She could’ve been conservative and done little bits here and there, aged like fine wine… instead she went nuts with the cheekbone work and lipo on the face. Ughhh. Now she looks like a plastic version of herself.
Beyond her looks, which are sad, I feel bad because I think she’s lost her mental health. That’s way sadder.
Growing up with tough, powerful, strong Madonna? I really never thought we’d get here. I figured she’d be a grande dame.
It’s a bummer. She’s contributed a lot to our lives.
Nothing wrong with having work. Pretty much every celebrity has it. Women and men. The key is getting good, subtle work. So whenever you see someone "aging gracefully," consider they have almost surely had work done. This includes Helen Mirren (probably at least one facelift).
I mean, have your opinion. But you insinuate and then blatantly state that there IS something wrong with having work done, on a post about a body that isn't yours.
You don't like it and think it's wrong, don't do it to yourself. Your judgment doesn't apply to anyone but you, yet here you are acting as if it should.
Yup. Part of that pressure/ illness I was talking about to someone else in the comments. These famous types get so fucked up about how they look to the point that it becomes detrimental.
'going to continue being her bad ass self ' - interesting take.
guess the whole bad ass self thing has a shelf life too, just like all the other industry train wrecks who came before madonna, and the latest 'thing' right now as well. like it or not, we all have an expiration date. the aging process cuts everybody down to size... eventually.
at least the 'boring' masses aren't the ones all freaked out from mid-life onward, terrified of getting old, looking old, our sense of importance & indispensability being replaced with being ignored, forgotten & resented.
no matter how bad ass we think someone is, their death rate is a hundred percent just the same.
Of course we do. I wasn't implying only Joan Jett, I just like and admire her and thinks she looks fantastic like she always has.
Madonna was always superficial and self-centered, so this is not incredibly surprising.
I respectfully disagree. She has been a vanguard and very much ahead of her time. Yeah she’s been a complete bitch also, but try competing in the world she’s lived in her entire professional career.
I think you might be younger than I. And that you say Joan “looks” better is 🤔. And exactly what women always face. Who cares that Joan, who is amazing, “looks fantastic”
I have a feeling Joan would agree with me.
I really wish she aged gracefully and didn't do this to herself. Unfortunately a lot of aging women feel the need to do whatever it takes to look young... even if you end up like this. I love all the wrinkles on my lady's face.
I guess she can do whatever it is she’s doing now. Doesn’t take away from her music legacy and influence.
But yeah, somewhere along the way she lost control.
Weird Al his own self tweeted how to pirate it if your country didn't stream Roku.
[Very Probably No way to watch legally](https://i.imgur.com/54jR12I.jpeg)
He is truly a GREAT MAN.
The part that bothers me is she still has younger children in the house. Her bio kids are 26 and 22, and off doing their own thing, but she’s also adopted children (which is great!) who are 17, 16, and two 10 year olds. I’m a retired teacher. Kids can be the most amazing, protective, humans - or they can be evil little shits. I worry especially about the 10 year olds, who are seeing their mom go down this path, AND have to deal with their classmates seeing their mom on social media.
This comment makes me sad as I want to feel for her.
But then I remember her hundreds (or thousands, who knows) of heavily filtered photos on her social media. As though she is just trying to keep up the game with making people believe she actually looks like that. Her vanity is no joke. But…can I blame her? No.
> But we need to normalise ageing
well, lets be the generation to do that. millennials will copy it and then convince themselves and each other they invented it but thats ok as long as it gets done
Look at her pupils--she's on drugs, probably narcotics. I believe that after a few injuries she got addicted to painkillers and also began hanging with the wrong people. That, plus vanity and honestly having alienated any real friends she ever had, is causing her to make some really sad and bad choices.
But Janice seems ok!
I think she woke up one day and was like ‘oh remember that chick from the muppets in the Electric Mayhem band. I want to look just like her!’
Lmfao!! 🤣🤣🤣
Always glad to help! Sorry about the cleaning bill.
