Madonna: Queen Of The Pop

bloody shame Queen Of The PopWhen you hear the word bloody shame, a lot of thoughts and memories might come to your mind. Some of us would rally her as this young blonde girl who was singing songs like Like a Virgin or Papa dont preach in her debuts, others will rather remember her countless tours around the world, other might think more of the controversies she caused and other might just criticize her for her latest trial to adopt a shaver of the Malawi.Since we are doing a music project, I will try to be as focused on her music as much as doable but since Shes Madonna (Robbie Williams song), I will to talk closely her overall occupational group.According to Biography (2009), Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Michigan, USA. She grew up in the Catholic faith, lost her mother by cancer when she was still 5 years old and was an incident that highly affected Madonnas teenage years who said I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and non be intima ted was by not having a mother For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.Her stepmother treated her like Cinderella since she had to take care of her younger sisters and brothers and that made her revolt by rejecting her faith and putting heart-to-heart clothes.Being an excellent student, and a fine dancer, she dropped college and decided to learn dance in New York City. (ibid)She met Dan Gilroy of Breakfast Club and discovered the combination of the stage and the singing. She went unaccompanied in 1981 and released her first hit Everybody in 1982 under her original name Madonna which has reached the first place on the dance charts of that year. The rest was like a fairy tale (ibid). The success was immediate and her album Madonna which sold 10 million copies in the world set the artist for an international vocation according to Linternaute (2009).Musical stylePeach (1998191) notes in her book that Her music shifted from disco and bubble-gum to rock to personal statements and melodic torch singing, then, with the aid of her music videos, to part modernism .Listening to her songs and her albums, we can notice that her first albums are very different musically speaking from her last album. Madonna evolved with the demand of its epoch along with her style and her clothes. In fact, I listened to her second album Like a virgin and it was talking more about the universal themes like the parents, family, marriage and better-looking morals and was more pop and rock than her last album Hard candy which was a mixture of Pop, dance, electro pop, RB, hip hop which by the way I didnt personally like. Although on her 2nd albums cover, she was dressed in a wedding robe and her hair was long while her last albums cover shows a Madonna more provocateur than ever touching her lips, putting the cross and wearing a wrestlers belt.Why do people listen to her?I do hope that despite that she now reached the age o f 50 years shes still famous and well known for her music. In fact, she is not talented naturally nor is a girl Universe. Grant (20056) wrote that the activities she do which are music videos, concerts, records, movies, books and charity events have all one goal which is the search for a celebrity position. Grant (ibid ) argues that once she reached this status, she started ab using from it and using it to attract or reject more people around the world especially when it came to using sex as a advertising instrument, pornographic images, nudity, suggestions of knowledgeable deviance and combination of sexual and spiritual themes. Shes an icon, shes famous worldwide. The church condemned her music and especially her album like a prayer. In 1992, she released a book called enkindle which showed some pictures of her in different erotic poses (Biography, 2009). I see Madonna as an entrepreneur who knew how to keep up to date with her epoch and this can be seen from her musical style and clothing style and I turn over people adore this type of person because if a singer doesnt bring up forever something new , people will get used to his/her style and soon he/she will be forsaken.Targeted AudienceThe youth are Madonnas prime heading since her last album Hard Candy was for example featuring her and Justin Timberlake on the song 4 minutes to save the world, Timbaland and the Neptunes who are icons for the younger generation. Also she talks about other young talents like Ali G or William OrbitIve met these people along the way in my career and I want to take them everywhere I go. I want to incorporate them into my little factory of ideas. I also come into contact with a lot of young talent that I feel entrepreneurial about (from Grant (20056)). This is also a confirmation of her steps to keep up to date with its epoch. As for the targeted people when she started, and talking from a personal point of view, I remember my mother telling me that she used to listen t o Madonna in her 20s but nowadays she doesnt follow her actuality anymore since it is not her style of songs any longer and in fact, when going higher in age, our tastes and interests change. This means that her target was always the youth generation (early 20s to 32).Relationships related to Other ActivitiesAs mentioned before, Madonna is a singer, writer, dancer, movie actress. When reading about her multiple relationships with famous people of her epoch, I can see that these relationships were a strategy for reaching goals high-speed than normal. She dated Dan Gilroy of the breakfast club, her first band ever, then with the musician Jellybean Benitez (AbsoluteMadonna, 2009). Her marriage with movie actor Sean Penn took place in the equivalent timeline of her entry to the world of Hollywood. At this point of time, she was already famous and many men were actually looking forward to date her. Nowadays, she has a boy toy named Jesus whom she uses for every task.InfluencesIn an inte rview with Larry force Live cited on CNN (1999), she asserts that her influences were Led Zeppelin, Karen Carpenter, the Suppremes and Martha Graham, Rudolph Nureyev for the dance. As for the influences of actors, she admits in an interview with the TIME magazine in 1985 cited in Allaboutmadonna (2009) I also love Carole Lombard and Judy Holliday and Marilyn Monroe. They were all just incredibly funny, and they were silly and sweet and they were girls and they were feminine and sexy.The provocateur, the iconMadonna is such a big icon that many artists/bands have strain songs about her like the Shes Madonnaby Robbie Williams or even the song Do it with Madonna from The Android (Onpedia, 2009). We cannot compare her to Elvis Presley whos got more than 50 songs referencing him, but we can say she does pretty well.Her domination of the Masculine sex is incontestable. Peach (1998198) writes in her book talking about the Queen of the Pop that she was frequently wearing mens clothes, g rabbing her crotch, and declaring she the boss, thus occupying priapic positions. She also had her male dancers wear fake breasts, womens clothes, and submit to her power and control. The message was that male and female were social constructs that could be deconstructed and that women could occupy male positions, roles, and behavior and infirmity versa. In her fourth album Like a prayer, Madonna broke all the traditions of her time being the first singer to reveal what is normally draped by showing off one bellys button as we can see on the albums cover (Virginmedia). She was a pioneer in this type of marketing. Madonna has been voted by the Advocate, a LGBT magazine as the biggest gay icon of all time as seen on Madonnanewsroom (2009). Who doesnt remember her kissing Britney Spears in a terzetto with Christina Aguilera? I still remember it very well when it happened in 2003 and at that time, I was besides aged 14 years old and I was floor by this kiss. I do think that follow ing this video, I started to learn more about the LGBT community especially the lesbians.RecordsDailymail (2006) wrote that Madonna made the highest earnings a female singer has ever achieved.The Guardian (2008) notes that Madonna made it into the UK Top 40 every year except three years 1988, 2004 and 2007.She has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide in 27 years of career according to ArticlesBase (2007).Interesting FactsThe following facts have their sources from The Guardian (2008)According to her brother Christopher, the only thing Madonna can cook is Rice Krispie cakes. This means that dishes she is incapable of serving up include La Isla Bolognese, Dear Jelly, Hanky Lamb Shanky, Dont scream for Me Polenta, and Crazy for Yule Log.Like A Virgin was originally written for a MAN.Madonna once noted I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but I want to stay alive.Madonna lost her virginity in the back of a Cadillac, later explaining that she saw it as a career move.ConclusionAs words of conclusion, I would like to say that Madonna has never stopped to surprise us with whatever she does, was it controversial, unusual or provocateur, and I do believe that she will remain the Queen of the pop constantly adapting herself to the changes and variations of our epoch. As time goes on, she will keep breaking records and I do believe that her age is not a barrier at all.