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Is The Material Girl, Madonna, Herself Reductive? [Post a Comment]
Damn! Talk about an exposé of musical ripoffs! Madonna recently dismissed her modern day counterpart, Lady Gaga, as “reductive” on an ABC 20/20 interview (which aired again that night on ABC’s Nightline) when talking about the song Born This Way and its similarity to Madonna’s classic Express Yourself. Well, apparently, someone has seen fit to point out the Material Girl’s own reductive musicality.
An artist named Aisha has crafted an extremely detailed page on her website listing instances of creative mendacity on the part of one Madonna Louise Ciccone throughout the years. It begins with a who’s who of lawsuits against Madonna for everything from trademark infringement to copyright infringement to patent infringement to civil rights violations to breach of contract to even invasion of privacy and assault and battery.
And all of that is just for starters!
The webpage also goes on to illustrate that the plethora of iconic Madonna photos and pictures and videos are themselves ripoffs from earlier iconic figures. Of course, we know that she copped Marilyn Monroe for her Material Girl video. However, the page goes on to point out Madonna’s visual ripoffs of everyone from the aforementioned Monroe to Greta Garbo to Jane Mansfield to Jane Russell to Gina Lollobrigida to Marlene Dietrich to Bette Davis to Brigitte Bardot to Audrey Hepburn to Ginger Rogers to more recent figures such as Chrissie Hynde, Princess Diana, and even Cyndi Lauper.
Wait, there’s more still.
Her movie Swept Away and songs and videos including Vogue, Justify My Love, Like A Virgin, What It Feels Like For A Girl, Express Yourself (remember, Madonna just got done calling Lady Gaga “reductive” because the latter’s song mirrors Express Yourself), American Life, and on and on and on and so on and so forth and shooby-dooby-doo (that last part courtesy of the Full Force song Old Flames Never Die).
Damn, Madonna.
I mean, we soul and dance music lovers already railed against the fact that you got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but not Donna Summer, who was out there a lot longer than you were in the dance music department and musical seductiveness (Love To Love You Baby, anyone?). But if even a tenth of all of these allegations are true, I’d say that you were the most mendacious, reductive artist out there!
Damn! Talk about an exposé of musical ripoffs! Madonna recently dismissed her modern day counterpart, Lady Gaga, as “reductive” on an ABC 20/20 interview (which aired again that night on ABC’s Nightline) when talking about the song Born This Way and its similarity to Madonna’s classic Express Yourself. Well, apparently, someone has seen fit to point out the Material Girl’s own reductive musicality.
An artist named Aisha has crafted an extremely detailed page on her website listing instances of creative mendacity on the part of one Madonna Louise Ciccone throughout the years. It begins with a who’s who of lawsuits against Madonna for everything from trademark infringement to copyright infringement to patent infringement to civil rights violations to breach of contract to even invasion of privacy and assault and battery.
And all of that is just for starters!
The webpage also goes on to illustrate that the plethora of iconic Madonna photos and pictures and videos are themselves ripoffs from earlier iconic figures. Of course, we know that she copped Marilyn Monroe for her Material Girl video. However, the page goes on to point out Madonna’s visual ripoffs of everyone from the aforementioned Monroe to Greta Garbo to Jane Mansfield to Jane Russell to Gina Lollobrigida to Marlene Dietrich to Bette Davis to Brigitte Bardot to Audrey Hepburn to Ginger Rogers to more recent figures such as Chrissie Hynde, Princess Diana, and even Cyndi Lauper.
Wait, there’s more still.
Her movie Swept Away and songs and videos including Vogue, Justify My Love, Like A Virgin, What It Feels Like For A Girl, Express Yourself (remember, Madonna just got done calling Lady Gaga “reductive” because the latter’s song mirrors Express Yourself), American Life, and on and on and on and so on and so forth and shooby-dooby-doo (that last part courtesy of the Full Force song Old Flames Never Die).
Damn, Madonna.
I mean, we soul and dance music lovers already railed against the fact that you got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but not Donna Summer, who was out there a lot longer than you were in the dance music department and musical seductiveness (Love To Love You Baby, anyone?). But if even a tenth of all of these allegations are true, I’d say that you were the most mendacious, reductive artist out there!
Posted by T-Mad on 01/19/2012 at 2:37 PM
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