Posted by The G on March 22, 2012 under G Reviews | 
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MDNA by Madonna. Available March 27, 2012.
Madonna has leaked all over the internet! No I am not referring to complications from her obvious plastic surgery/botox disaster of a face. I am referring to her latest album “MDNA,” which will be released worldwide on March 27, 2012. Normally, this would be where I go into a diatribe about how obvious it is that the record companies are leaking music and then claiming “poor me” syndrome when sales of lackluster music fail to break chart records, but we can save that conversation for another day. Before I give you my two cents on “MDNA,” let me tell you a few things – I have been a Madonna fan since 1983 and if she did what the real Queen of Pop, Kylie Minogue, is doing which is having an “anti-tour” where she’s only playing obscure and unreleased songs and ZERO hits, I’d come running back to the Queen of C-word (Controversy), faster than the walls of Madonna’s Vagina Fly Trap close in on hot young Brazilian boys. I’ve been very dissatisfied with the majority of Madonna’s music over the last 10 years and judging from the first single “Give Me All Your Luvin,” which is possibly the worst and most embarrassing single she’s ever released, I walk into this album with an open mind, but with the probability that I am going to be very disappointed. I realize that speaking any bad words about Madonna is obviously going to piss off some die-hards, but seriously, she may have a religious name but the similarity ends there! So here we go…
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Posted by The G on March 11, 2012 under GNN |
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Nothing Really Matters by Madonna
I read this quote from Madonna about her new album title MDNA on NME this morning: “It’s an anagram of my name. I don’t really think about controversy, I think about irony.”
Here’s the irony. Madonna doesn’t know what an anagram is! An anagram is the result of rearranging the letter of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once.
I point this out solely because Madonna consistently talks in the press to her minions of fans about destroying her ego and in fact, she probably has one of the largest egos on the planet. If you ever meet her in person when there are no cameras rolling, you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about. Sure there are worse people out there in the world, but if you reward bad behaviour, you enable it to continue. If we all talk about how we want to see change in the world, CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU!
And that’s one to grow on!
Posted by The G on February 21, 2012 under GNN |
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Madonna 2012 Tour
Got $300 to spare? If so, you are in luck! Madonna is charging that much to go see her perform on a tour that is bound to be so worth it, her team of marketing people spent millions on the first order of business – coming up with the name for the tour. The tour will simply be called “Madonna.” Wow! Genius!
Just remember, for your $300, you’re pretty much guaranteed a bad seat, you’ll see tons of great dancing that will be so choreographed, you might as well be watching it on video and you are guaranteed to hear in between song banter that will sparsely be more than “Hello (insert city here).”
The first show sold out at lightening speed because guess what – this formula works! If you are willing to spend that amount of money, you deserve all of the above things, but please don’t come crying to me the next day saying the show sucked. If you’ve heard any of her music from the last several albums, you already know the outcome. While we all still want that feeling of what it used to be like when Madonna did something that wowed us, we need to start facing facts. But not before we ensure that Madonna’s great-great-great grandkids will have enough money to survive, even if that means we’re going to have to spend a little less on ourselves after we’ve forked over our cash.
And don’t worry, I am not going to get into a diatribe about the Ticketmaster processing fee that varies depending on the cost of the ticket even though all they do is print a ticket and stick it in an envelope no matter what the cost….
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Posted by The G on October 11, 2011 under Encounters with G |
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Nick Scotti and G
Remember singer/actor Nick Scotti who famously did a duet with Madonna (the track “Get Over”)? I did and ran into him while I was dining on a gorgeous New York day. He was so cool and graciously took a photo with me and my friend! Thanks Nick! I won’t ‘get over’ this for a while!
Nick Scotti
Posted by The G on August 16, 2011 under Celebrities |
Photo and autograph courtesy of the G Archives.
Madonna
People have been asking me to tell my Madonna stories for years and since it’s her birthday, here’s one of them. When the movie Dick Tracy was new and Madonna was filming Truth or Dare, she was part of a special benefit concert in Los Angeles. As I have encountered so many times with her, she arrived and walked right past me without acknowledging that anyone around existed. Madonna was rehearsing the song “Vogue,” which was brand new at the time. During a break from rehearsals, one of her dancers (and I am not telling who) came outside to get some air and we started talking. I explained what a huge fan I was and how it was so upsetting that Madonna completely ignored me when I was one of the only people trying to get her autograph. He took pity on me and said “let me see if I can get something signed for you.” I waited and waited and finally he came back and said “the timing is not good right now. If you give me your address, I’ll mail these items back to you.” I gave him a few things and my address and fully expected never to see my Madonna stuff again. Several months later, I got an envelope in the mail containing the above pictured item and a few others! WOW! There’s always the off chance that this signature is not real, because I rarely trust an autograph I didn’t get myself, however, the fact that I received anything back is a good sign, right? What do you think?
Also born today: Charles Bukowski! Speaking of Bukowski, one of the biggest compliments I’ve ever received is on Amazon.co.uk’s page for my book “Sketches of Verbal Alchemy.” A fan compared my writing in the same sentence as Bukowski and George Carlin (another of my idols). Whoever you are that wrote that, you’ve brought infinite smiles to my face and I thank you so kindly!
