Do you still like Madonna, even after all these years?

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punkmonk13@reddit

Nah, I’ve never found her attractive. Her voice is weak and not that pleasant to listen to. I couldn’t put together a decent playlist of her songs that would work as a soundtrack for anything. I’ll give her this—Vogue is good to vibe to, but that’s about it. She really had one strong concept and rode that. She’s camp and gay, and she was a significant force in raising awareness of AIDS. But after that, once that era passed, she hasn’t done much that stands out to me. I can see why the LGBTQI community love her, but it’s not for me. These days she just feels like a nuisance—constantly popping up in my feed. I report it, block the posts, and it still doesn’t stop.

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GiantMags@reddit

So so she was really good by just pop music. Ironically I got my dad a framed pic of her playing cards at a table half naked and it hung in my parents bedroom for like 25 years. It may have been the greatest gift I ever gave anyone

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walter_grimsley@reddit

Always enjoyed most of her music. Part of the soundtrack of childhood. Have several of her albums on CD and one or two on vinyl. She was the real deal, came up the old fashioned way back when NYC was not for the the weak.

But…the surgery. If anyone was to blaze a trail for women to be themselves and reject trends, etc, it should have been her. Why didn’t Madonna age gracefully, avoid surgery, embrace the grey, and inspire women to “express themselves”? Instead she wants to look 26 forever.

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Dazzling_Garden3268@reddit

👍💯

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Electric-Sheepskin@reddit

Well if you think about it, she was a trailblazer in that respect, too. She was one of the first to do drastic things to her face, and now it seems like everyone who can afford it is doing the same. Love it or hate it, it's the trend.

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diajean112@reddit

Nah

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One-Matter7464@reddit

Nope, after she ripped off the bodice of the 17 year old woman she invited up on stage during a concert in Australia and Madonna didn't suffer and consequence. If a guy had done something equivalent to another guy, he'd be destroyed.

Madonna committed sexual assault. Her previous attack is no excuse for her behavior, if anything she should be MORE aware.

She's a disgusting hypocrite.

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autistocratica@reddit

I also don't condone these things she did (like I'm no Drake fan but that was uncomfortable), but there are plenty of men who did things on stage, televised to millions and nothing happened to them.

Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson's nipple and HER career suffered.

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One-Matter7464@reddit

Men also do horrible things, agreed. Justin Timberlake exposed a pastie on her nipple...and they were both in on the plan if I recall correctly but yes, Janet did suffer the worst of the fall out.

I think they were trying to recreate the energy from when Mick Jagger and Tina Turner did a duet on a music award program and he ripped off her skirt, and they were clearly both in on it.

Also a case of different audiences. Music award show was on at night and young children weren't expected to be watching so it was okay. Super Bowl, young children were watching

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Electric-Sheepskin@reddit

I love her. She was an icon and a beacon in the 80s for women who wanted to do their own thing. She gave us all permission to do that at a time when car salesman were still asking us who was going to cosign for us while they were staring at our tits and calling us little lady.

All this stuff that people are saying about her now, they've been saying the same for 40 years. She doesn't give a shit. Madonna is just going to keep doing what Madonna wants, and that's why I love her. So what if she's a little weird. She's Madonna. And she's 70 years old, so God bless her and Godspeed to keep doing her thing as long as she wants and is able.

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a1welding2004@reddit

I liked her back in the 80's, but now, I feel like she is pure trash. Between her phony British accent, violent political rhetoric, smug attitude, and gross antics, she is a straight up clown in my eyes. She tries to do "shocking" things, like dating a woman in her 20's, randomly making out with people and doing other weird shit just to stay relevant. She needs to retire.

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Electric-Sheepskin@reddit

She's always been the same. People were saying that same stuff about her in the 80s. She's just doing her Madonna thing.

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December_Warlock@reddit

Violent rhetoric?

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Intelligent_Salad_70@reddit

Agree

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robbadobba@reddit

Her music from debut through “Music” is pretty uniformly great. Then, 25 years of mediocrity and bad surgery/dentistry.

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Global-Transition-27@reddit

Yup

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jeffsket@reddit

yes

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Top-Caregiver-6266@reddit

I liked her in the 80s and I was the perfect age to be a fan. Now, decades older, I still like the songs I have always liked but I’m puzzled by someone still wanting to live in that look-at-me that mindset. You don’t have to get “old” but there’s so much to do and experience besides that. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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RobDGenX@reddit

Missed the 70s by three days. Never liked Madonna, but couldn't go anywhere without hearing her. I was too young to find her hot, so I just found her cringe... before cringe existed.

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Honeybee71@reddit

Madonna, Prince, and Michael were all my favorites when I was 12

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DawnGW@reddit

same!

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Accurate-Fig-3595@reddit

She came onstage 2 hours late during the 2006 Confessions tour. That was highly obnoxious. Then tickets for her latest tour began at $400, for shitty seats. I feel like she is just disrespectful to her fans. Springsteen is on tour and he came on 1/2 hour EARLY! These people have fans who need to get up and go to work the next day. Be on time. Don't be a dick. It's not like Madonna even sings--you're there for the show.

Now, Cher? She puts on an amazing show and loves her fans. Same with Dolly. Madge can get over herself.

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DawnGW@reddit

yeah, you have a good point. I saw Madonna a few years before that... it was the best concert I've been to. But agreed, it's all about the show. I think that is horrible that she was 2 hours late to your show, yes that is obnoxious.

I haven't seen Cher, and would love to! I also saw Dolly and she was so natural onstage and so kind to everyone.

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KISSALIVE1975@reddit

Springsteen Sucks

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DawnGW@reddit

I still like her. She was iconic when I was a preteen.

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Affectionate-Raise67@reddit

Anything from True Blue comes on the radio I know every word

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DawnGW@reddit

I think I could too! I remember I had that on cassette tape and played it constantly.

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Intelligent_Salad_70@reddit

I was a super fan but nowadays can't stand her, she destroyed herself

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ReddituserXIII@reddit

Never did

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TheReadyRedditor@reddit

Same.

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Unfair-Ad2664@reddit

Madonna had some real talent in the 80's. She was cranking out a lot of hits, and was, by design, controversial to an extent, but back then I really admired her business savvy. It was very obvious she was reasonably intelligent.

The past 10 - 15 years or so, she has become a complete embarrassment. Her desire to try and remain relevant, IMO, has ruined her legacy. Maybe she wasn't as smart as I thought she was, or her vanity is just beyond measure.

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Carrollz@reddit

I liked (and still do) Borderline, Into the Groove, Like a Virgin, Live to Tell, La Isla Bonita, and Like a Prayer. I never owned any Madonna music and the only person I knew back then that did also owned Bette Midler albums. With the exception of Live to Tell I really haven't heard much of any of Madonna post True Blue. I really hate the title song off that album in particular because one of my all time favorite MTV experiences was the year they started a make your own video contest and it was absolutely amazing but then the next year they decided instead of original music to have it be make your own video to True Blue, so not only did I not get to hear all that original music not at all based on what music producers want us to listen to but I was also subjected to hearing True Blue over and over and over again... even when they weren't playing the videos they were constantly having promos for it on MTV.

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FlowerofMountains@reddit

I'm sad that she felt pressure to keep up with BBL trend. She always stood apart from the crowd.

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Lower_Emu4888@reddit

I’m

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JKT5911@reddit

Like most performers they never know when it’s time to get off the train. Professional athletes retire performers should too the same thing. The world is changing they are not relevant anymore.

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browneyedgirl79@reddit

Absolutely 💯!

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sometimeswhy@reddit

As a Gen X gay man, she will always be the queen for me. But i do wish she would age with grace

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Stardrive_1@reddit

Too late for that, sadly. She's gone full ghoul

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Mediocre_mum26@reddit

I still love her music and thought she sounded phenomenal at coachella. But I don’t like the person she now is.

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Sudden-Damage-5840@reddit

Hell YEAH. Her music was soundtrack to my early teen years through undergrad and to living as an adult. She is the QUEEN. A whole lot of female artists wouldn’t be as strong without Madonna paving the way.

They kept trying to put her in boxes. She would rip it up and reinvent herself. I’m learned to never allow yourself to be put into a box by her. She was before her time. Got lots of grief. She is MADONNA

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jediHoo@reddit

I liked her early music when I was a middle schooler. I saw her in concert as an adult and it was a horrible show so I’ve been turned off from her ever since. I respect that she’s still going at 67, but I wish she hadn’t gone so far with the plastic surgery on her face.

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miggismallz33@reddit

I love her music. 80’s, 90’s, 00’s like Hung Up. However, she just seems desperate to hang on. Years ago it was with Britney, then a song with Justin T. Then Nikki Minaj and now Sabrina Carpenter. Just lame.
Her body, her choice to have plastic surgery and mess up her face.
I will always listen to her music. I will never go to another concert. (Twice, each time started over 2 hours late).

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GarionOrb@reddit

To be fair, the Britney song was on Britney's album and Madonna didn't plan it. They met backstage after an awards show and M agreed to sing on the already-finished track.

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miggismallz33@reddit

Okay…

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Beautiful-Habit-825@reddit

Vogue!

