Wednesday, April 18, 2012

#Madonna on Daughter Lola Leon Smoking

Discusses tonight on Harry Smith interview


On tonight's episode of Rock Center, Madonna addresses her daughter's drag for the first time. "I don't approve of anyone smoking cigarettes, most of all, my daughter," she said in an excerpt of the interview that ran on the Today show this morning. When Harry Smith countered with the fact that Madonna suckles on a cig in her Girl Gone Wild video, she said, "I don't smoke, that's just an accessory. She smoked that cigarette before I did that video, so she didn't get that from me."

And she'll keep on surviving and singing. This interview was conducted around midnight since Madonna had spent all day rehearsing for her upcoming world tour. And she'd like fans to know that at 53-years-old, she has no plans to stop any time soon. "I certainly have stuff left to say, I still feel like expressing myself -- I'll keep doing this as long as I do."


14 comments:

  1. Madonna is a good role model when all is said and done. I don't drink, smoke or do drugs and Madonna had a lot to do with that. (I looked up to her ever since I was a kid!)

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    1. Me too, Alec! I even did the whole "drinking water" thing back in the 80s cuz she always had her water bottle in pictures :) I <3 "Healthy" Madonna!

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  2. we've seen Madonna smoking cigarettes since day one.. from DSS to Bad Girl, from the 89 VMA's to GGW... and countless photo shoots in between. I love her madly, but there's no denying she hasn't glamorized smoking for nearly three decades.

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    1. This makes me laugh...

      DSS? A movie?

      Bad Girl? A video she represents a character called "Louise Oriole"?

      VMA's 89? With the whole "Italian mob" aesthetics? LOL

      "there's no denying she hasn't glamorized smoking".

      Uhhh duh!

      And no one is denying!

      Actually, that's exactly what she meant when she said it was an "accessory". It's an accessory in her videos, her work. Not a habit.

      In case you haven't noticed, Madonna has been "caught" smoking either in films, videos, or performances. That's the "accessory", baby.

      Oh, and just to add one more occasion that Madonna smoked with a very specific reason: during the Take a Bow shoot in Spain.

      Kurt Loder even asks her about it (surprised that she was smoking), and she explains that she doesn't smoke, but she couldn't eat because the corsets and the dresses for the video were too tight. She goes on about cigarettes being an appetite suppressant (which is true). As well as gum chewing (also true). And she was doing both on the backstage, chewing gum and smoking, and not eating, while wearing super tight Galiano dresses.

      Not to mention that Madonna's voice is not the voice of a smoker. Sorry.

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    2. Uhhhh duh! thanks for explaining the OBVIOUS in painstaking detail (somebody wake me after the rant). seriously!!! don't take it all so personally...

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  3. Who didn't glamourized smoking back in the day? Everyone did, as recent as the 90's smoking was still the fashionable thing to do. Luckily things have changed.

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  4. Madonna was a smoker back in the day. Marlboro Lights. There are MANY MANY pics of her smoking while not in front of the camera. But I think it was a faze, much like it was for most of us. I smoked for 11 years, then I quit. It happens.

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    1. Not sure if it's a 'phase'. I have never smoked a cigarette in my life. YUCK.

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  5. She looks knackered. I love seeing my Madonna but it looks like she needs a break... and the tour hasn't even started yet.

    As for the smoking, you just know that Lola was in BIG trouble. Madonna at her angriest I'll bet.

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  6. I'm surprised no one has picked up that Lola was surrounded by boys in that picture (the uncropped version). Everyone concentrates on the smoking. She's a real teenager, regardless of who her mother is. I tried smoking in HS too. Didn't like it.

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  7. I wondered about that years ago whether she smoke for real or whether it was just a prop, in the sex book & video as well as whats been mentioned above. Not that it would ruin her great singing voice but she's primarily a dancer plus the macrobiotic thing makes something like smoking seem counter pro-ductive.

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    1. Great singing voice???? Did you say great singing voice???? You are one of those people who got fooled desperately looking for "singers "back in her days! Ahahaha! Great singing voice??? She's a no singer and she can't sing!!! And on her latest album all she sounded is auto tuned! And she not a dancer either by just a mediocre dancer her body doesn't have the flow of a real dancer believe me coz I dance!

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  8. I dont know if Madonna still fakes smoking (by not inhaling) as she did in 'Whos That Girl' but she shouldnt be surprised that her daughter thinks it looks 'cool' too. I am surprised however to see Madonna with a gasper on all these years later - you would think she would have more sense. Evendently not!

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  9. I dont know if Madonna still fakes smoking (by not inhaling) as she did in 'Whos That Girl' but she shouldnt be surprised that her daughter thinks it looks 'cool' too. I am surprised however to see Madonna with a gasper on all these years later - you would think she would have more sense. Evendently not!

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