#Deeper and deeper madonna cover series
(The series arrives a month before the first anniversary of the reversal of Roe v Wade, long the goal for the religious right.) Over four episodes, Shiny Happy People mimics a rabbit hole of research – a show that is initially about an odd corner of American celebrity morphs into a recounting of abuse within the family, to abuse propagated and protected by IBLP, and to the inroads fundamentalist, authoritarian-leaning Christianity has made in US schools, government and civic life. The Duggars, who regularly touted Gothard’s seminars, were merely “the front-facing image of this insidious organization”, said the series co-director Olivia Crist. Founded in 1961, Gothard’s ministry preached to millions a strict hierarchy of male authority leading to him, then God, and an abdication of “temptation” – music, television, dating, alcohol, public schools. Gothard and IBLP were the shadowy scaffolding on which the Duggars’ celebrity was built, and whose strict teachings (and coffers) were burnished by the spotlight. (Gothard, 88, has denied all allegations.) Earlier this year, Jinger Duggar Vuolo published a memoir criticizing the strict control and fear-based teachings of her upbringing under the influence of a group called the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) and its now disgraced leader, Bill Gothard, who has been accused by dozens of women of sexual harassment and assault. Several of the daughters, two of whom were trotted on to Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show to publicly forgive their brother for touching them and who starred in a successful spinoff series, have distanced themselves from their family’s teachings (and, to the interest of celebrity gossip sites, begun wearing pants). Last year, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for downloading images and video of child sex abuse.
Indeed, Shiny Happy People covers the family’s many scandals and splinters, which have unfurled publicly since the original show was cancelled in 2015, after it was revealed that the eldest son, Josh Duggar, had molested five young women, including several of his sisters, in 20. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a show about a family of 21 living in perfect harmony while disavowing the secular world and teaching women polite subservience was not quite as easy as it seemed, nor the harmless curiosity that viewers seemed to think it was.
To mark Madonna’s upcoming sixty-third birthday, here are a collection of fascinating songs that, whilst not single-worthy, are highlights from her fourteen studio albums that people should listen to.This is the jumping off point for Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, a new Amazon Prime series about the family and the larger fundamentalist group their show represented and sanitized. I am not including soundtrack albums in my feature. I am selecting what I consider to be the best ‘deep cut’ (non-singles) from her studio albums. There are several songs on all of her albums that do not get played those deeper cuts that are really solid and warrant greater exposure. Today, I want to concentrate on a song from each of Madonna’s studio albums that are not as well known - though they are definitely worth investigation. To me, Madonna is one of the most interesting artists ever! There is so much to cover and investigate when it comes to her career. Some may say that it is a bit overboard to do a run of features for a single artist on their birthday. Tomorrow (16th August), I am doing a few features to mark that.
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