Wed, 01 Oct 2008
Madonna
Lucy O'Brien, Madonna: like an icon,
Corgi
Your reaction might be - Why would you read
that?! Good question! In fact, there are a few
reasons: For one, Madonna is a part of recent
pop/dance history, and she coincides quite
nicely with the putting together of Really
Big Music and its current state of whining
decline.
For another, she was also part of an
interesting club scene in Detroit and New York
and in mid-career she had some producers who
did some pretty nice work (Orbit, Mirwais) on
her songs.
And then there's the question of how such an
ordinary singer and actor could reach such
commercial heights.
The story's outline will be familiar to lots
of people: not especially nice kid from a
middle class family looses mother early on, goes
a little haywire (by small town standards), gets
into clubbing and dance, uses everyone she can
get her hands on while searching for her thing,
and then, through smart marketing, becomes
rich, rich, rich, and famous, famous, etc.
So, why read it, you ask again? Oh OK, you
win. (Thunderfinger)
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