Published: July 25, 2009
Op-Ed Contributor
Madonna's Raunchy Answering Phone Messages To Be Auctioned
By Robert Paul Reyes
"Madonna's latest release will cost a little more than usual and will be available in only one, curiously archaic format: microcassette.
'Madonna Erotic Phone Messages' will be among several lots of Material Girl-related arcana up for grabs next week in the Rock & Roll Pop Art Auction. Minimum bid: $25,000 (U.S.). That works out to about $1,470 a minute.
Contained on 'two original microcassettes from Jim Albright's answering machine,' the 17 minutes of messages date from 1992-1993, when Madonna was dating Albright, who was her bodyguard before becoming romantically involved with the singer." John Sakamoto /Toronto Star
I respect Madonna as a singer and performer, and I even have one of her albums in a cassette format. But I won't be bidding for a microcassette from an answering machine featuring "sweet nothings" from the Material Girl.
Madonna has released a few sexually explicit albums, videos and even a book depicting her naked with various people and even a dog. Her book "Sex" and her album "Erotica" are so sexually graphic, that in comparison her answering machine tapes are G-rated. If it's the raunchy Madonna that turns you on, why shell out $25,000 for the microcassette when you can buy her Sex book for a few bucks at Amazon.Com?
If you think that the 900 numbers are a rip-off at $2.99 per minute, the Madonna tape works out to about $1,470 a minute. Are 900 sex numbers as obsolete as microcassettes?
When I imagine Madonna talking dirty to an answering machine, it's the wrinkled old hag that comes to mind, not the sexy Material Girl of the 80's. Dang, I wouldn't bid a dollar for her tape.
Robert Paul Reyes is a NewsBlaze writer on Politics, Pop Culture and Pointless Pontificating. Contact him by writing to NewsBlaze.
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