No star has reinvented themselves as much as Madonna. No one star has been as successful as she has in doing this either. I remember as a teenager the fashion trends spawned from her debut album and MTV hits Holiday, Borderline, and Lucky Star--plastic bracelets and anklets; black bras under see-through tops or tanktops; everything lace.
She rankled the religious with hits such Like A Virgin, Papa Don't Preach, and Like A Prayer. Love, sex, and the experience of it came across as her religion. She turned many listeners into believers, entranced by her blonde ambition, physically fit and sexy physique, freshly hypnotic dance routines, her flare for the dramatic and grand, and some of the best songs of her time. She has been the paradigm, in many respects, of vogue.
Madonna had a turn as one of the most popular figures among contemporary musicals and world politics--Eva Peron, winning accolades for her performance in the musical Evita. She's most recently become a best-selling novelist.
She's the queen of expressing herself. It's a characteristic that has endeared her to many of us. Now a mother of two and happily married to director Guy Ritchie, and now a faithful adherent to the practice of Kabbalah, one wonders if she has taken to the road not really to reinvent her self and her music in our eyes but rather in an attempt to revise it all to fit her new self. No matter the reason, she has my attention. She has had it from the very beginning.
(The amazing photograph above was taken at her Reinvention Tour in Los Angeles this past week. This picture, as well as others from that concert, can be seen at Yahoo Slideshows.)
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