Madonna’s New Avatar
Once again pop superstar Madonna has gone ahead and done the unthinkable.
The woman, the critics labelled as “a third-rate street girl aiming to be a Lady” has turned an author with the recently released “The English Roses“, her first book for children, a 48-page, jacketed hardcover filled with whimsical, colourful illustrations.
It’s amazing how Madonna keeps surprising her detractors, time and again. Just when you think all the mud slung at her would bog her down, she comes back with a vengeance, to create history. Nothing seems to keep this spirited woman down. It was just six months back when the critics drove their sharpened knives at her and trashed her music album “American Life” and derided her movie “Swept Away“, she made with her film director husband Guy Ritchie.
The controversy around her music video for “American Life” had even forced a usually non-compromising Madonna to buckle under pressure due to threats to her husband and children. Despite all that, like a chameleon that she has often been compared to, Madonna has changed her colours to suit a new role, a new avatar – that of an author.
Though she is known as the mother of reinvention for her ability to constantly reinvent her image and win over fickle fans for nearly 20 years, in creating the newly minted image of a demure 45-year-old mother penning bedtime reading for kids, Madonna has surpassed herself this time. It’s something she is very much aware of.
“I was myself surprised when I took this decision to write children’s story book. While I’ve envisioned myself doing many things in this life, writing children’s books was never one of them,” says the woman once famed for her conical bras and condemned by the Vatican for her raunchy videos.
“However I am a mother of two children now and raising children makes us more responsible and more thoughtful about our own actions and their consequences for those around us.”
It is plainly clear the mother-of-two is totally revelling in her new image of “Mamma-Donna”.
Source: Ed Knight, Free Press Journal