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Madonna To Visit The Philippines?

US President Barack Obama and Queen of Pop are reportedly coming tothe Philippines.
That's according to socialite and TV host Tim Yap, who first shared the scoop on Twitter.

Though Tim did not cite where he got the scoop, but from the way itwas tweeted, it's very much certain to happen. "Okay, here's a SCOOP.And again, you heard it FIRST FROM ME. You know who's coming to Manila before the year ends? Obama AND Madonna," he said.

Notice that there's an emphasis on the word "AND". Does it meanthey're coming together?
Together or not, it's indeed so much of a blessing to have Obama and Madonna here in the Philippines.

Obama's visit will be for sure political-related but for Madonna, it'seither she'll stage a concert or she'll be here talking about child advocacy.

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Madonna Has Met Her Match!

Madonna has met her match.

With the material mom's new fashion line, daughter Lourdes calls the shots. Word of warning to anyone looking to congratulate Madonna on her new line, Material Girl: "I didn't really do anything," the pop icon insists. "I couldn't even say it was a collaboration. It was 90 percent Lola. I needed a teenage daughter to kick me in the butt and go, 'Let's do this, Mom!'" she adds, laughing. Supporting act isn't a role we're used to seeing Madonna play, but in the case of her thirteen-year-old daughter, Lourdes Leon, she seems perfectly happy taking a backseat. "I respect her style," Madonna says. "It's a juniors' line. That's who she is." Of course, when your mom has a fashion archive as rich as Madonna's, you'd be crazy not to take a peek. "She steals from my closet all the time--whether she's allowed to or not," Madonna says. "She loves everything I wore in the eighties. Her thing is to bring it into the twenty-first century--to add her own twist."

The line carries certain unmistakable Madonna signatures--like lace, pearls, and cross motifs--but other pieces fly over Mom's head. Take the leggings with intentional tears inspired by a Lourdes styling trick. "Lola will leave in the morning with a pair of tights on," explains Madonna. "Then when she comes home, they're all ripped. I'm like, 'What happened?' And she goes, 'I did it on purpose, Mom.' OK, then," Madonna says with a shrug. After three decades of shocking and awing us with her costume changes, it looks like fashion's favorite chameleon has found a worthy successor.

Jane Keltner de Valle: You're such an enduring style icon. Why did you wait until now to launch a fashion line?
Madonna: I guess I needed a teenage daughter to kick me in the butt and say, "Let's do this, Mom!" There's so much competition out there, and I work with so many great, talented designers. I didn't really feel like I had a specific voice or an opinion until my daughter became a teenager, and then it became very clear what direction we were gonna go in. Lola's direction!

Jane Keltner de Valle: How would you describe her style and how has she influenced your style?Madonna: Her style is definitely more edgy. She has much more sense of humor about the way she dresses. She doesn't take herself so seriously. She dresses in a very effortless way, which is something that I admire and wish I could do more of. She's also 13 years old, so everything looks good on her! But yeah, she reminds me that getting dressed-up is actually fun. It's been so much a part of my work that I sometimes forget to, like, have fun with it. So she's reminding me that it's fun.

Jane Keltner de Valle: Do you give her complete freedom to wear what she wants?Madonna: No, I do not. Absolutely not!Jane Keltner de Valle: What are the ground rules? Madonna: Sometimes she puts something on, and I'll be like, "My god, that looks amazing!" And then I'll go, "Oh my god, that's my 13 year old daughter." So, um, no, we have rules. She can wear make up when she goes to parties and special events. And ya know, there's always a little bit of a discussion about how short the skirt is...or is there some cleavage showing. And I always say to her, do you want everybody to be staring at your breasts, or do you want people to talk to you?

Jane Keltner de Valle: Does she raid your closet a lot, and is she allowed to?Madonna: She steals things all the time--whether she's allowed to or not. There are always things missing in my closet!

Jane Keltner de Valle: What does she think of your style now, and of some of your iconic looks from the past?

Madonna: She loves everything I wore in the early 80's. She likes to take from that and make her own statement. Her thing now is to take what was my first thing and bring it into the 21st century--add her own twist to it. She's also very influenced by dance. She's a dancer, and she's influenced by what kids wear in her classes. Ya know, the layered thing and the legwarmers. She'll leave in the morning with a pair of tights on, ands when she comes home they're all ripped and run and torn. I'm like, "What happened to your tights?" And she goes, "I did it on purpose, mom." "Ok then."

Jane Keltner de Valle: She takes after her mom.