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pinkbev71@reddit

Still love her 🖤

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Boring_Menu_5962@reddit

Was never into pop music. But I know those artists come and go so quickly. For people to still be talking about her after all these years shows she must be one of the best ever.

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Ok-meow@reddit

She will forever be my Queen.

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shackspirit@reddit

In my opinion, she had some absolute bangers (Holiday, Burning Up, Crazy For You) and some crap (Material Girl) and some that trod the line between them (Like A Virgin). She made great pop, and was prefect for the time. Pity what’s she’s done to her face. She was very cute once.

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mhmbopbeavis@reddit

Her character was hilarious in that "totally true" story of weird al movie lol

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Anachronism--@reddit

Always liked a lot of her music and still do. As a person at best she seems like a difficult pain in the ass…

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ksewell68@reddit

She always seemed like such an immature asshole. But I liked her 80s stuff.

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cgund@reddit

I was never a massive fan but Ray of Light came on in the supermarket last night and that is one hell of a banger.

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Fair-Wishbone-1190@reddit

Not as much as I did. But I like her 80s songs still, but not much of her personality anymore.

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grimmless@reddit

As a person? Not really. As an artist? Absolutely.

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BillsBells65@reddit

Was never a fan.

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autistic_insomniac5@reddit

Her songs were the soundtrack of the 80s whether you were into her music or not and I can still appreciate her talent as a singer. However, she seems like she was always an atrocious person to be around.

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coleraineyid@reddit

Nope. She’s an industry plant and gatekeeper that all young female artists are supposed to pay homage to. She was born in the same year as Prince and Michael Jackson. She shouldn’t be allowed to valet park their cars. A detestable individual with zero talent who rips off any trends.

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

Never was into her very much.

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Moist-Pea-8034@reddit

Only liked her when I was a kid and didn’t know there was better music out there

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Melodic_War327@reddit

Haven't seen much out of her lately, to be honest. Pretty much fine with her behavior, though I did not think she needed all the cosmetic surgery. 67 doesn't look that bad.

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Electronic_Gap3253@reddit

Always loved her, always will. She’s always been messy, it’s just her brand!

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kobuta99@reddit

Has she put out recent music? I haven't heard any of she has, so no real opinion any her or any antics today.

Deserves a place in pop history for her music in her hey days, and her iconic image and style. She broke rules and boundaries, but also backed it up with a lot of great songs that are still a fantastic listen today. I didn't love everything she put out, but she has many memorable songs. Not my favorite pop artist but she is still talked about for a reason.

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GarionOrb@reddit

The new song just came out, called "I Feel So Free". The new album comes out in July, and is a sequel to her 2005 Confessions on a Dance Floor album.

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whats1more7@reddit

She remade Like a Prayer for the latest Deadpool movie and honestly it was really well done.

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new2bay@reddit

What’s she done now?

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GarionOrb@reddit

A new song was released last week ("I Feel So Free") and her new album is coming in July.

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spintool1995@reddit

I wasn't into pop music in general so people like Madonna and Michael Jackson didn't do it for me. I can think of two of her songs I liked when they came out. "Open Your Heart" mainly because of the video and me being a horny teen and "Like a Prayer" which was just a really great song. It's nice that Like a Prayer has had a resurgence due to Deadpool and Wolverine.

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GarionOrb@reddit

Madonna has always hated "Material Girl" also, and despised being referred to as that.

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CtrlAltComment@reddit

Never cared for her or her music. Especially Papa, dont preach. That damn song came out when I was pregnant with my 1st born.

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LevelPerception4@reddit

I hated that song and video. Madonna was pretty long in the tooth to be worrying about an unplanned pregnancy, and as a young feminist, it seemed like a pro-life anthem. I hated True Blue even more because MTV did that promo for fans to shoot a video for it, meaning it was in constant rotation. But I got truly sick of her when she published Sex. The only things I remember about her from this century are her making out with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera and adopting a bunch of kids right after Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt made news for international adoptions.

I still like her earlier songs like Borderline and Lucky Star, but the last song of hers I liked was Live to Tell.

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CtrlAltComment@reddit

It also got pinned on anyone young and pregnant. I was married and everyone still sang it around me and laughed.

I agree. She let everything go to her head. The sexualization and bringing religion into her music killed it for me.

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Purple_Current1089@reddit

62f and adored 80s Madonna. Now all I can think about is how she forcibly kissed Britney Spears and Drake (well maybe he deserved it)!

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ForgottenGenX47@reddit

Thr Britney kiss was planned, she didn't force it on her. She also kissed Christina Aguilera, but only Britney got the attention.

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Purple_Current1089@reddit

Good to know, but I still thought it was 🤮!

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SamDublin@reddit

Always loved her

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largos7289@reddit

I mean if we're talking strictly her 80's work, she was like one of the most influential artists of the time. She was the Britney Spears of our day thou. Cindy was the better artist, Madone just capitalized on her own shenanigans.

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ShivRoy13@reddit

I liked her 80-90s music. Didn’t like her much as a person back then. Don’t like her latest music. I really don’t like her as a person today. Still like her 80-90s music.

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hyperbole_is_great@reddit

I think Madonna won the battle but Cindy Lauper won the war. Madonna dominated the 80s-90s but we are far more likely to hear a Cindy song on the radio today. I hardly ever hear Madonna on the radio now.

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largos7289@reddit

Fellow Lauper fan here.

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hyperbole_is_great@reddit

Her hits have aged better.

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Ok-Entertainment5045@reddit

Never liked her

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mylocker15@reddit

Modern Madonna is a part of what we agreed to when we all subscribed to Madonna back in 1983. It was hidden in the license agreement but you should not be surprised. Did y’all really think she was gonna just stop being Madonna and buy a golf cart and some muu muus and move to Shady Pines? You can just ignore her current iteration and go pull up Holiday on your phone. I’m not stopping you.

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Scrotchety@reddit

Is YouTube recommending her videos to you out of nowhere too?

Yesterday it was Rain. Day before: This Used to Be My Playground

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Primer50@reddit

I had no idea she still made music.

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Relative_Housing_375@reddit

Nope

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Specialist_Stop8572@reddit

She's always been a blatant famewhore, she just didn't have social media back then

She's an icon and a legend. She had some legit bangers. "Deeper & Deeper" may be my all time fave dance track

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Outrageous_Plum5348@reddit

My crowd was bat cavers and grungies. Too cool for Madonna.

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2PlasticLobsters@reddit

I hung out a lot with the punk/alternative crowd. So I kept to myself the fact that I secretly enoyed Madonna & metal hair bands.

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Wind_Responsible@reddit

We were Seattle grunge but somehow she snuck in. We might not have had albums but…. Madonna is one of those things you just could t avoid. If you don’t like the song you liked something about the 4 minute movies she made lol. Hot dudes and chicks. Madonna always made something you had to look at or listen to at least once. I’m shocked that I grew up listening to grunge and never owned a Madonna album, never put one of her songs on a mix tape but…. Well know them. lol. Madonna was unavoidable for over 20 yrs she is so successful at her music and movies.

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sahlins@reddit

I'm Gen X, and I grew up with her music. I've never loved her stuff, but I still respect her as one of the all time greats.

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ep3dmik@reddit

Musically, some of her albums are mixed perfectly. A lot of Michael Jackson's music is just as good. Sure the music is dated, but you'll notice old songs changing genre as well as artists changing their take on it and re-releasing it.

Literally, nothing new under the sun lol

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Wind_Responsible@reddit

If you listen to her live she’s updated all these songs to some extent. It’s a trip

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bernardfarquart@reddit

I never understood why she was as popular as she was, I always thought Cyndi Lauper was cooler

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Wind_Responsible@reddit

Lauper is as always older than everyone and she attached herself to wrestling too much.

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Roddy_Piper2000@reddit

100%

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RG1527@reddit

I never liked her to begin with.

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Wind_Responsible@reddit

I recently heard her playing guitar and singing an old punk song. I was shocked. Feel like we missed out on this chick who could have been an amazing rock star instead of pop but, that’s how it goes.

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Roddy_Piper2000@reddit

Never liked her in the first place.

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2ndChanceAtLife@reddit

Just 80’s music. She always had to push the envelope and seems to be completely oblivious to the fact she is getting old. She should step back and maybe mentor upcoming talent. Not French kiss them on camera.

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BetterPalpitation@reddit

Not French kiss them on camera.

This has been (over?) 20 years ago.

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Smart_Butterfly_7845@reddit

Loved it then. Love it now. Madonna jams.

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FootUpstairs2782@reddit

Not really.

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Artistic_Chapter_355@reddit

I feel sad about how she is now and it impacts my enjoyment of her old music. She was always so sharp and self possessed; I never expected her to act desperate or be out of it on substances. I think I read she had surgery and/or pain and started using painkillers, like so many folks do. I think it’s hard and scary to see her vulnerable.

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Capital_Pea@reddit

agreed, i wish we could enjoy her as she “was” and she’d just quietly retire.

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Artistic_Chapter_355@reddit

I don’t even want her to retire, just care for health and try to evolve as an artist. Hard to watch her struggle.

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MissDisplaced@reddit

Not a huge fan; but she ok.

Really liked some of her old stuff: Lucky Star, Get Into the Groove. It’s cute and was fresh at the time.

