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Besides all the Freudian, erotic imagery (see article below), Madonna cannot
seperate herself from the cross. This is of coures, her own version
of the cross (and religion - I cannot call it Christianity). As I've written
before, people cannot do without religion, and have to create their own, joining
together what they already know, with what they desire. Why throw out
such a powerful symbol as the cross?
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Madonna has a new perfume out - actually it is her only perfume so far. She called it Truth or Dare, I presume after her film of the same name. The film was insipid and boring, and her perfume is no better. I got a sample from a perfume counter, to test it. There is a very strong, sticky, magnolia top note. The jasmine and lily (which I usually like in perfumes) are too faint, or are simply overpowered by the acrid magnolia.
Here are the notes:
Top: Gardenia
Middle: Jasmine
Base: Lily
The official ad for the perfume (see image above) has Madonna, Narcissus-like, contemplating her reflection. Except, unlike Narcissus, it is not her beauty that she is entranced with, but has made her reflection into a Freudian, self-sexual-gratification.
Her new music video, Girl Gone Wild, is no better. When she is not alone in an enclosed box, humping the floor, she is gyrating with stilettoed homosexuals. The video is filled with blatant sexual imagery, from bondage to masturbation to group sex with homosexuals - how did they let her into their pile-up?
I used to like the early Madonna. Even her very first Like a Virgin was cute and innocent. She does have talent, which she showed in her Latin-beat inspired Papa Don't Preach and with (the well-photographed black-and-white video) Vogue, which is clearly the inspiration behind her new video. Her creative ability has spiraled in recent years. All that anti-Catholicism, homosexual advocacy, sexual perversion, etc. has spiraled into nihilism, resulting with her ugly and perverted new video.
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Narcissus, by Caravaggio
1597-1599
Oil on canvas
43 in × 36 in