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- From: rickt@bnr.co.uk (Rick Tait)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.madonna
- Subject: Just what makes Madonna Madonna?
- Summary: How? What? Who? Why? When? Where?
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:49:44 GMT
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- OK people, we're fed up of you USA guys hogging all the limelight
- on this group, so lets see some fellow UK people getting in on the
- act, OK?
-
- Anyway, I was deliberating as to what actually makes Madonna herself?
- No puns about gene structure, DNA, body tissue please; serious
- answers only...
-
- Is it the way she manipulates the media to her own gain, and surrounds
- herself in huge amounts of hype? Would she be the same artist if
- she hadn't _used_ the media so much? My guess is that she _would_ be
- the same - perhaps her music would be more appreciated than it currently
- is; it seems to me that a lot of people only appreciate her for the way in
- which she flaunts her breasts at alarming regularity! I can't think of
- another musician/movie star/personality who has wrangled the world's
- media so much in recent memory, perhaps save Greta Garbo, who, in
- complete opposition to Madonna, wrapped herself in great mystery so she
- appeared as an 'enigma' to her adoring fans.
-
- Well, that's just a taster of my view. Let's here some more.
-
- Keep striking that pose...
-
-
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