I didn't realize Faye Dunaway had a album coming out!

Horrible looking.. amateur hour..

just completely clueless talentless assholes in these "art" departments...

and by the way here's my crotch one more time in case anyone missed it the last 8,678 times I've put it in people's faces".

That is the most unattractive thing I've seen since Pink showed up on the music scene.

I'm seeing metaphors all over it

bend me pull me stretch me, I'm taffy
rip me, pull me harder, I'm black licorice
slap me, knock me, spread me, I'm a sucker
chew me, do me, blow me, I'm gum

I'm a hardened woman,,,look what I've become

seems to be the throw it back in your face--same shame on you shitck that works
every frickin time for her--kind of a joke

just funny to see it so full force in action after all the spiritual endeavors

I shiver at the thought of seeing this 50 year old lady naked. Why is she still trying to be sexy? That ended at least 10 years ago.

Not thinking of Madonna specifically, but it's absurd to state that a 50 year old woman can't be sexy.

I usually find the OBSESSION with her age strictly confined to the middle aged/old people, and the ugly.

But I'm not obsessed with her age!

I was really hoping the Interview magazine cover would also be the album cover. That picture is fantastic and pisses all over this one.

No I wished she used the Interview shot as the album cover as well. I don't hate the new album cover but it doesn't completely thrill me.

No I wished she used the Interview shot as the album cover as well. I don't hate the new album cover but it doesn't completely thrill me.

based on response to her new single, the CD SHOULD be titled "Hard Sell"(in America,anyway)

Madonna is incredible, and this cover is sums up perfectly why I love her. It's sacred, profane, vulgar, sexy,and iconic all at the same time. The irony of this cover is completely lost on the morons of the rope, but again i'm not surprised.

As people here (and elsewhere) NEVER tire of saying, Madonna is 49. The HYPOCRISY and AGEISM continuously directed at her (in the place of any legit criticism of her work)is both sad and telling. Madonna is as beautiful and sexy as she ever was, and defies EVERY convention of what a woman pushing 50 should look like, or be doing. I never think of her age when I look at her, see her perform, or listen to her music, and neither do any of the millions of people around the world still enthralled by her. I usually find the OBSESSION with her age strictly confined to the middle aged/old people, and the ugly.

In any case the reactions in this thread are exactly what she wanted, and expected. No surprise WB released this image today, knowing the single drops on radio monday.

cmon dee-lite was great
but this is just making me speechless - not in a good way

Her body is better at 49 than most 25 year olds.

based MY response to her new single, the CD SHOULD be titled "Hard Sell"(in America,anyway)

MY response to her new single, the CD SHOULD be titled "Hard Sell"(in America,anyway)

Fixed that for you.


too bad you can't fix her new single for her;
THAT's What you Get for Dissing The Stooges, Queenzilla!

I hope they have "behind door #2" ready, like REAL FAST!!!

Another HIT followed by yet another HIT.
That's how it works.
...yes,and then the alarm clock goes off, you wake up, and hear the new Top Ten hit by Mariah wafting out of your Madonna-less Top 40 radio station of choice....
you should have NEVER picked on The Stooges, Ms.Bitch Face....

speaking of pity, the new single is number 182 on the national airplay Mediabase chart, down from #145!!!!..yikes..
Mariah's "Touch My Body" by the way, is #10 with a bullet...ha ha hahaha

Needs a stylist. Her mouth looks horrible in that shot. Her teeth look bad and the lipstick is totally the wrong color. Pale lipsticks are for under 18 year olds. You'd think with all the fashionistas she hangs out with she'd know that. Those squared-off French manicures are olde hat as well.

Needs a stylist...Her teeth look bad and the lipstick is totally the wrong color. Pale lipsticks are for under 18 year olds. You'd think with all the fashionistas she hangs out with she'd know that. Those squared-off French manicures are olde hat as well.

There's that hideous Wal-Mart font again. Typographical crime!

what is justin thinking?

What are you talking about?

Dude get used to that font. It's obviously part of the theme and direction of all materials associated with this project.

People get hung up on the dumbest shit around here.

This is just slapped together. It's totally Wal-Mart, lowbrow .

I just see cheapness here

I can't believe the Internet wars over this album cover.

amazing what the two madonna-loving skanks on the rope will do for damage control. the sleeve looks like an obvious attempt to be cheesy for the sake of cheesiness but goes way overboard. the airbrushing is quite apparent and the song is not doing nearly as well as those two twits think. looking up mediabase for facts does wonders...

whatever you say, sweetheart. did i strike a nerve? aww, sorry about that!

Hm...one day after the album art was revealed the album moves from 108 to 29 at Amazon.

