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- Sep 30, 2019
There is no way Madonna is going to attract a young audience now--ever. Her fans are gay men and people who grew up with her music in the 80s and 90s, and that particular Venn diagram would be almost a perfect circle. Young people don't care about Madonna. The major pop music scene, for over ten years, has been dominated by the same people over and over again; Taylor Swift, Bieber, Beyonce, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Jonas Brothers, Lady Gaga...and they are considered the elders of pop while new stars come and go. Madonna is just an old woman to pop music fans, sadly enough. They might understand that she was really famous a long time ago, but there is zero interest in really exploring how groundbreaking she was for her time, or in her body of work, even in a hip retro way.
No young person wants to see a senior citizen pretend to be cool and hip and horny; hell, nobody really wants to see that. It's a bit sad, as it now feels like her entire career was for naught, but that's how it is. If you base your livelihood and public presence on pop music--which is a genre for the young--and a very hard sexuality, Baby Jane Madonna is what you end up with. It's shocking in so many ways, but I guess dignity is never something she was known for.
No young person wants to see a senior citizen pretend to be cool and hip and horny; hell, nobody really wants to see that. It's a bit sad, as it now feels like her entire career was for naught, but that's how it is. If you base your livelihood and public presence on pop music--which is a genre for the young--and a very hard sexuality, Baby Jane Madonna is what you end up with. It's shocking in so many ways, but I guess dignity is never something she was known for.