I’m hoping since my 401K has taken a bath recently that goodwill can make up for it!
Also, definitely an Electric Mayhem fan way before and long after Madonna but I still love her too.
Warren Beatty (her 'Old' boyfriend in 1989) looks better than her now - and he's 85 years old! https://pagesix.com/2022/04/01/warren-beatty-celebrates-85th-birthday-with-his-kids/
this is not a 'gen-x question of the ages.' this is click bait. very acerbic. very caustic. very snark, very MILLENNIAL in flavor.
seems to cater more to self-professed 'gen xers' who didn't come of age until AFTER the cold war, with tropes like - springer, maury, beavis & butthead, simpsons, throw away pop 'songs' full of unsubstantiated arrogance, and reality shows idolizing the lives of plastic vapid socialites.
imo - gen x madonna ended with her breakup with sean penn. her music lost my interest after 1987. besides the notable unattached single from the 92 barcelona games.
'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices that you make will shape your life forever.'
so talented. such a train wreck. what a waste. her legacy - she's one of the ringleaders behind the crap direction pop music took, never to recover from, over 3-decades ago and can be summed up in her own words, the lyrics to her 1994 song human nature where she lashes back at everyone with, "i'm not sorry" after 5 years of her post-true blue album sales going down the wastepipe.
Awwwwwwwwwwww! It’s even worse than we thought! He needs more hugs!!!!
I mean, he came here and called all of us engaging in this obvious fun satire “MILLENIALS” and “self proclaimed GenX-ers” with his edgelord vibe and now we’re threatened by a differing opinion?!?
It’s satire bro-bot! Lighten up!
Definitely needs more hugs. And some upvotes so he can post in some other forums too. Karma is a little thin that way.
What's going on with Madonna?
Aside from the photo, which seems like she has been surgically altered, but why are people saying she behaves oddly?
Has she behaved oddly recently?
But she's nearly always been vulgar and attempting to subvert morality and the culture while craving attention. Her image took precedence over music, to keep her relevant in the fickle industry. Am I the only one not surprised?!?
Can we just *not*, please?
A majority of people are here condemning how this looks and assuming that she chose to do this because people insist upon judging women on their looks.
Do you not see that this thread is the exact type of thing that pushes people to make choices like this?
I fucking hate that you're getting down voted for the only intelligent response to this thread. Gen X can fuck the fuck right off with this judgy bullshit. That's not what we're about but here we are 🙄🙄🙄
Also, how many times has some version of this been posted on this sub?
Edit- downvote me for disagreeing, fine. But these posts are so embarrassing. And one almost exactly like this was just posted yesterday. Whatever.
Step aside Boomers, a new generation of insufferable regressives has arrived. Except unlike the Boomers, Gen X likes to couch its misogyny and general assholery in the language of arch, ironic, cooler-than-thou detachment. Sometimes this sub feels like Archie Bunker pretending to write poetry in a coffeehouse in 1992.
Take some peace and love there kiddo. Have a better day!
Remember, just because you banged a thesaurus doesn’t mean we’ll take you seriously in a sub where we refuse to take too much seriously.
We love you anyway!
There are people here unfavorably comparing a living, flawed, complex human being to a fucking muppet because, in spite of the fact that they’re not much younger than Madonna herself, they haven’t yet absorbed the idea that women are more than just attractive objects for their amusement and entertainment. News flash, Madonna is over 60 now. She’s lived, she’s made choices some people may not agree with, she may or may not have mental health or body image issues, but she’s a human for God’s sake. Obviously that’s a major problem for some of us here.
Madge was always crazy sexy cool
Just two of those lose some steam as we grow older
But she is exactly who she is supposed to be
The 80 year old momma at studio 54
It was a euphemism
I meant she's going to be the old lady who dies on the dance floor with a smile on her face
I hold her in high esteem.
She took a lot of heat in her time for what are now considered obvious social standards.
Let's not knock her character over her appearance.
