Paul J Penton – Songwriter

Rock star, pop star, ‘holiday’, ‘material girl’ ,mother of Jesus – loaded like a six gun, slung down the side of her hip waiting to blow you off – our Madonna – is it a bastardisation, a cleverly thought out strategy to deploy the elements of religiousity to evoke Sympathy – Madonna, an icon, a statue framed in light in church after church throughout the world. A non descript shawl hanging over her head, drooping down into a dress that hangs like a theatre curtain to the floor, perfect, pure , virginal – Our Madonna the 180 degree bi-polar opposite. Videos with thrusting crotch shots, and pumping bass – conrtast with Our Mary mother of grace- angelic small fluttering birds at her right shoulder, serene, divine. The modern day Madonna clad in leather, legs spread wide. Sympathetic Crotch thrusting with the male dancer in the clip – Is she a grandmother yet? – what are her children going to be a bunch of twitching crotch thrusters? 

It’s been a long spanning career – a bridge from her youth to her middle age- very clever – re-inventions – restylings remodelled. Young girls wanting to emulate her as other have wanted to immitate the blessed virgin. Was that another clever idea? To use the title -’like a virgin’ a play on the Madonna concept. I wonder what she might have to say to Jesus when she gets to heaven and is giving an account of herself- perhaps she uses her profits for good causes – like supporting children in oprhanages in Malawi – who am I to judge?  She works hard to maintain her position, a beacon of hope for some  – as is the holy mother, a light, a figure- who may appear to those in need at certain moments in trance like vision, or apparition– or is it all in the mind- I WANT TO BELIEVE so sayeth the poster on Moulder’s wall – are there too many pop culture references here and have I completely strayed from the sense bound path? hmmmmmmmm