# Madonna, the sexy look ain't working.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 8, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633 "2005-09-08T07:21:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/1 "2005-09-08T07:21:35Z")
I just saw this pic below of Madonna on the iTunes music store and I automatically started laughing. She’s obviously trying to pull off a “Oh yeah, I am so hot” expression, but it comes out looking like she’s saying, “Ahh Dahhhhhhh!” 😃
[_snerk_](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/MachTurtle/Dahhhh.jpg)
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### Author:  [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/2 "2005-09-08T07:23:44Z")
It does really look like they stole that shot of her from a dental visit. But, still… damn! She’s like, eighty years old now and still hot! (Okay, okay, she’s only seventy;) )
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### Author:  [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/3 "2005-09-08T07:27:07Z")
Looks halfway through a sneeze.
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### Author:  [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/4 "2005-09-08T08:09:47Z")
My first thought was actually, “Dahh, hey guys, have you seen my lunchbox?” 😃
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/5 "2005-09-08T08:34:49Z")
My first thought was “Mental note to self: in future, do not sit on that windowsill where we keep all the cacti”
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/6 "2005-09-08T09:01:19Z")
Hee! She looks just like the two year old girl I babysit sometimes, whenever she says, “_NUT UH_! That’s _MINE_.”
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### Author:  [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/7 "2005-09-08T09:05:50Z")
Actually, I think she does look kind of sexy, in a “Whoops! I just got taken from behind without my permission” sort of way. Ick! Horrible! On second thought, she looks like a blow up doll of a certain sort.
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### Author:  [@Arwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwin)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/8 "2005-09-08T09:23:46Z")
> [@Tenar](#):
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> Actually, I think she does look kind of sexy, in a “Whoops! I just got taken from behind without my permission” sort of way. Ick! Horrible! On second thought, she looks like a blow up doll of a certain sort.
That was more or less my first thought. So if you think she looks sexy here, you might also like these new expensive … well never mind. 😃
Can’t agree with the OP though. Whatever my own opinion of her (the only time I found her sexy was when she was sitting against a wall with black hair I think in the video of La Isla Bonita), ‘the sexy look’ is the single most important thing that probably ever worked for her, going neatly together with the ‘sexy’ attitude.
In fact, when looking at her music, I think ‘sexy’ is at the very core to her success. So statement like ‘the sexy look ain’t working’, well. Subjectively, I probably agree, but objectively, couldn’t be more wrong. 😉
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/9 "2005-09-08T13:31:35Z")
The problem is it’s a straight rip-off of a Liz Phair pic.
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### Author:  [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/10 "2005-09-08T13:31:56Z")
> [@Arwin](#):
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> That was more or less my first thought. So if you think she looks sexy here, you might also like these new expensive … well never mind. 😃
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> Can’t agree with the OP though. Whatever my own opinion of her (the only time I found her sexy was when she was sitting against a wall with black hair I think in the video of La Isla Bonita), ‘the sexy look’ is the single most important thing that probably ever worked for her, going neatly together with the ‘sexy’ attitude.
>
> In fact, when looking at her music, I think ‘sexy’ is at the very core to her success. So statement like ‘the sexy look ain’t working’, well. Subjectively, I probably agree, but objectively, couldn’t be more wrong. 😉
Oh, I agree with you. I meant it wasn’t working for her in that particular picture. 😃
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### Author:  [@ChaChaHeels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChaChaHeels)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/11 "2005-09-08T17:02:33Z")
I actually think she looks better now than she ever has. She finally grew into that face.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/12 "2005-09-08T17:10:51Z")
Definitely lining up for a blow job…
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### Author:  [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/13 "2005-09-08T17:12:38Z")
It looks like she has a big gap betwen her teeth. 😃
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/14 "2005-09-08T17:36:10Z")
> [@smiling bandit](#):
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> It looks like she has a big gap betwen her teeth. 😃
Waitaminute … _looks closer_ That’s\* David Letterman\*!
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### Author:  [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/15 "2005-09-08T17:50:58Z")
**AFG** , I don’t think you’re allowed to post about other folks’ sex appeal today, after starting [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=333414). 😃
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/16 "2005-09-08T19:31:04Z")
Actually, while watching Madonna’s video conference with Steve Jobs during the iTunes/iPod event, I kept thinking, “That woman’s three years away from being a grey-haired grandmother.” Might have been because of the frumpy black dress she was wearing at the time, but sexy she was not.
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### Author:  [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/17 "2005-09-08T19:37:27Z")
Madonna’s slack-jawed, open-mouthed expression reminds me of the appearance of brain-damaged individuals. :eek:
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/18 "2005-09-08T19:48:41Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#):
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> Madonna’s slack-jawed, open-mouthed expression reminds me of the appearance of brain-damaged individuals. :eek:
Apparently Bill Frist viewed a videotape of Madonna, and diagnosed her not to be brain dead. I think it was “Open Your Heart”.
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### Author:  [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/19 "2005-09-08T19:57:31Z")
I don’t know if this is intentional, but it honestly looks like a the moment in a porno right before the guy gives her an enormous facial. I’m not trying to be crass, but it looks _exactly_ like that.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-the-sexy-look-aint-working/320633/20 "2005-09-08T20:40:37Z")
> [@VCO3](#):
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> I don’t know if this is intentional, but it honestly looks like a the moment in a porno right before the guy gives her an enormous facial. I’m not trying to be crass, but it looks _exactly_ like that.
Yeah, but one of her ex-boyfriends famously said she absolutely does not give head. Foo on Madonna! What kinda preevert doesn’t give head?! 😛
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