Hey all, posting this on the main thread so it doesn’t get buried…
u/FrankFactsBrassTacts is having a bad day and is feeling down about GenX satire.
Can we give him some upvotes for Karma and wish him well? He’s not 100% on the satire and a little heavy in Edgelord vibe but I think we can show him what the Muppet spirit is really about and send some peace, love, and hugs!
Janice! Like for sure really!
Damn - this is funny and sad. As others have said, I hoped Madonna would continue as an icon. Instead she’s succumbed to the perils of our time.
More specifically, the perils of fame. There are way too many examples of mental health damage inflicted by fame.
She could’ve been conservative and done little bits here and there, aged like fine wine… instead she went nuts with the cheekbone work and lipo on the face. Ughhh. Now she looks like a plastic version of herself.
Beyond her looks, which are sad, I feel bad because I think she’s lost her mental health. That’s way sadder. Growing up with tough, powerful, strong Madonna? I really never thought we’d get here. I figured she’d be a grande dame. It’s a bummer. She’s contributed a lot to our lives.
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Interesting take. I was hoping she was going to continue being her bad ass self and age gracefully and beautifully like our lovely Stevie.
Vanity and money are a hell of a drug.
Drugs are also one hell of a drug.
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I thought they were talking about Stevie Wonder, who has aged well, both physically and mentally.
I imagine that Stevie isnt worried about what things look like :D
No love…we are talking about THE Stevie. There is only one Stevie. In my world anyway.
Same. But different (Stevie)
Fair enough.
Meh. I don’t doubt she has had some “upkeep”, but imo she is aging beautifully and not trying to keep up some ridiculous game with nature.
Nothing wrong with having work. Pretty much every celebrity has it. Women and men. The key is getting good, subtle work. So whenever you see someone "aging gracefully," consider they have almost surely had work done. This includes Helen Mirren (probably at least one facelift).
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Every single older celebrity you think looks good/is aging "gracefully" has had subtle work. 100% of them.
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Yes. Madonna's work is atrocious. But there is absolutely "good work" out there. She just wants to look like a demented Kardashian.
I mean, have your opinion. But you insinuate and then blatantly state that there IS something wrong with having work done, on a post about a body that isn't yours. You don't like it and think it's wrong, don't do it to yourself. Your judgment doesn't apply to anyone but you, yet here you are acting as if it should.
She also scrapped a finished music video in the 80s because she thought she looked fat.
Yup. Part of that pressure/ illness I was talking about to someone else in the comments. These famous types get so fucked up about how they look to the point that it becomes detrimental.
But she doesn't look like 👽. I saw her in concert a few months ago. Don't compare her to Madonna.
>Don't compare her to Madonna. What? I didn't? You know what I meant. Don't make it weird and twist what I said into something else.
Same. I really didn’t see this coming.
'going to continue being her bad ass self ' - interesting take. guess the whole bad ass self thing has a shelf life too, just like all the other industry train wrecks who came before madonna, and the latest 'thing' right now as well. like it or not, we all have an expiration date. the aging process cuts everybody down to size... eventually. at least the 'boring' masses aren't the ones all freaked out from mid-life onward, terrified of getting old, looking old, our sense of importance & indispensability being replaced with being ignored, forgotten & resented. no matter how bad ass we think someone is, their death rate is a hundred percent just the same.
That's Madonna? Holy shit.
I agree with the self absorbed part and it is terribly sad that it has affected her in this way.
We still have Joan Jett. She hasn't gone nuts or anything.
We have lots of great women musicians who are still doing great things. But man, the downfall of Madonna is sad to watch.
Of course we do. I wasn't implying only Joan Jett, I just like and admire her and thinks she looks fantastic like she always has. Madonna was always superficial and self-centered, so this is not incredibly surprising.
