Pop Titan Madonna recently covered the latest issue of British Vogue and dished on several subjects close to her heart, including the inherent ageism and sexism within the music industry.
Busy promoting her latest studio effort, ‘Madame X’, here is what the superstar had to say on the subject:
“People have always been trying to silence me for one reason or another, whether it’s that I’m not pretty enough, I don’t sing well enough, I’m not talented enough, I’m not married enough, and now it’s that I’m not young enough. So they just keep trying to find a hook to hang their beef about me being alive on. Now I’m fighting ageism, now I’m being punished for turning 60.”
Madame ❌ sipping my pain just like champagne…………. 🥂 #medellín out now @maluma 🔥❌
Madge also dished on her outlook towards her place in popular culture and the personalities who inspired her in the past:
“There are no living role models for me. Because nobody does what I do. And that’s kind of scary. I can look back at women who I think were great and amazing – freedom fighters, like Simone de Beauvoir or Angela Davis – but they didn’t have kids. Being a single parent of six children, I continue to be creative and be an artist and be politically active, to have a voice, to do all the things that I do. So I mean, there isn’t anybody in my position.”
Appearing on a monochrome shoot with Mert & Marcus, Madge certainly looked gorgeous and seems totally ready to nail this new era!
Madame ❌ Likes to read in the bath………. @mertalas @macpiggott
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You can read her complete interview here.