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青春若有张不老的脸 那它一定就叫麦当娜 她是跨世纪的流行天后 她是离经叛道的话题女王 她是心系非洲的慈善大使 她是百变女神麦当娜 在第11届公告牌女性音乐人颁奖礼上，美国流行天后麦当娜（Madonna）正式被授予“2016年度公告牌年度女性人物奖”这一重量级奖项。 A prize fit for a queen. Madonna was honored with the Woman of the Year Award at the 2016 Billboard Women in Music event. 公告牌传媒集团总裁 Janice Min 是这样评价麦当娜的： With her creative vision, relentless innovation, and dedication to philanthropic causes, she is an inspiration to hundreds of millions of people around the world, all while shattering every career record out there. She is an important feminist on top of that, a one-of-a-kind artist who’s used her influence to change the conversation around women, sexuality and equal rights. 无论在音乐界还是时尚界，麦当娜都是跨时代的 Icon 级人物。 1982年出道之后的第二张专辑《Like A Virgin》，一经发行就获得了由朱诺奖授予的“年度国际专辑”奖提名。
只要出现在她身上的单品， 无指蕾丝手套、十字架…… 都会成为最流行的时尚单品
彪悍的女人从来无惧年龄增长。虽然已经58岁，麦当娜却依然以性感、动感的形象活跃在舞台上。在最近一年中，麦当娜依然是巡演票房收入最高的女歌手。
在舞台上，世人看惯了她的美艳与性感； 在媒体上，读者常见到是她的各种“出位”言行； 有人说她太疯癫，有人怪她教坏小孩子…… 这次在接受公告牌年度女性大奖时，麦当娜通过一段演讲，让所有人重新认识了自己——提及那些只因身为女性而被批评、被侮辱的艰难时刻，她几度哽咽；不过，所有这一切没有打倒她，她始终坚持按自己的方式而活，终于活成了一个传奇。 温馨提示：请先看完这个走心视频，再对照后面的文稿哦。 （泪点低的同学请自备纸巾） Transcript: Thank you for acknowledging my ability to continue my career for 34 years in the face of blatant misogyny, sexism, constant bullying and relentless abuse. When I started, there was no internet, so people had to say it to my face. There were very few people I had to clap back at, because life was simpler then. When I first moved to New York, I was a teenager. It was 1979 and New York was a very scary place. In the first year I was held up at gunpoint, raped on a rooftop with a knife digging into my throat. And I had my apartment broken into and robbed so many times I just stopped locking the door. In the years to follow, I lost almost every friend I had to AIDS or drugs or gunshot. As you can imagine, all these unexpected events not only helped me become the daring woman that stands before you but it also reminded me that I am vulnerable; and in life there is no real safety except self-belief, and an understanding that I am not the owner of my talents. I am not the owner of anything. Everything I have is a gift from God. And even the ***** things that happened to me, that still happen to me, are also gifts. To teach me lessons and make me stronger. I’m receiving an award for being ‘woman of the year’, so I ask myself, ‘What can I say about being a woman in the music business? What can I say about being a woman?’ When I first started writing songs I didn’t think in a gender-specific way. I didn’t think about feminism. I just wanted to be an artist. I was of course inspired by Debbie Harry and Chrissie Hynde and Aretha Franklin, but my real muse was David Bowie. He embodied male and female spirit and that suited me just fine. He made me think there were no rules. But I was wrong. There are no rules? – ?if you’re a boy. You are allowed to be pretty and cute and sexy. But don’t act too smart. Don’t have an opinion. Don’t have an opinion that is out of line with the status quo, at least. You are allowed to be objectified by men and dress like a slut, but don’t own your sluttiness. And do not, I repeat, do not, share your own sexual fantasies with the world. Be what men want you to be. But more importantly, be what women feel comfortable with you being around other men. And finally, do not age. Because to age, is a sin. You will be criticized, you will be vilified, and you will definitely not be played on the radio. When I first became famous, there were nude photos of me in Playboy and Penthouse magazine. Photos that were taken from art schools that I posed for, back in the day to make money. They weren’t very sexy. In fact, I looked quite bored. I was. But I was expected to feel ashamed when these photos came out, and I was not. And this puzzled people. Eventually I was left alone because I married Sean Penn, and not only would he would bust a cap in your ass, but I was taken off the market. So, for a while I was not considered a threat. Years later, divorced and single – sorry Sean – ?I made my Erotica album and my Sex book was released. I remember being the headline of every newspaper and magazine. And everything I read about myself was damning. I was called ‘a whore’ and ‘a witch.’ One headline compared me to Satan. I said, ‘Wait a minute, isn’t Prince running around with fishnets and high heels and lipstick with his butt hanging out?’ Yes, he was. But he was a man. This was the first time I truly understood that women really did not have the same freedom as men. I remember feeling paralyzed. It took me a while to put myself together and get on with my creative life?—?to get on with my life. I took comfort in the poetry of Maya Angelou, and the writings of James Baldwin, and in the music of Nina Simone. I remember wishing that I had a female peer that I could look to for support. Camille Paglia, the famous feminist writer, said that I set women back by objectifying myself sexually. Oh, I thought, ‘so, if you’re a feminist, you don’t have sexuality, you deny it.’ So I said ‘ **** it. I’m a different kind of feminist. I’m a bad feminist.’ People say I’m so controversial. But I think the most controversial thing I have ever done is to stick around. What I would like to say to all the women here today, is this: Women have been so oppressed for so long, they believe what men have to say about them. And they believe they have to back a man to get the job done. And there are some very good men worth backing, but not because they’re men – ?because they’re worthy. As women, we have to start appreciating our own worth and each other’s worth. Seek out strong women to befriend, to align yourself with, to learn from, to be inspired by, to collaborate with, to support, to be enlightened by. As I said before, it’s not so much about receiving this award as it is having this opportunity to stand before you and really say thank you as a woman, as an artist, as a human. Not only to the people who have loved and supported me along the way, so many of you are sitting in front of me right now, you have no idea…you have no idea how much your support means. But to the doubters the naysayers, to everyone who gave me hell and said I could not, that I would not, that I must not? -?your resistance made me stronger, made me push harder, made me the fighter that I am today, made me the woman that I am today.So thank you. 怎么样，这段演讲你打几分？这是你心目中的麦当娜吗？请留言告诉我们。 微信：newsplus 网站：NEWSPlusRadio.cn 荔枝 FM：英语环球 搜狐新闻客户端：英语环球广播 新浪微博：英语环球广播 |
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