John LeKay

[John LeKay @RealJohnLeKay]

I actually have sympathy for Madonna. I don’t mean that sarcastically, and I’m not going to criticize her appearance like I did back in the day. We ran in those same circles. Basquiat et al.

She’s 70 and still doesn’t get it. I sincerely hope she wakes up, for her own sake.

She, like a lot of people in that industry, has been a very negative influence on our culture. Not because she invented fame or sex or money. Those things were already there. She just helped turn them into the whole point.

For decades the move was the same: change the image, push it further, get people talking, then act like the outrage means you’re brave. It sold.

It also taught a lot of people that attention is the prize, and that putting your sexuality out in public is the fastest way to get it. It's not much different from Only Fans today.

“Material Girl” wasn’t just a catchy song. It helped make it seem normal that your worth and your stuff and your image all go together. Look at celebrity culture now. Look at social media. That idea went everywhere.

People say she was empowering women by taking control of her image. Fine. There’s some truth in that. She ran her career and didn’t wait for permission.

But there’s another side. When the culture starts treating sex and shock as the main language of power, it messes with people. Especially younger people who are still trying to figure out dignity, love, and what a decent life looks like.

Madonna wasn’t the only one doing it. The whole industry was. She was just better at it than most. That’s what I mean by she still doesn’t get it. The world she helped build is already here.

Everybody’s performing. Everybody’s selling themselves. Doing the same old provocation now doesn’t look rebellious. It looks like she can’t tell the difference between being free and being stuck in the act that made her famous.

I don’t hate her. I just think the influence was real, and a lot of it wasn’t good.

[John LeKay @RealJohnLeKay]

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@Padmaja_Yatra This is all good but you left out the most important part. Rebirth. It’s not just about one life.

[John LeKay @RealJohnLeKay]

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour was earning so much money that he described the amount as “obscene.”

He recalled how he would spend his mornings writing checks to charities, simply trying to find a meaningful way to use his enormous wealth.

Reflecting on life he said,

“You start collecting Ferraris, then you have to buy buildings to put them in, and then you have to employ people to look after the people who look after all your possessions. Life becomes very complicated. And at some point, at least, that’s what happened to me, you find yourself thinking, ‘I don’t need any of this.’
And suddenly, life becomes simpler.”

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