Got to hand it to her for hanging in there, but I worry about her constant plastic surgery. She should just accept aging and let it be what it is.

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RiverWhole4388@reddit

Before she started that plastic surgery shit, she was aging like a boss. Looked frigging amazing.

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MissDisplaced@reddit

I know! She was in amazing shape and looked super fit.

The plastic surgery, I swear. I can see getting a little bit, here and there, but these celebs all seem to get WAY excessive with it and ruin their good looks.

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JoyceOBcean@reddit

She’s a few years older than me and she needs to stop wearing lingerie on stage. But good for her - - whatever floats her boat.

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JasminJaded@reddit

Never did, so it’s hard to “still” like her 🤷‍♀️

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Writing_is_Bleeding@reddit

Straight yes, after your edit.

But she did say some kind of stupid things in the 00s that ruined the sparkle for me.

But yes, her 80s and even 90s music is legendary.

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JurisUrsus@reddit

yes

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Battgyrl@reddit

I’m Gen X. I loved Madonna in the 80s but I’m not a big fan these days. I don’t dislike her newer music, but it just isn’t my vibe anymore.

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sadeland21@reddit

Yes!!

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OrganicIgnorance@reddit

I thought she was pretty legit into the early 2000s. She was definitely a trail blazer

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erinna_nyc@reddit

Madonna is a queen. I don’t care what anyone says

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Relevant_Wrangler830@reddit

No, kinda left her around the late 90s

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IceSmiley@reddit

Yeah she's not ne of my fav singers

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TypePuzzleheaded6228@reddit

actually i never did. the closest i got was those black rubber bracelets!

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SeanSpike@reddit

Only her old music

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LadybugCalico@reddit

I love Borderline and Take a Bow but that's it

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Anxious-One-2365@reddit

She is trash. No.

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SecretlyAurora@reddit

No!

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Eazy12345678@reddit

like the music . hate the person

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Magellan1321@reddit

Never cared for her much then or now

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moramajama@reddit

I lost track of her after the “Music” single. It was never my taste and seemed to mark the beginning of pop music shifting emphasis from the song to the beat/vibe. Never had anything to do with her age.

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big65@reddit

I like her work but I like the original her as opposed to the identity she created recently.

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KMack666@reddit

Can't stand her! Her voice is terrible, her attitude is worse

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BlueFeathered1@reddit

Oh yes. I still admire and appreciate her.

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NoDanaOnlyZuuI@reddit

“Still”?

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thndrcnt13@reddit

Yes! Always will. I don’t have the same attachment to her more recent music as I do to her older/classic songs, but even Rebel Heart has a few tracks that I go to regularly. I got to see her live 4 times between 1994 and 2016, I’ve had a crazy variety of memorabilia over the years, and no matter how cringe she can be I just can’t quit her lol.

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ItsCatCat@reddit

I could still listen to Erotica all day, no skipping songs.

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scragz@reddit

sure I like madonna.... NOT

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Hab_Anagharek@reddit

Old school reference

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scragz@reddit

I saw some more recent behind the scenes footage and she's still saying it! it's her favorite joke.

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DeterminedSparkleCat@reddit

In her current state? No. She is looney tunes and needs to retire

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prntmakr@reddit

Didn’t like her in the eighties. Haven’t since. Thought that period where she pretended to play guitar was amusing, at best.

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srboot@reddit

No

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CeilingUnlimited@reddit

Yes. If she were a dude she’d be the most popular artist on the planet to this day. Go Madge!

My only request - time for some unplugged sessions!

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RedLily08@reddit

I don't like her I ADORE her. I think she's brilliant. Every focuses on her open sexuality. That's just so surface level. She writes her songs, created her own career and never let anyone tell her no. Her songs are brilliant. Listen to Live to Tell, Gone, Frozen, Like a Prayer and so many more. She's truly original and speaks her mind. I love her. I may not love every album but I sure do appreciate that she tries new things. She is a tough woman who isn't afraid to do what she wants. She taught me that woman can be sexual, smart and strong. I love how in charge she is and I think it's bull that people just focus on her age and and her looks and yada yada. She is a great artist

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Quix66@reddit

TIL she wrote her own songs. Some of my favorites too in Frozen, Live to Tell, Like a Prayer.

Thanks.

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Hoz999@reddit

Yes.

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starship7201u@reddit

Yes. She's Madonna.

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Aircooled2088@reddit

I liked Madonna till she fucked up her face. It’s just painful to look at her now.

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fallenredwoods@reddit

She stole the picture of a teen girl online and put her heavily edited face over the girls. Madonna wouldn’t admit it when called out and provided with evidence…. She tries so hard it’s cringe and yes her face is fucked up

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TBeIRIE@reddit

When it first came out I played the Like A Virgin cassette to death (in rotation w/ Prince & the Revolution’s album Purple Rain & Cindy Lauper’ She’s So Unusual album).

It is woven into the fabric of my childhood. Later on in her career I loved a couple songs here and there but there’s no denying the presence of her music in my life.

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Beneficial-Age-4059@reddit

Gen X…I wish she could have just let herself age gracefully. Getting that muppet face plastic surgery and prancing around half nude onstage now is creepy and degrading. I respect her long successful career but she just comes off now as pitiful.

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dannyvegas@reddit

Yeah. With her talent, style and status as such a cultural icon, I assumed she would have taken the ‘old Hollywood’ route of refined glamours elegance in her later years. She seems to be going another direction entirely.

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LuckyAd2714@reddit

Yep

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FiddleStrum@reddit

Yes, of course. She was a trailblazer that very few artists since can compare.

It’s sad that even seemingly strong women like her feel they need to have plastic surgery but society demands women don’t age, especially in image-based industries like entertainment.

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Southernms@reddit

Borderline was then, now, and will always be in my top 10 favorite songs.

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GrowThangs@reddit

I loved her. I still love so many of her songs.. Material Girl, Like a Virgin, Vogue (and there is a live performance of Vogue that I periodically watch that still just takes my breath away), Like a Prayer, La Isla Bonita, Who's that Girl, Crazy for you, Holiday, Cherish... I don't know anything recent.

Besides the music, she was just so strong and irreverent. As I child, I thought she was the coolest. And she was so beautiful. I bet she would have been a beautiful older woman as well if she had left out all of the plastic surgery that makes her look weird. I don't like what she's done to her face, but it's also none of my business. She sure didn't ask for my opinion.

I saw photos from Coachella and people were complaining about her outfit choice, but I think she looked great in it. Maybe I should seek out some of her music that I don't know and see if I like it.

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sign6of6the6beast@reddit

Yes. She is iconic. She’s always stayed true. Love love love her and hate the hate.

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Cantankerous_Cancer@reddit

Very much same here!

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rstokes18187@reddit

Live to Tell is her best song.

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Bladley@reddit

Borderline is one of the great pop songs of the early 80s.

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JKSahara@reddit

I like what she did for music, but I don’t particularly like her.

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melty75@reddit

Her older music takes me back to the 80s. Her voice embodied a vibe, and a couple of her songs perfectly captured a feeling. Borderline is as good as 80s pop gets imo.

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croissant_and_cafe@reddit

Yes, I love Madonna. I just listened to some of her 80s and 90s hits last night as I was baking.

Live to tell Open your heart Like a Prayer Isla Bonita

Honestly great 80s production. Long intros, cool synths, banging drum programming.

She was a pioneer a badass and her music was fun as hell. Still an idol to me.

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ExistentialPuggle@reddit

I just watched Desperately Seeking Susan and remembered how effortlessly bobo and cool she was

Early Madonna is my favorite.

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Historical_Project86@reddit

I never liked her, so yes after all these years I still don't.

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Altruistic-Chain3662@reddit

Madonna is Madonna. She cut through the stone and created herself - Unfortunately she wasn’t too nice on the way up and karma is now making her its bitch. It makes me sad honestly. But you reap what you sow.

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ProfessorExcellence@reddit

No. She can rot in hell. I worked a concert of hers in the 80s. She treated staff like shit.

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Blue-Yellow-Werther@reddit

That first album is perfect… then she trash talked Sinead O’Conner… lost me as a fan.

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SkullLeader@reddit

Never been a huge fan but Ray Of Light is great and truth is she put out a lot of good material in the 80’s and early 90’s.

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44_Sunflower_44@reddit

I never liked Madonna. I know. I’m in the minority

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jt2ou@reddit

I have never been a fan; not then, not now. I do admit that Ray of Light was her best work.

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Jas62021@reddit

I like her old music. Not the newer

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TopspinLob@reddit

I used to like her early stuff. Borderline. Once she hit that Papa Don’t Preach phase, I tuned out

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N0gginb0nker@reddit

I see what you did there lol

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Global-Ad9080@reddit

Yeah her first two albums are classics. I stopped listening after that.

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fanacapoopan@reddit

Yes, I do.

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labretirementhome@reddit

Michael Musto nailed it. "The bitch can't even sing!"

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SpiritualMuffin2623@reddit

I would say she was an influencer of her era. She knew how to promote herself based and was in the right place right time. Her earlier pop music was a lot of fun and she did influence fashion at that time. A better artist of that era is Cindy Lauper.

