One Bad Mother:
Pop Culture Adopts Magnanimity, Controversy
Michael McMahon
Issue date: 10/25/06 Section: Commentary
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I get the feeling that this column is starting to beat a dead horse. I want to keep people reading, you know, so I've got to diversify. So I'll be hanging up the usual Congress-is-full-o'idiots line. I'm moving on, however briefly. Yes ma'am, moving on to the greener, more easily lampooned pasture of pop culture.
I'll say one thing first: I like our culture and if you don't, well, my friend, you're living in the wrong nation. I like that I can buy cheap stuff from Wal-Mart. I like that I can go see Jackass 2, then come home and watch Nip/Tuck. Tomorrow, I just might buy a Justin Timberlake CD, save it to my computer and forget about it. I do, because I can. And because its fun. Lots of fun. Fun. Fun. Fun.
Ah, the revolutionary glory of capitalism. Everything, anytime, and for sale! So with my loyalty pledged to low prices and spectacular new products, I feel that I can tell you how my heart has been breaking these last few weeks.
Madonna Louise Ciccone, who we know best by her first name, represents some of the best things about pop culture in general and pop music in specific. Constant re-invention, a preternatural ability to sense the Next Cool Thing, a musical sense second only to Prince - it's something to marvel at. 250,000,000 records sold, says Rolling Stone. A League of Their Own is a great movie; it even has Jon Lovitz. "Like a Prayer" is a great song-if you play it at a party, people will come out of the woodwork to start dancing. And, of course, I've love it all.
And I liked Madonna. All the way up until she decided to kidnap, er, adopt a 13-month old Malawian. Not cool.
I'm not one to complain about the need for all children to be brought up by traditional households. In fact, I couldn't care less if David Banda, the child in question, has two mommies or none at all. I do tend to complain when celebrities go to exotic locales and bring back human accessories.
David's father, Yohame apparently didn't fully know what was going on when he handed his child over. Now that's sloppy parenting. All the same, once things were explained to him he decided that it was not OK for someone else to be keeping his baby.
I'll say one thing first: I like our culture and if you don't, well, my friend, you're living in the wrong nation. I like that I can buy cheap stuff from Wal-Mart. I like that I can go see Jackass 2, then come home and watch Nip/Tuck. Tomorrow, I just might buy a Justin Timberlake CD, save it to my computer and forget about it. I do, because I can. And because its fun. Lots of fun. Fun. Fun. Fun.
Ah, the revolutionary glory of capitalism. Everything, anytime, and for sale! So with my loyalty pledged to low prices and spectacular new products, I feel that I can tell you how my heart has been breaking these last few weeks.
Madonna Louise Ciccone, who we know best by her first name, represents some of the best things about pop culture in general and pop music in specific. Constant re-invention, a preternatural ability to sense the Next Cool Thing, a musical sense second only to Prince - it's something to marvel at. 250,000,000 records sold, says Rolling Stone. A League of Their Own is a great movie; it even has Jon Lovitz. "Like a Prayer" is a great song-if you play it at a party, people will come out of the woodwork to start dancing. And, of course, I've love it all.
And I liked Madonna. All the way up until she decided to kidnap, er, adopt a 13-month old Malawian. Not cool.
I'm not one to complain about the need for all children to be brought up by traditional households. In fact, I couldn't care less if David Banda, the child in question, has two mommies or none at all. I do tend to complain when celebrities go to exotic locales and bring back human accessories.
David's father, Yohame apparently didn't fully know what was going on when he handed his child over. Now that's sloppy parenting. All the same, once things were explained to him he decided that it was not OK for someone else to be keeping his baby.
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