After 15-year-old daughter Lourdes was photographed smoking a cigarette, Madonna says she might have to get more strict with her kids.
The singer and single mom, who's cultivated an image as a parental disciplinarian, addresses the photo in an interview on NBC's Rock Center With Brian Williams, airing Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET. The Today show ran a teaser of the sitdown (see video below).
When asked for her reaction to Lourdes' smoking shot, Madonna refers to herself in the third person: 'She wasn't very happy.'
She says she thinks she's a tough parent, 'but honestly, I don't think I'm as tough as I should be. I think I need to be maybe tougher. It's hard - every day is a negotiation. But cigarette smoking I'm not very fond of - for anyone. I don't approve of anyone smoking cigarettes, most of all my daughter.'
Then correspondent Harry Smith brings up a music video of Madonna, ahem, smoking, to which she responds: 'I don't smoke. That's just an accessory, Harry. There's a difference. (Lourdes) smoked that cigarette before I did that video!'
Another hot topic in the interview: downward sales of her latest album, MDNA, a week after hitting No. 1 on Billboard.
'It's hard to be No. 1. It's hard to sell records. It's a lot of competition, and I was extremely elated,' she says of MDNA's initial sales triumph.
The singer and single mom, who's cultivated an image as a parental disciplinarian, addresses the photo in an interview on NBC's Rock Center With Brian Williams, airing Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET. The Today show ran a teaser of the sitdown (see video below).
When asked for her reaction to Lourdes' smoking shot, Madonna refers to herself in the third person: 'She wasn't very happy.'
She says she thinks she's a tough parent, 'but honestly, I don't think I'm as tough as I should be. I think I need to be maybe tougher. It's hard - every day is a negotiation. But cigarette smoking I'm not very fond of - for anyone. I don't approve of anyone smoking cigarettes, most of all my daughter.'
Then correspondent Harry Smith brings up a music video of Madonna, ahem, smoking, to which she responds: 'I don't smoke. That's just an accessory, Harry. There's a difference. (Lourdes) smoked that cigarette before I did that video!'
Another hot topic in the interview: downward sales of her latest album, MDNA, a week after hitting No. 1 on Billboard.
'It's hard to be No. 1. It's hard to sell records. It's a lot of competition, and I was extremely elated,' she says of MDNA's initial sales triumph.
From The Hollywood Reporter
In addition, she is glorifying drug use with MDNA (Ectasy's street name MDMA or Molly, which she said at a music event). I know it can also be translated as Madonna's DNA or MDNA is an abbreviated form of her name too. It is multidemensional just as Madonna is. I hope that the concert will be good as she always puts on a great show, but I must confess that MDNA is not a strong album. I am so sad becuase Hard Candy tanked as well and that is two commercial failures in a row. Yes she did reach number 1 with MDNA but it fell off the charts like a cannonball in water in the following weeks. I will patiently wait for the next album in 2014-2015? Please God, let it be good.
Posted by: Holden Caufield | Monday, 23 April 2012 at 12:39 AM
I agree. Take some responsibility for your actions and how they influence your children, and stop passive-aggressively attacking your contemporaries.
Posted by: rj | Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 06:52 PM
"Accessory"? Sounds like "excuse" to me. If you don't want your kids - or anyone - to smoke, don't glorify it in your work.
Posted by: Mixie | Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 03:57 PM