#ado

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#audience #catchy #concerts #depth #effects

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#contemporary #dictate #ear #eye #madonna

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#been #daytime #decade #declining #gradually

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dissolved #divine #genius #her #hollywood

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anyone #art #artistic #busy #fashion

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior? ↗

— Camille Paglia

#compete #dies #does #her #junior

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#last #liberty #men #privilege #quits

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#agenda #competition #everyone #field #government

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them. ↗

— Trey Parker

#bring #build #building #colorado #designed

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#destruction #earthquakes #floods #funny #funny-and-random