October 13, 2005

Madonna, Schmadonna

Madonna's 1980s song "Papa, Don't Preach" should be retitled, "Madonna, Don't Preach." In this excerpt from an interview in the November issue of the British mag Harpers and Queen, she tells us all about her domestic life (all empahses mine):

The woman who made her name as a mass media idol, continues: "My kids don't watch TV. We have televisions but they're not hooked up to anything but movies.

"TV is trash. I was raised without it. We don't have magazines or newspapers in the house either."

If TV is trash, didn't her videos from MTV's heyday play a part in making it so? I wonder if one of the movies hooked up to her television is Truth or Dare, the documentary made about one of her music tours.

As for the family diet: "It's whole grains, eating things by season, staying away from food that's been bioengineered in some way.

"[Our cook] prepares food like sushi or salmon. And vegetables. We don't eat any dairy here."

I'd probably eat a healthier diet too, if I could afford to pay a top-notch chef to cook for me. (I wonder if her kids' friends ever make fun of them for bringing sushi for lunch?)

"We eat late, we go to bed late, I get up early," she says. "I don't see a [lot] of my girlfriends. When you have a husband, two kids and a job, you don't go out that much."

Except when you go to movie premieres, award galas and star-studded Kabbalah "events." But then, what would a schlep from the suburbs like me know about it? Besides, I'm sure Nanny, Maid and Cook would have something to say about how much Madonna actually does around the house.

It's nice that Madonna has settled into such "simple" domesticity. Still, a woman who ran around grabbing her crotch and wearing pointed bustiers on stage, posed erotically for a book entitled SEX and, just a couple of years ago slipped the tongue to Britney Spears on national television, doesn't exactly hold much weight with me when it comes to moral and domestic issues. What will she tell her kiddies about her past exploits? "It was just business, darlings. It made mommy lots of money!"

Ugh.

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