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OrganicBill4935@reddit

I agree with everything re Madonna but even she is better than Cyndi Lauper. Horrendous

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YouDear9720@reddit

To each their own

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OrganicBill4935@reddit

Never have

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Duppy-Man@reddit

Of course, she’s a legend.

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EndlessSummer59@reddit

Oh, she ruled the 80's!!!!!!!!!!!😍💋👠👠💄🎤🎼

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Timely-Tourist4109@reddit

I never was into her music. So no

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75artina@reddit

I still listen to the immaculate collection regularly but not into her newer stuff at all.

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harleychick3cat@reddit

Didn't realize how much I still liked her until I watched Deadpool and Wolverine.

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Hey_Laaady@reddit

No, I never liked her. I thought she was a talented PR person and dancer though.

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dirtygreysocks@reddit

Her early stuff had the underground dance club/street flair I appreciated, but was not a huge fan of. But she made huge strides for women in music, and sexuality, and was brazenly talking about AIDS and safe sex and supporting the gay community in an era where our president wouldn't acknowledge AIDS existed. So I will always love her for that. People clowning on her age when old farts like Robert Plant keep getting trotted out is absurd to me.

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Fun-Room-6501@reddit

Yes. She’s an icon. Driven. Gritty. Amazing.

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Modest_Man_Mandrake@reddit

Never did. Still don't.

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Global-Ad9080@reddit

To be fair and honest I just love Madonna first two debut albums.

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LAARPer@reddit

I like her old stuff.

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sandmanws7@reddit

Still rock the Immaculate Collection from time to time.

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Maleficent-Leo-2282@reddit

I loved her growing up. Saw her in concert 3 times and loved all of them. I haven’t really listened to any of her music since Confessions, but I don’t listen to the radio anymore, so I didn’t know she is still releasing music. She is an icon.

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smile_saurus@reddit

I loved her when I was a kid & teen, when she was at her peak popularity-wise. Now if one of her songs comes on I don't mind but I don't seek them out.

I always remember my mom saying Madonna is as old as me! and my mom is currently 70 and I recently saw an article or something with Madonna's age listed as 62 or something. So that's weird.

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HistorianLiving@reddit

Madonna is 67

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smile_saurus@reddit

Thanks!

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beautifulwreck_@reddit

No. Don’t care for her anymore. I used to love her early stuff, it was the soundtrack to my teens.

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jetpack324@reddit

Yes. I like most of her music. She put out some great songs in the 80s & 90s.

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teriKatty@reddit

I still listen occasionally to her 80s-90s stuff here and there or if it comes on the radio. I dont know most of nor listen hardly of her stuff after Music. My favorite albums from her are Like a Prayer and Ray of Light with True Blue a close 3rd.

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earlyboy@reddit

I’m not a fan, but she is culturally important.

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lionbacker54@reddit

Yes. I still listen to the immaculate collection.

I don’t know any of her stuff after that album though

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TheFirst10000@reddit

I liked a lot of her work up to "What It Feels Like For a Girl." After that, not as much.

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Ray_The_Engineer@reddit

I was never a big Madonna fan, was more of a metalhead in the '80's. That said, I enjoy some of her old stuff now because it takes me back to a fun time in life.

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Consistent-Ad7428@reddit

Ray of Light is her best album

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Bearmancartoons@reddit

Music is great but anyone I know who has seen her live complains. Usually comes out way late and doesn’t do enough actual singing

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Lightnenseed@reddit

I saw her one time in my life...ONE time...and I payed an arm and a leg to get good seats too and she came out hours late. It was super annoying and I am big fan too.

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don_teegee@reddit

This is the truth. Came out hours after the start time and talked more than singing. We left after about an hour. It was a painful experience.

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patrickishere2020@reddit

I like Borderline and Hung Up. Those are my two favorites.

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Lightnenseed@reddit

I do. I'm still a fan. I'm not as diehard as I used to be about her. Some of her most recent music after Confessions on A Dance Floor has been lack luster but I will always be a fan of her and interested in her.

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TheChocolateWarOf74@reddit

I will always like a good chuck of Madonna’s music. It is part of soundtrack for my childhood - youth.

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BadkyDrawnBear@reddit

I loved her '80s stuff, rediscovered her in the '90s with ray of light and music. But this older plastic surgeon enhanced madonna, I just don't like it all

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PinkyLeopard2922@reddit

Loved her in the 80's era, Borderline, Lucky Star, black jelly bracelets, messy eyebrows, red lipstick, the teased bob with a handkerchief. Then she was everywhere and with the oversaturation I kind of lost interest. I respect that she is still always re-inventing herself though.

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BmanGorilla@reddit

I liked her old stuff. I saw her in a pic the other day and was wondering if she had an accident or something, what happened to her? Sure wasn’t aging…

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overmonk@reddit

She’s chasing youth with surgery.

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doobette@reddit

I was a huge fan in the '80s, and liked her songs up to the Bedtime Stories album in the '90s. Once Ray of Light came out, I wasn't interested anymore.

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seigezunt@reddit

What are they judging her about? Growing old?

I liked her back in the day. Can’t say I’ve listened lately.

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succored_word@reddit

I recently rediscovered Madonna and have been cranking her old songs. Liked her then and still do.

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Mysterions@reddit

I like 80s pop, but I’ve never liked Madonna.

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D05wtt@reddit

I was heavily into hard rock and metal back in the ‘80s and I hated everything else. Now, I’ve learned to appreciate a lot of the other music genres including some of her earlier stuff. Can’t stand her as a person though.

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Myfreakinglyfe@reddit

Love her. Loved her when I was a teenager in the 80s and love her now.

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Moonstruck1766@reddit

Yes! I love to hear one of her first songs! It brings me right back to my college days.

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PoetryExtension6256@reddit

Never did. Never found her hor "her" music appealing.

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OneMustAlwaysPlanAhe@reddit

Never did, never will

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Environmental-Song16@reddit

Same. I can't stand her music.

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Linux4ever_Leo@reddit

I've always been a huge Madonna fan and I've seen her in concert a dozen times or more. All of her music is really good. In fact she's dropping a new album soon called 'Confessions on a Dance floor - II"

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Objective_Joke_5023@reddit

I’m not going to spend $$$$ to go to a show, but I’ll sing along if one of her older hits comes on.

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TulsaOUfan@reddit

I like her 80s-00s music. I don't follow any of her new stuff

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rbowen2000@reddit

I'm unaware of "how she is now". I didn't like her much when she was new music - in highschool and college - but some of it has grown on me over the years.

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LittleBitOfStarshine@reddit

No

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Pretend_Passenger586@reddit

I haven’t liked any of her music made after the early 90’s. But I still have a lot of respect for her lifelong accomplishments.

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Warhammer_619@reddit

Vogue is still a great song to sing to in the car

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arrasonline@reddit

I liked everything through Ray of Light. After that album she jumped the shark ( sorry Gen X reference).

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AbsolutesDealer@reddit

Madonna is a legend. Fan since “Lucky Star” dropped.

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wandernwade@reddit

Madonna 80’s was fine. She lost me around the time of Just Like A Prayer. (I was losing my religion).

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Temporary_View_3303@reddit

No, but then I didn’t care for her back then either. She made forgettable music.

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slade797@reddit

No.

To be fair, I’ve never liked her music.

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eggert83@reddit (OP)

Is that why or is it specifically how she is now?

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slade797@reddit

This question makes no sense.

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eggert83@reddit (OP)

Like why don’t you like her?

Is it because you never liked her in the first place or how she is now?

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slade797@reddit

I don’t know how much plainer I can make, “I’ve never liked her.”

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Detroitdays@reddit

Yes. Absolutely.

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Itchy-Grapefruit2756@reddit

Was more of a Chrissie Hynde guy

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Tabitheriel@reddit

Never liked her cheesy, sexploitation pop music. I loved Patti Smith and Siouxie Sioux.

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Erazzphoto@reddit

Same as with most artists, there’s a handful of songs I’ll like. Like a prayer, la isla Bonita, who’s that girl, open your heart, all great songs in regular rotation. That’s as much thought I give to Madonna

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Ok-Actuator8579@reddit

As a person no. Ray of light was an amazing album and if I heard it I would not change the station. Since then I just haven’t kept up with her stuff.

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CountHonorius@reddit

Never cared for her as a person, never liked her music. That said, some of her '80s work is a stand-out. "Holiday", "Borderline", "Material Girl" and even her pre-fame "Everybody" from '82 - very good. Always believed Cyndi Lauper would outshine her, but no.

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Sepa-Kingdom@reddit

Love Madonna. She’s always just fine her own thing and not cared about what others think of her. She’s an inspiration!

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Grunge4U@reddit

I never did.

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Lost_Taste_8181@reddit

Like? Not really. Respect? Absolutely.

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Ricekake33@reddit

Yes. The answer is yes

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silas-j@reddit

like and respect. earned it all.

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Distinct_Magician713@reddit

I'm an old metal head. Never liked her music. Indifferent to her as a person.

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RoyalPuzzleheaded259@reddit

Same here. She didn’t rock so I didn’t listen. Maybe now if I tried listening to her music I might appreciate it more but I just don’t see me searching out Madonna to listen to.

