The 53-year-old pop star very nearly exposed herself on the cover of ‘Girl Gone Wild, the second single off her forthcoming studio album MDNA, which was born from the remote reunion of two Italian producers and a Canadian writer, all signed to Patrick Moxey’s Ultra Music. The barely-there outfit is to be expected of a woman who repeatedly sings about sex in songs like “Like a Virgin,” “Justify My Love,” and “Erotica.”

Madonna wears little more than lingerie on the cover, which was released today. The black, triangle-shaped lace bra doesn’t hide much and very nearly leaves the superstar exposed. She does not cover up in other articles of clothing, either, flaunting most of trim and toned stomach. Her mouth is open in a suggestive pose, and her blonde locks are artfully tousled. Everything about the cover is suggestive, including the title.

Girls Gone Wild is, quite famously, a video series created by Joe Francis where college-age girls perform various sexual acts on camera. Madonna’s new electro pop single even seems to be channeling the films with her lyrics. She sings that ‘girls just want to have fun’ and ‘get fired up like a smoking gun’ and though she realizes that she ‘shouldn’t act this way’ because ‘good girls don’t misbehave’, she’s a ‘bad girl anyway.’  Francis, too, thought that Madonna’s song was much too similar to his famous brand, and demanded that she change the title of the track, which originally had the same name as his company. He also sent her a cease and desist letter to prevent her from singing the song at the Super Bowl. The 38-year-old entrepreneur told TMZ that clearly her label was trying to avoid legal action surrounding the song but is still infringement as far as the law is concerned and they have been in touch with Madonna’s people in an effort to resolve the issue. He added that he will pursue legal action if Madonna and her team do not make additional changes to the title.

The track, which was recorded in London, was produced by electronic star Benny Benassi and written by Jenson Vaughan. This sexual single rides hard and fast on the heels of Give Me All Your Luvin’ which was her first single off of her twelfth studio album. She debuted the song, which features cameos by Nicki Minaj and M.I.A.during the Super Bowl halftime show earlier this month. The mid-tempo, four-on-the-floor party track is a tougher take on the style of Madge’s 2005 effort, “Confessions On A Dancefloor,” produced by Stuart Price who said that it is undeniably dance, but with stronger electro than house markings. According to him, MDNA in totality will probably be more diverse, featuring the production of disco house champion Martin Solveig on four tracks, and the darker, trance-ier William Orbit on five.

Looking toward the release of the “GGW” video, Moxey said that he is not concerned with a reported lawsuit from Joe Francis, creator of the “Girls Gone Wild” series of co-ed flasher videos. He said that when he looked at ASCAP, he noticed that there were approximately 50 records called “Girls Gone Wild,” adding that this guy just thinks too much of himself. The album will hit stores on March 26; the accompanying world tour kicks off in Israel on May 29.

Since leaping to fame in 2008, Lady Gaga has frequently been compared to Madonna.  But the comparisons hit new heights last year when her number one single Born This Way was accused by some critics of emulating Madonna’s 1989 hit Express Yourself.  And after keeping quiet over the comparisons for nearly a year, Madonna has finally broken her silence.

Speaking on ABC show 20/20, the 53-year-old admitted she thought Born This Way sounded familiar when she first heard it.  When presenter Cynthia McFadden asked whether Madonna thought Gaga was ‘copying’ her, she initially praised the 25-year-old.  She said that she is a very talented artist.  Madonna said that she certainly think Gaga references her a lot in her work and sometimes she thinks that it is amusing and flattering and well done.  Describing Gaga’s work, she added that her songs seem to be a statement about taking something that was in Zeitgeist, 20 years ago and turning it inside out and reinterpreting it.  According to the Material Girl singer, there is a lot of ways to look at it adding that she can’t really be annoyed by it because obviously she influenced Gaga.

Addressing Born This Way, which was released last February, Madonna elaborated that when she heard it on the radio, she said that it sounds very familiar.  When McFadden asked if it was annoying, Madonna replied saying that it felt reductive.  Attempting to get Madonna to explain the word reductive which means minimal or crude, McFadden asked whether that was a good or bad thing and the singer replied look it up before smirking.  In a separate interview in the upcoming issue of Newsweek, Madonna described “Born This Way” as a wonderful way to redo her song adding that she means, she recognized the chord changes and thought it was interesting.  “Born This Way” became an instant hit for Lady Gaga, 25, topping the charts in 19 countries and becoming the fastest selling song in iTunes history.

In an interview last year, Gaga was opened about Madonna’s influence on her Born This Way album.  She said that she genuinely love Madonna so much noting that she is so amazing.  Gaga added that Madonna could never be replicated confirming that she is an Italian, she is from New York and not for nothing.  She said that it is not her fault that she kind of look like Madonna.  According to Gaga, it is more annoying to her that people would insinuate that she does not like to be compared to her noting that she is wonderful and inspiring and liberating.  Gaga said that Madonna certainly inspired her album, as did David Bowie, as did Prince, as did Michael Jackson, as did Grace Jones, and she would never take that away.  Despite any ill-feeling Madonna has for her younger contemporary, the women have been pictured together several times.  In 2010, they even took part in a catfight skit on Saturday Night Live.

