Madonna was grounded for two weeks after a shocking performance at her school. The ‘Vogue’ hitmaker had previously shared her enthusiasm for doing “outrageous” routines during the annual talent show at West Junior High in Rochester Hills, Michigan, when she was a teenager. A new book reveals that one year, her father branded her a “s****” and punished her due to her and her friend’s provocative moves.
An excerpt from Mary Gabriel’s new biography ‘Madonna: A Rebel Life,’ obtained by People magazine, states: “After dancing to Johnny Rivers’ ‘Secret Agent Man’ during seventh grade, Madonna choreographed a number to The Who’s ‘Baba O’Reilly’ the following year, shocking the crowd.
“Wearing shorts and a top covered in green-and-pink painted hearts and flowers, she and a friend moved sensually during the performance.
The audience, as well as Madonna’s father, Tony Ciccone, were taken aback. He considered the performance inappropriate and grounded her for two weeks. They never spoke about the moment in detail at home, according to her brother, Christopher Ciccone, but Madonna apparently was called a “s***” around town afterward.” Madonna, now 65, was “sent to stay with her grandma,” but she didn’t see it as a punishment.
The book continued: “She was subsequently sent off to her grandma’s house, which she liked because her grandmother allowed her to go out with boys and drink beer. When Madonna returned home, she told Interview in 1985, her stepmother, Joan, ‘told me I looked like a floozy, and I was really smashed.'”
The ‘Beautiful Stranger’ singer decided to embrace the “floozy” term, along with a friend.
The book added: “Soon, Madonna began adopting the term herself, along with a friend who also received the criticism. ‘We got bras and stuffed them so our breasts were over-large and wore really tight sweaters – we were sweater-girl floozies. We wore tons of lipstick and really badly applied make-up and huge beauty marks and did our hair up like Tammy Wynette,’ she told Interview.”
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