Madonna’s New Tour Reveals a Sickening Double Standard in Pop Music
Hours after Madonna opened her “Rebel Heart” tour in Montreal, a press release trumpeting the performance arrived in music writers’ inboxes the world over. There, in canned, press release form, was pop music’s ongoing problem in a nutshell: women are held to a different standard. Amid the granular details about her luxurious attire—“Madonna wears an…