Update, Tuesday, 11 a.m.: Newly minted Congresswoman Debbie Dingell doesn't appreciate Madonna trashing Michigan.
In a Facebook post, she writes:
Enough already Madonna! I am probably not being politically correct in some way, but I am tired of Madonna and her cheap shots at Michigan and her hometown.
I love this state, the people, my friends (some since grade school), the weather (yes, all four seasons), sports(lions, Tigers, red wings, the pistons, a big ten football game, MSU in the sweet 16) the music (maybe not hers), the water, floating down the river in an inner tube, freighters, cars, universities, the food and diversity of it, ethnic cultures and neighborhoods, and the realness of the people I know and love...intense, passionate, opinionated.......the ups and downs are life and prepare us for the future....but there is always a community to back you up, try to help and struggle with you in tough times and celebrate good times......but this is my home, my roots, a michigan car girl born and bred and she certainly never learned what the nuns taught me....if you cannot say something nice don't.
Michigan contributed to her success....we don't take shots at her, her style, her life.....so something good must have happened here .....
I am and always will be a Michigan girl, quit bad mouthing us.....!!!!!!
Original article, 7 a.m. Tuesday:
When Madonna talks, apparently plenty of folks listen.
She tells US Weekly that she doesn't miss Michigan. Who really cares? Some people apparently. It's made the local news.
"I miss absolutely nothing about growing up in Michigan," Madonna tells the magazine, which writes:
While the superstar doesn't miss her childhood or college years in the midwest, she continues to share a deep connection to the state as her daughter Lourdes Leon is currently enrolled at the University of Michigan. Madonna's eldest child followed in her famous mom's footsteps last summer and registered in the school's undergrad program for music, theater and dance -- more than three decades after the Material Girl was a Wolverine herself.
Recently she dumped on Rochester Hills, where she spent part of her youth, on the Howard Stern Show.
"We first grew up in Pontiac, which was a very racially-mixed, mostly black environment and neighborhood, and we went to Catholic schools and we wore uniforms and that was normal life to me," Madonna said.
"And then when I went to high school, we moved to a suburb that was all white. And we were, a bit, living above of our means... I felt very -- because now I didn't have a uniform -- so I was aware that my clothes were not as cool as everybody elses or as nice as everybody elses.
"I just didn't fit in. I just felt like I was with rich people, and I wasn't and I felt out of place. And I felt like they were members of country clubs and they had manicures and they wore nice clothes and I didn't fit in. I felt like a country bumpkin. And I was resentful."
