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Madonna comments on Photoshopped Rebel Hearts
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 5 January 2015
Madonna has apologised – sort of – for promoting her upcoming new album ‘Rebel Heart’ by posting a load of photos on social media with iconic people from history Photoshopped so they are all cabled up like she is on the cover of the aforementioned new long player (which is out in March if you haven’t nabbed yourself a leaked copy).
Amongst those re-presented with messy black lines all over their faces were Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana and some chancer called Jesus Christ. All these people had ‘rebel hearts’, see.
After some criticised her Madge-ness for utilising these other figure’s images to sell her new record, she posted on the Facebooks: “I’m sorry, I’m not comparing myself to anyone, I’m admiring and acknowledging there Rebel Hearts. This is neither a crime or an insult or racist!”
And for those of you more concerned by the slightly shoddy Photoshop job done on some of the reworked pictures, well, see, it wasn’t Madonna’s designers who did them. She goes on: “I didn’t do it. My fans did. And I just re posted those photos. And my fans aren’t racist either”.
I don’t know about that last claim. I bet some of them are.
