This is, and is not, about Madonna.
The Internet is great and freedom of speech is great, but not every writer who makes use of one or both is a great writer.
Case in point, Angela Cheng, described as "a recent Communication Media Studies graduate of the University of Oklahoma," where she was her school newspaper's pop music writer. Charming. She's obsessed with Justin Bieber, but can't spell his name. You know this girl. Everyone knew a girl like this in college.
At any rate, she doesn't care for Madonna very much. Good for her. Taste is subjective. Not going to argue with her over her inability to appreciate Madonna as a singer or even as a dancer. (Well, maybe briefly I will: "Lady Gaga is a real dancer...[Madonna] has the coordination of a snail." Lots of people might prefer Gaga to Madonna, but anyone arguing that the former can outdance the latter is delusional. And for the records, snails have lots of coordination. They're not too quick, but they know what they're doing.)
What's so repulsive about her "Top reasons to dislike Madonna" article published yesterday at the high-class Examiner.com isn't her taste or even her lack of writing skills, which is generously on display, but stuff like this:
Above, Daft Punk + Giorgio Moroder + Nile Rodgers = heaven.
WeHo realtor brain dead from bacterial meningitis. Get the shot.
Kmart becomes cool with just one commercial.
MILKIN' IT: Mama cat adopts orphaned bunny.
Follow Boy Culture's (Work Unfriendly) Tumblr.
Cyndi Lauper pleads veggie on Lady Gaga's meat dress.
Men's fall/winter '13 collections are here.
PUBIC NUISANCE: Hugh Jackman gets pubic-bombed at gym.
Justin Bieber really is an idiot.
But so is Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).
A list of the BIGGEST male stars, like Steve "12.4-inch" Cochran.
Brian Shimansky works it on out.
Is La Toya the "most relevant living Jackson?"
In the Deep Web series about friends with secrets.
Is Walt Disney World "an unconstitutional form of government?"
Scott Brown to carpetbag New Hampshire?
YESTERGAY: San Francisco's forgotten gay bars.
Best Star Wars parody ever?
Which has the Weitz stuff?
A (Work Unfriendly) Tumblr: Guys & Pits.
Hot young models with crazy hair.
1st look at Darius Goodworth's FU e=fu8 Underwear shoot:
Five-card stud
"Could a father not marry his son?"
Jeremy Irons can suck marry my dick.
President Obama returning 5% of his pay.
Dateline 1983: Danceteria.
20 sexy Michael Fassbender gifs.
He's living life as a merman.
Lady Gaga in—and out—of her wheelchair.
Beyoncé thinks she might be a feminist, even if she's married.
Madonna will auction off a Leger painting for girls' education.
Working out with Madonna's trainer.
Is Ken Cuccinelli against anal sex because he's an asshole?
Butt...butt...butt...
Dolce & Gabbana, in a semi-recent interview that I missed, on owing their careers to Madonna:
"She has helped us to become who we are today...She came to us. We had a little room in New York we would use as a PR office which a Vietnamese boy was in charge of. Madonna's assistant got in touch and said she was going to appear at the premiere of her film Truth or Dare and that she would have loved a bodice encrusted with coloured stones, a man's jacket and thigh-highs. She showed up at the New York Truth or Dare event and the next thing you know she was featured on every single major international publication next to a photo of one of our catwalk shows."
On Madonna as a client and as a performer:
"She is shrewd, cultured and she knows everything about Italy. She is very Italian. But when it comes to business she's American to the marrow. She's got such drive and an incredible determination...[She's] had everything from life, yet when you see her rehearse a dance routine with her choreographer, she's just there listening, paying attention, obeying and staying in line like a disciplined student. Humble. Terrific."
On not liking Lady Gaga:
"No, we don't. But she is the mirror of the times and therefore we must acknowledge the fact. Why people like her? Why does she have many followers? What does she represent? One should be asking themselves the question: how come she is so successful?...She is the expression of an era of decadence. Even more so considering she hadn't created a single thing yet."
Harsh, but they know where their bread was buttered and they are no strangers to controversial opinions.
The first episode of The View happened before I owned a cellphone
Joy Behar quits The View after 16 years.
FBI "monitoring" Marco McMillian murder.
Ten-year-old eco-blogger interviews Amy Ray of The Indigo Girls.
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW: Justin Bieber: "Only God can judge me."
Synergy does not pay the fucking rent.
Lindsay Lohan saying "no, no, no" to rehab.
"[Madonna] never had to...tell me that it was OK that I was 'born this way.'"
Desperately seeking Denise Van Outen.
Win a trip to the GLAAD Awards.
Anal sex scene in Beyond the Candelabra done in one...take.
"Every Sunday night, this girl wo uld come to my house and I would stand in my garage and I would hike my boxer briefs up into the crack of my ass and she would give me a spray tan."—Matt Damon, on playing Scott Thorson
Called off, definitely
Boy Scouts too anti-gay for Carly Rae.
Turkish oil wrestling is totally legit.
Jeb Bush running for prez in 2016?
Kate Middleton carrying a little princess?
Deborah Cox to women: HIV still a threat.
Why Republicans should support marriage equality.
Pro athlete to come out sooner rather than later?
Gay Web series are where it's at.
Lisa Rinna goes off on a chick for mauling Harry Hamlin in the can at a Vegas eatery.
Ellen's Ben Franklin: "We're here, we're queer..."
Superman artist won't work with ultra-homophobe.
Terrence Howard's Oprah sex scene livened up by her "tig ol' bitties."
Anderson Cooper on Madonna: "I'm, like, the oldest groupie in the world."
Blog that smeared Madonna on AIDS removed.
Taylor Swift takes all comers, can NOT take a joke.
Have you ever seen your best friend die?
Lady & the Tramp? Queen & Court Jester?
I just can't accept that any significant number of Lady Gaga's fans, even her diehard Little Monsters, would be as monstrous as this. It is either a cult-like but minuscule group of complete idiots (like Seth Monster, who has posted here), it's a deranged Madonna fan trying to make Gaga's fans look worse than some of them already look or it's the work of diehard trolls who just want to stir shit and don't have a horse in the Madonna vs. Gaga race.
But...there is apparently a group of Gaga's fans protesting Madonna appearing at (what will they say when she's presented with one?) the GLAAD Awards. Why? Well:
I very much approve
Meet the Perry Ellis Very Perry campaign.
"Fierce advocate" Pres. Obama fiercely advocates against DOMA.
Anti-gay nut: Obama dating Reggie Love.
Can NJ legislature override Christie's anti-equality veto?
Oscar-ish: Anderson Cooper's Top 10 favorite films.
Even for $25K, I wouldn't tongue-kiss Maloof.
Gay Press, Gay Power = amazing LGBT non-fic book.
BTS of Purple Crush's "Little Bitch."
A guilt-free Barbra Streisand trip.
Amazing Madonna mash-up.
Madonna is music's #1 earner of 2012.
Gaga isn't in the Top 40! (But it didn't count merch, etc.; she's #4 there.)
Mo money
