“I donât even think about my age, to tell you the truth. I just keep going … I donât ever think about the limitations of time and when I should be stopping. I only think about it when extremely ignorant people say to me, ‘Donât you think youâve earned the right to just sit back and enjoy all of your success and all things that youâve achieved and retire?’ Not retire, no one would dare say that word to me! I say to them, ‘Wait a second. Why do you think I do what I do?’ Why do you do what you do? Do you have a stop date for yourself?”Madonna speaking to playwright Jeremy O. Harris in the latest edition of V Magazine about trolls telling her to retire.
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Madonna has a word for all the trolls who keep telling her to retire
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Max
she can keep creating, no problem! itâs always great to see how a celebrity continues on.
wish sheâd benefit from evolving past her prior looks, though. she used to be such a style chameleon but she seems stuck within her closet of the last decade or so, IMHO.
miserylovedme24
I don’t think her issue is that she should retire, it’s that she should stop trying desperately to be relevant. She’s at the point where she should be embracing her legend status and the hits that she’s had rather doing this mediocre stuff like Madame X. There would be nothing wrong with doing a big Vegas show or a hits arena tour.
G-Man
I totally agree with you on that and please don’t become a joke with all of the plastic surgery.
Gabby
She’s at the point where she should be doing whatever she wants to do. A vegas show? Really? She will never do it. I always find it odd when grown men comment on her successful career and think they know better at what she should be doing. Okay Simone Cowell!
Caine
Madame X is amazing – both the music and the performance. I saw it live twice in NY. The album is one of my faves of hers so – I would disagree she should sit back and sing the hits.
Inspector 57
“she should retire”
“she should stop trying”
“she should be embracing her legend status”
miserylovedme24, there are a whole lotta “should”s in your post.
Are you a professional show-biz industry consultant?
lykeitiz
Agree 100% with @Caine. Madame X is one of her best.
richybruce
Thank you.
whateverokok
And end up like the Rolling Stones? Why do you think R.E.M. called it quits when they did? Because they didn’t want to be a jukebox band cranking out the hits night after night. They’re creative and they want to stay that way. Good for Madonna not wanting to rot away in Vegas. Legacy act, my ASS!!!
UncleFloppy
She’s gross. Always has been.
Gabby
…..but yet so relevant in your world.
Bonuscheque
This is why I love this woman. does not give a f*ck when anyone thinks. Since the beginning of her career people have always criticized her, so her being criticized now is no different. Say whatever ageist thing you want, but even after 40 years she is still so popular and successful. Every album she releases debuts at #1 all over he world. She makes touring attendance/earning records that only she can break, and this was not in the 80’s but in the last 10 years. If you scan the album charts, she is the only artist with 4-6 past albums always charting. Her videos are streamed just as much as younger artists. More importantly, she has 6 kids that she is obsessed with and that adore her. Anything she wants is a phone call away. I just love this woman.
GentlemanCaller
She doesn’t have to retire if she doesn’t want to; she has every right to keep recording and keep performing. And I have every right to consider her irrelevant and ignore her. She used to be amazing; now she’s just…hanging around, creating derivative, mediocre music. But good for her.
cliche guevara
You absolutely have the right to ignore her but apparently you chosen to not exercise that right âŚ. I mean here you are reading and commenting about her. Talk smack all you want but she clearly holds your interest.
SDR94103
she’s been an ally forever. whoever the silly ass clowns are that are saying these things need a 5150.
SFMike
She’s really reminding me of Mae West when she was over the hill. Let us remember you at your height and not as elderly and a joke.
bsg1967
Yes and not the cool groundbreaking Mae of the 20’s and 30âs but the sad 1970s
Doug
I have to agree… the photo here reminded me a little of Mae West in “Myra Breckinridge…”
richybruce
Exactly.
bsg1967
No to retirement but lay off the whole Madame X thing no one is buying it, it didn’t work make us dance, total flop move on. For christ sake Madge stay away from the bo and fillers
BoomerMyles
She’s utterly ridiculous. She looks like Edith Massey as Aunt Ida in Female Trouble.
sam83
And youâre a pathetic woman hating troll that hasnât had a d^ck f-ing the bitterness out of you since Like a Virgin was number 1 on the billboard charts. STFU already
ScottOnEarth
@sam83 Looks like you’re the childish, weak troll who can’t just look past an opinion that you don’t agree with. Jesus, you’re ridiculous.
