Madonna In Vanity Fair: Disses New York In Profanity-Laced Interview

Madonna graces the cover of the May issue of Vanity Fair, on newsstands in New York and LA on Wednesday. She is busy promoting her new album "Hard Candy," which comes out April 29. Here are highlights, including her thoughts on New York, fame, and your soul's ability to choose the sex of your child:

Madonna spoke of New York, how it's changed: "It's not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died."

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madonna: Do you have a daughter?
me: No, three sons.
[Madonna looks at me accusingly.]
me: I didn't choose it--it just happened.
madonna: Do you believe that? You think things just happen?
me: I think that just happened.
madonna: Mm-hmm.
me: So who's making the decision?
madonna: You are, you and your missus.
me: About what kind of kids we want?
madonna: You chose it. Your soul chose it.
me: No. Do you believe that? That my insides wanted boys?
madonna: Unconsciously. Yes.
me: I kind of like the idea, three sons--it's like having a little army out in the woods.
madonna: And all the work they can do, and you can teach them carpentry and then build houses for you in Old Greenwich, or wherever you live.

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"You have to get to a point where you care as little about getting smoke blown up your ass as you do when you become a whipping boy in the press," Madonna said, "because ultimately they both add up to shit. You just have to keep doing your work, and hope and pray somebody's dialing into your frequency."

She then said, "If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed."

Whole article here.

Comments

[truthparamount]

02:42 PM on 04/04/2008

DOES VANITY FAIR NOT
CARE ABOUT REALITY, OR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OR TRUTH IN JOURNALISM? Somehow Madonna can always find someone vulnerable or greedy enough in of the press to coerse herself center of every topic of interest...she learns the terminology of trends
and talks a good game. But she is a mere imitation of what the media should embrace and thus celebrate having to do with the subject. Get it?? Oh, and how many of our current celebs will she become 'friends with' at the height of their careers so she can get in on their attention? AND HOW MANY OF YOU READ THAT SHE CALLED AMERICANS STUPID IN THE ENGLISH PRESS MANY TIMES. How does her PR keep squashing stories that they don't want the states to know. Madonna is smoke and mirrors...and even puts her fans up to buying multiple copies of her CD's when they come out to up their rating on Billboard...she treats her fans like worker bees and they get incentives like an autographed pic for calling radio stations and requesting her, or writing to mags how great she is, or writing into boards like this to complain when someone says the truth about her. Her fans are like her little wizard of oz monkey army to keep her facade alive. I dare you yellow belly US journalists to do the math and tell the truth about this woman who exaggerates her popularity, and intentions, to get attention.

[truthparamount]

02:36 PM on 04/04/2008

It is HYPOCRASY that Madonna is on the cover of Vanity Fair, and I have to wonder
how much she paid Greydon Carter for the privilege. You see, this is how she has
maintained her fame...jumping on everything that the public takes interest in, most
of the time where she doesn't belong, taking attention away from others who have
been doing the work and getting the 'trend' to prime time...and then she gets her
friends, like Vanity Fair and Greydon Carter to give her a big cover and pictures
to align herself with the trend. It is ABSURD, THAT VANITY FAIR ALLOWED THIS.
Did they not read all the articles about how big her carbon footprint is, that she
invested in the worst polluting companies on the planet? That many feel she
was a hinderance to LIVE EARTH because it was so hypocritical that she
performed (wonder if she recycles)...LIVE EARTH lost money because no one
took it seriously. True environmentalists saw it as a sad thing. Madonna
wears fur (any environmentalist gave up fur long ago), and even staged a hunt
at her home in England just months before the LIVE EARTH concert, she
bought thousands of baby pheasants to have hunters come and blow their
brains out just months before the LIVE EARTH CONCERT... PETA
and Stella McCartney had to step in and call it off!!! Lots of articles in the UK,
but somehow Madonna's true colors don't get told in the U.S...

[fishsandwichesr2good]

11:05 PM on 04/02/2008

Hey, even a no talent whore has free speech rights, right? But just don't f*ck with HER children like she did with a generation of yours.

[FDRbyGodDemocrat]

03:16 PM on 04/02/2008

The soul chooses the sex? Shit. I thought it was that XY chromosome thing.

