You might expect sober plaints from a singer devoted to motherhood, Kabbalah studies and activism for African AIDS orphans. But Madonna’s frenzied blast of hard beats and candy-coated grooves "assist in the creation of a Prada universe", where obama the “Magic Negro”is there to assuage white "guilt" over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history. While Madonna continues to express herself on the dance floor, explaining "It's a primal force people are drawn to", Prada's hands revolutionize the focus of luxury goods companies, replacing the stereotypes of dangerous, highly sexualised blackmen because "People love to dance, even if they only rock back and forth”. By turning the ordinary into the extraordinary – like a superhero, she refuses to abandon the genre of her new album, using a warm and unthreaening voice.Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand, with a $120 million dollar contract deal replacing a past 10 year relationhsip with warner bros, distorting the forefront of international fashion consciousness. "She still has the ability to debut at No. 1," exhibiting changes to the context of fashion from a commercial enterprise to something else, projecting all the fantatsises of white America.
PHP-Nuke, "Hard Candy, http://www.madonnatribe.com/news/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2155 (accessed May 11, 2009).
Los Angeles Times, "Obama the Magic Negro," http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story (accessed May 11, 2009).
Los Angeles Times, "Skirting the Boarder between art, fashion," http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/15/entertainment/et-prada15 (accessed May 11, 2009).
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment