Doja Cat has defended Madonna against trolls, saying she’s “tickled” by people who “feel threatened by an older woman who can do her job forever”.
The popstar and rapper took to TikTok to discuss claims that Madonna was “too old” to be on stage, saying she was “tickled and bothered” by such comments. “It’s interesting to me because you’re telling a musician who makes music, who performs it as a job, to stop doing it?” Doja began her TikTok. “I’m trying to wrap my head around that.”
Doja then asked whether these comments arose because the pop titan was “an older woman who feels sexy”, adding: “Is that why you want her to get off stage? Because you feel threatened by an older woman who can do her job forever?”
She went on to suggest that critics of Madonna might have “something personal happening in there” and that “nobody else knows it and only you do”. “Is that why you’re upset?,” she asks in the video, before laughing and commenting: “I’m sorry, it’s not funny.”
Going on to mockingly cry and wipe away tears, Doja ended the video by saying that “it is said”, and that she would cry alongside Madonna’s haters.
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In 2019, we interviewed Madonna for our Big Read, where the legend herself opened up about being picked on by the press – including baseless rumours of being diagnosed with HIV.
“It was so crazy, she told us. “For months I was going around saying I wasn’t HIV positive but then I thought, What if I was? Does that make me a bad person? And are you going to treat me differently? It was a crazy time and it really hurt me a lot. That’s just one circumstance where people – ‘scuse me for swearing – really tried to fuck with me.”
“That’s just the way it is,” she continued. “People like to pick on me. I don’t take it as personally as I used to, or it doesn’t bother me as much as it used to. But if you have an opinion in this day and age, you have to be prepared to take a beating.”
Madonna has since confirmed she is working on new music, announcing her return to Warner Records last September and calling the forthcoming record ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor Part 2’.
The new album will see her reunite with the producer of the original ‘Confessions on a Dancefloor’, Stuart Price, whom she already revealed she had been working with back in December. Though no official release date has been set, the album is scheduled for release this year, making our list of NME’s most anticipated albums of the year.
Meanwhile, William Orbit has said he’s written a “successor” to Madonna’s classic ‘Ray Of Light’, but he’s had “nil response” from her.