I have had that song in the background of my life since the first time I heard it. Reading of ways to record the song when it played on the radio actually made me cry, because I was that queer teen. And yes I have always thought that it is and was and forever shall be Madonna’s greatest song. I still listen to it at 50 and it takes me back to those days before I knew that there was a world of such glamor and magic. Vogue is the soundtrack to my life, my power song. I keep it close to my heart until the day I die.
Love this, Justin, takes me right back to where--if I didn't look too closely in a mirror--I believed I could achieve glamour myself and move like Mads if I practised hard enough. And the 'play-rec' button anxiety was real, along with getting everyone to shut the f*ck up on a Sunday when I was recording my faves from the radio. Now, whenever I hear a blast from the past which I'd taped in those heady days, I still automatically know what 'comes' next, whether it was a DJ making a dumb remark and cutting off a perfectly good end, or the next track... funny how these recordings stick in the mind.
I have had that song in the background of my life since the first time I heard it. Reading of ways to record the song when it played on the radio actually made me cry, because I was that queer teen. And yes I have always thought that it is and was and forever shall be Madonna’s greatest song. I still listen to it at 50 and it takes me back to those days before I knew that there was a world of such glamor and magic. Vogue is the soundtrack to my life, my power song. I keep it close to my heart until the day I die.
Love this, Justin, takes me right back to where--if I didn't look too closely in a mirror--I believed I could achieve glamour myself and move like Mads if I practised hard enough. And the 'play-rec' button anxiety was real, along with getting everyone to shut the f*ck up on a Sunday when I was recording my faves from the radio. Now, whenever I hear a blast from the past which I'd taped in those heady days, I still automatically know what 'comes' next, whether it was a DJ making a dumb remark and cutting off a perfectly good end, or the next track... funny how these recordings stick in the mind.
Haha today’s generation will (thankfully) never know the agony of trying to tape the Top 40. That’s the progress we fought for.
For what it's worth, Madonna pushed to get Paris is Burning a distributor.
Oh that's really interesting, thank you!