Madonna Louise Ciccone or better known as Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and an entrepreneur. She was born on August 16, 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her parents were Silvio Anthony Ciccone who is an Italian American and Madonna Louise, a French Canadian. She was nicknamed “Little Nonni” to differentiate her from her mother. She was the third of six children and raise as a Roman Catholic. Her siblings are Martin, Anthony, Paula, Christopher, and Melanie. In 1963, Madonna’s mother died because of breast cancer. She attended St. Frederick’s and St. Andrews Catholic Elementary Schools, West Middle School, as well as Rochester Adams High School. She earned a dance scholarship from the University of Michigan after her graduation. In 1977, Madonna stopped college and decided to go to New York City. She worked as a waitress and with dance troupes. When she performed as a dancer for the disco artist Patrick Hernandez in his 1979 world tour, she became involved with musician Dan Gilroy. They formed “Breakfast Club”, her first rock band. However, she also left her band and fomed a new band named “Emmy” with her former boyfriend Stephen Bray. Mark Kamins, a DJ and record producer, was impressed by the performance of the band. Madonna was introduced to the founder of Sire Records Seymour Stein.

She signed singles deal with the record label. Her first single entitled “Everybody” was released on October 6, 1982. Madonna started with her debut album which was produced by Reggie Lucas, a producer in Warner Bros. She asked assistance to her then boyfriend John “jellybean” Benitez to finish the album. The song “Holiday” was produced and served as the third single. The album reached the eight spot on the Billboard 200. The manner of styling and dressing of Madonna started to influence various women and became a fashion trend in 1980s. Maripol, stylist and jewelry designer, include lace tops, fishnet stockings, jewelry bearing the crucifix, as well as bracelets in styling Madonna.

The second studio album of Madonna was entitled “Like a Virgin” in the year 1984. The album hit the charts at the top spot in various countries and also became her first number one album in the Billboard 200. The title track “Like a Virgin” stayed in the Billboard Hot 100 for the span of six consecutive weeks. Despite of the success of the album, there were some organizations raising complaints about the song because of its video promoting premarital sex. Her popularity further escalates when she performed in MTV Video Music Awards wearing a wedding dress and veil with her “boy toy” belt buckle. The album “Like a Virgin” was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) which sold more than 21 million copies worldwide. The album was listed in the National Association of Recording Merchandisers and Rock and Roll Hall of fame as one of the “Definitive 200 Albums of All Time” in the year 1998.

Madonna’s singing career continued to progress as evidenced by her succeeding albums “True Blue” (1986), “Like a Prayer” (1989), “Erotica” (1992), “Bedtime Stories” (1994), “Ray of Light” (1998), “Music” (2000), “American Life” (2003), “Confessions on a Dance Floor” (2005), and “Hard Candy” (2008).

Madonna is considered to be one of the greatest music figures and became one of the most influential women in the history. In 2010, she was included in the elite list of Time Magazine’s “25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century”. She was one of the only two singers in the lists.

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Madonna did her bit for the embarrassing mothers club on Saturday night.  The Queen of Pop, 53, not only threw on a rather unsuitable outfit for her night out with daughter Lourdes, but she also got down on the dance floor and gyrated with a younger man at the Smirnoff Exchange dance project at the Roseland Ballroom in New York.  Madonna got into the groove with the winner of the competition, Lil Buck.

The whole project was derived from one of Smirnoff’s brand taglines, “Be there,” as Michelle Klein, Smirnoff’s VP of global marketing, content and communications, told Billboard.biz.  It is about inspiring people to get out and have more extraordinary experience in their nightlife.  So they thought a way to make it memorable was to make consumers go to one place.

The Material Mum, accompanied by 15-year-old daughter Lourdes, was judging a contest in New York to find a dancer to join her backing crew.  The Material Girl was holding an audition to find a new dancer to join her on her next world tour.  Lourdes appeared to be fed up as her mother embarked on a mission to let her hair down leaving the teenager looking like she wanted the ground to swallow her up.

Although middle-aged, Madonna is showing no hint of slowing down or even toning down her wardrobe.  Madonna wore a outfit more suited to someone half her age comprised a loose white shirt unbuttoned to the naval and showing off a black leotard dress underneath, both by Dolce & Gabbana, fishnet stockings and knee-high boots.

Daughter Lourdes, instead of enjoying the event, looked rather bored sitting down on a white sofa.  Lourdes could only look on helplessly as her mother hit the dance floor and performed a suggestive dance with a competitor in the dance competition, which was held to find a new member for her backing troupe.  The mother-of-four sipped champagne, mingled with her entourage at the event, and looked in good spirits.

She must have been in her element as she was surrounded by young men at the event and looked delighted.  Perhaps she was a little too hands-on in judging the competition though her 24-year-old boyfriend Brahim Zaibat was close by to keep an eye on his lady love.  Last week, she was reported to have told a friend that she had given up Botox and other cosmetic devices because she was worried about looking like a freak.  Madonna is said to be very upset after learning that a demo version of her new single, Give Me All Your Love, has leaked online months ahead of its release.

