Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Shut up and dance

Good old Madonna - she really does talk some trash, doesn't she? I thought her rants about the London congestion charges and her request that musicians travel for free was daft enough but she's outdone herself with this rubbish about Britney Spears. I'm often a bit reluctant to quote breaking news, particularly when it comes to showbiz gossip but this seems to have come from MSNBC so perhaps she really did say all this...

I'm lifting this directly from the report:

Madonna has compared Britney Spears' plight to the suffering people of Africa, calling the press coverage of her problems a "terrible infliction of cruelty".

She tells MSNBC.com: "It's very painful (seeing pictures of Spears). When you think about the way people treat each other in Africa, about witchcraft and people inflicting cruelty and pain on each other, then come back here and, you know, people taking pictures of people when they're in their homes, being taken to hospitals, or suffering, and selling them, getting energy from them, that's a terrible infliction of cruelty.

"So who's worse off? You know what I mean?"


It's all further evidence supporting my theory that pop stars shouldn't be allowed to talk about anything other than their new record. Footballers should pipe down too. But that's because most of them can't string a couple of words together. Pop stars, on the other hand, can string several words together and think that this makes them very interesting and worth us paying attention to. They're very wrong.

I, however, should be allowed say whatever I want.

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