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Can Madonna Cure Her End-Stage Celebrity Disease?
Is there hope for the world’s top-earning female live performer?
Please, I asked this morning, please let me not get like Madonna.
I want to stay in touch with the world, I want to be present. I don’t want to be trapped in a nightmare feeling like I have to look forever young … or act like I am, like I have a quarter of a brain and don’t know I look like a sack of feces in a latex Hugo Boss Nazi revival outfit.
At the same time, here I am age 60 going out performing music in public and not with a keyboard and accordion at long-term care facilities.
So Madonna did another weird TikTok, and according to the headlines, she’s terrified her fans. Her lips are Pete Burns huge, her face is glistening with embalming serum, and her hair looks like she borrowed braided rope from the Gorton’s fisherman.
Hot stuff girl, I don’t know how you managed this.
Her most recent release barely sounds like her, it’s so overproduced and autotuned.
Most people don’t know that not only is Madonna the world’s highest earning female live touring artist, she also has written or co-written nearly every one of her songs. She started out as a dancer and she is a multi-talented musical artist and…
