Features
Tuesday, April 29 2008
Agent Provocateur: Madonna’s Super Hard Candy Pop
On her newest CD, Hard Candy, the legend sounds stronger and more confident -- pushed into the new directions by her posse of guest producers and musicians.
Reviews
Tuesday, June 10 2008
Madonna: Hard Candy
That Madonna has chosen to follow suit with the musically incestuous and homogeneous standards that are overwhelming pop is as platitudinous as it was inevitable.
Wednesday, February 14 2007
Madonna: The Confessions Tour
The oversaturation of recent Madonna product is ultimately what precludes The Confessions Tour from being wholly satisfying to anyone but the die-hard Madonna fan.
Tuesday, November 13 2001
Madonna: Greatest Hits Volume 2
As it stands, it's the best summary of Madonna's second decade as a performer we're going to get -- at least until a massive box set appears.
Monday, August 27 2001
Madonna Live: Drowned World 2001
The difference between Em's lyrical violence against women and Madonna's battered video self-portraits is that in Em's songs, violence against women is always nasty, ugly, and despicable (contrary to those who would claim he 'glorifies' it), unlike the video-screen Madonna of 'Drowned World', who is bloodied and bruised but nevertheless glamorous.
Tuesday, September 19 2000
Madonna: Music
And indeed, for Madonna, music, like most everything else, is always going to do something.
Blogs
Wednesday, February 8 2012
The Top 15 Madonna Singles of All Time
In the wake of Madonna'a ostentatious Super Bowl halftime performance, PopMatters presents a rundown of the Queen of Pop's 15 finest singles.
Monday, February 6 2012
Super Bowl XLVI: Did This Year’s Show Live Up to the Hype?
Arguably the biggest sporting event of the year (sorry, Olympics!), the Super Bowl telecast is usually the highest-rated program of the year. Did this year’s show live up to the hype?
Tuesday, November 10 2009
Madonna - Like a Virgin (video collection)
25 years ago this week: Madonna's sophomore album, Like A Virgin came out and delivered hits "Like A Virgin", "Material Girl", and "Dress You Up",…
Thursday, April 9 2009
Queering Madonna & stardom: As contradictory as Uncle Tom, except in reverse
Madonna was as contradictory as Uncle Tom, except in reverse. She claimed to challenge the institution and dominance of the church while worshiping at the mantle of capitalism and white supremacy in ways that only reinforced the nexus of gender, race and class oppression and mutual exploitation.
Friday, March 20 2009
Janet, Madonna & George's Unpopular Coming Out
Blues, jazz, funk and hip-hop have always masked white transgression, aiding generation upon generation to distinguish themselves from the conservative norms of whiteness bequeathed them; here was our generation’s Elvis, mocking and masking anything authentically black, trading love of the craft for sheer fame. And here on the black and white pages of Sex, she was showing us her beautifully dark skin friends, bragging about how much of a bad girl she was.
News
Tuesday, January 31 2012
Curiosity drives Madonna, with new film, album and Super Bowl show
LOS ANGELES — On a fall afternoon in New York’s Central Park, hundreds of curious onlookers and paparazzi watched as two comely young actresses, Abbie…
Thursday, September 15 2011
Madonna’s aiming for a direct hit
TORONTO — Of all the personalities to turn up at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, none seemed more outsized, and yet oddly appropriate, than…
Friday, January 22 2010
Stars to turn out for Haiti telethon Friday
Less than 24 hours after an earthquake devastated Haiti on Jan. 12, George Clooney was on the phone with MTV Networks president Judy McGrath trying…
