Madonna Was Artistically Raped by Leak of 11 Demo Songs

Madonna is fuming mad. The singer has been working hard on a new album throughout 2014, with an early 2015 release in mind. She’s been keeping fans up to speed with her progress on social media, teasing them with photos and cryptic messages which pointed to the fact that the album might be called “Unapologetic [B-word].”

Earlier this year, 2 demo tracks said to be included on the material in the finished version leaked online. Madonna played it cool and barely said anything about it on social media, but she’s not about to do the same now that 11 such tracks have emerged on various websites.

Such a leak is artistic rape and an act of terrorism, she writes in a post on her Instagram page, which has been deleted since. You will find a screenshot of it in the gallery below.

Stealing and leaking music is “rape” and “terrorism”

When word got back to Madonna that so many of her tracks ended up online months ahead of the album’s release, she tried to be calm about the whole thing, probably thinking that her fans would do be mature and responsible and considerate enough not to listen to them.

Again, these were demos that got out, and as Madonna put it, they were “not ready to be presented to the world.” Some of them might not even make the cut on the album, she continued.

The singer thanked the fans for not listening to them, for respecting her music, and for choosing to not give more satisfaction to whoever stole and leaked the tracks. In other words, she assumed that this was what most her fans would do.

They didn’t, obviously.

“This broken ipod is a symbol of my broken heart! That my music has been stolen and leaked! I have been violated as a human and an artist!” Madonna wrote in the caption of a photo of a broken up iPod, which looked as if thrown on the ground repeatedly and stomped upon.  

This was actually her second angry message on the leak, because the first one read something like this: “This is artistic rape!! These are early leaked demo’s half of which wont even make it on my album the other half have changed and evolved. This is a form of terrorism.”

She continued by lamenting the fate of the world (and her own), when people choose to steal to destroy the artistic process, instead of letting the artist “finish and give [them her] very best.”

Wrong, terribly inappropriate choice of words

Madonna, like many other entertainers before her, seems too keen to throwing the word “rape” around, voices started saying online within minutes of her posting the above message.

In a context in which 120 people, many of whom children, were killed in a terrorist attack just days ago, how can Madonna compare the leak of 11 demo songs (which, as she says so herself, might not even make it on the album) to that?

How can she say she was raped, even artistically so, when millions of women (and men) go through that ordeal (physically) and many of them can’t even talk about it, and drown in their own sense of shame and guilt?   

Perhaps aware of how poorly she worded her first rant, Madonna deleted it and posted the other message, in which she makes no mention of terrorism and replaces “rape” for “violate.”

Reactions to the leaked material

Either because some fans were too upset with Madonna’s inappropriate wording or because they really didn’t like what they heard from the demos, comments online, particularly on social media, about the album aren’t exactly favorable.

Perhaps this is precisely why she got so upset. Hearing that reactions were favorable or that excited fans were raving about the tracks would have probably prompted a different response from the Queen of Pop.  

Either way, if Madonna sticks to the initial release plans, we should probably expect the album to be called “Unapologetic [B-word]” and include tracks like “Living for Love,” “Messiah,” “Unapologetic [B-word]” and “[B-word] I’m Madonna.” She really likes that word, you can tell.  

Thank you for not listening! Thank you for your loyalty! Thank you for waiting and if you have heard please know they are unfinished demos stolen long ago and not ready to be presented to the world Madonnaさん(@madonna)が投稿した写真 - 12月 12, 2014 at 7:36午前 PST