The Look of Madonna

Welcome back on Blogger and happy 2020 to all of you! Madonna's YouTube channel has gone through many changes in 2019, hopefully for the best. Today we are going to discuss Madonna's 30 most popular videos on the platform, their views and how much they gained throughout 2019. Without further ado, let's jump into this article as we welcome the new year! Disclaimer: I am excluding the infamous double uploads, as since they've been unlisted they gain almost nothing. They count when it comes to the total number of views but they are irrelevant when it comes to daily views. POSITIONS 30-21 30. Nothing Really Matters :  20 million views 29. Music :  21 million views 28. Crazy For You :  22 million views 27. Into The Groove :  23 million views 26. Borderline :  23 million views  25. Express Yourself :  24 million views 24. Sorry :  27 million views 23. Justify My Love :  28 million views 22. The Power Of Good-...

Welcome back on Blogger! Today we continue with our celebration of Madonna's work from this decade. I recently revealed my ten favorite songs and today I'm going to discuss and rank her three albums MDNA, Rebel Heart and Madame X.  Without further ado, let's get into this article! 3) Madame X (2019) I already know some of you are going to be surprised but remember, this is my list, not yours. What can we say about this album? Well, while I appreciate Madonna's creativity and message, I have to be honest and tell you that this album never truly did it for me.  There are some amazing gems here like Crazy, Come Alive, Killers Who Are Partying, Dark Ballet and God Control  but the rest of the album offers things that Madonna has done so much better before. Vocally it is not one of her best but I understand her if she chose autotune for artistic reasons. The songwriting is the thing that places this album at the bottom of this list. Like I said, t...

Welcome back on Blogger! Can you believe the 2010's are almost over? A very singular decade musically, it started off with the energetic and colorful "club boom" which sadly vanished sometime in 2013. After that it came the time for bubblegum pop, tropical house, mumble rap and reggaeton, right in this order. But there's one genre that has been slowly increasing its popularity since the start of the decade. That genre is synthwave.  In this article I'll do my best to introduce you to this curious musical genre. Let's go! What is synthwave? It is a genre of electronic music, inspired by movies and video games from the 1980's. It is also called outrun or retrowave. The first synthwave artists appeared in the mid 2000's but the genre became an underground sensation only in the early 2010's. Where can we find synthwave music? On YouTube there is a channel exclusively dedicated to synthwave. The channel is called "NewRetr...

( photo by Francesco Scavullo) Welcome back on Blogger! We are nearing the end of our journey through Madonna's 80's catalog but we still need to celebrate her iconic music videos. Here are my ten favorite 80's videos by our Diva. Let's get into this article! 10.   "Live to Tell"  Madonna was coming off of the " Like a Virgin " era. Her iconic street-punk look was the one people identified her with, along with her girlie voice and the big dance tunes. She came back in 1986 not only with one of the best ballads (and songs in general) of her career but with a new image as well.  Susan was gone. Instead, a young woman with beautiful, wavy, golden hair, a simple floral dress and a subtle make-up took over.  This video, in all its simplicity, was the first major reinvention of Madonna's career.  9. "Papa Don't Preach" A reinvention after the reinvention. That's what this video was. After taking...

( The official album cover) Welcome back on Blogger! Earlier this year I started a series dedicated to Madonna's peers with my review for Cyndi Lauper's debut album She's so Unusual.  It's now time to add another piece to the series and review the iconic Please by the British duo Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe). Let's get right into this article! HISTORY A synthpop record, Please was released on March 24, 1986. It was preceded by two singles, the smash hit West End Girls, released in the fall of 1985, and Love Comes Quickly, which came out in February 1986. Two more singles, Opportunities and Suburbia, were released to promote the album in May and September respectively.  Please was an original release at the time, as the heavily electronic and dance nature of the songs was accompanied by socially conscious lyrics. This would eventually become the main characteristic of Pet Shop Boys' music. Also Neil Tennant's supposed bi...

Welcome back on Blogger!  This is a different article, more about my own interpretation of Madonna's music. I'm going to discuss Madonna's career and how it can be divided into trilogies, how her life and career have always gone hand in hand and how she progresses with every new release artistically and personally.  Every trilogy has a defined theme, intent, coherence and story.  Let's jump into this article! The "Pop Queen" Trilogy This trilogy includes Madonna's first three albums ( Madonna, Like a Virgin, True Blue). During this era Madonna was at the peak of her pop sensibility. She was able to blend artistic depth and commercialism, she became a fashion icon and a visual artist. With every album she added something new to her status of "Pop Queen". Madonna was about her love for dance-pop music, Like a Virgin took that type of music and gave it an irresistible aesthetic, True Blue took both things and added concepts,...

( Album artwork by Herb Ritts) Welcome back on Blogger! The day has finally arrived and we are going to get right into it!  " You can dance, you can dance if you want to....get into the groove".  You Can Dance was released on November 17, 1987 and it was Madonna's first remix album.  Initially she was not so keen on hearing remixed versions of her songs, as she thought people drastically changed them, erasing her original vision: " I hate it when people do master mixes of my records. I don't want to hear my songs changed like that". For this reason Madonna decided to remix some of her songs by herself. With the help of Patrick Leonard and John "Jellybean" Benitez, she took six songs from her previous three studio albums ( Holiday, Everybody, Physical Attraction, Into The Groove, Over and Over, Where's The Party) plus one unreleased demo from the " True Blue"  sessions ( Spotlight) and remixed them all in a dance ...