{"id":92401,"date":"2024-03-10T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92401"},"modified":"2024-03-10T23:00:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T06:00:31","slug":"kylie-and-madonna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/03\/10\/kylie-and-madonna\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylie and Madonna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand <strong>Madonna<\/strong>\u2019s reasoning for touring without a band.&nbsp; Ka-Ching!&nbsp; But it does make for an awkward moment \u2013 like when she invited <strong>Kylie Minogue <\/strong>onstage in Los Angeles.&nbsp; Obviously there\u2019s a significant age gap.&nbsp; But how does Kylie in the audience at a concert look more camera-ready than Madge onstage?&nbsp; Sure, there\u2019s copious amounts of makeup on both.&nbsp; On one hand, you have Madonna in her too-short hot pants, braids, cowboy boots and hat.&nbsp; On the other, Kylie is wearing a vintage Madonna shirt and Capri pants.&nbsp; Seeing them standing together onstage invoked an image of a future touring company of the musical <strong><em>Grey Gardens<\/em><\/strong>!&nbsp; And then, God help me, Madonna pulled out that guitar.&nbsp; You know for weeks she worked on the handful of chords needed for \u201cI Will Survive\u201d.&nbsp; See, you don\u2019t have these problems when you employ union musicians.&nbsp; But the presence of some synth or cello in the background belies the spontaneous presentation of this musical summit, which was obviously scripted within an inch of its life.&nbsp; The duo segued into a few <em>acapella<\/em> bars of Kylie\u2019s \u201cCan\u2019t Get You Out of My Head\u201d.&nbsp; I hope at the very least they comped her ticket!&nbsp; Of course, you can see the full performance on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand Madonna\u2019s reasoning for touring without a band.&nbsp; Ka-Ching!&nbsp; But it does make for an awkward moment \u2013 like when she invited Kylie Minogue onstage in Los Angeles.&nbsp; Obviously there\u2019s a significant age gap.&nbsp; But how does Kylie in the audience at a concert look more camera-ready than Madge onstage?&nbsp; Sure, there\u2019s copious amounts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92411,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92401\/revisions\/92411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}