Tag: Madonna
Pepsi Makes Peace With Madonna 27 Years After “Like A Prayer” Controversy
Almost a full twenty-seven years ago, on March 2, 1989, Madonna premiered her “Like A Prayer” single during a broadcast of The Cosby Show (oh [Read More…]
What Is Madonna Trying To Tell Us With Her Rare & Unexpected Performance of “Take A Bow”?
Madonna never sings “Take A Bow” live. The only times she ever succumbed was when it was released as a single in 1995 and she [Read More…]
MDNA: An Underrated Breakup Album
As Madonna’s custody battle for Rocco heats up–and her tongue gets looser when it comes unloading her thoughts about Guy Ritchie onto Rebel Heart Tour [Read More…]
The Madonna-Bowie Connection
Needless to say, any embryonic talent who saw David Bowie perform in the 70s ended up going on to be influenced by him: Joy Division, [Read More…]
Orlan Takes On A New Art: Suing Lady Gaga
Orlan is an artist who rarely gets her due. Unlike say, Cindy Sherman or Judy Chicago, very few seem to pay the French artist the [Read More…]
Selena Gomez’s “Hands To Myself” Video Gets a Truth Or Dare Tinge
In keeping with Gomez’s music video tradition of self-subjugation, “Hands to Myself” centers around the premise of her obsession with real life model Christopher Mason [Read More…]
Madonna & Manchester: A Brief History
While Madonna and Morrissey are mortal enemies, she and the latter can probably at least agree on this lyric from “Suffer Little Children”: “Manchester, so [Read More…]
The Glamorous Trans Dies With Holly Woodlawn
When you’re a Warhol superstar, no one expects you to live very long. Holly Woodlawn a.k.a. Haroldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl (you can see why she [Read More…]
“What Are You Gonna Do?”: “Justify My Love” Turns 25
The month of November 1990 may have been a cold one by normal standards, but luckily Madonna was there to keep things sweltering. Yes, it’s [Read More…]
On the Janet Is Better Than Madonna Argument
A recent article put forth the notion that Janet Jackson is more important and influential as an artist than Madonna. Such an assertion is not only [Read More…]