Were they even at the same photo session? It looks suspiciously Photoshopped together.

Ok, I'm a graphic artist, and that cover simply does NOT cut it. The design is P-Shop amateur-hour, and the font is one degree shy of comic sans in terms of blatant cheesiness. I don't care about the music (as I'm not even a fan of the genre), but I'm aware of the aesthetic that her designers are going for, and the image simply does not cut it. My god, how much were these people paid to fuck up such a gimme?

A nerve certainly was struck hon, but it was all yours.

it's funny how you find yourself so humorous when you're the joke, hun.

Maybe he'll grow his balls back and start making decent movies again.

Maybe he'll grow his balls back and start making decent movies again.

so says the troll with the madonna obsession...

Madonna is so old there are stalagmites in her cooter.

myworld, don't be upset at us because Prince and Janet Jackson's albums flopped.

I'm totally confused. I'm coming from a position where I've never owned a Madonna lp, cd, what have you. I do, however, have a fairly reasonable grip on what our world is constantly being bombarded with by all forms of media.

I've read this thread for fun and upon finishing here's where my confusion lies-

1. Media tells us how IMPORTANT it is that we don't age, have lines/wrinkles or a fat untoned body. If anyone strays from those rules they are immediately castigated without mercy.

Question: Is Madge not keeping up with those societal rules? She's had the plastic surgery and is an exercise fiend from all accounts. Frankly, I'm somewhat awed that she is almost 50 years old after seeing recent pics of her!

Do ropers feel their own beloved spouses/SOs are unattractive as they age and should get plastic surgeries?

Do people here want their loved ones to age normally? Unless you die young, everyone here will age and most likely still want to have sex so I don't think it is realistic on any level to think people stop being sexual after they leave their 30s.

2. Someone above thread also brought up spirituality and sexuality in regards to Madonna being a problem. As a spiritual and a sexual being I have NO problem uniting the two. I feel sex/spirit aspects can be/are very compatible and a normal part of life on this planet.

Question: Do most ropers feel that one cannot be comfortable with BOTH spirituality and sexuality in one's life?

With great respect, I'm not out to judge answers- plain and simple just confused... and quite curious.

1. Media tells us how IMPORTANT it is that we don't age, have lines/wrinkles or a fat untoned body. If anyone strays from those rules they are immediately castigated without mercy.

Question: Is Madge not keeping up with those societal rules? She's had the plastic surgery and is an exercise fiend from all accounts. Frankly, I'm somewhat awed that she is almost 50 years old after seeing recent pics of her!

Do ropers feel their own beloved spouses/SOs are unattractive as they age and should get plastic surgeries?

Do people here want their loved ones to age normally? Unless you die young, everyone here will age and most likely still want to have sex so I don't think it is realistic on any level to think people stop being sexual after they leave their 30s.

2. Someone above thread also brought up spirituality and sexuality in regards to Madonna being a problem. As a spiritual and a sexual being I have NO problem uniting the two. I feel sex/spirit aspects can be/are very compatible and a normal part of life on this planet.

Question: Do most ropers feel that one cannot be comfortable with BOTH spirituality and sexuality in one's life?

The problem with Madonna's expression of her sexuality, for me, isn't that she combines the sexual with the spiritual; it's that she combines the sexual with a hyperactive and unhealthy amount of narcissism. There's an aggressively narcissistic quality to the image Madonna portrays to the world that I find wholly unattractive.

Maddie now cultivates a look that is not attractive to 90% of het men. She's all bone and muscle; that's kinda like trying to snuggle up in bed with a coatrack.

The cover of Rubber Soul made everyone go out and buy suede.

Everyone already has this (Hard Candy) outfit

Come on Madonna, we need a repressed librarian thing.

...yes,and then the alarm clock goes off, you wake up, and hear the new Top Ten hit by Mariah wafting out of your Madonna-less Top 40 radio station of choice....

...yes,and then the alarm clock goes off, you wake up, and hear the new Top Ten hit by Mariah wafting out of your Madonna-less Top 40 radio station of choice....

single ties Mariah with the Beatles for most #1s. Huge. Right now she's stuck being tied with Elvis at #2.

Most # 1's at Top 40 or at any format? Amazing - I wonder how many of those hits are actually remembered by folks as compared to The Beatles', Elvis' or , heck, even Madonna's hits. This must say more about the relative meaninglessness of radio in Mariah's era than the meaningfulness of her "hits".

>>>Madonna has always been narcissism incarnate.

It's always struck me as weird that she gets such insane devotion from her fans when it's obvious she couldn't give a flying fuck about any of them, thanks to that narcissism.