Courtney Love Ate My Pasta
If we need an example of someone who embodies strength and vulnerability as non-dual, Courtney Love rules. She will also eat your pasta and not give a fuck.
Madonna
20 Music Videos of the 1980s That Have Aged Well
In this installment of our retrospective of 1980s music videos, we focus on 20 promos that have, remarkably, stood the test of time.
Madonna’s Influence on Brazil’s Brega Pop Scene
International music has always informed brega (of which covers and remixes are a major part). No wonder many brega pop bands sought inspiration from Madonna.
Madonna’s Celebration Tour: A Forward-Thinking Retrospective
As much as Madonna’s Celebration Tour is a meditation on her mortality, it is also a love letter to her core LGBTQIA+ audience whose loyalty has never wavered.
Madonna Unveiled Her Pop Masterpiece ‘Ray of Light’ 25 Years Ago
Madonna’s Ray of Light and dance music are unfairly underrated and dismissed, primarily due to being the cultural product of queerness and centered on femininity.
15 Best Madonna Songs of All Time
These are the most significant Madonna songs that traverse the vast terrain of subjects, styles, and themes she has gravitated towards across her long career.
Madonna Returned to Her Roots on ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor’
Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor is a self-contained dance record, an unqualified triumph, and a study of dance music from the 1970s to the 2000s.
Blond Contrition: Madonna’s Musical Response to the 1990s Culture Wars
Both Erotica and Bedtime Stories represent critical periods in Madonna’s career. They were autumn releases and saw Madonna recalibrating her career in the face of rampant criticism.
‘Madame X’ Is a Fantastic Chronicle of Madonna’s Latest Tour Spectacle
It’s heartening that Madonna is still capable of putting on a good show four decades into her career, as we hear on Madame X – Music From the Theatre Xperience.
Madonna Reveled in DJ Club Culture with ‘MDNA’ 10 Years Ago
Madonna’s MDNA is an embrace of her club roots and the high-octane EDM popular in the 2010s with the novel concept of the DJ as a celebrity. For Madonna, music and dance mean salvation and freedom.
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25 Years Ago Madonna Sought Respectability and Validation with Film Biography ‘Evita’
In a career defined by musical makeovers, Evita represented Madonna’s most extreme and conservative musical guise in the Andrew Lloyd Webber kitschfest.