Madonna came into the Nineties like a lion, and exited the decade like a lamb. Her final effort of the decade, “Ray of Light”, found Madge in a contemplative, serene mood completely unlike her public persona for the previous decade and a half. By the turn of the decade, she was a mother once, about to become a mother for the second time, and had even finally gotten some love from the establishment, winning a handful of Grammy Awards to […]
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All You Need to Know About the Music of Madonna (Part 2)
Madonna started her second decade as a performer as a provocateur and ended it as an Earth Mother. The controversy over the “Like a Prayer” video kicked off the era of the gasp-worthy MTV clip, and over the next couple of years, Madonna’s publicity grabs got more and more shameless. Perhaps because she was spending too much time thinking of what over the top thing to do next, her music got worse. Although some would disagree, most of Madonna’s Nineties […]
All You Need to Know About the Music of…Madonna
Doing a series on Popdose dedicated to the music of Michael Jackson got me to thinking. How many other artists (or bands) are out there whose entire discography I’m familiar with? Of course, there are always means by which you can familiarize yourself with an artist’s entire oeuvre, but there’s a handful of acts that I can pretty much go in on without having to do a shit-ton of research (or listening to bad albums), which is why the Popdose guides to […]