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<blockquote data-quote="Alexis" data-source="post: 167666" data-attributes="member: 68">It&#039;s odd. The whole situation she&#039;s in. I think it&#039;s probably a first in the music world. She&#039;s not like other female singers in that as they get older they can do covers and standards and torch song stuff. That was never who Madonna was. She was the first of her kind. She was never a balladeer. She couldn&#039;t just go on releasing love songs and whatnot quietly in the background. She doesn&#039;t feel that post 50 she should have to and she&#039;s right. But what does someone who&#039;s been a pop icon, erotic, sex symbol, blonde bombshell, earth mother, new-disco queen do at 60? As Madonna sees it she should dress and behave like she&#039;s one of the kids. Why not? Hasn&#039;t she always been a provocateur?It&#039;s just that now it feels forced, not authentic. Now it feels like she&#039;s actively fighting against her age instead of embracing it. Which is what I would rather she do. That doesn&#039;t mean I think she should wear sack dresses, let her hair go grey and release folk ballads either.I think I feel bad for her because there is all this stuff that society says a woman in her 60s should be. It&#039;s cruel. It is different for men. Bowie, Elton John, Jagger never had to deal with anything like this. They could just peacock away and release what they wanted and look how they wanted and say what they wanted without any of the scrutiny that Madonna has had.She&#039;s trying to stay relevant and young and all of that because the world tells us that women in their 60s should quietly fade away into the grey.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alexis, post: 167666, member: 68"] It's odd. The whole situation she's in. I think it's probably a first in the music world. She's not like other female singers in that as they get older they can do covers and standards and torch song stuff. That was never who Madonna was. She was the first of her kind. She was never a balladeer. She couldn't just go on releasing love songs and whatnot quietly in the background. She doesn't feel that post 50 she should have to and she's right. But what does someone who's been a pop icon, erotic, sex symbol, blonde bombshell, earth mother, new-disco queen do at 60? As Madonna sees it she should dress and behave like she's one of the kids. Why not? Hasn't she always been a provocateur? It's just that now it feels forced, not authentic. Now it feels like she's actively fighting against her age instead of embracing it. Which is what I would rather she do. That doesn't mean I think she should wear sack dresses, let her hair go grey and release folk ballads either. I think I feel bad for her because there is all this stuff that society says a woman in her 60s should be. It's cruel. It is different for men. Bowie, Elton John, Jagger never had to deal with anything like this. They could just peacock away and release what they wanted and look how they wanted and say what they wanted without any of the scrutiny that Madonna has had. She's trying to stay relevant and young and all of that because the world tells us that women in their 60s should quietly fade away into the grey. [/QUOTE]

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