This article appeared on Liberation of August 15, 2008. you remember Cindy Lauper? In the 80s it was the contention between you, the disheveled author of hits such as "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and "Time After Time," and Louise Veronica Ciccone, better known as the Madonna. At stake was the title of queen of pop in the era of MTV, and it was a challenge - as well as all women - even the entire New York: either one or the other came from the slums of the Big Apple (the first was from Ozone Park in Queens, the second was born in Michigan but had arrived in Manhattan at the end of '70, obviously no money) and both were originally from Italian-American, as if to make up the proverbial two sides of same coin. The criticism of "serious" rarely dealt with them, and when he did, albeit reluctantly, had no doubts: Material Girl Madonna was a nice but low profile ("can not sing," she is probably not even write the songs "etc.), while that was the talented Lauper, who - they said - at least the music he had studied.
Years have passed and anti-Madonna we have known dozens, Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Kylie Minogue, Britney the same Spears. The Ciccone sits there and watches them all from above, maybe fun to relegate to the rank of sciampiste willing but a bit 'awkward (once, when he saw Lopez get into the room itself was spending the evening with friends, do not hesitate to cut short, "the waitress came to clear up the tables), or by contributing almost as a witch-stepmother, a corrupt lolitas duty to project the upper floors of the glamorous and feminine while she invented by incorporeal by dint of poses and transformation shock: so here's lesbian kiss with Britney Spears and from there fall into the underworld in which it still burns, as if to confirm that only the gods allowed to burn, and imagine if Madonna is not one of them. The name says it all then, an evocation of holiness which is mired in the mud promiscuous, lewd and lascivious '80s hedonism and over again, until, by morbid-virginal sacrificial rite, authentic celebration extraumana: from Diva Divinity easy to tout-court, in fact.
80 When you go out, Madonna has made it clear that before making the final leap otherworldly must make manifest the meaning of his mission. In 1989 a "Like a Prayer" that inevitably brings back the "Like a Virgin" a few years before, only now she is dancing with a color of Jesus Christ in the midst of burning crosses and stigmata of bleeding in a plethora of allusions that smacks of reckoning and the end of era, and in fact the next year comes a thing as "Vogue," aftertaste decadent gay coating placed between the Marlene Dietrich and rarefactions kitsch, just a taste of what will be the film In Bed with Madonna and especially 'authentic manifesto of sex at the time of AIDS, which is the album Erotica, 1992. It's the '80s hedonism that is greeted in a post-mortem ultrasadomaso caricature, so at that point The Ciccone - of your own life like no other female artist before her - can afford to ride the 90's with a ruthlessness unknown to any other pop star of the time. come collaborations with Bjork, the contacts with Massive Attack, the cover of Vic Chesnutt, the maniacal (clever, somewhat cynical) call to arms producers and musicians from that world at the turn of underground coolness, and that popular trendysmi marks the dance culture of the decade. In 1998 it was transformed into a futuristic Patti Smith to Ray of Light. Music two years later, with the title track to anticipate the immateriality of the 2000 and astonished "Can not Get You Out of My Head "by Kylie. And in 2005, here is the apotheosis of Confessions On A Dance Floor "and" Hang Up ", a masterpiece of sampling Abba daftpunkiane apnea and rain that seem from another planet, because the song sounds so perfect that can not be of this world.
After all she's still Madonna, other aliens and otherworldly as if Michael Jackson chose the surgical route to immortality, she was aiming higher and category of time if the self-invented. Madonna is a queen of pop, is not churning out classics she has become a classic, immovable and perennial performs any move from any given year comes from.
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