I’m struggling to rustle up any interest in this whole alleged Madonna affair thing. Maybe because the guy involved is a US baseball star or maybe….I don’t have the same love for Madonna I used to and the whole thing smells like a media beat-up deluxe.
Or is Madonna the one doing the beating up?
A US tabloid editor has come out to say she thinks the whole thing is manufactured – well, the way it’s all gone public anyway – as a way to sell more concert tickets. Call me naive and gullible but REALLY?Bonnie Fuller, former editor of US magazine and editorial director
of Star and National Enquirer has written an article claiming Madonna -
and Guy – are using the whole scandal as a marketing exercise:
Madonna has just proven once again that she is the No. 1 marketer in
the nation, maybe even in the world. She has once again brilliantly
refurbished her brand exactly at the time that it needed a tsunami of a
makeover.This was no spur-of-the-moment attempt to grab the spotlight, either,
but a well-thought-out months-in-the-making makeover. It’s been
reported, and I know from a source of my own, that the A-Rod/Madonna
connection began more than six months ago, well before the release of
her recent “Hard Candy” disc and the advance ticket sales of her Sweet
& Sticky Tour.
“…Isn’t it strange, then, that their relationship only went highly public
just over three weeks ago when Madonna and her two sons turned up
wearing Yankees gear and sitting in A-Rod’s box at a Yankee Stadium
baseball game?Wasn’t that just a couple of days after news reports had
appeared saying the tickets for her upcoming tour weren’t being snapped
up as quickly as expected?Is it surprising that the 49-year-old cougar decided that this
was the time to pounce on the public and reveal her prey: a 32-year-old
married hunk of a baseball player? In the space of a couple of weeks,
Madonna’s most recent image as an overly fit, aging Material Mom who
had semi-retired to a townhouse in London has been shredded.
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She is now once again a sexy temptress who is so magnetically
attractive that she can lure Alex Rodriguez away from his wife (14
years younger than Madonna) and two daughters. And she sure looks like
she’s reveling in her born-again sex symbol status. She hasn’t exactly
fled the scene of the crime. She has remained in Manhattan and been
photographed by paparazzi.Her supposedly “estranged” husband, Guy Ritchie, has joined
her and appears to be completely in on the whole marketing plan. He’s
been photographed with his two sons wearing Yankee booty at Central
Park in recent days. My guess is that if Madonna’s marriage is almost
over and out, as has been reported, it’s being maintained now by two
total pragmatists who have made a pact to divide the financial rewards
of a successful concert tour and album sales.
If this isn’t true, then it’s more proof that it would be hideous to have that level of fame and have everything you do escalate into scandalous fiction. If it is true, I have proven myself still able to be shocked by the evil machinations of the celebrity machine. Either way, I LOATHE the way women are described in these situations as ‘home-wreckers’.
Madonna is married too. If it’s true, why is Alex Rodriguez not a home-wrecker?
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I think Bonnie is Fuller-shit!
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Meh I wouldn’t put it past her.
And clearly they weren’t melanie, reports said the tickets weren’t selling as expected.
Something iffy about Guy wearing the yankee gear too though. Maybe they’re about to become ambassadors for the team or something. Perhaps with the inclusion of that point she’s trying to drawn too long a bow
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I agree with Cath. I personally don’t know Madonna, so I couldn’t say she’s cold and calculating or whatever, but I do think it is bull that they are doing it for media attention. Whether you love her or hate her the fact remains that she is an icon and will go down in history as one of the most famous female singer of all time.
I doubt she needs this attention to sell tickets. They would sell like hotcakes anyway.
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I think Madonna is probably capable of anything. She is a very cool and calculating person who has built her career and maintained it for a long long time already. She is a bit too artificial for me though.
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I don’t buy it. Regardless of whether Madonna and Guy Ritchie are over or not, I think they’ve given it a bloody good go. They don’t seem like the kind of couple who’d choose to humiliate each other, and hurt their kids, just for publicity and a big boost in ticket sales.
While there’s an obvious double standard in regard to how the woman is always the ‘home wrecker’, what’s just as distasteful is the way the media, and people in general, seem to delight in ripping Madonna to shreds at any opportunity (when they’re not using her to sell a bizillion mags or newspapers!).
She’s an assertive, strong woman, who’s made her own way, and people still seem to have trouble with that. Assertive and strong = ‘cold’ and ‘calculating’ if it suits the story.
Ok, she’s no virgin, but she’s not a material girl either, as far as I’m concerned. She’s still making great music, and she still looks pretty awesome, (with the exception of recent pics in which she has been caught wearing man arms and legs and nanna pants! See recent ‘frockwatch’ post for further evidence of same.) She occasionally doesn’t look fabulous, and commits heinous crimes against fashion, (again, I’ll direct you to the most recent ‘frockwatch’ to illustrate this point), but she’s human, of the tall poppy variety that people like to slash.
As for Bonnie Fuller – you really would have to be a bitch to write such a bitchy piece. I hope it sold a lot of papers.
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Maybe the negative title (eg. home-wrecker) has everything to do with status.
Yes they’re both celebrities, but who has more to lose? Who can the media print more stories about and find new angles to spin the story for a few more days?
Who’s going to sell more papers/magazines?
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I think it’s the same as how a 50 year old never-been-married man is a “bachelor” and a woman in the same position is a “spinster” or “old maid”.
Or how an elderly man can be a newsreader on television while women get the boot when they get to about 40.
Or how a girl that sleeps with a few guys is a “slut” or a “skank” while a man that does the same is a “player”.
It’s called double standards.
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