“Dear Joyce,” the scrawled, nearly illegible note begins on the “Vogue” singer’s own monogrammed stationery. If addressing a country’s president by first name is not informal enough, Madonna congratulates the president, the nation’s first female leader, on her “new position” — as if the barrier-breaking politician has earned a promotion at an insurance company. Forbes named the president no. 71 on its list of most powerful woman in the world, and named her the most powerful woman in Africa.
The letter’s mistakes get “Deeper and Deeper” for the 54-year-old philanthropic pop goddess. She misspells the word responsibility as “responsability” and writes in a messy hand with little order on the page.