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Fr Rod: blowback – or blowhard?

2 September 2018

10:12 AM

2 September 2018

10:12 AM

Did you happen to see Madonna’s ‘tribute’ speech to Aretha Franklin at this year’s MTV music awards? The reason I put the word ‘tribute’ in adverted commas is because the speech Madonna gave was essentially about Madonna. In fact, the ABC reported that “it made no mention of Franklin’s own career… but her lengthy speech focused mostly on her own early career.”

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