Thank You, Madonna!!!!

After I finished watching Madonna introduce Avicii in Miami at the UMF last Saturday on the Live Feeds on YouTube, I expressed my disappointment to my son and daughter that neither of them would come in and watch with me. That is when Jimmy informed me that he just doesn't care much for girl singers. Unfortunately, he gets his taste in most music from his father... what I tend to call bust a move, rappin' music that no boy as white as either one of them should be allowed to listen to. He does, however, like quite a few 80s artists, so I let him slip by with a warning. lol Abby said that she believed Madonna just wasn't cool and was just old. So I asked her if she liked Brittney Spears. I already knew the answer... "No." Why? Because she got married and had two kids. She is now "old." lol So, I asked her if she like Katy Perry. Yep. Lady Gaga? Yep. Pink? Yep. Ellen Degeneres? Yep. Well, that was after she pointed out that Ellen doesn't sing - she dances. lol  I told her to just go with me. I had a point. Compliments of the "shit head/smart ass" gene that is passed down from generation to generation she stated that I ALWAYS (eye roll from said child at that point) had a point and could I please get to it? Goddess, I do love her!! Anyways, I asked her to take away the age factor, and consider the people themselves. She then made a MAJOR mistake... She said, "Madonna tries to hard to be like Lady Gaga." Yes, my daughter had the cajonies (spelled correctly - I looked it up!) to actual say that MADONNA was trying to be like LADY GAGA!! WTH?! I then told her that it was time for her to take a step back and listen to what I had to peep into her luscious lobes. I then explained the greatness that IS Madonna. That SHE is a woman who has been inspiring women since the 80s pushing boundaries, hoping to break any mold that any man ever considered to try to push a woman into... so that we can all be who we are... deep inside. Her response was "Mom," with that snotty I'm the smart one tone, "Born This Way... Lady Gaga wrote that." I then pointed out that when Madonna's first LP/Cassette was released that Lady Gaga, aka Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, wasn't even BORN yet... That the fact that Madonna had already started pushing boundaries and changing attitudes and blah, blah, blah was the reason that "Lady Gaga" could even be "Born That Way!" Then we all started laughing!! I, myself, am hoping that she will open herself up to the idea enough that I can give her a proper education in the greatness that is 80's Music. I played ONE song for Jimmy and he attacked my laptop and started listening and then copying all the songs I had on my laptop onto his MP3 player! What was the song? A power ballad maybe? An example of rock as only those great 80's hair bands could create? Nope. I went with "Walk the Dinosaur" by Was Not Was!! It was a no-brainer. My little genius was saying dinosaur names before he was 2 and completely potty trained. Also, it is a great song that is great for dancing. He didn't stand a chance!!! xD Abby is not a lost cause though. One of her friends in Brookfield got her listening to country. That was HUGE!!! Her dad had her ruined for it for years!! Now, she LOVES it! I'll get her hooked on the 80's too!!! Just watch and see!! *winkies*

Since my early adolescence, Madonna has been there for me... on the radio, on my LPs, Cassettes, CDs, and now Digitally on my Computers, in my MP3 player, on my cellphone... Whenever I have needed her, she was there... Always a song that spoke to my soul and soothed, inspired, excited, lifted my spirits... She has walked with me through the years... as a young woman - growing and maturing and evolving, as a singer - artists of the internal heartbeat that is music that every creature possesses within... that links us all... as one with Mother Earth... as new mothers experiencing that one love that is incomparable to any other love... that bond to another that changes us for all time yet again... as lovers only to be betrayed... as survivors, picking ourselves up and moving on, stronger for the pain that shapes us yet again... I am who I am because music has always been there for me. When my daddy died 9 days before my 13th birthday. When I "became" a woman. When I began to learn the spirit dance - instinctive, gentle, primal, fierce... between a man and woman. When I realized I was pregnant at 16 - alone, terrified, and then devastated when I lost it... and still told no one. When I broke out of my small town shell and found a sexy, smart, clever, talented woman beneath. When I celebrated being young, on my own, making my way and going to school. When I found one of the loves of my life and was gifted my baby girl. When I found another one of my soul mates, married him, and was gifted my wonderful son. When I realized that I was a circle peg being shoved into a square hole, When I realized that I would never be accepted as I truly was to be and was a wild, crazy, twisted, angry, sexy she-wolf surrounded by sheep armed with barbed tongues and weapons of vile, verbal destruction. When I started getting physically ill and found myself once again facing the cruelties of live on my own. When I realized that I was strong enough to face life in all its vagaries with my head held high with strength that I pulled from places I never even considered it could be hiding. I guess what I am trying to say is that I am greatful that I was fortunate enough to have a role model to take strength from to face whatever came my way and do it with style if not bravado to cover the weakness. I owe much to Madonna. I am who I am because of her influence as a strong, individual, unique woman who never took anything sitting down, but rather screaming back!! I suppose all that is left to say is... Thank You, Madonna!!!