Everything You Need To Know About Madonna's Controversy With 'New York Times Magazine' Interview

Madonna isn't necessarily a stranger to controversy, but a new New York Times Magazine interview-and her own comments about it-have have raised a few more eyebrows than usual recently.

Heres the deal: NYT Magazine just did a profile of Madonna called Madonna at Sixty, and shes not happy with it. The piece covers a wide range of things, but Madonna wrote on Instagram that it focuses too heavily on her age, as well as other trivial and superficial matters.

To say that I was disappointed in the article would be an understatement, she wrote. You cant fix society And its endless need to diminish, disparage or degrade that which they know is good. Especially strong independent women.

Madonna added that the journalist who wrote the article spent days and hours and months with me and was invited into a world which many people don't get to see, but chose to focus on trivial and superficial matters such as the ethnicity of my stand in or the fabric of my curtains and never ending comments about my age which would never have been mentioned had I been a MAN!

View this post on Instagram Madame on the cover of N.Y.T. Magazine photographed by my dear friend @jr..........Also sharing my fav photo that never made it in, along with pre-shoot chat and a celebratory glass of wine after many hours of work! To say that I was disappointed in the article would be an understatement- It seems. You cant fix society And its endless need to diminish, Disparage or degrade that which they know is good. Especially strong independent women. The journalist who wrote this article spent days and hours and months with me and was invited into a world which many people dont get to see, but chose to focus on trivial and superficial matters such as the ethnicity of my stand in or the fabric of my curtains and never ending comments about my age which would never have been mentioned had I been a MAN! Women have a really hard time being the champions of other women even if. they are posing as intellectual feminists. Im sorry i spent 5 minutes with her. It makes me feel raped. And yes Im allowed to use that analogy having been raped at the age of 19. Further proof that the venerable N.Y.T. Is one of the founding fathers of the Patriarchy. And I say--DEATH TO THE PATRIARCHY woven deep into the fabric of Society. I will never stop fighting to eradicate it. A post shared by Madonna (@madonna) on Jun 6, 2019 at 5:58am PDT

Women have a really hard time being the champions of other women even if they are posing as intellectual feminists, Madonna continued. Shes so pissed about the whole thing that she says shes sorry I spent 5 minutes with her.

All of which is pretty tame-but Madonna's final words are what irked people the most: It makes me feel raped," she wrote. "And yes Im allowed to use that analogy having been raped at the age of 19."

Madonna also referenced "feeling raped" in the NYT Magazine profile, saying it's how she felt when music from her 2015 album Rebel Heart leaked early. There are no words to describe how devastated I was, she said. It took me a while to recover, and put such a bad taste in my mouth I wasnt really interested in making musicI felt raped.

The nearly 8,000-word profile comes ahead of her newest album, Madame X, set to release on June 14. But Madge has a point about the age thing: There are definitely tons of references to how old she is throughout the article. At point point, the article says that "the sex bomb at 60 was slightly less than bionic while preparing for her Billboard Music Awards performance in May.

Madonna called out the article's writer, Vanessa Grigoriadis, about her focus on age: "When we talked about aging, I was surprised when she turned the issue back on me," Grigoriadis wrote. "'I think you think about growing old too much,' [Madonna] said later. 'I think you think about age too much. I think you should just stop thinking about it.'"

As for those rape comments, people arent impressed. Various Twitter users called Madonna out for being "disgusting," "repulsive," and for "[downplaying] every rape survivor's experience."

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Madonna has yet to comment on being criticized for her rape comparison-other than in her original comment, saying she's "allowed to use that analogy having been raped at the age of 19," but she seems to be unfazed: The pop star has been posting various Instagram photos to promote her upcoming album.