Dec
05
2018
9 posts categorized "ANNIE LENNOX"
Apr
24
2018
Above: You gotta love vintage gay ads.
Jan
30
2018
(Images via RCA)
I was in love with vinyl — albums, 12"s and singles. Collected them, adored the sleeves. When they were all but discontinued, it was an early (and now, with perspective, quite inconsquentially initially) painful ch-ch-ch-change that took me totally by surprise.
Nov
09
2017
Gus Kenworthy (Image via Instagram @guskenworthy)
Get Your Jollies from Fitness Stud Liam Jolley
Gus Kenworthy Is Everything & Everywhere
Call Me by Your (Wrong) Name
Talking Trump Doll
Annie Lennox: One Night Only!
Meat — I Mean Meet — the Vegan Drag Queen
P!nk, receiving the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the MTV VMAs, delivered a powerful, personal speech about beauty and gender, using a story about her 6-year-old daughter Willow.
All the more touching she received it from Ellen DeGeneres ...
Jun
30
2017
Vintage cover (Image via New York Daily News)
Salon: Ruh-roh! New reports suggest Michael Flynn was tied to Russian hacking, and expose Trump's massive Russian business ties. But ... her facelift.
New York: Would you be surprised if it turned out that Jared Kushner was the aide who threatened Mika & Joe with National Enquirer nastiness?
New Yorker: More on how much American Media (National Enquirer, Us Weekly) mogul David Pecker LOVES Trump, goes to bat for him.
Joe.My.God.: Texas Supreme Court unanimously rules gay married couples do NOT have an automatic right to state benefits. Unreal.
Don't ask me why, but she didn't know Annie Lennox was already a music goddess. (Image via Twitter)
Kenneth in the (212): Annie Lennox gets hit up as a promising new artist (!) by a new music coordinator at an L.A. station. Named Kylie.
NY Daily News: A Florida first responder with PTSD since the Pulse gay nightclub massacre is dead-broke, being forced to go back to work.
Gerry Realin (Image via Jessica Realin)
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2015
Dec
03
2014
Annie Lennox, who's been a bit of a scold lately (what with dressing down Beyoncé for not dressing enough), has now cast aspersions on Madonna's latest topless poses, agreeing that they're for attention.
GASP! A popstar doing something for attention? (Like when Annie had Madonna perform on her song “Sing”?)
I think when Annie said we should ask why Madonna is doing this, it would have been worth answering that a little more thoughtfully. Everything public that a public figure does is for attention, either strictly for ego or, more often, to plug a product or endorse a way of thinking.
Why is it that Madonna's topless shots are so easily reduced to being only about attention, when Lennox's own use of racy clothing and even nudity were not? Why can't Madonna be—along with thinking that she'll grab lots of eyes by doing this—that there should be nothing wrong with seeing a woman's nipples (a sentiment she expressed when the Internet was broken over Kim Kardashian's naked butt, though the media deliberately misread it as shade)? Or that women past a certain age should feel free to express themselves both sexually and artistically? Or maybe it's not about age, maybe it's just about creating an interesting scene in the images. Or maybe it is a purely sexual expression—that's the least likely considering all the preparation and thought, but that's okay, too.
Madonna for Versace—no tits
As a reader pointed out, Annie gave songs to Demi Moore's movie Striptease (1996), which wasn't exactly not for attention...
Annie's smart, a great artist and welcome to her opinion. I just find her comment pointless in this case.
