Making Up Madonna: A Taxonomy of the Pop Star's Personas – Vulture

Madonna is a pop star who has constantly reinvented herself throughout her career. From her early days as a provocative Material Girl to her more recent ventures as a motherly figure, Madonna has always

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Madonna canonized the concept of eras long before the internet made it a pop cliché. “I don’t want to just keep doing the same thing and saying the same thing,” she told MTV’s Kurt Loder in 1991. As inspired by classic Hollywood glamor as she was by pop’s pioneers, she turned shapeshifting into a business model, and…

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