Anyone else who grew up with Madonna? Anyone else think she is just ridiculous these days?

I grew up with her music. She's always been ridiculous but now she's just beyond ridiculous. She's in her 60's and she had extreme surgery to change her face to make her look like a 20 year old. It's just weird. Why the hell would you wanna have your face look like it's 20 while the rest of you still looks like an old lady? And her being up there trying bump and grind her hips at her age is just silly.
I mean for God sake her daughter Lourdes is 25. If I was her daughter I'd be so embarrassed to have my mother look young enough to be my sister. It's just creepy.
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MarciKS said:
I grew up with her music. She's always been ridiculous but now she's just beyond ridiculous. She's in her 60's and she had extreme surgery to change her face to make her look like a 20 year old. It's just weird. Why the hell would you wanna have your face look like it's 20 while the rest of you still looks like an old lady? And her being up there trying bump and grind her hips at her age is just silly.
I mean for God sake her daughter Lourdes is 25. If I was her daughter I'd be so embarrassed to have my mother look young enough to be my sister. It's just creepy.
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I don't think she looks young enough to be her daughters' sister, I think she looks like a 60 year old woman whose had too many surgeries.. and always denies it...
 
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chic said:
I always thought she was ridiculous but it was her claim to fame and fortune, wasn't it?
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Pretty much.
hollydolly said:
I think she looks like a 60 year old woman whose had to many surgeries..
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Yup!
Pinky said:
I liked her in Evita.
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So did I. My favorite lines:

In "Rainbow Tour", Eva is greeted in Italy by demonstrators who decry her and her husband as fascists. Her response: "They called me a whore! They actually called me a whore!"

The Ambassador comes back with "I'm still called an admiral, Yet I gave up the sea long ago!"

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Evita
 
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She always wants to get your attention. She does so through a kind of exhibitionism...always has. It keeps morphing as she ages. Oh, have you seen Joni Mitchell singing after her stroke, I thought it was sad, but if you are a professional performer and wealthy I guess you can still make a buck by throwing yourself, no matter how bizarre, back into the public eye. Remember Michael Jackson's many transformations. :)
 
Pinky said:
I liked her in Evita.
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I preferred her acting to her music, tho i thought some of the latter was good.

Tish said:
She is going through some sort of identity crisis that's for sure.
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Suspect she's having difficulty dealing with realities of aging, not just appearance, but how your body moves, functions. Most humans do, but can you imagine having to do it with millions watching, with papparazi stalking you to catch you looking bad?

I often wonder how Marilyn Monroe would have dealt with being a 60 something. She was smarter than she was given credit for, so maybe if she could have gotten past her traumatic issues (childhood abuse survivor), she might of embraced it. Some of the most beautiful movie stars from earlier decades did. Dancers in particular have lifetime of good nutritional and exercise habits to help them maintain health as skin wrinkles and hair greys.

Interestingly, to my eyes at least, the performers who have
aged best were those who stayed active phsyically and mentally, and didn't fight playing their age. Think Ann Margaret and Sophia Loren in Grumpier Old Men.
 
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jujube said:
I remember when my daughter went through the Madonna stage, along with most of the rest of the junior high girls. Black lace fingerless gloves, rosaries hanging around their necks, outlandish clothing. I just sighed and thought "this, too, shall pass". It did, right into the next fad.
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I was about to write something similar. I was going to college at the time and many of the college girls were wearing the "look" The difference is those young girls did grow up and accepted it as most young people do. Madonna seems to be mentally stuck in that time of her life. Kind of reminds me of those friends you may have known for a long time who kind of remained stuck in their high school mindset for awhile while everyone grew up , matured and moved way past those years.
 
Geezer Garage said:
Another one of those, I couldn't care less things.
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Understand, but maybe because i often used TV/Movies/Celebrity images and antics to segue into meaningful discussions with my kids about human behavior i'm now interested in such discussions with my peers, my age cohorts.

How people react to, make judgements about both fictional characters and celebrity personas can tell us a lot about the person who is speaking/writing. In some ways celebs, especially 'outrageous' ones are living Rorschach tests. And people's responses are usually more interesting to me than the celeb themselves.
 

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