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Educational_Tap_4704@reddit

I've always loved Madonna. I don't care if she's 67 or 107. That said, her last tour was a major disappointment! We went expecting the Madonna we knew from the 80's and 90's. Instead we were entertained by her playing her old top hits on acoustical guitar, or by her daughter on a grand piano. Now I'm not saying it was not expertly orchestrated and very well done. I'm saying I'm still SOOO disappointed. We spent $2,000 per ticket to see her do nothing all night but play a guitar while wearing a bad fitting bathing suit.

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BT_Artist@reddit

I was just talking to friends about this topic the other day - about how, in the initial stages of her career, she seemed kind of fake and manufactured.

At least till the Mouseketeers came along and steamrolled pop culture with their plastic bullshit. Now Madonna seems like the real deal in comparison with those idiots.

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daisy0808@reddit

She developed her style from the dance clubs of NYC, and was always into street fashion. By Like a Virgin, her popularity flipped the script on female sexuality. She owned it, and my mother was horrified. :) Vogue cemented her as a gay icon because she celebrated her own sexuality, instead of of the machine exploiting her for it.

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Nervous-Rooster7760@reddit

I like stuff from Ray of Light and before. After that lost interest in her music.

Who she is today I don’t really think about but I find it interesting all the folks in SM saying she is too old. She is 67. You don’t hear same noise about male singers still performing in 70s? I don’t have to agree with her to appreciate the I don’t give a fuck what you think vibe she has.

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dirtybo0ts@reddit

I still like old Madonna. Really anything past Ray of Light I don’t dig. But classic Madonna (specifically Like a Prayer era) is in regular rotation for me.

This grunge/metal head loves 80/90s Madonna 😀🤘

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rogun64@reddit

I liked her first album or two, but I haven't liked anything since she became huge.

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KrispyAvocado@reddit

I was never really into her

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mediweevil@reddit

that is precisely the reason I detest her now. instead of staying true to her core genre she's constantly debasing her own legacy by chasing what's the latest thing.

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Rational-ish@reddit

I wouldn’t change the station or channel if several of her songs came on, but I also never spent money on her music or concerts. So I guess I still like her 80s/90s music the same as I always have. I’ll still listen to some and still won’t pay money for any of it.

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mediweevil@reddit

I stopped listening to anything she produced after The Immaculate Collection was released in 1990. her old stuff is gold, anything after that is just noise.

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akasan@reddit

Her Best album, IMO, is Ray of Light. Madonna is 67 years old. She can live her life how she wants.

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Inevitable-Lock5973@reddit

I’ve always been a huge fan. I’ve seen her in concert five times. I don’t care what she does. I don’t care how old she gets we all age whatever the latest albums were actually very very good. Just you know radio is fickle and they only like young people who have no talent and whatever but obviously you could see I’m biased lol.

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ORF1Live@reddit

I'm not mad about her personally but I like her music, in all her eras and I think she's a great artist.

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DDlg72@reddit

Nope, I stopped liking her after True Blue

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379tuco@reddit

Who???

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pianoavengers@reddit

I do yes. I am a millennial.

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pianoavengers@reddit

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tequilasundae@reddit

I didn't buy her stuff back in the day, but i liked the songs followed her career. Started buying vinyl and Cds in 2017ish,and have amassed a nice collection, but still looking for more

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Apart-Cream-4940@reddit

I loved Madonna. Had all her CDs. I got rid of them. Now I wish I hadn't. I loved the way she dressed. I would wear some similar pieces. I don't really know what she's up to these days, but I'll always love her for the 80s

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StrangerOne76@reddit

My first cassette was Like a Virgin and I was a massive fan for years. Loved her movies too, Desperately Seeking Susan is still a fav. My last cd of hers was The Immaculate Collection, I don't think I've really liked much since. And as someone who is fine with ageing gracefully, I feel she has failed in that department sadly.

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ShirleyApresHensive@reddit

I don’t like or dislike her, she just is. I don’t seek out any of her recent work because she has taken on a vampiresque quality, which is a turn off.

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Last_Inevitable8311@reddit

I was obsessed with her in the 80s. The Like a Virgin tour was my first concert. The Beastie Boys opened!

I think True Blue was the last record I bought. I liked some of her songs here and there after that but none as much as her first two albums.

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AlikaTT2020@reddit

I saw her on that same tour. I remember the Beastie Boys got booed off stage at our location soon after they came out on stage. Kind of funny to think about now but no one really knew who they were then.

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Last_Inevitable8311@reddit

Same! I was at the Universal Amphitheater show in LA.

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Fyreflyre1@reddit

Ray of Light and everything before it.

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EverythingScrolling@reddit

Same here.

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_genepool_@reddit

Didn't like her music then, still don't.

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Maleficent-Courage48@reddit

She wasn't my favorite even back then. Her vocals are kinda mid IMO.

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borkborkbork99@reddit

I was gifted a couple of her early albums on vinyl a couple years ago. While I’m not a huge fan of her music, I have to admit - The studio guys mastered the HELL out of those records. They sound great.

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Economy_Care1322@reddit

As a teenage boy who watched her rise to MTV stardom, I could watch her dance all day. I don’t follow any music but the songs I know are hers, I like.

I didn’t know she say Ray of Light until a Family Guy cutaway.

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UgliestPumpkin@reddit

I loved her first album, even as a goth girl in the 80’s. The rest, nah.

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mstermind@reddit

I still enjoy her Ray of Light album. I think that was the last good thing she made.

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wolfysworld@reddit

Ray of Light was the last album I liked. I never liked whole albums, I think I’m a greatest hits sort of fan. Madonna the persona never did it for me but I could still appreciate her music. I haven’t listened to a single Madonna song in probably 5 years or more; I have to be in the mood!

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terry1381@reddit

Shes ok,shes part of music history and the start of the video age.

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Crazyforlou@reddit

I’ve never been a fan.

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tango421@reddit

Crazy for You is one of my favorite songs

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Idaho_In_Uranus@reddit

I loved so many of her songs growing up (still love that 80’s & early 90’s era of hers) and she’ll forever have a place in my musical heart with that music, but now she just seems like a weird old lady.

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boethius_tcop@reddit

I really only ever liked material girl and ray of light.

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Rogan_Creel@reddit

I never did

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breadit8@reddit

I wasn’t a big fan, but I did like “This Used to Be My Playground ”—the song and movie.

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InfamousChannel2407@reddit

She was always out to shock and it got played out very quickly.

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CharismaticAlbino@reddit

What did Rosie O'Donnell say to her in A League of Their Own?

"Who hasn't seen your bosoms?"

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InfamousChannel2407@reddit

Right.

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Fit-Bus2025@reddit

The 80's and 90's Madonna

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Zealousideal_Draw_94@reddit

After her 1st album I didn’t really care for her.

IMO Cyndi Lauper was a better singer, better writer with better taste in music. She should have been that level of superstar. Her label wanted her to keep doing “Girls Wanna Have Fun” over and over again. She broke up with her BF/manager, and never reached that level again.

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lordhumongous40@reddit

Like a prayer still gives me chills. Man that video ruffled some feathers. Black Jesus was polarizing.

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tultommy@reddit

Looking back at that whole thing now just makes it feel so incredibly silly.

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d_ippy@reddit

She is an icon and always will be. This world is not kind to aging stars but I love her always.

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tultommy@reddit

In fairness she's brought a lot of the comments she has gotten over the years on herself. She's made some very odd choices.

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deeno777@reddit

La Isla Bonita is one of my all time favorite songs!

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tultommy@reddit

Madonna is... ok. But I've always felt that way about her. To me she is like katy perry or taylor swift. They all have some very catchy songs that everyone sings along with, but beyond that I could take or leave them. It's hard to take them seriously when they clearly don't live in the same world as everyone else lol. It's not their faults I don't have anything against them they just aren't relatable at all.

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FamousOnceNowNobody@reddit

I love her music.
I admire how she has controlled her career, her way.
I respect her incredible influence on 40 years of pop music.

I will teeny bop my 50 yr old body to "Into the Groove" all the way to the grave.

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Fit-Narwhal-3989@reddit

Never cared for her

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YukonSunset@reddit

I was a fan OF Madonna, not Madonna's music per sé. When I was a tween girl, Madonna was everything a little girl wanted to be. Strong, independent, quick, cool, and gorgeous. It's as if I knew exactly how I wanted to head into my teen years through her influence.

Madonna's music sort of came with the package when she first struck it big, so of course I did like "Like a Virgin", and through the discovery, enjoyed her debut album "Madonna". By default, I did purchase and (sort of) liked "True Blue", but I noticed a marked difference in who she was by that time. She was married by then, cut her hair all off, bottled blonde, and sort of looked like a sexy version of most people's grandma with her haircut choice and the way she did her make up. She wasn't the Desperately Seeking Susan-esque character of herself anymore.

By then we were learning that Madonna's schtick was all about reinventing herself. So when "Like a Prayer" came out, I remember thinking, nope.. she's lost it on me. She became gimmicky. The film Who's That Girl didn't help, with her intensely annoying Nikki Finn cartoon character. I noticed that Madonna herself enjoyed phases, and she was responding to her love of things from the 50s that I just wasn't in to.

After that, her image, message, and music drifted further and further away from what I initially liked her for. Other musicians could retain their sense of self both in image and sound while rolling with the times, but Madonna just seemed to completely implode and recreate something unrecognizable.