Madonna: Exactly.Jane Keltner de Valle: Do you ever raid her closet? Madonna: Um, yeah. I wear her shoes a lot. We wear the same size, so when I'm really sick of wearing these [shows me her Christian Dior platforms]. She's got some really cool flat boots and I steal her Converse sneakers.

Jane Keltner de Valle: So tell me how you approached this collection. How did the collaboration work?

Madonna: I would say it was 90% Lola. I couldn't even really say it's a collaboration because she's doing a lot more than I am. I didn't really do anything. I respect her style. It's for a junior line, and that's who she is. We share some common things, but then there are things that she wears that I would never wear. I mean, I don't wear leggings and t-shirts. That's not my thing. But that's Lola's thing.

Jane Keltner de Valle: Why did you decide to name it Material Girl and not Madonna.

Madonna: Because naming it after me is boring. First of all, that's my name, and I don't think Lola would have been as interested in working on it. Material Girl isn't necessarily about me. People connect that name to me, but it's really about a kind of a girl, and it has a lot of different connotations. So I think Lola feels like she can make it her own.

Jane Keltner de Valle: How would you describe the girl the collection is for?

Madonna: She's not afraid to take chances. She's adventurous, has a sense of humor, is witty, clever, interested in what's going on in the world, she reads books, likes music, likes to dance--loves to dance!--and is as in touch with her masculine side as she is with her feminine side.

Jane Keltner de Valle: The two of you are both very strong-minded. Was it easy working together? Did you ever clash?

Madonna: Once in a while. But I have to say, when it comes to fashion and style, it's the one area we argue the least in. Practicing piano, giving the little kid a bath, cleaning-up the bedroom--those are the things we don't agree on.

Jane Keltner de Valle: Do you have any favorite pieces from the collection?Madonna: I like just about anything that has lace on it. There's a little lace hoodie with a metallic zipper on it that I'm obsessed with. I'm gonna steal it after this interview's over with. And I love all the jewelry. The necklaces, all the chains...

Jane Keltner de Valle: How important was it to keep the prices accessible?

Madonna: Extremely important. Lola wanted to create a line that she could afford, and that girls across the country could afford. She wasn't interested in making something so exclusive that only 50 girls could wear it.

Jane Keltner de Valle: Does Lourdes have a clothing allowance?

Madonna: She has no allowance. If she wants to go shopping I basically say, 'Ok, well you have to do x, y, and z..." She has to earn it. If she's done really well in school, and gotten really good grades in all her classes, a reward is usually $50 to go to American Apparel or Topshop, and go mad.

Jane Keltner de Valle: Do you two go shopping together? Madonna: She doesn't like me to go shopping with her. No.Jane Keltner de Valle: Will you and she star in the campaign together?Madonna: I won't. I think she will eventually. After she gets into high school, and gets good grades. I'm using it as leverage!

Jane Keltner de Valle: Does she want to follow in your footsteps in other arenas, like music or film?

Madonna: She's majoring in drama. That's her main area of interest. She's also really interested in dance. She doesn't want to be a singer, though. She's made that very clear. That's cool. I respect that.

Jane Keltner de Valle: How do you feel about her going into the entertainment industry?

Madonna: I'm fine with it as long as she takes it seriously and puts in the hours. I always say to her, "If you want to be good at anything, you have to put in the hours." She might get some things handed to her because of her connection with me, but she doesn't really want that. She wants to earn it. She's made that very clear to me.

Madonna The Spicy Dessert!

Madonna – one of the most controversial desserts in the world’s show-business – cooked her success using simple ingredients and combining them with the most provocative spices. As much as a spicy dessert may look ridiculous and impossible, Madonna still manages to make this pastry and one thing she definitely succeeds at: making it delicious. Let us enjoy her story, or shall we say the recipe of her success?

Ingredients:

commitment;
self-confidence;
ability to take chances;
courage;
ability to be a step ahead of others;
independence;
shocking behavior;
contradicting actions (starting from kids’ books and ending with music videos definitely not for kids!);
ability to create fabulous shows on scene and in life;
performer talent;
recklessness.

First we take a small girl Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone who is the sixth child in the family with a strict father and a stepmother. Sounds like a fairy tale, doesn’t it? Well the beginning is truly a bit grim, but keep in mind that in the happy-end Madonna will become successful and hopefully happy. We put this little girl into a school and add some commitment. She gets high marks and can be characterized as a very religious girl.

In some years we add lots of courage, garnish it with a bit of independence and see this young but definitely not little girl go to college. Just like the flower opens in the morning, Madonna has revealed her true character in college. From an obedient girl she turns into a rising star of the Michigan University ballet faculty. At this moment she starts to write the first pages of her success story. Due to the ability to be a step ahead of others and natural talent of a performer Madonna becomes the best dancer in the whole university and gets the grand idea of conquering the whole world.

