Madonna and Me by Laura Barcella

Author:Laura Barcella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2012-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

In the long run, Madonna did not inspire me to do any of the things my parents feared: become a prostitute or birth a child out of wedlock, become a drug addict or even an actress. In fact, to their relief, I ended up respectably married. Yet Madonna’s physical bravado was my spiritual mother. In having to repeatedly defend everything she symbolized, I gradually became a person able to see shades of gray, as well as a person who knew her own mind and spoke it.

Over the years, Madonna’s presence in my daily life has waned. But the fact is—will always remain—that Madonna made my “today” possible. Current musical acts are just that—acts—but Madonna was pure, unadulterated, raw sexual liberation.

What Madonna meant to me back then and even now: a guide through the wilderness, a soul mate, sexy, but beyond being sexy, she was Hope. Hope that sexy girls did not necessarily die bad deaths, hope that sexy girls lived to tell their tales, hope that sexy girls could rule the world. And do.

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