Anyway, I mourn the 1980s Madonna. Who she was, and her whole attitude and style and whatever music reflected that. Beyond that, she just seemed to be a try-hard with her attempts to shock with oversexualization. (It was the 90s. No one was shocked by then.) And by then, her dance music was too lack-lustre to be great to a young fan that liked her 80s years.

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KISSALIVE1975@reddit

Never Did, Never Will

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kb_colas@reddit

Hell naw 🤢

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demona2002@reddit

I love her music and the fact the she (still) gives zero fucks.

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East-Garden-4557@reddit

She clearly gives too many fucks. She is constantly worried about being her age, destroying herself with over the top plastic surgery, and trying to pretend she is as relevant as the new pop stars. She is stuck in the past and instead of embracing change she's trying to pretend it doesn't happen. That is not the behaviour of someone who gives zero fucks.

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YukonSunset@reddit

I was a fan OF Madonna, not Madonna's music per sé. When I was a tween girl, Madonna was everything a little girl wanted to be. Strong, independent, quick, cool, and gorgeous. It's as if I knew exactly how I wanted to head into my teen years through her influence.

Madonna's music sort of came with the package when she first struck it big, so of course I did like "Like a Virgin", and through the discovery, enjoyed her debut album "Madonna". By default, I did purchase and (sort of) liked "True Blue", but I noticed a marked difference in who she was by that time. She was married by then, cut her hair all off, bottled blonde, and sort of looked like a sexy version of most people's grandma with her haircut choice and the way she did her make up. She wasn't the Desperately Seeking Susan-esque character of herself anymore.

By then we were learning that Madonna's schtick was all about reinventing herself. So when "Like a Prayer" came out, I remember thinking, nope.. she's lost it on me. She became gimmicky. The film Who's That Girl didn't help, with her intensely annoying Nikki Finn cartoon character. I noticed that Madonna herself enjoyed phases, and she was responding to her love of things from the 50s that I just wasn't in to.

After that, her image, message, and music drifted further and further away from what I initially liked her for. Other musicians could retain their sense of self both in image and sound while rolling with the times, but Madonna just seemed to completely implode and recreate something unrecognizable.

Anyway, I mourn the 1980s Madonna. Who she was, and her whole attitude and style and whatever music reflected that. Beyond that, she just seemed to be a try-hard with her attempts to shock with oversexualization. (It was the 90s. No one was shocked by then.) And by then, her dance music was too lack-lustre to be great to a young fan that liked her 80s years.

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ReggaeDawn@reddit

I never liked her music, still don't

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1questions@reddit

Same. I understand that sure cause a lot of controversy as an artist and travesty some of what she did, but I never really got into her music.

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niccia@reddit

Absolutely. It’s Madonna.

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Significant-Theme253@reddit

I always liked her music but was indifferent towards her personally. I think she's extremely talented. My husband and I saw her in concert last year in Minnesota. We were on the upper level, and it was 100 degrees. I went and talked to someone working at the concession stand, and she said Madonna kept telling them to turn the heat up as high as it would go. Anyway, it made a good concert awful. I like her a bit less...lol. a professional artist must have known the people up high would be miserable.

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goingdeeeep@reddit

Her 80s, 90s and early 00s works still hits for me.

Not that long ago I realized I was missing her and I added a bunch of her songs (like dozens upon dozens) to my main playlist. I haven’t regretted it.

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TurboLicious1855@reddit

I think Madonna deserves a lot more respect than I give her. I am crazy for her Ray of Light album, we were both going through our children's lives at the time, similarly. I think she's an icon. I also cannot stand her. I hate her stupid British accent and her collecting of clout children, but I'll never discount her ability to make the news.

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AtomicFall99@reddit

I do love her 80’s and 90’s catalog of music and still listen to those songs. I have not listened to or purchased anything by her since Ray of Light. She has always been controversial and slightly to very unlikable, but I still enjoy her music.

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Worldly_Possible2925@reddit

I never liked her. Ever. Some really catchy songs, all wrapped up in a horrible person.

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Retiredgiverofboners@reddit

Horrible person?

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Ginger630@reddit

She was amazing in the 80’s and 90’s. Now? Hell no.

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kittyshakedown@reddit

I lived Madonna in the 80s/90s and early 00s

My personal opinion, she seems a little more kooky than cool now.

I saw her on some documentary and she walked into a room where 3 of her kids were hanging out and she got all over them about them not putting their shoes up. It was bizarre.

It instantly made me think differently of her.

And plus I’m old and I just do not relate to her. I liked her more when she wore gummy bracelets.

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PlantMystic@reddit

¿Cómo puede ser verdad? Last night I dreamt of San Pedrooooo Just like I'd never gone I knew the sooooong....

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jigsaw153@reddit

80s-00s Madonna was iconic.

Modern Madonna needs to read the room and call it a day with dignity. Time to leave youthful pop music to youthful people.

It's been an amazing journey, time to plan the exit strategy and hand the reigns over.... Or evolve to reflect your aging demographic.

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Ethannicole2@reddit

Nope. I used to really like her, but I think she just looks ridiculous now. She’s trying too hard to be cool and relevant.

Cher is the ultimate aging diva badass in my opinion.

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BeaPositiveToo@reddit

Cher should retire.

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rjm72@reddit

Cher shoulda retired about 30 years ago!

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BeaPositiveToo@reddit

She was still crushing it a couple decades ago. But now it’s just… not good.

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rjm72@reddit

She was using auto tune back in the “Believe” days. She been done a lonnng while.

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BeaPositiveToo@reddit

Ahhh, I didn’t know. I saw her on SNL not too long ago— she can no longer sing or dance well. I was kind of embarrassed for her.

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rjm72@reddit

Yeah she even got caught lip-syncing her live shows in the 90s. Now she’s dating that rapper Tyga, who’s like her grandsons age.

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BeaPositiveToo@reddit

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GarionOrb@reddit

Cher is a goddess.

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orangeyouabanana@reddit

Yes of course for ever of course but when she went on tour a few years ago and made people wait hours for her to come on, I lost a lot of respect for her. That shit was wack.

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greg9x@reddit

Drunkenly bought tickets from a scalper ($300 tickets for $75) in Atlantic City one summer. She made the venue turn the A/C off so her dancers didn't get cold. It was like 115 degrees in there. Also was a new album so she kept playing newer stuff and the crowd wanted the classics. Alcohol still made it ok time, but would have been pissed if paid face value.

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inthecity206@reddit

She has a truly unbelievable catalogue spanning decades and genres, something very few artists have done. In my humble opinion, its solid all the way thru MDNA (ok, I admit I never liked American Life). Confessions was so good that I'll give the new record a spin

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vmflair@reddit

She is a god to gay men of a certain age. Ms. Ciccone is a hot mess in her personal life, but she is a music icon nonetheless.

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vmflair@reddit

She is a god to gay men of a certain age. Ms Ciccone is a bit of a hot mess in her personal life but a music icon nonetheless.

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Aromatic_Revolution4@reddit

Still?

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rifleman-11@reddit

62M. Love her music and always will but can’t stand the person

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HistoryPristine1029@reddit

I was never a fan, never liked her music, etc. Now she just seems sad.

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OkConsideration8964@reddit

I've never been a fan really. I didn't/don't dislike her & obviously she's a talented woman. I don't turn off the radio if she comes on but I don't own a single track of hers.

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Commisceo@reddit

Not since 1987

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xamott@reddit

It’s interesting and surprising actually. I still respect and love and listen to 80s pop as much as anyone you could imagine. More than any of my friends. For her I only still like La Isla Bonita, and that’s a very atypical song for her, it’s a genre song. But her other hits they sound surprisingly empty to me. While I still eat up PLENTY of what most ppl consider bubble gum pop from any year in the 80s. (81 wasn’t good. 80s hit their stride a couple years ago. I realized this when I recently listened to every song on the billboard 100 for every hear of the 80s, to add anything to my playlists that I’d forgotten about.)

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CanaryPutrid1334@reddit

I truly pitied her watching that halftime show.

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snarfled1@reddit

I never liked her music so there was no “still” for me. I liked her ok as sn actress in Desperately Seeking Susan. She’s pretty much been a non-factor in my life.

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EldestGenX@reddit

Never did, never will. She was masterful at marketing herself for sure. I like listening to people who can actually sing.

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit

I started not caring about anything she put out around the time that she did that godawful James Bond "Die Another Day" song, and I haven't had any interest in listening to anything she has done since her peak in the early '90s.

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SpaceAdventures3D@reddit

I really like the track, but Die Another Day should have had another vocalist. "Im going to destroy my ego." That's not at all Madonna. I like the lyrics, the production and the especially like the Dirty Vegas mix. Just wish someone else sang it.

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Habaneroe12@reddit

Same the only difference is she berated a handicapped fan because she did not stand up at her command. Seems sadly typical of someone so full of their success/ vain / out of e

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CatMom1960@reddit

She is an icon. You may not love her, or hate her, but her legacy is real.

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PoisonMind@reddit

I think I remember her more as a great dancer and showman than as a musician. She's not bad by any means, it's just not my favorite genre.

