Dazed & Confused is so amazing - such a great publicity piece Madonna did for her brilliant Hard Candy album. There's a lot more that we could have seen but the ONLY thing truly missing from this magazine is the Keith Haring/Vivienne Westwood Witches Collection Devil Skirt!!! Would love to have seen that photographed porperly as these others were. Can't wait for the show that Madonna has been wanting to put together of her clothes for a museum exhibition.
I will never forget when the Hard Candy promo commercial hit. I don't know where to start on the brilliance. It was all flashback 80's. So you're sitting there with your remote control and you see the Jane Fonda shyt, then pass the 1-900-FUCK-ME ads but then it rewinds, slows and pauses on the VCR. Genius.
Steady there, roll it up...
I also know and heard the fans complaints on the album cover (What's new, Buenos Aires?). To me, another stroke of genius. You know when the Madonna Forum fans hate it, its an artistic achievement because - well, just because. I'll always remember riding my bike on Hollywood Blvd. and there was this group waiting at the bus stop and behind them were the album ads on the bench. They were all looking at it with pure disgust. I laughed. That was all I needed to know it was perfect. Job well done, sweetie.
In an era of downloading and Album Cover Art going completely unnoticed, Madonna always makes sure that hers will be acknowledged by everyone...across the globe.
The Punk Pop Fuck You Whore: Still vulgar and, above all, still fantastic - 25 years in.
CLICK HERE for some photos I took for the wonderful Madonnalicious.com of the Hard Candy bus stops around Los Angeles in April 2008.
MARILYN DOES MADONNA: Madonna fans heading to the latest leg of her Sticky & Sweet tour, which kicks back off in London on Saturday, are in for a surprise. The opening song, “Candyshop,” will be performed under a pair of giant luscious, pink lips licking and sucking on sparkly gold, orange, silver and green goo. The nine-minute video, titled “Green Pink Caviar,” is a new addition to the tour courtesy of artist Marilyn Minter, whose photographic work is in Madonna’s personal collection. “When I heard Madonna might be interested [in the video], I said, ‘Wow, how much does she want me to pay her?’” laughs Minter, who was initially told it was too late to insert anything into the tour. Apparently it was too good to resist and became part of the show.
“Then [Madonna] actually paid me a bunch of money and sent tickets,” said Minter, who is on her way to the U.K. for her first-ever Madonna concert to see her video in action.
