A scholar of the queen of pop (yes, they do exist) reflects on her latest incarnation
In the English language, the best description of Champagne can be found in an evil and unfinished novel by Truman Capote called A, in which a glass of Cristal is described as “a chilled fire of such prickly dryness that, swallowed, seems not to have been swallowed at all, but instead to have turned to vapours on the tongue and burned there to one damp sweet ash”. The image comes to mind whenever I think of Madonna, the now child-frightening singer of legendary sassiness.
In the 1980s and 1990s, she was one of those who made it easier for people of all sorts to feel OK about themselves
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