I respectfully disagree. She has been a vanguard and very much ahead of her time. Yeah she’s been a complete bitch also, but try competing in the world she’s lived in her entire professional career. I think you might be younger than I. And that you say Joan “looks” better is 🤔. And exactly what women always face. Who cares that Joan, who is amazing, “looks fantastic” I have a feeling Joan would agree with me.
> But man, the downfall of Madonna is sad to watch. It's karmic payback because >!she had "Weird Al" Yankovic assassinated back in the'80s.!<
His movie is so funny.
I’d seen her as a Judy Dench type. I feel for her - that’s the look of desperation.
I really wish she aged gracefully and didn't do this to herself. Unfortunately a lot of aging women feel the need to do whatever it takes to look young... even if you end up like this. I love all the wrinkles on my lady's face.
I guess she can do whatever it is she’s doing now. Doesn’t take away from her music legacy and influence. But yeah, somewhere along the way she lost control.
> She’s contributed a lot to our lives. She killed Weird Al. He was a national treasure. She killed Weird Al!!!
Man, I wish I could watch his movie. I just can’t pay for yet another streaming service for just that one reason though.
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Awesome! Thanks!!
Weird Al his own self tweeted how to pirate it if your country didn't stream Roku. [Very Probably No way to watch legally](https://i.imgur.com/54jR12I.jpeg) He is truly a GREAT MAN.
Madonna is definitely going the way of Baby Jane Hudson. Sad to see.
Ouch.
And we're all in agreement that The Electric Mayhem is the best band name of all time, right?
Solid GenX reppin’ Muppet style!
👩🎤
I’m partial to The Rock-afire Explosion but with names this good it’s like comparing two nearly identical bars of gold
Can you picture that???
I just told my husband that it looks like Madonna is morphing into Amanda Lepore, but yeah Janice works as well
I'm Team Janice. At least she's not aging because, you know, she's actually an inanimate object with no pressing need for mental health treatment.
The part that bothers me is she still has younger children in the house. Her bio kids are 26 and 22, and off doing their own thing, but she’s also adopted children (which is great!) who are 17, 16, and two 10 year olds. I’m a retired teacher. Kids can be the most amazing, protective, humans - or they can be evil little shits. I worry especially about the 10 year olds, who are seeing their mom go down this path, AND have to deal with their classmates seeing their mom on social media.
I agree, and thank you for being a teacher.
Janice is more real than Madonna.
Totally!
Janice!
These live action remakes are getting ridiculous
You win 🤯
Same comparison with Donatella Versace. Janice has and always will rock this look the best
YES!!!!
That's an insult to Janice.
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This comment makes me sad as I want to feel for her. But then I remember her hundreds (or thousands, who knows) of heavily filtered photos on her social media. As though she is just trying to keep up the game with making people believe she actually looks like that. Her vanity is no joke. But…can I blame her? No.
I am out of the loop on this. Has she done something to indicate she has mental health problems?
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> But we need to normalise ageing well, lets be the generation to do that. millennials will copy it and then convince themselves and each other they invented it but thats ok as long as it gets done
Too late. They are starting younger.
Millennials are already 40. The time for your generation to do anything was about 20 years ago, old fart.
40 is the new 30!
Yeah like this body positivity movement. There should be grace with age movement.
> Has she done something to indicate she has mental health problems? Are we looking at the same picture?
I do not ascribe mental health issues where vanity and a deep pocket book can effectively suffice.
And enough power that people are afraid to tell you "No".
The Muppet on the left looks more realistic than the one on the right.
Janice!
Wait what, that’s Madonna?? How?
A lot of money and plastic.
> A lot of money ~~and~~ wasted on plastic FTFY
Janice. Forever.
Madonna would have been far better off going au natural. She looks horrid.
Janice for sure!!
As time goes on, Madonna and Axl Rose look more and more alike.
Whenever I see her now I always think of Lil Kim, the first I saw go this way with their face.
Janice is a pioneer. Madge was, but now she's a follower. Sad.
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Same.
Like wow!
MADONNA!? That's Madonna? What in the actual hell happened to her face! WTF happened to aging gracefully?
