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Originally Posted by hana_sanctuary
It's not about the fight that can be put up if she were to stick around... yes, that's totally acceptable and admired. However, people usually seem to not think as highly of artists who keep putting out records that are obviously not doing well. No disrespect to either Madonna or Michael Jackson, but look at how they're doing. While I don't mind their recent works and releases and I'm sure many people do like them ((no doubt about it)), however there is a vast majority of people who simply remember "the old days".
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Well I'm glad I'm not superficial of a fan enough to go on hating a band or artist just because their latest stuff sucks. I hated Do As Infinity's last album "Need Your Love", but I still love a lot of their past works and I really admire what they've done past the years, even if they had still continued releasing albums like Need Your Love.
There's nothing bad about Madonna working. She's a real artist because she's often trying to reivent her music, and she doesn't care whether it will be for everybody's tastes or just for a few. I'm not exactly a fan of hers (I like some songs), but I definitelly admire her efforts. Why does the fact some people only remember "the old days" should sentence them to stop releasing material while there are actually others who still admire their work? Madonna is definitely not as popular but people still remind her old days, and probably as much as if she had just quit the scene back then. A lot of artists who've quitted the scene have pretty much been forgotten, so that's not a reason why an artist should just quit.
As for Michael Jackson, there's a clear answer why his popularity went down and his image worn out to public eyes, and that has nothing to do with him staying on the music scene but actually all the scandals he was put through.