Now, THIS is 50!

Madonna [my fellow LEO!] is starting her media assult to promote her new album Hard Candy dropping this spring. (April 29th).

This photo from her Interview magazine piece is mind-boggling to say the least. This woman will be 50 in August!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love [love, LOVE] Madonna, and the album is said to deliver as once again she represents as an innovating chameleon. She worked with the top producers of the moment including; Timberland, Justin Timberlake and Pharrell Williams.

Some excerpts from Interview:

On working with Justin Timberlake:'I really enjoy writing with Justin….We had psychoanalytic sessions whenever we wrote songs first. We'd sit down and we'd start talking about situations. And then we'd start talking about issues or problems or relationships with people. That was the only way, because you know, writing together with somebody is very intimate….that was fun, because he's open and he's got talent. He's a songwriter. I haven't worked with a lot of songwriters where I'm instantly connected and start riffing and playing with the rhythm of the words. He's as interested in the rhythm of the words as the meaning of the words.'

On adopting her son David:'He wouldn't have lived if I hadn't taken him. It's not even a possibility.'

On gaining perspective:'We live very comfortable lives, and unfortunately, we have to have our noses rubbed in other people's pain and suffering to realize how much we have and how much we have to be grateful for.' [Oh yeah?, Lemme- I hold something then?!]

On freedom:'Freedom is a funny word because when we think we're free, we're not really. I think freedom is quite illusory….When I stop thinking about myself all the time and put other people before me on a regular basis, that's real freedom. When I can love unconditionally….then that's real freedom. So it's something to strive for, but I'm not free.' [Now if Madonna ain't free I KNOW I'm still a slave-SHEEEEEEET!]