Madonna has been shocking people, challenging expectations, and refusing to behave the way women are “supposed” to behave for more than four decades — and apparently, some people are STILL surprised that she has no intention of quietly disappearing.
With the release of her fifteenth studio album, Confessions II, the familiar criticism has returned: Madonna is “too old” to make pop music, dance, dress provocatively, or keep putting herself in the spotlight.
Yeah. No.
In this video, I’m talking about why “she’s too old” isn’t legitimate music criticism — it’s ageism — and why Madonna continuing to create new music should be celebrated even when you don’t necessarily love everything she creates.
🎤 Madonna’s relentless rise from struggling dancer to global superstar
🔥 Four decades of controversy, reinvention, and refusing to play nice
🏳️🌈 Her support for LGBTQ people during the height of the AIDS crisis
❤️ Her AIDS activism when speaking up actually carried a career risk
🌍 Her charitable work through Raising Malawi
🎶 Why older artists deserve to keep creating, experimenting, failing, succeeding, and being WEIRD
👑 And why Madonna has absolutely earned the right to keep making music for as long as she damn well wants to
You don’t have to love every Madonna album.
You don’t have to love every Madonna performance.
You don’t even have to understand what the hell she’s doing sometimes.
But demanding that a woman stop creating because she reached some imaginary expiration date?
Oh, please.
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