Tag: Madonna
Strike A Pose Is the Catharsis Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour Dancers Needed to Move On
Madonna herself once called the Blond Ambition Tour cathartic–or as her brother and then set designer called it “like growing up” because “you can’t get [Read More…]
The Musical Upheaval Behind Reggie Lucas’ Production of Madonna’s Self-Titled Debut
In 1982, Madonna had achieved what so many who once came to New York City dreamed of: local fame in the vein of the symbolists [Read More…]
Lana Bramlette As Madonna’s New Maripol
Anyone familiar with Madonna’s trademark look of the early and mid-80s, all drenched with rubber bracelets and crucifixes as it was is also unwittingly familiar [Read More…]
Madonna to Guy: I’ll Do Our Purim Look Better With A Gay Man
The time is March 2005. Madonna had not yet suffered from a horseback riding accident that will make her realize how little interested Guy Ritchie [Read More…]
The Met Gala Theme’s Lack of Total Scandalization and Damnation is a Direct Result of the Blond Ambition Tour
Rewind your clocks, if you will, back to around July 9, 1990. It is the night before Madonna is to perform her first show at [Read More…]
Giovanni Bianco and Nicki Minaj Team to Unwittingly Re-Create “Vogue” at the 1990 MTV VMAs for “Barbie Tingz”
Giovanni Bianco, in addition to Steven Klein (who directed Minaj’s companion single, “Chun-Li“), is a longtime collaborator of Madonna’s in terms of art direction (most [Read More…]
Avicii True Stories: When the Persona Is At War With the Artist
Upon the numerous “revelations” that people seem to be having all over again regarding Avicii’s tumultuously intertwined personal and professional life–most especially during eight years [Read More…]
Britney Spears Being Lauded Over Christina Aguilera at VMAs As Exemplification of People Preferring Trash
Thanks to Christina Aguilera’s appearance on Carpool Karaoke (will she ever recapture the magic of Stripped?), various channels of the internet are visiting their early [Read More…]
Why Desperately Seeking Susan’s Eponymous Heroine Could Never Get By in New York Now
Susan, no last name, no inhibition. That was the name of the game in the New York of the 80s, wasn’t it? Getting by on [Read More…]
The “Delicate” Video Channels Britney In Her Barefoot Gas Station Phase More Than Her “Lucky” One–With a Dash of “Drowned World/Substitute For Love” Thrown In
Every musician/celebrity reaches that point in their career where they wonder if, as Madonna once said on the first bookend to Ray of Light, they “traded [Read More…]
