I just like that the Slant story understands it as an indisputable fact that Madonna "swallowed her light" when she married Guy Richie and stopped explicit connections to the gay male community that made her what she was to that day. I like that the contradictions in the Advocate interview are used to support that fact.
As I recall, this is a point I made when songanddance and I first went at it over his belief that Gaga's super-explicit courting and supporting of queer people, particularly youth, was insincere and only for her own benefit, but that somehow everything Madonna, the strong feminist queer-friendly icon did before she married Guy Ritchie 12 years ago, somehow counted for more. That's all.
I also appreciate the "Madonna's trying to defy death" theme brought up there. Of course, I have expressed my disappointment that rather than finding a way for a pop star of her ilk to mature, she has gone the other direction and is surgically trying to remain young looking. I guess I am just supremely disappointed that this inconolcast stopped forging her own path and went down such a familiar one. Perhaps this was just another aspect of her light that she swallowed and this article helps make contextual sense from an intellectual development point of view. Maybe Madonna really does have it deeply imprinted in her brain that life ends at 35.
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Updated On: 3/23/12 at 01:31 PM