Love this article, your Madonna writing is always a welcome treat, especially the impact of her romances on her art and the detail of the videos. The line about LARP’ing as an idiot is very relatable, as is that sense of lonesome teenage years but how music spoke to those emotions - for me in a way that it hasn’t quite hit since (maybe hormones, maybe because I’m a lot happier now). If you ever fancy writing an essay on all Madonna’s boyfriends I am very much here for it.
Thank you! I never took a huge interest in Madonna's love life, really, beyond its direct involvement with her music. Even now I learn about someone she dated 30 years ago and had never heard of! But never say never, I just might one day!
i was living a very similar life in gloucester but a few years later, and i have really fond memories of this song for being the first time i heard naya rivera's (rip) vocals on glee in the power of madonna episode. i remember listening to it before the album came out trying to work out if i could hear her or not, as she hadn't sung on the show before, and hearing an unidentifiable voice and excitedly waiting for the episode to see if it was really her. (she then has an even greater part in like a virgin). the episode introduced me to a lot of madonna songs and looks (i only knew the surface level stuff) and made me become a fan
That's such an interesting gateway to Madonna – I do think that for all its often-documented faults, one of Glee's positives was how it shone a light on back catalogues and brought younger fans to established artists and/or long-forgotten bangers.
Love this article, your Madonna writing is always a welcome treat, especially the impact of her romances on her art and the detail of the videos. The line about LARP’ing as an idiot is very relatable, as is that sense of lonesome teenage years but how music spoke to those emotions - for me in a way that it hasn’t quite hit since (maybe hormones, maybe because I’m a lot happier now). If you ever fancy writing an essay on all Madonna’s boyfriends I am very much here for it.
Thank you! I never took a huge interest in Madonna's love life, really, beyond its direct involvement with her music. Even now I learn about someone she dated 30 years ago and had never heard of! But never say never, I just might one day!
i was living a very similar life in gloucester but a few years later, and i have really fond memories of this song for being the first time i heard naya rivera's (rip) vocals on glee in the power of madonna episode. i remember listening to it before the album came out trying to work out if i could hear her or not, as she hadn't sung on the show before, and hearing an unidentifiable voice and excitedly waiting for the episode to see if it was really her. (she then has an even greater part in like a virgin). the episode introduced me to a lot of madonna songs and looks (i only knew the surface level stuff) and made me become a fan
That's such an interesting gateway to Madonna – I do think that for all its often-documented faults, one of Glee's positives was how it shone a light on back catalogues and brought younger fans to established artists and/or long-forgotten bangers.