Madonna

Published February 27, 2021, 12:00 am CDT

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In her forty-year career, Madonna has altered all the codes and created many controversies. She is considered the queen of pop and provocation, but most of all, the best living pop star. Scandalous and uncompromising artist, she has never stopped reinventing herself to make albums in the musical trend of the moment. Starting from nowhere and only with her determination, this woman embodies, above all, the image of the American dream.

 

At age twenty she moved to New York and dreamed of a career as a dancer. She dedicated herself to music for a while joining the band The Breakfast Club as a drummer and later as a singer. Thanks to the demos, his style and his way of dressing, he signed with a record label and his first album of dance songs Madonna, of which he wrote the lyrics, was released in 1983. He took his first steps in the cinema in “Desperately Searching Susan ”and her provocative look became a big trend. Due to her upbringing in a rather strict Catholic environment, Madonna maintained her religious imagery, diverting it and making it her hallmark. Her young women copy her bleached blonde hair, lace gloves and bras, leather jacket and long crucifix from her.

 

With her second album, provocatively titled Like a Virgin, which appeared in 1984 and would sell more than 20 million copies worldwide, she shook the world and created controversy with a universe that mixed religious symbols and erotic references. She pushed the limits of the system, questioning society and addressing taboo subjects. She took up the torch of women's sexual liberation, reversing the trend and breaking the codes; celebrating a woman freed from conservative clothing, affirming her sexuality and demanding her freedom. Madonna becomes the effigy of an inconvenient nonconformity and she represents for the eighties what the miniskirt was for the sixties, a symbol of the emancipation of women. In 1990, the famous French couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier created an iconic bespoke garment for her: the legendary corset with (i) tapered breasts for the Blond Ambition World Tour.

 

The album Like a Prayer, a mixture of pop, rock and dance, was released in 1989 and the scandal multiplied by ten, while the hits continued due to its videos with sexual and religious connotations: the stigmata of Christ in the song “Like a Prayer ”and the kiss of a naked black Jesus. She continues her tumultuous impulse by publishing the 1992 book Sex Accompanying Erotica, her fifth studio album, in which she poses naked in front of a luminous cross.

 

In 1995 Madonna transformed to play the role of Eva Perón in the film Evita: she perfected her vocal technique while she was preparing for the role and radically changed her look by abandoning the scandalous image of her to adopt a more style. natural. Now considered a multi-talented artist, she won a Golden Globe for her performance.

 

With the birth of her daughter Lourdes, Our Lady, the Madonna, she causes her image to evolve into mysticism. Thanks to her gift to capture the zeitgeist in a pop scene that is constantly reinventing itself, she turns to electronic music and surrounds herself with the best producers to prepare Ray of Light, her seventh album, in which she addresses motherhood and celebrity. Released in 1998 and imbued in the spiritual search for her, this album with influences of drum'n'bass, Trip-hop and electronic dance, is the one of maturity; the most successful and adventurous of her career.

 

Madonna begins the millennium in country mode with her album Music, allowing him to affirm her growing credibility with a clever mix of festive house-electro-pop that keeps generations swinging at the dance floor.

 

Increasingly involved in her lyrics, in 2003 she developed a more militant image by appearing in a Che Guevara-style beret on the cover of the American Life album. She again created a controversy by openly criticizing the way of life and politics, and by publicly opposing military intervention in Iraq. In a military style, dressed in khaki with boots and guns, Madonna demonstrates the right to express herself freely and questions the artist's place in her environment with this concept album of folk electro-rock. Her music videos were subject to censorship, including the song “Die Another Day,” written for the credits of the 20th James Bond film, and which highlights the themes of torture and the death penalty. The call for a boycott is launched on American soil: Madonna, once again, has pushed the limits and unleashed the ire of conservative circles.

 

In 2005, with her new disco look and skates, Madonna entered the Guinness Book of Records for her 10th pop, dance and electro-sound album, Confessions On A Dance Floor, and ranked number one in more than forty countries. . The single "Hung Up", created from a sample of the legendary Swedish band ABBA, is the success of the delivery of this album of which more than ten million copies would be sold. Appearing in the song Live to Tell on a large luminous cross and with her head surrounded by a crown of thorns, the artist and her world tour Confession Tour once again attract the ire of religious authorities.

 

In 2015, Madonna surrounded herself with famous collaborators such as Kanye West and Avicii for her thirteenth studio album Rebel Heart, the cover of which referenced bondage, a sadomasochistic technique that involves tying the partner with ropes and other mechanisms. Being critically acclaimed, the album confirms that Madonna has once again managed to graft her style into new musical trends. A inveterate provocateur at heart, on the Rebel Heart Tour she accompanies catholic nuns in their underwear who dance to the song “Holy Water” around cross-shaped bars. At 57, the idol has not lost any of her strength.


 

At sixty, the intrepid 60-year-old wears a pirate eye patch to present her fourteenth album Madame X, which tells the story of a woman who fights for freedom. Madonna conveys this image of struggle to inspire people to act, to empower them and to make a difference. 

 

Even though Madonna's musical universe is diverse, she still amazes with the album UFO, which mixes futuristic sounds with musical influences from all angles: reggaeton, Latin, Lisbon, electronic music and even classical. Interestingly, these tracks take the singer on a journey through her music career and further prove that she remains creative and inspired.

 

Generous and revolutionary in spirit, Madonna is many struggles: donation in favor of the fight against AIDS in 1987, construction of orphanages, schools and a pediatric service in Malawi in 2006; tribute to the victims of terrorist attacks. In Paris, in 2015, speaking at the Women's March on Washington; the day after Donald Trump's election in 2017 and to say he planned to blow up the White House. She supported the #MeToo movement with a testimony she gave to the New York Times in 2019 about the harassment she suffered by Harvey Weinstein in 1991.

 

A feminist and artist committed since the beginning to the fight in the sexist music industry, Madonna is an icon who has given free rein to her imagination to accompany each generation to build since the eighties. Always ahead of her time and where you don't expect her, Madonna inspires. She was never afraid of taking artistic risks and could be considered the first female pop star to have total control and dominance over her image and her career.

 

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna

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