In 2020 I was going to expose everything… In a matter of days, The Hollywood elite tried to ruin my entire career, villainise me and flooded the news with lies to discredit me,” he wrote, per The Pink News .

In Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation (2022), her usage of Catholic aesthetics is understood as an appropriation "to promote her brand". [111] Academic Anne-Marie Korte, similarly states she uses Christian symbols and misuses them to attract attention while showing disrespect for Christian and for religion in general. [42] Commenting about her crucifixion performance in 2006, Lutheran theologian Margot Käßmann was critical, saying "to put oneself in the place of Jesus is an extraordinary manifestation of an inflated ego". [42] Powers, Ann (March 1, 1998). "Pop View; New Tune for the Material Girl: I'm Neither". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 4, 2014 . Retrieved March 31, 2021.Madonna as Virgin Mary, making an all-female Last Supper representation for the first Vanity Fair 's European "Icon issue" in 2023. It sparked outrage among Christians. [106] [107] D'Acierno, Pellegrino; Leonard, George J. (1998). The Italian American Heritage. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0815303807. Mills, David (August 25, 2015). "Madonna: Stripper Nuns Don't Make You Interesting". Aleteia . Retrieved September 21, 2022. Apologising to fans, Sam added: "I am honestly heartbroken I couldn't finish the show tonight for you all. I love you all. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.” Tomaselli, Keyan G.; Scott, David H. T. (2009). Cultural Icons. Left Coast Press. ISBN 978-1598743654.

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Madonna gets her wrist inked with a Kabbalah symbol". Geo TV. March 14, 2023 . Retrieved January 28, 2023.

Perhaps the first artist of our time and certainly the most successful to routinely employ facile images from many spiritual cultures and multiple religious traditions is the pop music star Madonna. Due a solid popularity, Madonna's forays with religion imposed cultural concers over decades among the community. Authors Peter Levenda and Paul Krassner concurred that probably no person of the 1980s and 1990s in the American popular culture represents better the conflicting spiritual forces that Madonna. [137] "Some of the most important and interesting texts in recent U.S. culture which have overlapping concerns with liberations theologies are by Madonna", wrote religious scholar Mark D. Hulsether, in Bruce Forbes's Religion and Popular Culture in America. [138] Academic Akbar Ahmed commented that in the cases of Rushdie and Madonna, "numerous overlapping national, intellectual and cultural boundaries are being crossed". [139] During her halftime show at Super Bowl LVII, Rihanna held her hands up over her head and made a diamond with her fingers, the signature symbol of the Illuminati. Though many fans made the connection, and talked about how it noticeably wasn’t shown on TV, other fans chimed in clarifying the symbol was of Rocnation, Jay-Z’s music agency she’s signed to. Maybe it’s a double meaning? Guess we’ll never know! a b c Marthe, Emalie (May 21, 2017). "Why Celebrities Stopped Following Kabbalah". Vice . Retrieved March 4, 2023.