QotD

When do aging music stars need to call it quits?

We all need to survive and live by the lifestyle we've made for ourselves, which is why we should stick with what we do best. if i could get paid to fuck off, bill gates would be blowing me right now, but i understand, do what you do best and make yourself happy. if you're an architect, keep building. if you are a tennis player, keep playing and if you are a singer, keep singing. music plays an important role in my life. it binds me to the good and bad times i've experienced for the last 35 years and without it, life would be incredibly difficult. music makes the world go round. but at what point in time do you call it quits? my comments here are directed at Madonna, but the example can be used for numerous groups. Aerosmith should have given up after Pump (they are a rock group, not a pop group), Metallica should have quit at the black album, Lynard Skynard should have given up after the group died in the plane crash and Britney Spears should have bypassed any singing and gone straight to Hustler.

Getting my point? Do what you do well and when doing well isn't good any longer, give it up and live peacefully and most importantly, quietly til the end. Vince Neal should take this concept to heart. As should Ozzy Osbourne.

Esther, as the once material girl is now calling herself, *cough* prince *cough*, is 'reinventing' herself by chosing a name based on her beliefs in the Kabbalah. Her 5 year long lived belief.

So, how is reinventing yourself with a new name really re-invention if you are playing the same old music and dancing the same old moves and selling the same old $65 t-shirts? Madonna's focus, upon the release of every new album, is to reinvent herself. Whether it's a material girl or a lesbian/dominatrix or now a mystical Jewish woman. *cough* money making advertising campaign *cough* sorry, got something caught in my throat.

she's tried her hand at acting and miserably sucked at that. she married a director, a good one, until he started putting her in his films. the only good thing he's done with her in it was the BMW short film Star. and all she did in the film was mock herself. it's a riot, because she's not taking herself seriously.

so i realize that as long as she continues to sing and put on shows and occasionally "accidentally" release nude photos of herself, she'll continue to sell tickets and keep giving us the same regergitated crap that we've endured since the early 80s, but geez lady, have some self respect and quit before you end up singing at the Holiday Inn lounge like David Lee Roth.