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SkinTeeth4800@reddit

I really did not like most of Madonna's early pop. I liked "Like a Prayer", though -- It's got a good melody.

Sonic Youth, as Ciccone Youth, recorded The Whitey Album between 1986-1988. I thought they were making fun of Madonna Ciccone (and I approved & thought the music was good on the album).

However, some critics and music historians assert that No Wave uber-hepcats Sonic Youth were not 100% ironic & mocking, that they were at least partially rooting for this girl who scrabbled for artistic success in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the same NYC milieu they came up in. She was in a relationship with Jean-Michel Basquiat during part of that time.

I unequivocally like "Express Yourself". I like that period of Madonna as a culture synthesizer. The cutting edge postmodern professors at my college were super into her in the late 1980s. The academic field of "Madonna Studies" arose during that time.

The next years were mulchy for me.

But I really liked the album she did with William Orbit in 1998, Ray of Light -- it seemed like a Madonna album for people who didn't like other Madonna albums (like me).

I enjoyed the 2005 song that sampled ABBA, and was amused when Gorillaz played on a screen before one of her live performances.

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SpaceAdventures3D@reddit

I really liked the single Ray of Light including the remixes. It got me into William Orbit's music.

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NepaliCulkin@reddit

I will always love M

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ProBuyer810-3345045@reddit

From what I remember, nobody was bigger in the 80s than Madonna and Michael Jackson, everybody has their time!

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Far-Squash7512@reddit

Never a fan of her. I just liked a few songs (La Isla Bonita, Live to Tell, and now True Blue since I'm marrying my best friend).

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WasASailorThen@reddit

Can’t stand Madonna. Never could. Material Girl was a decent novelty song and that’s it.

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GarionOrb@reddit

She's come so much further since Material Girl.

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EveryExplanation8084@reddit

I liked her first album and thought she was unique at the time. She was such a huge influence on style.

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Marcysdad@reddit

Not after what she did to Weird Al.

I can't forgive her.

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FoleyV@reddit

80’s & 90’s work yes! Beyond that, it’s hit or miss.

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pedsmursekc@reddit

80s and 90s only, but mostly 90s.

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HalfaEnchilada@reddit

I was a Madonna fan, she dominated the radio but I was OBSESSED with Annie Lennox.

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syzygialchaos@reddit

I’m more a fan of her 90s work tbh. More polished.

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wwhijr@reddit

Never did

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jtrades69@reddit

i still like her 80s stuff. holiday, la ilsa bonita. i don't know where my cutoff is. true blue?

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weelassie07@reddit

No. I didn’t love her 80s stuff. Liked it ok.

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SomeCar@reddit

Couldn't stand her then, still can't.

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pacifistpotatoes@reddit

Nope. But to be honest she never did it for me .I always felt she was...fake? Idk. She never seemed like a GOOD artist to me Like she was scrambling to be

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MaximumJones@reddit

Her new stuff doesn't really inspire me.

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unobitchesbetripping@reddit

It's not how she is now. It's how she has always been. It's who she is. People are just pissed that she is old and doesn't act like it.

I love all her stuff. She is an amazing woman!

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GelatinousGoober@reddit

You’re making a big assumption about how much we liked Madonna

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Buttercreamdeath@reddit

Yes. Absolutely. Little me was obsessed with her idgaf attitude.

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Reader47b@reddit

I never cared for her, but feel like my tastes have broadened enough that I might now. Perhaps I will go have a listen again.

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WhisperedSoul@reddit

25 years ago I was asked who I would want to have dinner with and I said Madonna. Not because I love her as a person or adored her music. I liked her music. I think her plastic surgery has gotten entirely out of hand in the last 10-15 years.

But what made me choose her was how she kept reinventing herself. She didn’t stay the same or rest on her laurels. I admired that. Still do. It’s a lesson for us. For me, anyway.

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HobieSlabwater@reddit

This is a really good point.❤️

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Adorable-Strategy767@reddit

I will forever be a Madonna fan.

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stormer1_1@reddit

Yes. Yes I do. She's made her (rather large) mistakes but has more than earned her legend status. And her ballads are criminally underrated.

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wisemonkey101@reddit

I was never a fan. She’s mid at best.

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monkey_monkey_monkey@reddit

I like a couple of her OG songs, they bring me back to a great time in my life but I was never a huge fan. La Isla Bonita will always make me stop and smile

These days, I find her a little cringy. She's gone way overboard on the plastic surgery and seems to be trying way to hard to be cool/relevant.

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The-0mega-Man@reddit

I hate the way she keeps on re-recording her old catalog just a little more techno. It sounds like crap. There must be a money reason for it. She never passes up a profit.

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Limo_Wreck77@reddit

Absolutely I do.

I grew up with Madonna. Shes my Queen and always will be.

She's an icon in the truest sense of the word.

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shesin_the_attic@reddit

Madonna is an icon and will only be truly appreciated when she is gone.

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MelissaMF416@reddit

HELL YES. Saw her twice on her last tour and she’s still amazing.

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AnnieFlagstaff@reddit

How many hours late did that show start?

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MelissaMF416@reddit

Zero

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Elegant-Expert7575@reddit

Never liked Madonna. I think I was the only one in the world that thought she was over played, over hyped, and over sexed. She got monotonous very quickly.

After her sexually assaulting Brittany Spears on stage, then sexually assaulting a 17 year fan (in Australia, I think) she is non grata.

Her phase where she looked like Marilyn Manson prompted me to block her on my playlist.
Unfortunately she still sneaks through on social media.

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Genn8130@reddit

Her music? Of course! I don't know enough about 'how she is now' to say anything about that, but I do still love her music, yes.

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Different-Bag-8217@reddit

Never really liked her in the first place. I just didn’t see it? Sure she was groundbreaking and all that. Definitely beautiful in the 80-90’s. I just was in a ska alternative music faze back then. I think it was the first chilli pepper album that change me from mainstream music.

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Bucks2174@reddit

What made you think I liked her back then?

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DominusGenX@reddit

Always loved her...everything past Ray of Light (her last great album) I haven't been much been a fan of, she still creates club/disco tracks which she has a loyal fan base and still relevant for the LGBTQ fans old a new.

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Skeptical_Detroiter@reddit

I was never a fan of Madonna, but I like some of her early to mid-80s songs (Bordeline, Holiday, Get into the Groove, Crazy for You). I was in junior high at the time.

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mysterioso77@reddit

I never liked her even in the 80’s.

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BeaPositiveToo@reddit

I don’t like her as a person. But I enjoyed her music back in the day and can’t deny that she is extremely talented.

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Express_Towel47@reddit

She’s a bit of a narcissist. But she ruled in the early 80s musically.

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Twizt1Up@reddit

Respecting Madonna and liking Madonna are two very different positions

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BeaPositiveToo@reddit

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NeiClaw@reddit

As a Gen X gay, yes absolutely. I’ve seen her dozens of times in concert and a he has arguably the best singles discography in pop music given how long she’s been around. That said, I think decades of celebrity caught up to her so the last decade or so has been kind of strange. That kind of intense 80s fame killed off most of her contemporaries (Michael, Prince, Whitney, George). So even if she’s a been a bit wacky in recent years I’m glad she’s still around and making music. Looking forward to to her new album.

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anillop@reddit

As a fellow Gen X, I can’t believe you actually left “Weird Al” Yankovic off of that list. That man is a treasure and deserves the recognition for his long career that he has earned.

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Top-Scarcity5937@reddit

To me it was just pop radio music until Peter Rauhofer, Junior Vasquez, Victor Calderone, etc. put their magic on it.

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furniguru@reddit

I wasn’t much of a Madonna fan in the 80s, but I’ve come to respect how huge of an impact she made socially at that time. Almost every girl in my high school dressed like her. Her music was everywhere. And her influence was immense.

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NeiClaw@reddit

Yeah I remember hearing Material Girl at the damn roller skating rink in 1985 and could not get that song out of my head. And here we are 41 years later. Lol

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l00ky_here@reddit

I never liked Madonna. I like some of her music, but the person? Not so much. Especially now.

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PuffDragon66@reddit

Never liked her and never liked her music but I do have to say that “Like a Prayer” didn’t make me run to turn the music off.

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Chiccheshirechick@reddit

Yes - love her !

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Mouse-Direct@reddit

I adore her music. She’s said some really out of touch stuff in the past few years, but she’s 67, so.

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erilaz7@reddit

About a month ago I bought nice $1 used copies of her first two LPs, even though I already have both of those albums on CD. The image on my turntable mat is also Madonna.

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impresently@reddit

Never really liked her work.. Respected her, but didn’t like her. Then I listened to the Ray of Light album. It’s totally not my type of music but I really like that album for some reason.

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Rory-liz-bath@reddit

Like everything up to like a Prayer, after that I couldn’t connect

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Familiar-Pianist-682@reddit

Madonna, to me, is an icon. Most likely because I love/ed to dance as a teen, and most of her early music is great for that. Now, as an adult, I can see (hear😉) that she’s not a technically gifted singer (please-no one come after me-I knew little about singing as a teen, and not much more at 57). But what a career she has made for herself. Sadly, no one seems to want her to keep being her former persona at her age. I say she should do whatever she wants. Glad to see younger people listening to her early work.👏🏻👏🏻🫶🏻

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LightFlaky2329@reddit

She once said she doesn’t think she has a great voice, she just has a lot to say. ☺️

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StrangerStrangeland1@reddit

Holiday and Lucky Star will always move my ass.

