London: Pop star Madonna has slammed the current generation of pop and rock stars, saying they are too "bourgeois" to follow in her footsteps.

Madonna believes she has had a long flourishing career mainly because it was shaped out of the remains of the punk movement of the 1970s, reports contactmusic.com.

She said: "I came on the heels of punk. There was lots of stuff going on, but there wasn't the coverage. This new Hollywood generation is not punk rock. They are more bourgeois. It's time to flash something new."