With its striking music video, empowering lyrics and a middle eight section name-checking some of the biggest stars to ever grace the silver screen, Madonna’s song Vogue had all the makings of an instant hit. It’s now been 30 years since she released the track, which reached number one in more than 30 countries and gave…
Back in the 1980s, the word “vogue” would have recalled little more than a magazine—that is, unless, you were immersed in New York City counterculture, where it had taken on another meaning entirely. After many decades in the shadows, the pageantry of the Harlem ball scene, a community of African American and Latinx creatives seeking…
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12. Madonna, “Impressive Instant” (Music) The synth-groan that opens the song is, by all indications, the sound of a pop star who’s just had her first kid and released her most introspective album and wants to hit the friggin’ clubs already. Coming after the set’s title track and lead single on Music, “Impressive Instant” cranks up the electro-pop…
CREDIT: Warner Music Very few songs stand the test of time and only a fraction of those become so ingrained in popular culture that you can’t imagine the world without it. Madonna’s “Vogue” is one of those God-tier bops. From Shep Pettibone’s brilliant production that fused house and disco, to the iconic lyrics and rapped middle eight, every element…
Madonna was giving us so many treats in 2005 and 2006. In between the single releases off Confessions on a Dance Floor there was the release of Madonna’s tour documentary ‘I’m Going To Tell You A Secret’. The documentary was filmed during Madonna’s Re-Invention Tour in 2004 by Jonas Akerlund and crew. The film premiered…
In 1985, Susan Seidelman blessed the planet with Desperately Seeking Susan, a screwball East Village fantasia about amnesia, Egyptian artifacts, mob killings, mistaken identities, jacuzzi sales, magic acts, suburban ennui, Nefertiti’s earrings, and an extremely rad jacket. Leora Barish’s script had been lingering in development hell for years, with studios passing on it because, as producer…
Mark Blum, a veteran character actor who starred in the films “Desperately Seeking Susan” and “Crocodile Dundee,” as well as the recent TV series “You,” has died due to complications from the coronavirus. He was 69. The New York theater company Playwrights Horizons first announced the news, and SAG-AFTRA executive vice president Rebecca Damon confirmed…
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