imitating Black Culture in your music, you have no right to wonder why this is wrong, or why people are getting on the internet yelling at you. How can someone that literally invented the media overexposure formula, the one that Beyoncé and Britney and Miley and Xtina and Gaga and Pink follow, be surprised when using the N word blows up in her face?
Granted, even if you left today (which you won't, I know) your image will be around for years to come, as hordes of women with one name try to become the next version of you. All the same, I am glad to see you hit 60, and I will know that one day, you will be just another has-been. It would be one thing if you had developed a sensitivity to complement your influence, but you never did, because despite all the money you pay the Kabbalah cult, you are just a "material girl" that justifies the worst, most selfish, most arrogant behavior, and does not even come up with any sort of insight for all that time in the gutter.
I pity your children. No wonder Lourdes started smoking at 15, she, like Rocco, had an idiot for a mother.
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madonna comes under fire for using n word (Original Post)
DonCoquixote
Jan 2014
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rocktivity
(44,580 posts)1. controversy generated, apology offered, headline made,
mission accomplished.
Beats singing and dancing for a living.
rocktivity
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)2. She did give a bunch of people something to write about. nt