Her manager Guy Oseary took to his Twitter page on behalf of the pop queen to voice their concern.  He wrote that Madonna told him that morning her true fans would not do that.  he said that whoever is responsible for this leak, they ask them to please stop.  The new single will be the singer’s first release since she left her record label, Warner Bros, whom she had been with since the start of her career in the 1980s.  Madonna is recording new music and will be embarking on a world tour soon.

Madonna graced the cover of the Harper’s Bazaar along with her Protégé, British actress Andrea Riseborough who has just turned 30.  With her incredibly long slim legs, glowing skin and wrinkle free face, she looks a far sight younger than her age of 53.

One of two Harper’s Bazaar cover photographs features the Queen of Pop in a black trilby hat, tight polo-neck sweater, fitted trousers and heels.  She poses with a camera in a nod to her début as a director for feature film W.E. that stars Riseborough as Wallis Simpson.  Riseborough, who won critical acclaim for playing Margaret Thatcher in 2008 TV movie The Long Walk To Finchley, wears a black evening gown and matching long gloves.

In the second photograph, which features a closer-up shot, Madonna looks as smooth skinned as her leading lady, despite the 23 year age difference.  Both ladies look stunning on the cover of the magazine which also features an interview with the material girl singer who filmed her new movie in London and New York last year.  The film explores a two-tiered love story about Wally Winthrop (Abby Cornish), a woman in 1999 who is infatuated with the 1930s marriage of King Edward VIII to Wallis Simpson.

In an accompanying interview, Madonna told the magazine that Wallis Simpson became famous by default, by capturing the heart of the king but it is obviously a subject she is constantly on the inside of and the outside of.  The singer added that she thought her behavior and her lifestyle threaten a lot of social norms like the movie does.  She also said that she thought there are a lot of parallels and connections.

Nowadays, the singer, actress and now director also has to juggle her successful career with being a mother to Lourdes, 15, Rocco, 11, and David, six, and five-year-old Mercy, who were both adopted from Malawi.  According to Madonna, she told Lourdes that schoolwork always comes first so anything that gets in the way of that falls by the wayside adding that we put our energy in education.  Madonna launched a clothing line named Material Girl with her daughter last year.

However, her fame does have an impact on her children.  She recalls to the magazine that one time she was out on the street with Lourdes.  She said she was not feeling well and had a fever noting that she was wearing her tracksuit bottoms and her T-shirt and she turned around seeing that there are paparazzi thinking that she looks like sh**.  The singer said that she felt for her because she thought this is an extra layer.  According to the singer, it is already a challenge to have a teenager, then to have a teenager in New York City and on top of that, she is the daughter of someone famous.  Madonna, who is currently dating French break-dancer Brahim Zaibat, also says she considers her children’s feelings when it comes to her dating life.

A Michigan paper recently ran a story on the influx of homeless in the northern burgh of Traverse City. The subject of the interview is none other than the Material Girl’s brother.  One of the pop star’s older brothers, Anthony Ciccone, says he is living under a bridge in Traverse City, Michigan for over a year and a half according to Michigan Messenger.  The said paper published a conversation with the 55-year-old man.  Anthony Ciccone said that his family turned their back on him when he was having a hard time claiming that he had answered a question a bazillion times that his sister is a multibazillionaire while he is homeless on the street.

Anthony reportedly lost his job at Ciccone Vineyard, owned by his father, in the nearby town of Suttons Bay, Michigan, and now collects discarded bottles and cans to make money.  He said that he do not have any income that is why he needs to do odd jobs.  Before losing his job there more than a year ago, Ciccone peddled the family collection, which at one point included five varieties of ‘Madonna Wine.’   He said that it annoys him that some people are amused that a person from such a high profile family would end up sleeping, as he does, under the Union St. Bridge.  He said never say never but this could happen to anybody.

Since losing his job at the winery, Ciconne has slept under a local bridge and relying on a network of local churches and Goodwill Industries to get by.  He told the paper that the city’s surprising effort to help the homeless, the reason for the population boom, still is not enough to spare them all from the elements.  The churches in town have collaborated to put on a meal each night that is free and open to anyone in the community. There is a church-run house that provides warmth, showers, laundry, food, computers, telephone and other services for four hours most days, and in the winter the churches take turns hosting people who need a place to sleep. They also provide breakfast.

Since the city have rules against camping and camp fires, staying warm is difficult for people in the streets like Anthony.  He asked where shall he go at 8 o’clock on a Sunday morning when you have no money in your pocket since churches usher people out at 8 a.m.  He explained that if you spend enough time on frozen concrete without proper insulation you will get frostbite.  He said that this experience is out of someone’s idea how gruesome it is.  According to him one will get nerve damage on milder stages and tissue damage in the severe stages where one loses parts of his/her body.  According to Ciccone, he got frostbite on his feet last winter and a friend lost all ten toes.  He even added that several have died of hypothermia.

While the singer is comfortably sheltered on her home, her brother is suffering on the streets enduring the cold and heat and his little sister does not even pay a bit of attention.