Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!houxm!ihnp4!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: My $0.02's worth on Madonna Message-ID: <384@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 20:25:29 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxr.384 Posted: Tue Aug 6 20:25:29 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 01:40:41 EDT References: <379@mhuxr.UUCP> <182@epicen.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 35 > > Me > Joe Buck > > .... [Madonna] is just the visible part of a massive PR > > campaign and that she has little to do with creating her songs and deciding > > what they will sound like. That has been the case for many female > > singers and bands (remember the Go-Gos?) and more than a few males, > > but why suddenly trot these claims of independence? > > Please! While the Go-Go's were not one of my favorite bands, they were > hardly the creation of the American music industry... > ... They played their own instruments > and wrote their own songs (neither of which Madonna does). They were for > real. Madonna isn't. > OK, so they could hold the instruments without hurting themselves. The music was still complete fluff, and the record executives, and presumably the critics who praised them to the skies, knew it. They also had to know that people would wise up to the fact it was fluff and forget the Go-Gos. All of which applies to Madonna,except that she is worse because she can't even write her sub-moronic words herself. > A previous poster complained that Tina Turner also uses her sexuality, > and I as well as other people had said good things about her and bad > things about Madonna. The big difference is that Tina Turner is ALSO a hell of a singer, which is really the whole point. What she looks like, or her behavior in performance has little to do with it. If you don't believe me, try listening to Alberta Hunter singing "My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More" (AMTRAK BLUES, Columbia 1979). She was about 87 years old then and certainly not the greatest looker or body in the world, yet projects more sexuality than Madonna ever will, just through the voice. As Billy Crystal did not put it, "It's better to sound good than to look good, and Alberta sounded just Mahvelous" Marcel Simon