🏫 𝑺𝑪𝑯𝑶𝑶𝑳 has surpassed 𝟭𝟬 𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 streams on Spotify 🏫
- @Madonna's 129th song to achieve this milestone;
- Confessions II officially becomes her studio album with the most songs above this mark, currently 11 tracks.
🎧: https://t.co/4nc2T1aaSP
Oh, just a handful of positive articles about M’s stunning performance and landslide at the VMAs ❤️👑 Part 2 of 2.
Links to the articles in my IG stories.
I see Madonna is pissing everybody off again.
Good.
Gen X checking in:
Were some of y’all born yesterday?
You’re clutching your pearls because Madonna is 68, wearing lingerie, fishnets and thigh-high boots like she suddenly lost her mind at bingo.
THIS IS MADONNA.
She rolled around on the VMA stage in a wedding dress in 1984.
She gave us Like a Prayer.
Vogue.
Erotica.
Truth or Dare.
Justify My Love.
Ray of Light.
Confessions.
She made Evita, Who’s That Girl, A League of Their Own and Desperately Seeking Susan.
She reinvented herself so many damn times that entire generations of pop stars are still borrowing from the blueprint.
And now the woman who spent 40+ years telling society to go fuck itself is supposed to hit 68 and start dressing like somebody’s meemaw because you got uncomfortable with her aging?
Fuck that.
Prince never needed permission to be Prince.
Bowie never needed permission to be Bowie.
Madonna doesn’t need permission to be Madonna.
And bookmark this post:
The day Madonna dies, half the people dragging her today will suddenly post “We lost an icon 💔” and spend a week explaining how she changed music, fashion, sexuality and pop culture.
I’m not waiting for her obituary to give her her flowers.
Wear the corset.
Wear the fishnets.
Piss people off.
You’re fucking Madonna.
Despite delays caused by the NFL game running over, which drew a lot of criticism, Madonna's opening performance peaked at 15 million viewers, the most-watched moment of the night.
Largely thanks to her pull, the VMAs averaged 8.4 million viewers across CBS and MTV, the biggest audience since 2015.
The criticism of Madonna makes surreal reading. Is she supoosed to sit in front if a two bar fire in a cardi and slacks? She is being criticised for being Madonna at 68. She cannot move like she used to, it's true. Neither can I. Neither can you. Keep trailblazing. You legend ❤️