{"id":844,"date":"2008-04-29T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=844"},"modified":"2011-08-25T23:02:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T04:02:42","slug":"the_last_madonn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/the_last_madonn.html","title":{"rendered":"The last Madonna fan on earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/monitormix\/2008\/04\/touched_for_the_very_last_time.html\">people are really harshing on Madonna these days<\/a>.  That article actually made me kinda sad.  She&#8217;s not my very favorite artist&#8230;but there&#8217;s lots of songs of hers I have liked in the past and I do believe we need people that push mainstream culture&#8217;s boundaries, even if they are the fakiest of the fake when they&#8217;re doing it, whether they do it as &#8220;brands&#8221; or &#8220;media monsters&#8221; or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m listening to her new album <strong>Hard Candy <\/strong>for the first time&#8230;and I&#8217;m finding lots of things to like.  Maybe not LOVE.  Maybe <u>not<\/u> OH MY GOD BEST ALBUM EVER.  But there&#8217;s lyrics I&#8217;m likin&#8217;, and beats, and random melody lines, and I have always liked her admittedly not-the-world&#8217;s-best-ever voice.<\/p>\n<p>Plus I prefer pretty much all my music with lyrics and that includes dance music, which is really what this is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy, people are really harshing on Madonna these days. That article actually made me kinda sad. She&#8217;s not my very favorite artist&#8230;but there&#8217;s lots of songs of hers I have liked in the past and I do believe we need &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/the_last_madonn.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album","category-listenin","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}