22 Apr, 2011
guyoseary Guy Oseary
@sticky812 she wants a new album more than you!.. As soon as she’s finished with her movie she will get into the studio!..
Source: http://twitter.com/#!/guyoseary
Madonna Information & Fan Community
Madonna Information & Fan Community
22 Apr, 2011
guyoseary Guy Oseary
@sticky812 she wants a new album more than you!.. As soon as she’s finished with her movie she will get into the studio!..
Source: http://twitter.com/#!/guyoseary
In the ’80s and ’90s, artists like Bikini Kill, Babes in Toyland, Die Cheerleader, 7 Year Bitch, Frightwig, the Lunachicks, L7, Skunk Anansie, Fire Party, PJ Harvey and the Insaints permanently obliterated any notion that females couldn’t rock like hell.
Females singing about their attraction to males and other females alienated some people, which is always a wonderful thing, but it revolutionized women’s presence in the music world and put uptight men on notice. I bet Marnie Stern plays guitar better than you, dude.
On this topic, someone who deserves her own paragraph is no doubt Madonna. She took more flak than any woman who ever hit a stage. She didn’t flinch. She stood down the world. She did it her way and continues to. She always wins and because of her, countless millions have been inspired.
When Madonna came out with that “boy toy” belt buckle, it seemed that she was submissively caving in to what was expected of a pretty girl. Wrong. It was, in fact, one of the most adroit reversals of power in modern culture. After that, her strength became immeasurable. Her crotch grab was more meaningful than anyone else’s. Check your watch — she just kicked your ass three times.
Thanks to these brave and innovative people and all the others who stood up for their truth and their libido, music remains a most excellent lust accelerant.
And not even 10 Tipper Gores (remember her?) can put the lube back in that tube.
Source: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/04/henry_rollins_column_lust.php
Toronto-based indie label Paper Bag Records have released a compilation album featuring various artists from their roster each putting their own eclectic spin on songs from Madonna’s 1986 album True Blue.
On the set of the Open Your Heart video by Mondino (1986)
The complete compilation can be streamed for free at Soundcloud.
2. Young Galaxy ‘Open Your Heart’
3. The Acorn ‘White Heat’ (Silken Laumann remix)
4. The Rural Alberta Advantage ‘Live To Tell’ (We’re Scared version)
5. PS I Love You ‘Where’s The Party’
6. Winter Gloves ‘True Blue’ (feat. Hannah Georges)
7. Laura Barrett ‘La Isla Bonita’
8. Born Ruffians ‘Jimmy Jimmy’
9. You Say Party ‘Love Makes The World Go Round’
Madonna has returned at least one of her infamous Blond Ambition Tour corsets to its creator for an upcoming fashion exhibit at Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, according to a recent tweet from Jean-Paul Gauthier.
Blond Ambition Tour corset designed by Jean-Paul Gauthier
JPGaultier 2 days 13 hours ago:
“She’s such an amazing woman. If she puts her mind to something, it’ll actually exist.”
Excerpt from an article by Ed Gibbs, The Sydney Morning Herald
Madonna directs Abbie Cornish in W.E. (September, 2010)
These days, Cornish also counts another ”bright star” – Madonna – as a friend and collaborator. Her next film, W.E, is directed and co-written by the singer and will premiere in Venice later this year. It tells the story of a lonely woman obsessed with the abdication of King Edward VIII, a subject integral to this year’s best picture Oscar winner, The King’s Speech. Cornish says, as with Ledger, that her new collaborator has given her something inspirational to add to that teen-aged view of a world where anything is possible.
”It’s her discovery of love and sacrifice and what [they] mean,” Cornish says of the film, in which she plays an unhappily married woman named Wally Winthrop. ”And I remember when we were shooting Madonna said, ‘I really want to go to Venice.’ And sure enough, we’re off to Venice. That’s Madonna. She’s such a force. She’s such an amazing woman. If she puts her mind to something, it’ll actually exist.”
