You know, Madonna is one of the most famous women in the world and has been my entire lifetime. And she would get vitriol at her at the height of her fame.
Rosie O’Donnell speaking to Page Six about her good friend Madonna and the endless criticism the pop star receives for her appearance.
I remember we were doing ‘A League of Their Own’ and she had brown hair and we would be in an elevator and grown men, you know, would say to her, “I like you better as a blond.” And she would look at them and go, “You know, f*ck you.” And I thought, good for her, man, good for you.
She knows who she is, what she wants, what she wants to look like, what she wants to wear, what she wants to say. And I think she’s strong enough to weather whatever complaints people have about her now and for always.
Jim
Can’t wait for her book “Has been on Has beens”
abfab
First learn to read. Then take a music appreciation course. Then take a course on how not to become a has been such as yourself.
RoyM
Madonna has been one of the brightest stars in music for decades. She has grossed over $1.2 billion dollars on the road during her career. She has amassed a personal fortune of over $500,000,000. She’s influenced our culture and many other musicians. What have you ever accomplished in your life? Anything of note?
Man About Town
“My entire lifetime”? So Madonna was famous at age four?
quantum
If you bothered to google and compare their ages (who the f knows how old Rosie O’Donnell is off hand?), you’d certainly have seen Madonna had her first Billboard Hot 100 in 1979 as part of Breakfast Club in 1979 when Rosie was still a kid.
abfab
Exactly. Thank you.
Paulie P
WRONG.
1979 – Madonna on break in Tunisia with Patrick Hernandez who had the hit song “Born To Be Alive”. Madonna toured with him as a back up singer in ‘79 and then stayed a summer in Paris where his company tried to make her a star but Madonna wasn’t into the direction it was going so she left and returned to NYC.
GlobeTrotter
As a teenager in the 90’s it was popstars like Madonna that defined my youth and shaped pop culture. Growing up we didn’t have cable TV (too expensive, remember?) but because Madonna was setting MTV on fire, me and my sister mercilessly pestered our parents until they finally gave in and ordered cable TV. It was perfect timing too ’cause within the next few weeks Madonna’s music video to “Like a Prayer” dropped like a bomb, obliterating all prior notions of what was considered “decent” on TV. Me and my sister couldn’t get enough of that video, but one day when my mom caught an accidental glimpse of Madonna dancing half naked in front of a burning cross and then making love to a crucified black Jesus, she flew into a rage and immediately cancelled cable TV! Next Sunday that music video was warmly lambasted from the pulpit in thousands of churches across America. We teenagers, however, knew better. My sister copied her hair style and dress while I had a half-naked poster of her hanging in my bedroom.
Fast forward 30 years later however and it’s just painful to see Madonna embarrass herself by trying to compete with kids one fourth her age. I get it, youth is wasted on the young, but everyone knows you can’t “out-young” the youth. They’re just being their authentic, stupid selves, as I was in the 90’s, and just as how I would have laughed my ass off at my grandparents for trying to ape youth culture back then, kids today must be doubled over in stitches every time Madonna releases one of those pics of her hyper-photoshopped, plastic doll-looking face on Instagram.
With all her experience, influence and wealth, imagine if Madonna had gracefully embraced the aging process instead of fighting this ridiculous and futile battle to appear like a 16 year old teenager in the body of a 64 year old woman. For example, she would have made a fierce UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, touring the world and bringing attention to the plight of the poor, naming and shaming world leaders for living in palatial luxury while their subjects live in abject poverty, for starting wars they’ll never have to personally pay any consequences for…imagine an older but entirely UNDIGNIFIED and DEFIANT Madonna on a soapbox, calling out corrupt politicians one by one and showing all the receipts. She could have been doing all that, and more, but instead she chooses to remain a 16 year old girl. What a disappointment!
abfab
You’re the man in the elevator.
Gabby
Honey no offence but I think you’re projecting here.
Gabby
If am not like Madonna at 65 I just don’t want it. I think she looks great and can’t wait for her new tour to start.
Fahd
Rosie has aggressively defended Madonna for my entire lifetime. Rosie speaking out in defense of Madonna is one of my first memories.
abfab
Lame.
DBMC
It’s Madonna, she doesn’t care what you think.
johncp56
If i were being trolled i,d like Rosie backing me
Rosie has aggressively defended Madonna for my entire lifetime
abfab
Lame X 2. This was already used above by another one of you tasteless queers.
Geo
Abfab, why so angry at people defending Rosie for defending Madonna? You have serious issues!
abfab
Correct me if I’m wrong, but both statements were mocking what Rosie said. Yes? No?
abfab
Still waiting for Cher news. I hope the rumors are true.
ScottOnEarth
“She’s knows what she wants to look like.” Really, Rosie? Madonna wants to look like a bloated voodoo puppet that would scare the dead? Sorry, but Madonna looks horrifying and, as someone who always wants to be talked about, she can’t control the narrative when she does that to her once-beautiful face.