Is Madonna still Queen?

of course she is. she is a marketing/business woman genious.

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No... it is Hillary Duff. Or the guys from Nsync.

When Madonna was at the career point that Britney is at now (a few years into it, and young) her life was as public and intruded upon as Britney's, and as bizarre, including a very weird marriage to Sean Penn - she was constant fodder for the tabloids and as much of a magnet for the paparazzi as Britney is now. Britney seems to me to be mirroring Madonna's life quite closely.

You have to look at it relatively - you can't compare where Britney is now, at 22, to Madonna, at 40-whatever.

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Never thought of it like that, Rath! I can't say with any authority because I can't even remember( I was but a wee nipper), but it seems to me that Madonna always seemed in control of her career, whereas Britney doesn't. And in 20 years will the popsters of the day look up to Britney in the way that today's look up to Madonna?

I wonder if Britney has the staying power though. While remaining a center of controversy and scandal, she doesn't appear to be doing much work. Madonna kep the hits a coming.

I don't really either. I was just a wee lad in the 80s.

- Rathnait -
I like to think of Britney as Madonna II.
And I think of Christina as Cher II.
It's really a lovely model.
(you know, minus Sonny.)

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Justin Timberlake is the next queen of Pop.


Britney Spears is the reigning queen of southern trash.

Though comparisons are inevitable, right now, they are hardly the same.

Britney was groomed from an early age to be a performer. She had the glossy veneer of a Mousketeer which she has been trying to redefine for some time now.

Madonna, on the other hand, has an air of legitimacy about her because of how she rose from Martha Graham dancer to a scrappy songstress on the NYC club scene to...well...provocateur and business-woman extraordinaire.

Her political conscience was stirred when she saw her friends and early supporters dying in the early and mid 80's. Britney's persona has its roots in the house that Walt built. Madonna's artistic and personal lives seem dominated by the death of her mother when she was only 10.

Perhaps Britney is much smarter than she's leading us to believe. But the thing about Madonna was you always knew she was smart (street and otherwise) and she used that, coupled with her powerful sexuality, to create a striking and strong image of a woman.

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Was she not 5?
'My mother died when I was 5, and all I did was cry and cry.'
Did she change that for rhyming purposes?

if MJ is the king is blacket a prince?

lol no for real thats his name i sw it onTV