Madonna, now in her 50th year, and not being kicked to the back of the tour bus
For anyone who would let themselves go and make the excuse it’s because we’re menopausal, or “getting old,” or “we can’t/don’t have to compete anymore,” or “life is made for the Under-50 set.” And for every 29-year old out there panicking bout turning 30: Get over it! Take good dose of this, the subject of whom is now 49, and will be in her 60th year as her deal ends:
Madonna reportedly near $120 mil record deal
LOS ANGELES – Madonna intends to sign a $120 million recording and touring deal with live entertainment promoter Live Nation Inc. and leave her longtime record label at Warner Music Group Corp., a person familiar with the contract negotiations said Wednesday…
Under terms of the proposed deal, Madonna, 49, would receive a signing bonus of about $18 million and a roughly $17 million advance for each of three albums, the person said. A portion of the compensation would involve stock, the person said…Live Nation also would have to pay $50 million in cash and stock to promote Madonna’s tours, according to the Journal, which broke news of the deal on its Web site Wednesday afternoon.
I’m not a fan, to say the least, of everything Madonna does, but you have to give her credit as a woman and performer who understands how to adapt and remain relevant and powerful in an industry not known for being kind to women of any age. Kudos to her and the message a deal like this sends to every woman, especially as it comes on the heels of the Warner Bros. decision to excise women (all women) from the lead of any of its films.
Getting older isn’t fatal, unless we buy into the notion that it is. I’m happier at 42 than I was at 32 or 22, that’s for sure.
Congratulations to Madonna and to all the other women over 40 who break through barriers, be they self-imposed or externally created.
Yeah, the Warner Bros. decision is exactly what I was thinking here, too-
Madonna’s always been one smart cookie, bizwize.
Kelly’s right, too: The notion that women peak then go downhill is BS, Madison Ave. style.
Women are His second best gift to us all!
Every woman could look this good at 50, if she had a plastic surgeon, a dietician, a personal trainer, and a beautician; and if her livelihood depended on looking as good as possible for as long as possible. My Missus is 60, and shows the effects of a lifetime of worries big and small, child bearing, hard work, occasional poverty, and putting up with me- in other words-beautiful.
A deal? For WHAT??
But…she CAN’T SING!!
What? Oh, right. Marketing. Black magic. It can happen with anything. Like with the Beatles, and Kiyosaki. I get it.
I don’t like it, but I get it.
Dan Patterson
Arrogant Infidel
There’s so much to find attractive in older women, both inside and out. Even when I was young college whippersnapper I’d usually find myself chatting up the ‘more mature’ ladies that were so far out of my league it was laughable!
FWIW, please…never…EVER…put THE BEATLES in the same sentence with Madonna. That’s like comparing Gregory Peck to Paulie Shore fer cryin’ out loud! Geezis.
YUK!
Local Malcontent – you took the words right out of my mouth.
Let her have lived my life and we’ll talk about how good she looks and about the wear and tear one takes when one does not have the bucks, plastic surgery, and army of people to make sure she looks a certain way.
please someone do a “separated at birth” picture with this photo of Madonna and Mae West, in her heyday. Good god, they could be twins.