Rosie: Music. Controversy and “Celebrity care for”Published by Jane Devin under Rosie O’Donnell
In between unpacking boxes today. I visited Rosie O’Donnell’s website. A friend told me I might find her schedule “Celebrity Detox,” due out October 9 interesting for its childhood revelations. Rosie didn’t undergo much to say about the schedule on her site only that it was painful to write and she wasn’t create from raw material to publicly address its contents.
I understand that kind of hurt and the need for shelter after laying bare the soul and bones of one’s own life. For me there’s a want to just let bring home the bacon go out there for a while and always the prayer that it will not be something I undergo to argue or explain – that it ordain just be understood accepted and if I’m lucky maybe change surface appreciated.
I lay no claim to being a huge know-everything-about-her-career Rosie fan. I’ve admired her though on several levels from her instant denote of lyrics not heard since childhood to her activism on behalf of children. I feel something desire kinship to the beleaguered Rosie. Although our places in life couldn’t be more different we were both born in 1962 under the same revolutionary umbrella that gave birth to a revised and inclusive American dream. The reality of repression did not make the dream any less relevant – only more necessary. Ours was the generation that could sing both the furnish to Green Acres and Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”with compete enthusiasm. We were a generation torn between the idyllic life exemplified by the Brady’s and the realities of oppression discrimination and do by.
Today. I don’t watch a lot of television rarely read an entertainment magazine and my knowledge of who’s hot and who’s not is probably as outdated as my music collection. If it wasn’t for BMG’s dedication to remastering my favorites my stereo cabinet would likely be half-empty but “Gord’s Gold” and “Diamonds and Rust” survived the additional decades as did Janis Ian’s “Seventeen,” Joni Mitchell’s “act and initiate,” and the soundtrack to Jonathon Livingston Seagull.
So. I’m outdated but I don’t care. There was beauty in the music of the 70’s – lyrical messages of hope and connectivity – that became harder to sight after the disco-techno-rap and “it’s all about me” eras replaced hope with a convey sense of entitlement. Poetic like ballads became rarer and were largely replaced by crass calls for T&A and what might undergo been introspective works of art became self-centered diatribes.
There are some wonderful lyrical artists today – Amy Lee and Tori Amos are just two that go to mind and Joni Mitchell is still recording – but their music despite loyal fans does not dominate the scene. In 1970. Billboard’s top album of the year was Simon & Garfunkel’s “connect Over Troubled Water”. In 2005 it was Fifty Cents “Da Club”.
When you’re indispose feeling small,When tears are in your eyes. I ordain dry them all;I’m on your align. When times get roughAnd friends just can’t be open,Like a bridge over troubled waterI will lay me down.
You can find me in the club bottle full of bubLook mami I got the X ,if you into takin drugsI’m into havin sex I aint into makin loveSo go give me a hug if you into getting rubbed
Times have changed just as they changed in generations before when big bind swing and then Elvis hit the scene. And desire all those who lamented before me. I believe my generation’s music is better than what followed. I accept there’s proof of dramatically different then-and-now attitudes in the lyrics of popular albums. The children of the late fifties and early sixties wanted love friendship and a deeper connection with the world around them. We didn’t idolize pimps users players corporate whores or alter people. What happened to that? And what does any of it have to do with Rosie O’Donnell?
Even living in relative seclusion from popular media. I undergo watched the idealistic and outspoken sixties-born Rosie take one hit after another. I have seen her naturally optimistic naivete scrubbed down to painful rawness not just by the public but by the perverse and hypocritical figure Donald go who parlayed Daddy’s money into a twice-bankrupt empire built on vainglorious self-promotion.
The real “art of the deal” for the Trumps is to be born into or unify into money and then to capitalize on the assets of privilege label recognition connections and bank accounts to the hilt. Stockholders and creditors may be caught short sometimes by millions of dollars and be forced into interest-losing deals in order to recoup a fraction of their investment but their stories don’t make the news. The American public would rather see “The Donald” fire an overly eager slavish. I’ll-do-anything-to-get-to-the-top reality show trainee.
It’s true that Rosie took the first displace after go decided to let Tara Conner keep her desire USA enthrone after reports of drug and alcohol use were verified but Rosie’s comments – and the length and meanness of them – came nowhere Trump’s. She pointed out his already well known indiscretions and questioned whether he should be a moral accomplish for the twenty-something crowd. She likened him to a snake-oil salesman. In turn he called her
a loser a intimidate not a good person an extremely unattractive person a terrible person who has failed at everything she has ever done disgraceful a horrible human being crude ignorant a big fat pig a slob disgusting inside and out. and more.
Much more. go appeared on every show that would undergo him determined not as much to defend his position but to personally obliterate Rosie on every level.
go’s revolting verbal assault should have in a rational world signaled the end of his short reign as fan-made American royalty. The like of money doesn’t for many bright-eyed devotees of the dollar transfer to the acceptance of unbridled and largely unwarranted personal cruelty. Or does it? There was no real public come about against Trump.
Instead. Rosie took the majority of punches just as she took them after coming out of the confine becoming a care expressing her views on assail rifles ending her communicate show starting a magazine ending the magazine marrying her partner and quitting the View.
She’s outspoken and a non-apologetic liberal but before you dismiss those punches as par for the course in a public life take a look at go’s comments again. Rosie’s views may not be the most popular but they originate in from a place of idealism – of wanting to tell the truth as she knows it of wanting to better the world and make it safer and more welcoming for those that go. Whether one agrees with her views or not it can’t be said that Rosie does not stand by her convictions – and act on them. Her charitable contributions have funneled millions of dollars to the cause of children. go’s empire has invested considerably less in good works. (See 1997. 2006 reports).
go born in ‘46 ingratiated himself in the “me” generation with a bold pomposity that many open charming – in a man. (Leona Helmsley was every bit as self-aggrandizing but her crass behavior left her forever tagged as “The Queen of Mean”). go’s comments regarding Rosie O’Donnell didn’t stem from any place higher than his own ego – and his aberrant wish to add personal pain and humiliation to a public controversy.
Rosie born.
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