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
Andrea Riseborough captures the humanity of the late Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, says historical adviser Hugo Vickers.
by Tim Walker, The Telegraph
"The Queen" cycling in London (April 9th, 2011)
After she was turned into a hate figure in the film The King’s Speech and Any Human Heart, the television adaptation of William Boyd’s novel, the late Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, will receive at least a measure of sympathy when Andrea Riseborough portrays her in Madonna’s forthcoming film, W.E.
“It is a kinder, gentler portrayal,” says Hugo Vickers, the author of Behind Closed Doors, a new biography of the Duchess, who acted as the film’s historical adviser. “It is silly to portray her as a baddie. If there was anyone who was a baddie it was Edward VIII.”
The author also worked as a consultant on The King’s Speech in which he felt that Wallis – played by Eve Best – was turned into “too gauche” a character. “Obviously, as an adviser, I can only make sure these films are as historically accurate as possible and I have no say in the dramatic content,” says Vickers. “I think Andrea Riseborough captures the character very well, however. She makes her human.”
Madonna, who is the director and co-writer of the film, has presented a two-tiered romantic drama focusing on Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.
The film is likely to please Edward Fox. The actor, who appeared in the television series Edward & Mrs Simpson, told me just before Christmas that he had spoken to a lot of people who knew Wallis. “They told me she was fun, hospitable and welcoming,” he said. “Sadly, we live in harsher times today than when we made that series. We seem to have an insatiable appetite for figures that we can hate.”
Madonna, by the way, goes back a long way with Vickers. It was he who advised her to purchase, with her former husband Guy Ritchie, Ashcombe House in Wiltshire, the former home of Cecil Beaton, when it came up for sale in 2001.
Source: The Telegraph
Liz Rosenberg & Madonna at Evita premiere (1996)
A statement from Liz Rosenberg, Madonna’s press agent:
Source: Madonna.com
The star’s much-lauded effort to help girls in the African nation of Malawi blew up. Is Kabbalah to blame?
by Wayne Barrett, Newsweek
One year ago, Madonna squatted in the rust-colored dirt of a sprawling empty lot outside Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. With curious villagers and invited photographers crowding around, she laid the ceremonial first brick for a planned $15 million girls’ academy, a noble mission in a nation where only 27 percent of girls attend secondary school. In a blog post on the website of her Raising Malawi foundation, she wrote that the brick, inscribed with the words “Dare to Dream,” was “not just the bedrock to a school—it is a foundation for our shared future.”
Last week it was announced that the future would not be built. Despite the fundraising success of Raising Malawi, which collected a reported $18 million in donations and spent $3.8 million on the planned academy, the girls’ school has been abandoned and the Raising Malawi foundation has imploded.
From its inception in 2006, the pop superstar has been the face of Raising Malawi, generating headlines around the world by adopting two Malawian children, writing and producing a documentary about Malawian orphans, and hosting high-profile fundraisers, including a star-studded event in 2008 co-hosted by Gucci in a 42,000-square-foot transparent tent on the north lawn of United Nations headquarters. “I want credibility as a philanthropic organization,” Madonna told the $2,500-a-plate crowd.
To understand what went wrong, one has to look at Madonna’s partner in the foundation, a mysterious and controversial organization called the Kabbalah Centre International, which is now a focus of federal investigators. The center is a Jewish mystical organization that follows a set of esoteric teachings called Kabbalah, which adherents believe explains the relationship between humans and their creator and our true purpose in the universe. Madonna has said that she turned to Kabbalah in 1996 when she was pregnant, exhausted from Evita, and looking for an anchor. Since then she has reportedly donated at least $18 million of her personal fortune to the Kabbalah Centre.
Read the full article at Newsweek.com:
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/04/03/madonna-s-malawi-disaster.html
So what’s your personal highlight of the years at Radio 1?
She laughs. “Having Madonna co-presenting was pretty cool,”
“She was in the studio for an hour and a half just sitting right in front of me. She was all in purple – purple coat, purple knicker bockers and boots – and was necking a massive bottle of cold green tea.
“She gave me a lecture about how I should be drinking that instead of coffee!
“But she was so down to earth. We chatted about our daughters and taking our kids horse-riding. There was no awkwardness between records like there can be. I really liked her.”
Source: Mirror