[GAC1]

05:44 PM on 04/01/2008

What, exactly, does Madonna have to do with sustainability? Using a photo cover of the Diva from Detroit , who has the carbon footprint of the Exxon Valdez , doesn't really make much of a case for VF's enviro cred. The only thing remotely green about Madonna are her horseback riding skills.

[socks]

04:29 PM on 04/01/2008

I totally believe what Madonna is saying about being able to choose the gender of your child. When my wife and I had our first baby, we totally wanted a boy and our son was born. When she got pregnant for the second time, we so wanted a girl that we didn't even have a name for a boy, and we had a girl. The truth is we both were so focused on having a boy first and then a girl that it just happened the way we wanted it to happen. It's just karma, pure and simple.

[FDRbyGodDemocrat]

03:18 PM on 04/02/2008

My aunt and uncle focused on having a boy until they were cross-eyed. Four girls. Go figure.

[politricking]

04:21 PM on 04/01/2008

She's kinda right about NY.
Turning into a financial ghetto.

[Libsrule]

11:12 AM on 04/01/2008

Is Madonna STILL trying to be relevant again??

She really comes across lately as desperate to get attention.

Yes she still sells out concerts but what she craves are the attentions of the press and for people to think she is intelligent and gathering by her idiotic comments about the soul choosing the sex of children she has a long way to go.

She's getting old but wants people to worship her and her fairly lame attempts at trying to prove how sexy she is are just that....lame.

Vanity Fair IS THE BEST MAGAZINE ON THE MARKET> You cannot go wrong with a subscription. Seriously. It's got a lot of fashion ads, but their political writings are the best in the business.

Subscribe.

[Ragga]

12:59 PM on 04/01/2008

That is a rather lame attempt to paint her as lame. Grow up. Seriously GROW UP. My question is why do you feel the need to write, at length, trashing her? You troll all Madonna posts I see. Very sad.

[Phidippides]

09:12 AM on 04/01/2008

I want to read the case for White House War Crimes.

Madonna is still hot.

Vanity Fair does some of the best magazine publishing out there today.

[pegdashfab]

07:32 AM on 04/01/2008

she's a cow

[ZenCrusader]

08:43 AM on 04/01/2008

Madonna Rocks our world. Love it or leave it.

[AdultFilmLegend]

04:00 AM on 04/01/2008

That's a "dis"?

[CowgirlAmy]

11:49 PM on 03/31/2008

She looks fantastic. Wow. And her new song, which I don't care for, is doing smashing at Itunes in every country including the US where it is at #2. She is #1 on the country's largest station,Z100 in New York and #6 on the country's 2nd largest station, KIIS in LA. She has the most added song on radio last week, its first in release. Whoever calls her irrelevant, can I please be that irrelevant?

[candlewax]

10:30 PM on 03/31/2008

aiyaiyaiy...

[frankp37]

10:04 PM on 03/31/2008

Was New York ever interesting? This whole idea of exciting is based on her background as a midwestern girl being bored. Like Madonna I grew up in Michigan but never considered moving to New York. If any place was interesting in the 80's it might have been Manchester or someplace like that. Los Angeles at least has good weather. I stayed there for several years because the moutain biking was actually really good. If you want to talk about foreign people Los Angeles certainly has no shortage. Even in Santa Monica you have very few white Americans left. There's other parts of town that are more exciting but I couldn't deal with that frankly. I think energy is something that comes and goes. Staying in one place is boring although not everyone can just move around.

[nachtengel]

09:54 PM on 03/31/2008

Why is Madonna still talking. Like my home NYC, she is tired and beyond all repair.

Yes NYC is dead, but not dead the right way. Hopefully this mortgage crisis will hit the 40,000 new condos sprouting up, and kill the city properly.

You see that sort of death is the reason NYC was hip in the 50's and again in 70's. The 80's... well it was kinda over by the time Madonna rolled up, but then she stole the 90's from the club scene, again well after the scene was over.

Madge is just angry about NYC because she doesn't have anyone to steal ideas from and make profit off of as her own. The lady, and i use that term loosely, never had an idea of her own since day she crawled out of the gutter.