A lot of people don't say what they want because they're afraid. They don't get what they want because of this. - Madonna
A person is poor if he needs permission from someone else to do the things he wants to do. Madonna
Madonna doesn't like the "boring" movie parts she's been offered recently. Casting sees her as the mother of a "troublesome teenage daughter," she says. "Mom," who is a real-life mother of two, thinks she is the mean one. She is all of that and more. This artist who is always on the cutting edge is "frightening...
A lot of people don't say what they want because they're afraid. They don't get what they want because of this. - Madonna
A person is poor if he needs permission from someone else to do the things he wants to do. Madonna
Madonna doesn't like the "boring" movie parts she's been offered recently. Casting sees her as the mother of a "troublesome teenage daughter," she says. "Mom," who is a real-life mother of two, thinks she is the mean one. She is all of these things and more. This artist, who is always on the cutting edge, is "frighteningly" good at being whatever she wants to be.
Madonna, whose real name is Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie and who was born on August 16, 1958, is an American pop singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, actress, and fashion icon. She has won multiple Grammy and Golden Globe awards and is known for her ambitious music videos, performances on stage, and use of political, sexual, and religious themes in her work. In the news, Madonna is sometimes called "the Material Girl" or "the Queen of Pop."
Since her first album came out in 1982, Madonna has put out many albums and singles that have topped the charts, and she has sold more than 200 million albums around the world. Billboard said that her 2006 Confessions Tour made the most money of any concert tour by a woman. She is the top-earning female singer, according to both the 2007 Guinness Book of Records and Billboard. With an estimated net worth of more than $850 million, Madonna is the richest female singer in the world and one of the richest self-made women in the world. She was put on the list for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on September 27, 2007. In 2001, Madonna was named the "World's Most Successful Female Musician" by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Madonna met some gay people when she was still a teenager. Christopher Flynn, her gay ballet teacher, was the first person to tell Madonna that she was beautiful. He also introduced her to the gay people in Detroit, Michigan, and took her to gay bars there often. Flynn was the one who told Madonna to give up her full scholarship to the University of Michigan and move to New York City to become a professional dancer. Some of the first people she made friends with when she got there were drag queens and gay rentboys.
Madonna's reputation as a gay icon started to get stronger after she started making music and became known to more people. In the 1980s, Madonna was one of the first famous people to speak out about AIDS. Many of her friends and people who have inspired her, like her ballet teacher Christopher Flynn, the artist Keith Haring, and the photographer Herb Ritts, as well as her brother Christopher, are gay men, and some of them have died of AIDS. "Have you ever watched your best friend die?" is a line from Madonna's song "In This Life," which is on her fifth studio album "Erotica." The song is about the gay friends she lost to AIDS.
"Vogue," which was one of Madonna's biggest hits in 1990, is a song about the underground dance style called "vogueing," which became popular in gay bars and discos in New York City. In the 1992 hit "Deeper and Deeper," which was about a young man coming out, there was a small repeat of the song "Vogue."
At the MTV Video Music Awards in 2003, Madonna kissed Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera on stage. Out says that Madonna doesn't care about the attention the act got or how her daughter Lourdes felt about it (Lourdes told her mother people call the pop star gay and the girl has gained more consciousness of the gay community). "I kind of think that everything I do will appeal to gay people. I'm just a big queen, which just means I kissed Britney Spears. I'm the pop star mom, and she's the pop star kid. And I'm kissing her and giving her some of my energy. Madonna said that the event was "kind of like a mythological fairy tale."
The Advocate says that Madonna is the most important gay icon of all time, beating out Judy Garland and Cher. Even now, the gay people who like Madonna are some of her most loyal fans. Her popularity in other groups, like the African American and Hispanic communities, has gone up and down over the years, but her following among gay people seems to stay strong.
