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Madonna now peers with Status Quo
Oh, dear. Madonna now finds herself rubbing shoulders with Cliff Richard and Status Quo, shut out of the Radio One playlist and waah-waahing that it's sooooo unfair:
Pop star Madonna has called Radio 1 "discriminatory and unfair" after it declined to play her latest single.Come on, Madge, if you were being judged on quality alone, you'd not have been heard on Radio One since 1999.
Living For Love failed to make the station's playlist, which dictates its most-played songs, when it was released last month, leading to accusations of ageism from the 56-year-old's fans.
Speaking to The Sun, Madonna said she was "shocked" by her exclusion.
"I was like, 'Wait a second. Shouldn't it be to do with whether you wrote a good, catchy pop song?"
It's hard to admit, obviously, but you're just not relevant to the target Radio One audience. It's not because of your age. It's because you sound tired.
In the Guardian a couple of weeks ago, David Connor - who saw Madonna play the Haçienda - summed up the problem she faces before she even faced it:
This story still definitely impresses people. I now teach electrical installation to 16- to 19-year-olds and, whenever I’ve mentioned it, they ask, “Who’s Madonna?” Although one of them once piped up, “I know who she is – she’s that old bird.”
I think Status Quo demanded some sort of parliamentary enquiry or something. You could try that.
It won't do any good, but it's important to keep busy as you enter your golden years.
1 comment:
The thing about Quo's attempt to use the legal system to force Radio 1 to play them is that senior judges at the time still tended to be of the pre-boomer generation, and therefore didn't really distinguish between them and "Firestarter" or w/e; had it been later, they might theoretically have had a better chance because latterday judges would have instinctively favoured them over other forms of pop and rock music rather than dismissing it all equally, but then Radio 2 had changed and 6Music launched so there would have been less of a reason even to try. We'd have been in potentially much more serious trouble if they hadn't respectively changed and existed at all, though ...
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