Let me tell you something about Madonna. This woman did not just pop up in the music world. She marched in wearing lace gloves, confidence for days, and a mission to snatch every spotlight in sight. And baby she succeeded. From the moment she hit the scene in the early 1980s she made it clear that she was not here to blend in. She was here to dominate.Madonna mastered the art of reinvention before half the girls in the industry were even born. One era she is giving sweet but scandalous with Like a Virgin. Next thing you know she is voguing across the globe and making ballroom culture a worldwide conversation. Then she turns around and dives into dance music electronic beats and spiritual themes like she is collecting infinity stones. The woman knows how to evolve and she does it with attitude. But her real power is bigger than the hits the tours and the headlines. Madonna pushed boundaries the way some people push shopping carts. She challenged ideas about femininity sexuality and self expression long before it was trending on social media.
Well today she has had it with the Whitehouse & the man behind the desk! World AIDS Day is observed every year on December 1 as a global moment to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS honor the lives lost support people living with HIV and remind the world that the fight is not over. It focuses on education stigma reduction prevention and expanding access to treatment so communities everywhere can move closer to ending the HIV epidemic. She has always been vocal about her support of the survivors and this year apparently Trump has cancelled it as a national holiday. She took to social media to say ” Today is World AIDS Day. For four decades, this day has been internationally recognized around the world by people from all walks of life, because millions of people’s lives have been touched by the HIV crisis. People have• lost lovers and husbands and wives and girlfriends and boyfriends and mothers and daughters and children to this deadly disease, of which there is still no cure.”
She’s always stood up for the LGBTQ community when it was not cute or convenient. And she stayed bold enough to spark conversations nobody else wanted to start.You can see her fingerprints all over today’s pop stars who switch their looks their sound and their whole personality every time they drop an album. They are following a formula she wrote.Like her or not you cannot deny the impact. Madonna changed pop culture. She shaped fashion.
Four decades in and the Material Girl is still out here showing the world that reinvention is not just a strategy. It is a lifestyle. And honestly I cannot be mad at that.
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