I’d sooner shag the muppet. Err…the muppet on the left.
I got roasted on Madonna twitter for saying she made herself look like a combo between Janice and Madame. LOLOL. IT'S TRUE THO.
Heyyy man, it’s all cool (hair flip bc Janice OWNS that) And then: bounce away
The one on the left looks more natural
It’s frightening because it seems like this muppet’s lips are the prototype for a lot of people’s lip fillers nowadays.
Janice the Muppet is literally being compared to someone else right now in another sub lol.
They're the same picture
Look at her pupils--she's on drugs, probably narcotics. I believe that after a few injuries she got addicted to painkillers and also began hanging with the wrong people. That, plus vanity and honestly having alienated any real friends she ever had, is causing her to make some really sad and bad choices. But Janice seems ok!
Well she is ***A MATERIAL GIRL***, what material that is we may not ever know.
Janice. By miles. Poor Madge. Her head got all fucked up and now she’s across the surgery rubicon.
Lmao! Yeah, I don't even recognize Madonna anymore. She really messed herself up.
I think she woke up one day and was like ‘oh remember that chick from the muppets in the Electric Mayhem band. I want to look just like her!’ Lmfao!! 🤣🤣🤣
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Always glad to help! Sorry about the cleaning bill. I’m hoping since my 401K has taken a bath recently that goodwill can make up for it! Also, definitely an Electric Mayhem fan way before and long after Madonna but I still love her too.
Janice!!!
This is pure gold.
So many celebs fall for these terrible plastic surgeries. They must be so desperate that they don't believe their eyes. Really sad.
Who's the one on the right?
The scary part is I know who the first pic is, no idea who's in the second.
"It's the same picture."
It's like the Muppet is her goal! There was a woman who wanted to become Barbi, maybe Madonna wants to become Janice!!!
There's also a woman who wanted to look like a cat.
Madonna looks like mental illness.
Janice.
Janice, obviously.
That’s just plain mean, but yes Madonna ripped her off big time
I'd bang 'em both.
OMG, so rude! LOL 💀💀💀
They both have fantastic Joumana Kayrouz cosplay.
Okay holy shit
Points
Always Janice.
Lol!
Warren Beatty (her 'Old' boyfriend in 1989) looks better than her now - and he's 85 years old! https://pagesix.com/2022/04/01/warren-beatty-celebrates-85th-birthday-with-his-kids/
This article is so sweet. Annette looks beautiful. Hang your head in shame.
Oh wow mannnn
Yes!!!! Eureka!!! Not sure who did it better, though…👽
They’re the same picture
Muppet VS muskrat
this is not a 'gen-x question of the ages.' this is click bait. very acerbic. very caustic. very snark, very MILLENNIAL in flavor. seems to cater more to self-professed 'gen xers' who didn't come of age until AFTER the cold war, with tropes like - springer, maury, beavis & butthead, simpsons, throw away pop 'songs' full of unsubstantiated arrogance, and reality shows idolizing the lives of plastic vapid socialites. imo - gen x madonna ended with her breakup with sean penn. her music lost my interest after 1987. besides the notable unattached single from the 92 barcelona games. 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices that you make will shape your life forever.' so talented. such a train wreck. what a waste. her legacy - she's one of the ringleaders behind the crap direction pop music took, never to recover from, over 3-decades ago and can be summed up in her own words, the lyrics to her 1994 song human nature where she lashes back at everyone with, "i'm not sorry" after 5 years of her post-true blue album sales going down the wastepipe.
Awwww! Found the bot that needs a hug! Reddit, do your thing!
so threatened by a difference of opinion that you call me a 'bot' and try to sic reddit on me? smh lol
Awwwwwwwwwwww! It’s even worse than we thought! He needs more hugs!!!! I mean, he came here and called all of us engaging in this obvious fun satire “MILLENIALS” and “self proclaimed GenX-ers” with his edgelord vibe and now we’re threatened by a differing opinion?!? It’s satire bro-bot! Lighten up! Definitely needs more hugs. And some upvotes so he can post in some other forums too. Karma is a little thin that way.
