Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Madonna, really, it's getting embarassing

Or, "and you thought Reese Witherspoon had a lot of airbrushing done." This is sad. She's coming off like a desperate housewife, you should pardon the expression. Woman, you're 47. Grow into it.

...and yes, there are 47-year-old women I find attractive (Sharon Stone, Holly Hunter, Jane Wiedlin, Annette Bening, Angela Bassett, Belinda Carlisle, Jennifer Tilly, Bebe Neuwirth...) You know what they have in common? They spend very little time dressing like they're hoping to lure the pizza boy in for a quickie.

2 comments:

Julia said...

...and yes, there are 47-year-old women I find attractive (Sharon Stone, Holly Hunter, Jane Wiedlin, Annette Bening, Angela Bassett, Belinda Carlisle, Jennifer Tilly, Bebe Neuwirth... You know what they have in common? They spend very little time dressing like they're hoping to lure the pizza boy in for a quickie.

You know what else these women have in common? As opposed to Madonna, they didn't base their careers on being an uber-sex object. Their careers were based on talent.

Ben Varkentine said...

Actually, I'd argue that Madonna didn't base her career *solely* on being an uber-sex object, to be fair.

I think she's underrated as an interpretive (as opposed to creative) artist.

It's just this insistence on pretending it's still 1984 I find troubling.