Fifteen years ago, at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera opened the show with “Like A Virgin” and very well stole it. Madonna kissed both pop stars on their mouths, though apparently some people only remember the Spears-Madge smooch. I know this because the cameras…
And here come the excuses. Responding to the widespread criticism she received over her surreal appearance at Monday’s MTV VMAs, during which she told a seven-minute story about herself in front of a giant picture of Aretha Franklin, Madonna wrote on Instagram that she did not intend to perform a tribute to Franklin.…
In a move that screamed “walking Onion headline,” Madonna told what appeared to be an improvised story about her pre-fame years in front of a giant picture of Aretha Franklin during the Video Music Awards. “Aretha Louise Franklin changed the course of my life,” she began, wearing the Berber drag she’s been rocking…
The notion that media pits women entertainers against each other more explicitly and extremely than it does men is tried and true enough to be a cliche. The supposed bad blood between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj immediately comes to mind, as does Ryan Murphy’s 2017 limited series Feud, which examined how powerful men…
Madonna notoriously (and understandably) has one of the largest, most unwieldy egos in the entertainment business, and I do not necessarily bemoan her for it. She transformed pop several times over, and inspired those who continue to do so, but—as one of the most famous people in the world—lacks a certain sense of…
I’m all for celebrating dads on their special day, but Father’s Day does its best work when it doubles as Single Moms Day. Sure, mothers have their own May celebration, but single moms who play two roles deserve more than one shitty Hallmark card and overcooked pile of pancakes in bed. And it appears Madonna, single…
Snoop and Martha are the best because they prove that cultivating new adult friendships in middle age is totally possible, and also because they are each the most delightful people in complementary ways. So of course, it’s always fun to hear more details about how the weeded rapper and the weeding crafter have…
A court has ruled that a New York City auction house does have the right to sell several personal items that once belonged to Madonna, including a pair of her panties, a hairbrush, and her breakup letter from Tupac.
No shade to Madonna, but I didn’t realize how much I liked “You Must Love Me” until I heard Lana del Rey sing it. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote it for the 1996 film version of Evita, basically so something from the movie, which was otherwise full of preexisting music, could win Best Original Song at the…
In 1998, a self-proclaimed “happier, more grounded” 39-year-old Madonna made a show of change. Evolution had been constant for her throughout the preceding 15 or so years of fame, but recent milestones had suggested that this shift was different, beyond skin deep. She’d given birth to her first child, Lourdes, in…
Yeah, Madonna’s bandwagoning with every singer/songwriter/actress/Kardashian to launch a beauty product line, but I can get with this commercial which neither terrifies me nor reminds me of my hideousness only fixable by slathering my face with product named after a sexy tropical fruit which will make me a bad bitch.…
There are artists and there are pop stars and rarely the twain shall meet. In a review of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent Comme des Garçons exhibit, artist/writer David Salle wrote a sentence that succinctly exposed just how different these professional species are: “The modern artist says, Love me for hating…
Yesss put down your DraftKings app, Jezebel readers (jk, jk). NFL player J.J. Watt of the Houston Texans started an online fundraiser last Sunday for Hurricane Harvey victims with a modest $200,000 goal and has now reached $17.5 million [UPDATE 15 minutes later: $17.8 million]. To put that number in perspective, an…
Tracy Anderson, celebrity trainer to the stars, is opening a gym in London, so that city’s Times profiled her and she had a few things to say about her famous clients. On training Gwyneth Paltrow, with whom she opened a gym in Manhattan earlier this year, Anderson had this to say:
We typically don’t hear stories about Jennifer Lawrence’s bodily functions and fluids unless she’s promoting a movie, so when I first read the Page Six story detailing Lawrence’s very recent and very public bout with the stomach flu, I jumped over to her IMDB page to see when her new film Mother would be released.…
Madonna filed an emergency court order in New York City on Tuesday to block the auctioning of 22 personal items she alleges were lifted from her private residency. The stash includes, most famously, a letter from Tupac Shakur that’s expected to fetch $400,000, but the entire catalog reads like the trophies of a…
Madonna said something stupid again—we just happen to be learning it about 25 years later.
Read her lips: Britney Spears is pissed and she wants credit. In a recent interview that ran on Israeli TV, the pop diva decried those who accuse her of lip-syncing. “A lot of people think that I don’t sing live,” Spears said. “Because I’m dancing so much I do have a little bit of playback, but there’s a mixture of my…
In the early 2000s, Hollywood was seized by a new (and at the same time, very very old) spiritual fad: Kabbalah, an ancient Jewish mysticism that previously could only be studied by older Orthodox men who had devoted their lives to Judaism. Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton are not older Orthodox men, but that didn’t…
Broadway legend (and a New Yorker I’d be terrified to encounter in public) Patti LuPone appeared on Watch What Happens Live! Tuesday night, and fielded a question about Madonna’s, uh, interpretation, of her iconic role in Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Evita.