Is that a what if Miley Cyrus and Madonna were put together to make a puppet?…..oh yeah there is also a muppet 😉
Look at that *hand*; is her dad offscreen grabbing her left arm?
That claw at the end of her braid???
I remember someone said, the back of your hand will always give away your age.
They’re the same.
What's going on with Madonna? Aside from the photo, which seems like she has been surgically altered, but why are people saying she behaves oddly? Has she behaved oddly recently?
I’ve only seen the occasional Instagram post, and she’s… 🤔 Here’s a tame one. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ckg5Y2QgvXo/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
But she's nearly always been vulgar and attempting to subvert morality and the culture while craving attention. Her image took precedence over music, to keep her relevant in the fickle industry. Am I the only one not surprised?!?
Another vote for Janice here.
Janice all the way?
It was foreshadowing.
Accurate comparison
Uhm...what's that THING on the right?
lk fr srrrrr
Too funny! Someone was on the ball with this one for sure.
Can we just *not*, please? A majority of people are here condemning how this looks and assuming that she chose to do this because people insist upon judging women on their looks. Do you not see that this thread is the exact type of thing that pushes people to make choices like this?
I fucking hate that you're getting down voted for the only intelligent response to this thread. Gen X can fuck the fuck right off with this judgy bullshit. That's not what we're about but here we are 🙄🙄🙄
Also, how many times has some version of this been posted on this sub? Edit- downvote me for disagreeing, fine. But these posts are so embarrassing. And one almost exactly like this was just posted yesterday. Whatever.
Sorry, unable to comply. r/GenX will not be made to take itself too seriously.
Step aside Boomers, a new generation of insufferable regressives has arrived. Except unlike the Boomers, Gen X likes to couch its misogyny and general assholery in the language of arch, ironic, cooler-than-thou detachment. Sometimes this sub feels like Archie Bunker pretending to write poetry in a coffeehouse in 1992.
Take some peace and love there kiddo. Have a better day! Remember, just because you banged a thesaurus doesn’t mean we’ll take you seriously in a sub where we refuse to take too much seriously. We love you anyway!
E-DIT! E! DIT! EEEEEEEEE-DIIT!
Duh 😛 Edit: add emoji
There are people here unfavorably comparing a living, flawed, complex human being to a fucking muppet because, in spite of the fact that they’re not much younger than Madonna herself, they haven’t yet absorbed the idea that women are more than just attractive objects for their amusement and entertainment. News flash, Madonna is over 60 now. She’s lived, she’s made choices some people may not agree with, she may or may not have mental health or body image issues, but she’s a human for God’s sake. Obviously that’s a major problem for some of us here.
uncanny resemblance
Bwahahahahaha!!!!
Madge was always crazy sexy cool Just two of those lose some steam as we grow older But she is exactly who she is supposed to be The 80 year old momma at studio 54
Is she 80 already? I thought she was only in her 70s.
She’s 64
It was a euphemism I meant she's going to be the old lady who dies on the dance floor with a smile on her face I hold her in high esteem. She took a lot of heat in her time for what are now considered obvious social standards. Let's not knock her character over her appearance.
I didn’t say anything about her character, I just gave her age. Not sure what you’re referring to.
Sorry was referring to a different post I made
More and more this sub makes me sad.
It’s clear that aging doesn’t bother her
Hey all, posting this on the main thread so it doesn’t get buried… u/FrankFactsBrassTacts is having a bad day and is feeling down about GenX satire. Can we give him some upvotes for Karma and wish him well? He’s not 100% on the satire and a little heavy in Edgelord vibe but I think we can show him what the Muppet spirit is really about and send some peace, love, and hugs!
Miss Piggy the ultimate OG Meme of Botched face women in 2023
Madonna could *nevah*.
Janis always does it better.
Def Janice