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Imitators need not apply: All non-Earth-Kitt versions of "Santa Baby" are invalid.

For those brought up by parents who said it was innapropriate to wear bathing suits at amusement parks, the cropped top phenomena that swept Lollapalooza this past weekend took some by surprise. 

Madonna at age 53 is less an artist than a cornerstone American industry. Yet unlike her corporate peers in metro Detroit, she is unwilling or unable to reinvent herself, continuing to peddle a product we’ve become all too familiar with and sick of in its current, inferior form.