Madonna: Self-help diva

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Papa don't MP3.Hooray for Madonna. Although I’m not a huge fan of her music, I’ve always appreciated her persona. She impresses me again today by turning to freedom-friendly self-help to ward off MP3 downloads of her new album, American Life.

To stymie swappers, her record label has flooded sites with spoof MP3s of her new songs. The files are just as big as real MP3s, but when you play them all you get is the material girl asking, “What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” Brilliant.

The new record isn’t out until Tuesday, but M isn’t taking any chances. Apparently her last album was on the Net days before its release. This time music critics–whose review copies are the biggest leak–had to go to her publicist’s offices to have a listen. But you know only Madonna wields that kind of (market) power.

Predictably, MP3 brats who think artists should just lie down and not defend themselves are charaterizing the stunt as “foul-mouthed” Madonna insulting her loyal fans. Boo-hoo. They’ve never heard “fuck” before? Give me a break. As long as artists and their masters don’t push for banning technologies (like Napster), they’re right to use whatever self-help they can. I love MP3s more than most, but it’s sad kids are starting to think they have a right to free music.

Apr 19, 2003 | Comments

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4 comments posted

  1. Posted by bmoeasy - 05/02/2003

    Yeah, Madonna. The ‘artist’ that introduced us to Q sound. Remember that? No? Stereo left and right, and top and bottom. Huge tech innovation there. Persona with Madonna and that’ s it. Fucking con-artist she is. She should count herself lucky if a bunch of broke homos are swapping files. And, actually, I would imagine her audience would love the dominatrix style chastisement at any rate. Piss on me girl.

  2. Posted by Meghan - 10/12/2003

    I think madonnas song the american life was well shocking. Why would she write abut the way americans live? This is very insulting and disturbing. She said “Oh the american life, Oh the american dream.” How the fuck does she know how we live and what our dreams are? SHE DOESNT!!!

  3. Posted by gurlie - 10/12/2003

    madonna sux!!!! her song the american life, wat is up wit that??? INSULTING!!!! she is jus a bad lesbian singer and her career should end. The song was not nice and clearly she was insulting herself…. how dumb can u get?!?!?

  4. Posted by Rachel - 02/27/2004

    Well americans are very materialistic

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