Don't You Want Me is a great song, and I would have voted for it against most of the others here, but certainly not against Madonna's finest moment.
It's the song where everything I love about Madonan came together perfectly - it's a brilliant, euphoric, uplifting pop song for a start, tackling the classic Madonna theme of religion & sex, but the whole package was great too (and surely of all popstars, with Madonna you have to look at the whole package) - controversial video, a great look, and it came at the time where she'd grown up enough as an artist to be more interesting but not so much that she'd started to take herself too seriously, as happened later on. It totally deserves to go through.
WOAH I did not realise M was getting screwed by so much! I'm shocked. I agree with every word anyway, and it's not even my favourite Madge song. I like 'Don't You Want Me' but it has nothing to compare to the sheer euphoric rush of "LET THE CHOIR SING..."
Part of it for me is that the "classic Madonna theme of religion and sex" is a bit BORING - at least when expressly addressed. Never been religious, let alone Catholic - why do I care?
In this case it's an excellent pop song despite the theme though - but not as great as her earlier stuff (I really don't agree that she's "more interesting" in the Like A Prayer era than before: she's more self-consciously autobiographical but the interestingness is there from the beginning)
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I can't believe Madonna is getting shafted here
Date: 2007-02-15 01:05 pm (UTC)It's the song where everything I love about Madonan came together perfectly - it's a brilliant, euphoric, uplifting pop song for a start, tackling the classic Madonna theme of religion & sex, but the whole package was great too (and surely of all popstars, with Madonna you have to look at the whole package) - controversial video, a great look, and it came at the time where she'd grown up enough as an artist to be more interesting but not so much that she'd started to take herself too seriously, as happened later on. It totally deserves to go through.
Re: I can't believe Madonna is getting shafted here
Date: 2007-02-15 01:13 pm (UTC)Re: I can't believe Madonna is getting shafted here
Date: 2007-02-15 01:20 pm (UTC)In this case it's an excellent pop song despite the theme though - but not as great as her earlier stuff (I really don't agree that she's "more interesting" in the Like A Prayer era than before: she's more self-consciously autobiographical but the interestingness is there from the beginning)
Re: I can't believe Madonna is getting shafted here
Date: 2007-02-15 01:58 pm (UTC)