"The 63-year-old singer [Madonna] teamed up with nonfungible token extraordinaire Beeple [Mike Winkelmann] to create a series of X-rated graphics showing her fully nude and giving birth to butterflies, insects and trees. Called 'Mother of Creation,' the NFT collection, which will be sold for charity, also includes a 3D model of Madonna’s vagina ..." - New York Post, May 11, 2022.
Age per se doesn't knock you out of the relevance box.
Clint Eastwood and the late Betty White had reset their careers as they entered old age. Yes, a lot of folks are putting the knock on David Boies as a leader/manager. But at 81, reports Reuters Legal, he is still relevant as a litigator. Recently he won a case he argued before the US Supreme Court.
What puts the kibosh on relevance for an aging entity, human or institutional, is usually just trying too hard to be, yes, relevant. The second coming of fictional Jack McCoy on the return of "Law & Order" isn't crushing it in ratings. Old in digital years Gawker 2.0 keeps trying too hard and keeps being irrelevant.
Madonna's crossing-the-line NFT collection may be experienced out here as straining. And, we folks are already plum tired from COVID, inflation, and deep hits to our investment accounts. The soft-porn part likely won't phase us. Actually that's traditional Madonna. Back then, that was shocking. And relevant.
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