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Today in Focus

How Madonna changed pop culture for ever

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

It’s 40 years since Madonna began scandalising and delighting fans and critics around the world. But is she still misunderstood? With Mary Gabriel. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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Here's my thing about Madonna. I think she is an absolute joke now.

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She has become an embarrassing shambles.

1:07.0

I love Madonna's artistry and her just amazing creativity.

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Madonna had had any common sense. He would have made a record like Ray of Light,

1:14.4

stayed away from the dance stuff. But no, she had to prove that she was like, and she looks like a

1:18.8

f fagram stripper. Madonna is, is, she's a great inspiration she's amazing she's the queen you know

1:26.3

she acts like a spoiled brat all the time that seems to me when you reach the kind of a

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claim that she's reached and can do whatever you want to do

1:34.8

you should be a little bit more magnanimous and a little bit less of a

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shit.

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At this point everyone thinks they know Madonna. She sold more records than any other female

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artist in history, 330 million albums worldwide.

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And she has polarized the public ever since she launched herself from a New York music scene

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