Lord BYRON beating down Madonna - hands down!
Most of my life was too busy subsistence surviving to keep up with cultural trends, only the biggest, most inescapable things that could penetrate the filters down to my level. So Madonna was never anybody I made the slightest effort to check out. Probably the only ditty of hers I heard all the way through was Material Girl, and nothing for me there, not the tune or whatever the message. The rest of her stuff I heard was just bits of semi-reciting/talking lyrics against a totally monotonous 4/4 rhythm and monotone whatever. I heard the trickles about her sexploit performances and was not the slightest bit enticed to look.
My main exposure was how LETTERMAN skewered her so elegantly and piercingly - where she was smoking a cigar and blasting the F-word and being totally *pretentious* and dropping the pompous word "reductive" supposedly to impress somebody (I have zero idea WHO).
So what brings this on is that with decades of indifference I was mildly piqued that her Truth or Dare thing was streaming free (I wouldn't pay for it) for the umpteenth time, and it was more like me capitulating to get it out of the way and I let it run on in the background with occasional glances at it. A couple of the songs were NOT of the relentless 4/4 banging away, and the raunchy antics were completely predictable, big woof.
*******But then when it was over, on the Brit outlet there was a dramatization on the topic of Lord BYRON, and right from the get-go *there* were HIS shennanigans, immediately with damsels running out of the room nekkid and being thrown over by him for other ones.
It left Madonna in the dust.
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Haters gonna hate....
She just keeps being her bad-ass self!
