Hypocritical Girl

Shut up, Madonna.
Since Madonna single-handedly trashed up popular culture in the '80s by wearing racy clothes and being as open about her sexuality as a man, she has to rely on new tricks to keep her fading relevance from burning out completely. Britney and Christina have taken her playbook, and now Madonna must create a new one, now that she's well past the expiration date of a pop tart. Apparently, this involves writing a number of children's books, appearing at movie premiers with her husband, falling off horses, and pissing off rabbis.

U.S. pop star Madonna on Wednesday shrugged off criticism of a song on her smash hit new album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor," saying that all she did was ask questions and challenge authority.
The new album, which hit the top of the U.S. and British album charts following its release last month, includes a song which prompted rabbis in Israel to accuse her of sacrilege. In October, the rabbis who guard the legacy of Rabbi Isaac Luria -- founder of the Kabbalah school of mysticism which counts Madonna as one of its devotees -- accused Madonna of breaking a taboo by using his name for profit in the song "Isaac."
"I think as soon as you have an opinion that is outside... what is considered to be the conventional way of thinking -- as soon as you think outside of that you're considered controversial," Madonna told a news conference in Tokyo.

This comes from the same Madonna who made fun of Paris Hilton for just popping into a Kabbalah studio, picking up a red bracelet and saying she's a huge fan of Kabbalah. Quoth Madonna: "It's very hard to be a believer. I'm very serious about it." Yet Madonna, in violating a tenant of the Kabbalah rules, shows herself to be on the same level as Paris. Madonna chose to practice Kabbalah. Madonna told anyone with a press pass how much Kabbalah calmed her down, made her the new, matronly Madonna, and how devoted she is to the tenants of Jewish mysticism. But she's picking and choosing what she wants to believe, which is what Paris did by buying the bracelet and not really caring about Kabbalah, and Madonna got indignant. If you take Kabbalah seriously, and a rabbi tells you that the song you've recorded is in violation of the laws of the religion, wouldn't you take the song off the album? I mean, if you're so moved as to record a tribute to a figure of your religion, maybe donate the profits to a Jewish charity? I'm not clear if using the prophet's name for a charitable cause is taboo, but surely it's better than financing Guy's next shitty movie. Yeah, I said it.
Madonna is adopting her playbook to involve more clothes, but she's using the same techniques as always. Her reasoning is if people are pissed off, then they're thinking and talking about her, and that's how she'll get ahead. Pissing people off and breaking rules doesn't mean you're questioning anything. Thinking about what you personally believe is a way to question and challenge authority. Behaving like a surly teenager in a fifty year-old's body makes you look like an idiot. Before she throws stones at Paris, she should ponder her own actions first. Or else she'll make as good a Jewish mystic as she did a Catholic.