54. Madonna had three Top 10 albums in 1990: Like A Prayer (released in 1989 but still big), I’m Breathless, and The Immaculate Collection. 55. Madonna’s most recent Number 1 album was 2012’s MDNA. Rebel Heart was her first studio album to miss the top spot since Bedtime Stories...
Reminding the audience that she had sung in Cape Verdean Creole and other languages, Madonna boasted, “This is a girl who gets around. This is a girl who does her homework.” But in the songs themselves, she only sounded like a well-meaning tourist. Madonna was more suited to the harde...
“Deeper and Deeper,” explicitly recalls that earlier song’s refrain—“You’ve got to just let your body move to the music”—butEroticaalso feels like a major corrective on the, if not sins, then let’s say mega-privileges that Madonna indulged when it ...
Like LaBruce, Madonna has often conflated the sexual and the political, and like the underground filmmaker, she’s always seemed to understand that humor goes a long way toward making one’s hard-to-swallow point. It’s been an essential, if not always apparent, component of her most effec...
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