At the age of 19 the dish seems prepared and Madonna ventures to the fabulous city of New-York. Striving to become a successful performer she does not even finish her studies. At this moment her ability to take chances together with self-confidence are being recognized in the taste of this dessert. What other spice besides recklessness could drive a young girl to New-York with no more than $35 in her pocket? One might think that for such a delicate dessert we add too much spices (not mentioning the whole nonsense of the spicy dessert idea), but in fact this is not even the beginning. As we see later, commitment to her goals takes Madonna through really tough times when she had to work as a waitress, an artist’s model, a cloakroom attendant and what not. She has failed more than once, but still kept moving to her goals, and that made her successful in the end. Madonna did not lose faith in her talent and finally entered the scene as a drummer of the “Breakfast Club” band. Later her ability to create fabulous shows on scene and in life earned her place of the guitar player and the singer in this band. In 1980 Madonna created her own band – “Emmy” – and also started to write songs.

At this moment we begin to recognize the well familiar flavor of success that accompanies Madonna from now on. Producers started to notice her and career took a great leap ahead. In 1983 the “Sire Records” released her first album – “Madonna”. That was the recognition she has fought for during all those years: from now on we speak of Madonna as of a successful singer. Later she released numerous albums and all of them are very popular.

However, she did not stop there. Beside being a singer Madonna achieved success as a songwriter, a record producer, a dancer, an actress, a film producer, a film director, a fashion designer, an author and an entrepreneur. She also raises 4 kids (a daughter Lourdes, a son Rocco, an adopted son David and an adopted daughter Mercy). Truly a remarkable blend of the most controversial flavors one can imagine. Madonna’s fortune (by different sources) is estimated over $900 million. All of this started from $35 with a very strong taste of commitment to her dreams.

Was that a success? Who knows. We are not here to judge, we are here to relish the provocative and original flavor of this definitely remarkable dish – Madonna’s Spicy Dessert.

The Tastiest
Madonna is involved in so many activities that we can speak about it endlessly! So today we’ll mark just the tastiest of the tastiest. True Madonna starts from songs Material Girl and Like A Virgin. These songs reflect her world-famous image that conquered the whole world! It is impossible to understand who’s that girl until you hear these hits! The next hit that made the entire world fall in love with her – La Isla Bonita: a beautiful song, a beautiful video and a beautiful Madonna in Latino style. The album Like A Prayer was called the best in history of pop-music by the “Attitude” magazine; the best song of the best album – Like A Prayer – is also the spiciest one (see the video and you will understand why).

The top of Madonna’s career is embodied in the album Bedtime Stories with it’s tastiest hits – Human Nature and Secret. One of the most… unexpected albums – Ray Of Light – presented the world few hits with the most remarkable ones: Ray Of Light and Frozen. By the way, the video Frozen is considered by some critics the most strange in Madonna’s career.

She confidently entered the XXI century with the album Music. My favorites here are Music and American Pie – the hits that will be modern for years! By the way, if you want to taste the whole Madonna’s success for the best-years of her career that brought her the Pop-Queen status – taste the Madonna: GHV2 (Greatest Hits Volume 2) album. Regardless of the age and century Madonna is always modern and her albums since 2000s prove it: provocative American Life, sexy Confessions On A Dance Floor and high-end Hard Candy are like cherries on her successful spicy dessert.

Madonna Goes Back to Her Italian Roots In New Advert..

She is one of the most famous Italian Americans in the world.

And now, Madonna is going back to her roots with a new set of stunning black and white shots for a new Dolce and Gabbana advertising campaign.

One new photo sees the star in the unlikely guise of farm girl as she holds chickens alongside a male model, whilst showing off her curves in a low cut dress and cardigan.

Another shot shows the star looking glam in jacket, corset and patterned black tights alongside an Italian mother figure who is clad in apron and headscarf.

Madonna, looking much younger than her 51 years, is also seen lying on a bed holding a baby, and laughing alongside a big Italian family, not unlike her own in real life. Her dad, Silvio Anthony Ciccone, is a first generation Italian/American and she is the third of six children.
The shots form part of the campaign for the Italian designer duo's autumn/winter collection.
Earlier this year, Madonna also appeared in a series of sexy housewife poses for the fashion house's spring summer campaign which showed her hanging up laundry and sweeping the kitchen.

The singer struck up a friendship with the Stefano Dolce and Domenico Gabbana while she was filming Dick Tracy in the early Nineties and they were invited to design her costumes for The Girlie Show tour in 1993.

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