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1、天命之年麦当娜|天命之年 一连几天，耳机里听到的全部是麦当娜的新歌4分钟。还是节奏压倒唱腔的舞曲，麦当娜没唱几句，倒是合作的贾斯汀一直铿锵有力，并以声调后扬的几声“麦当娜，麦当娜”作为全曲的华彩和结束。现现在，再看到“麦当娜”这个名字，听到她的歌，或见到她跳舞的样子，感受的不是一个人，而是岁月！50岁的娜姐今年仍在出专辑，而且还拍起了电影和纪录片，再加上养子风波和不绝于耳的离婚传闻，已到天命之年的她似乎从没计划退出公众的视线。5月号的名利场杂志拿她当了封面：还是穿得少露得多，青筋暴突、坚固的大腿在空中摆出马戏团吊钢丝的样式，这富有力量的姿态仿佛寓意着所谓的美国精神：自由、纪律和努力。她就像那个
2、国家输出的价值观一样，身上有一股劲儿，即使衰老，也要显示强悍。EvaTo reach Madonna, you must wait for a sign. When it comes, if you are pure of heart, you begin to move toward Madonna, and move fast. Like a pilgrim, you read and reread sacred texts: profiles and reviews, the first published in the early 1980s, the most recent publ
3、ished just a second ago, which constitute a kind of record, the good news, the 1)Gospel of Madonna.I felt the presence of Madonna as soon as I landed at 2)LAX. It was as if she had been there a moment ago, and, in fact, while waiting for my luggage, I scanned a copy of the New York Post and came upo
4、n a picture taken the day before which showed Madonna, having come through customs, holding her two-and-a-half-year-old son, David, whom she had adopted in Malawi in 2021, the cameras an inch from her face.I was rushed to Century City from the airport, to the towering new office building of CAA , th
5、e talent agency that represents Madonna, and seated in an empty 3)screening room. The lights went down, and for 90 minutes I watched a documentary Madonna has written and produced, I Am Because We Are, which is African folk 4)wisdom that means something like “It takes a village.” It too is about com
6、munityabout identity and how its rooted in place. The movie5)sings of Malawi, a landlocked little nation in sub-Sahara Africa, ravaged by aids, filled with orphans.It opens with Madonna walking in a crowd of Africans. Then her voice, which is the voice of the upper Midwest painted in Oxford glaze: “
7、People always ask me why I chose Malawi. And I tell them, I didnt. It chose me. I got a phone call from a woman named Victoria Keelan. She was born and raised in Malawi. She told me that there were over one million children orphaned by aids. She said there werent enough orphanages. And that the chil
8、dren were everywhere. Living on the streets. Sleeping under bridges. Hiding in abandoned buildings. Being6)abducted, kidnapped, raped. She said it was a state of emergency. She sounded exhausted and 7)on the verge of tears. I asked her how I could help. She said, Youre a person with resources. Peopl
9、e pay attention to what you say and do. I felt embarrassed. I told her I didnt know where Malawi was. She told me to look it up on a map, and then she hung up on me. I decided to investigate, and I ended up finding out much more than I 8)bargained for, about Malawi, about myself, about humanity.”Aft
10、er the movie, I was brought to the office of Madonnas manager, where I sat in a boardroom and listened to Madonnas new record on an iPod. It was a long day. The morning flight, the articles, the movie, the record, then the interview. It was like being brainwashed. Like being dropped in a 9)vat of Ma
11、donna.本文为全文原貌 未安装PDF浏览器用户请先下载安装 原版全文Madonna made the record with Justin Timberlake, who co-wrote five of the songs and sings on four. Many of the songs are 10)hybrids, traditional Madonna super-pop, workout tunes giving way to white hip-hop, Justin Timberlake showering 11)cascades of rhyme. I was li
12、stening to the music, and its a record I think Madonna fans will like, because its filled with songs you can imagine blasting from the room where they hold12)spinning class, but I kept thinking about Britney Spears. I mean, here is Madonna, singing with Justin, whose very public breakup with Britney
13、 marked the moment the pop 13)tart began her battle with the furies. And, of course, I was also thinking of those MTV Video Music Awards in which Britney, already well on her way to madness, 14)frenched Madonna. 15)In light of this record, and all thats happened, I wondered if, in the course of that
14、 kiss, Madonna somehow extracted Britneys soul from her body, or implanted the crazy chip.This is a big moment for Madonna. There is the documentary and the record, but also a dramatic film, Filth and Wisdom, which she co-wrote, produced, and directed. Madonnas debut as an 16)auteur. The movie will
15、be released on iTunes, which, depending how you see the world, is a desperate act or a bold gesture.Whats Madonnas genius?Its not her work as a singer, nor as a songwriter, nor as a director, certainly not as an actor. In the end, Madonna will be remembered as a17)minter of images. If you go back an
16、d consider her careerbecause Madonna is one of the stars of the age so presumably tells a story greater than her own, about her people or timeyou will see there has been nothing but images, spun off one after another, like souls flying off the mighty wheel. Beautiful artifice, puzzles, surfaces, masksThink back on her career. Its not songs you remember, or not primarily, nor films, nor videos; its
