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The truth about 'Dress You Up'

The truth about 'Dress You Up'

Reappraising Madonna's underplayed and overlooked 1985 banger.

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Feb 28, 2024
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Madonna in the video for Dress You Up singing into a microphone

The truth about everything* is different every week! This week, it’s the turn of THE MADONNA DIARIES, a series of personal essays about Madonna’s back catalogue.

Nineteen eighty-five.  A year beyond even George Orwell’s imagination. Whether it was escaping the spectre of the daddy of dystopian novels, or Annie Lennox going blonde, I couldn’t say, but 198…

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