If there's one thing worse than Madonna writhing around in a near-pornographic leotard aged 49, it's the thought of Madonna writhing around in one aged 59 – but that's not as bad as the thought of Madonna getting paid $120 million to do it.
Sadly for us, that looks like the way of the future. Madonna is about to sign a staggering $120 million ten-year deal with concert promoters Live Nation that will give the company a cut of three Madonna albums, all her concert tickets and any merchandise sold at her shows. Good news for Madonna, but it's a double body-blow combo for us – not only will we have to put up with Madonna dressing as a 16-year-old girl and chasing whatever the latest trend is for another decade, but we also get the gut-knotting feeling that Madonna's going to exploit the loophole where Live Nation doesn't take any of her earnings as an actress by starring in all sorts of shit until she's a very old lady.
Madonna's been around for a while, hasn't she? Madonna's been around long enough to qualify for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, to offend two different Popes, to actually be personal friends with Jesus and to have tongued Britney Spears before she went cuckoo. Madonna is so old that she shatters her torso when she falls off things, Madonna is so old that she needs her own special toilet seats, Madonna is so old that, honestly, most of us were expecting her to retire after her next album.
Chance'd be a fine thing, though – because Madonna is apparently close to signing a new record deal worth $120 million that'll keep her in the limelight for the next ten years. Unless there's a pretty drastic image change on the cards, that's ten more years of putting up with Madonna grinding her swiftly-ageing leotardy cameltoe into your face all the time. Right into your face. The Age has details on Madonna's gigantic new record deal:
Pop diva Madonna will sever her ties to Warner Bros and sign a landmark $US120 million ($A134 million) 10-year deal with concert promoters Live Nation, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The newspaper's online edition reported that the 49-year-old music superstar was close to finalising the details of what it described as a "virtually unprecedented" deal, citing people familiar with it. In return, Live Nation would be granted the rights to three studio albums as well as the right to promote concert tours, sell merchandise and license Madonna's name, the report said.
Although it may seem ridiculous to hand anyone a $120 million record deal while fire-eyed doomsayers are forecasting the end of the music industry and bands are giving away their albums for next to nothing, it might actually be a canny move for Live Nation, because it gets a cut of Madonna's concert ticket revenue. And since Madonna's last concert made more money than any female tour before it, it looks like it could be $120 million well spent, even if we do get the impression that by the end of the ten-year contract a Madonna concert will involve Madonna creeping round the outskirts of a stage on a Stannah Stair Lift wheezing snatches of Like A Virgin while she gasps into the oxygen tank she'll lug around with her.
In fact, now we're worried that Madonna will never go away. After all, in 2017 when her contract's up, Madonna's adopted son David Banda will be 12 years old and just about ready to seamlessly take over from her like Zorro or something. And we're almost totally positive that this will happen, because people want Madonna to continue, even if it's a 12-year-old male Madonna from Malwai.
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Ti Piace - Madonna says
She is one of my favourite singer .. anyway I think she lost a bit in last two/three years… Anycase for me is still one of the best!