SpoogeSF
@sam83 – Sam, worst most intolerant post in the whole thread. Time to grow up, girl
sam83
@ ScottOnEarth @spoogesfâŚ.sure Jan. You both look like backup troll accounts for Boomermyles right wing woman hating account
Juanito malo
She’s just an aging attention whore. IMHO
cliche guevara
And here you are paying attention. I guess that means you are the John.
Paulie P
âI donât even think about my age, to tell you the truth.” Dear Madonna you think about it every time you look in the mirror and decide to call Dr. Filler.
I miss the old Madge.
CityguyUSA
I’ll never forget when I heard her first song on the radio. I had just started working part time while in high school and I said to myself this is a sea change. The dull elevator music of the past was about to get energized.
ceej11
I was playing basketball in the projects on a dirt court. Listening to Prince, 1999, on a jam box. Kim J came over with Madonna’s first cassette and changed the music. I was born.
Jim
Ah, Madonna is now officially a member of the wax works.
Sad when people can’t grow old gracefully.
cliche guevara
Grow old gracefully? What does that even mean? Grow old in a way that you personally find acceptable? Why do you think people owe you anything?
THAT Steve
Love the comments, the only reason I clicked TBH. She doesn’t have to retire or change how she does things. That doesn’t mean you have to pay her any attention at all. I was never that big a fan of hers to begin with and know nothing about her career or life in the last decade or so. I think that’s the best way to handle when you think someone should shuffle off stage. Renting someone head space when you could just as easily ignore them is much more pleasant than following someone online for negative reasons.
QJ201
Yes Madge I have a stop date.
At age 67 I am the f*ck outta here.
T minus 10 years and counting
Heywood Jablowme
I hope Madonna keeps performing for another few decades just because the comments here are so funny.
Phillip
When I first met Madonna we were in a newly written production entitled: Pilgrimage in Detroit, Michigan in 1976 for a few performances. She did not sing in it, but was one of the dancers and I was one of the principal singers.
My how her career changed when she decided to go to New York and switch to singing. đ
Phillip
When I first met Madonna we were in a newly written production entitled: Pilgrimage, in Detroit, Michigan in 1976 for a few performances. She did not sing in it, but was one of the dancers and I was one of the principal singers.
My how her career changed when she decided to go to New York and switch to singing. đ
Danny94114
There is a time for both Men and Women to stop trying too hard to be something they are not anymore, it only draws attention to the very thing these people are trying not to show… Madonna acts like she still has to “get” attention…she Has the Attention Already, so she does not need to rely on the old used up “trench coat hiding the “sexy” outfit routine”….thats been done a billion times. She could have come out in killer Couture and been the talk of the awards…instead she came out in what looked like a badly chosen Halloween costume that made her look like her head was resting right on her shoulders. I mean c’mon folks…do you really think that outfit did her justice?..She is Not the age of the young people winning all those awards…I love Madonna and yes, she did change the world in her own unique way. Sure, we can all wear what we want etc….it does not mean it looks good on us. Should she “retire”? No way, not if she does not want to. But it IS time to retire the “shock value” antics.
plazaro1
MDNA thought she could get away w this, there’s only two women who have gotten away with looking good, regardless, Cher and Raquel Welch. Madonna looks like aunt Edna from Female Trouble… there’s nothing wrong with doing things w grace, like retiring). Instead of being remembered by all the great things shes done, she’ll be remembered by looking like this (ugh), the old lady, in your face, gurl!
whateverokok
And you’ll be remembered as that fat and lonely old troll who died in her mom’s basement. Dead at the computer typing away.
GlobeTrotter
In my opinion Madonna should have gracefully bowed out and retired while still on top. That way, she would have been remembered for her GREATNESS. By trying to compete with younger, fresher artists, she will be remembered by this current generation as a washed up, plastic-looking grandmother parading in stockings.
She should have gracefully bowed out and created a new purpose for herself, like goodwill ambassador or philanthropy. Madonna as a UN Goodwill Ambassador would be been bad-ass, and with all her influence and street-cred, she could have brought about enormous change while shining light on important social causes.
But alas, she prefers to hold on to vain memories of the past…