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tommyalanson@reddit

She’s great- looks weird lately, though.

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Express_Towel47@reddit

Still listen to her first three albums, nothing afterwards. A man can tell a thousand lies I’ve learned my lesson well hope I live to tell….

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tkingsbu@reddit

Was never a massive fan of hers…

But..

There’s a few tracks over the years that are just undeniably 100% pure pop magic…

Like a prayer is a good example.

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Cool_Lingonberry_399@reddit

Her earliest recordings(read: before the 1990s) were great.

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Beautiful_Diver4180@reddit

I don’t like her. She was all the rage in the 80s during my HS years. I would turn the channel if one of her songs came on now. Perhaps oversaturated? Perhaps the lack of a band with great guitar or drums etc made her music not last the test of time I don’t know

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StOnEy333@reddit

Yup. She was a goddess of my youth. She’ll always do it for me.

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Sreed56ace71605@reddit

I have a Madonna tattoo. She’s been my favorite since I was 7 years old (48)I love her way more than a straight man should…

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MaximumJones@reddit

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Claque-2@reddit

Of course I like some of Madonna's music and songs. It represents the best pop, tech and production of its time.

I do not appreciate the persona of Madonna the way some drag queens do.

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Flat_6_Theory@reddit

I like some of her stuff. Haven’t really paid attention to her outside of the music.

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ConcertinaTerpsichor@reddit

I thought she was brilliant in the 80s and I WAS REALLY LOOKING FORWARD to her songs evolving and changing as she went through parenthood and aging and the death of her parents, etc. I thought she’d have some really interesting and provocative takes on what it means to be a slightly older woman still living in a man’s world.

Guess I feel disappointed.

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Kitchen-Homework-816@reddit

The last time I liked Modonna was 1991 which was the En Vougue album. She just became a completely different artist and got kinda weird.

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GarionOrb@reddit

"Vogue" came out in 1990. There was no album called EnVogue (that was a 90s girl group). The album with "Vogue" is called I'm Breathless.

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Kitchen-Homework-816@reddit

Whatever. I was at grad night Disney land in 1991 when the Madonna movie came out. That's the last time I felt any love for Madonna. Also En Vougue actually performed that year at Disneyland for Grad night so maybe I connected the two. Since you are so into actual specifics you can look it up.

I think most people understood and since I haven't bothered to care about Madonna in over 30 yrs it makes sense that I didn't get the details correct. This post is about whether or not I like Madonna so I guess it's clear where I fall on the subject lol.

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Aggressive_Power_471@reddit

80s Madonna was my favorite. La Isla Bonita has always been my favorite song but I also love her Debut album. True Blue as well. Yeah Like a Prayer was pretty good but the rest of the 90s was not really as good so I say 80s.

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dakotarework@reddit

Musically her last significant album in my opinion was Confessions on a Dancefloor in 2005. It’s been downhill since.

Personally, she’s always had an abrasive and grating personality. So while I liked the music and respect her impact on the industry and culture, I e never cared for her as a person. Her antics now just confirm it all.

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IcedBlueberryLemon@reddit

Never liked her as a personality and found her voice to be mediocre, but respected the marketing. That said, I was a club DJ and "Express Yourself" was a guaranteed floor filler! I'll always love that song.

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Available-Bison-9222@reddit

Like a,Prayer is,still one of tge best pop songs. She's amazing and iconic. A trailblazer for so many female artists.

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Crushing_Your_Head@reddit

I heard a pop punk version on the radio the other day that gave me chills.

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Available-Bison-9222@reddit

Ooooo. I shall be googling.

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Crushing_Your_Head@reddit

I heard it on the local college station. Didn’t hear a band name. That song like ass no later whom or how it’s sung.

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Sad-Masterpiece-9709@reddit

Wasn’t much of a fan then, still not. But I do acknowledge how successful she was in the 80s.

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1Fully1@reddit

I still love her peak era, but now she needs to age more gracefully. All that filler in her face just looks horrible. It’s ok to wear more clothes when you reach a certain age too.

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Expert_Habit9520@reddit

I like some of the “lesser” ‘80s and early ‘90s hits like “Angel”, “Rescue Me”, and “Deeper and Deeper”.

Some of the really big ones such as “Like A Virgin”, “Into The Groove”, “Vogue”, “Like A Prayer”, I think they’ve been so overplayed that while I respect them I won’t go out of my way to listen to them.

I do still like “Justify My Love” and “This Used To Be My Playground” when I hear them.

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United-Ad7863@reddit

I love her music up to "Confessions on the dance floor". After that? Not so much.

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Cute_Repeat3879@reddit

Madonna made lots of good music in the 1980s and 1990s

She is not a nice person and never has been

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TXtogo@reddit

No she made my wife wait for two hours at a concert, who the fk does she think she is that she can disrespect my wife’s time like that. Apparently she’s always late, I don’t like how disrespectful that is to people.

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Green_Ad_276@reddit

I have been a fan of hers most of my life. However, after confessions (20 years ago), it seems like she’s out of touch with her fans. It appears she doesn’t care about us anymore.

Granted she got very ill working her ass off to get in shape for her last tour, but it seems like she is more about stroking her own ego than entertaining us. She shows up late to shows, she does weird things on social, she misattributes illnesses to people (Luther Vandross)…it’s like she doesn’t care about anyone but herself, let alone those of us who have loved her for so long.

I appreciate everything she has done for the LGTBIA community. She was and still is a fierce advocate. But I wish she would remember how much we pay to see her and how valuable everyone’s time is.

Time is as much of a non-renewable resource for her as it is for us.

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GarionOrb@reddit

Absolutely love her. Still a huge fan since 1992. Her new album comes out in July and the new song is fire!

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DeviceElegant4959@reddit

She opened the door for female artists to become far more creative and non apologetic and push stereotypical fem boundaries

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duseless@reddit

La isla bonita is still a hit whenever I put it on the juke box at the local dive bar. Well, maybe for me, but no one bats an eye. So yes, I do; even some of her newer stuff. - Signed, 52 year old thrash metal punk dude

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Braincloud@reddit

I love earliest Madonna most. Her breakthrough up through Desperately Seeking Susan movie. Her sound, look, and moves are super evocative of the early/mid 80s to me. I do like diff aspects of her later years after that, but nothing sounds like her early stuff to me, and that resonates the most.

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Black_Pill_Oh@reddit

Loved her then, still like her now.

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Kimber80@reddit

Sure. I will always like her 80s music.

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BaldBombshell@reddit

I like her 80s stuff. Like a Prayer was her best album, IMO.

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atlgrrl@reddit

Sure. I enjoy her music even if I think she’s lost the plot just a bit. I really enjoyed Rebel Heart (2015) and thought it was her best work since Ray of Light (98).

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Erdnussfarmer@reddit

For me this was a bit of a shock back then. Suddenly a new global pop phenomenon emerges, but she can't sing?

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Substantial_Layer_79@reddit

Never did.

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AlwaysSeeking1210@reddit

Same.

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TheGirlwThePinkHair@reddit

Love her! Saw her one in concert, Rebel Heart tour. My friend saw the Vogue tour when she was like 10!

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Wraisted@reddit

After seeing Deadpool and Wolverine, omfg so much yes

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Pleasant_Garlic8088@reddit

I never really did. But I respect her impact and influence.

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Powerful_Geologist95@reddit

Gonna ALWAYS love: Into The Groove, Borderline, Sidewalk Talk, Like A Prayer, Vogue and Holiday.

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Pineydude@reddit

Never did. Graduated 87’. Couldn’t stand pop music then , can’t stand it now. Didn’t like a lot of music that was current in the 80’s, I like most 80’s music even less now.

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PutAdministrative206@reddit

Big fan. Like enough of her new stuff, but almost nothing could make me dislike her old stuff.

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PlaxicoCN@reddit

I still like her music up to Ray of Light.

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Cbewgolf@reddit

If one of her songs comes on Sirius I will listen but I don’t have her saved to any of my lists.

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helbonikster@reddit

80’s era Madonna is peak. I will never not love it

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Uranus_Hz@reddit

Still?

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Kitchen-Zebra-4402@reddit

Ray of Light mainly for William Orbit’s sublime production.

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Jwheat71@reddit

I like the song "Ray of Light."

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Beautiful_Coat_9294@reddit

Yes I saw her in concert two years ago and she was amazing

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joelav@reddit

I don’t like her. I like her old music.

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Plenty-Run-9575@reddit

I can still appreciate her 80’s/90’s work and she was iconic, but I admit to judging how she has been unable to accept aging and just seems weird and washed up now.

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CarPassion514@reddit

The best ever the queen the legend. Her 80s hit list is unreal still to this day absolutely timeless.

Too many to list! True Blue, Cherish, Material Girl and my favourite “Who’s that girl”

Her 90s songs hit hard too and are also legendary but 80s Madonna is up there with the Beatles, Hendrix, Mozart etc

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Joyous-Volume-67@reddit

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eggert83@reddit (OP)

Not even her 80s work?

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