Category: Madonna
Madonna Remains the Queen of the Music Video Debut Gimmick
As it’s been said many times, part of Madonna’s ability to keep staying at the forefront of pop music (despite what her numerous detractors say) [Read More…]
Madonna’s Emotional Speech in Detroit is Rife With Boomerisms
Despite Madonna constantly being called “old,” few people seem to immediately brand her as “boomer,” the very generation she hails from. For some reason, Madonna [Read More…]
Madonna’s Most Non Sequitur Ad Is Also Her Most Superfluously Sellout-y
Of course, it’s hard to be a “sellout” when you were never really “indie” to begin with. But, in Madonna’s case, there has usually been [Read More…]
Gondola Antics Were So Much Better/Less Vexing When They Were Relegated to the “Like A Virgin” Video
Easily characterizable as yet another example in an endless series of bad tourist behavior (see also: etching your and your girlfriend’s name into a wall [Read More…]
Madonna Sr., Martin Burgoyne and World AIDS Day
Anyone who has even the most cursory knowledge of Madonna ought to know by now that her mother, Madonna Fortin Ciccone Sr., died when she [Read More…]
The Celebration Tour: Madonna’s Shelved Biopic Reanimates in the Form of a Pop-Theater Concert
Among the many memorable statements Madonna made throughout 1991’s Truth or Dare, the one that stuck out most, in terms of characterizing the Blond Ambition [Read More…]
Lolahol Finally Surrenders Full-Stop to Emulating Her Mother, “Spelling” Us With An Updated Take on the “Frozen” Video
The first introduction to Lourdes Leon a.k.a. Lolahol as a singer was 2022’s “Lock&Key.” More to the point, that introduction revealed Lolahol’s unexpected preference for [Read More…]
The Unspoken “Trick” of Madonna’s Longest-Charting R&B/Hip Hop Single Since “Take A Bow” Is One She’s Been Using for Decades
For a long time, Madonna has been aware of the benefits of a certain “gimmick”: the musical collaboration. Where once she would have shied away [Read More…]
25 Years of Madonna Ciccone, 40 Years of Madonna
It might prove a challenge to most to imagine a time when Madonna wasn’t, well, Madonna. When she was Madonna Ciccone or Madonna Louise or [Read More…]
Why Does It Take A Video of Madonna Doing Successive Jump Squats From Over Twenty Years Ago To Appreciate Her?
Being that there’s really no rhyme or reason to what might “take hold” with regard to virality on TikTok, one supposes it should be no [Read More…]
