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Madonna, Rubbish and Recycling

Author: Jonty Adderley (Skrufff.com)
Saturday, May 10, 2003
Madonna's credibility took another nose-dive this week as notorious pop polemicist Julie Burchell suggested the Empress of manufactured pop is dangerously close to getting naked.

"To state the obvious, that Madonna the singer is Grade A garbage, would bring tumbling down the whole house of cards that is modern pop theory," she said in her weekly Guardian column.

"Madonna is right to be glad that she made it before 'manufactured' groups started to strut their sassy stuff. But that's not because she's too good to cut it among the new group of singing starlets, on the contrary, she's not good enough."

Madonna herself, meanwhile, revealed an unexpectedly vulnerable side in NME when she reminisced about her pre-fame days in the 80s, dancing to the Human League's Don't You Want Me at seminal New York superclub Danceteria.

"I'd spend all night on the dance floor in some hideous outfit while all the skinny, fashionable girls threw their drinks on me," said Madonna.

"But when that song came on, I forgot my humiliation." (NME)
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