American Life

American Life

“The twenty years between her scrappy, minimalist disco self-titled debut and this release, her ninth studio album, is an eternity as far as pop singers go. You didn’t exactly see Paula Abdul, Cyndi Lauper, or Taylor Dayne maintaining the same amount of chart presence, if not outright dominance. Madonna (and Madonna) was derided as a wispy flash-in-the-pan. How wrong the critics were and continued to be as every successive release spelled the proverbial end of her career. That last point amped up with the release of Erotica and all the ruckus surrounding it, including companion releases Sex, a limited-edition book, and Body of Evidence, another one of her questionable forays into acting.   By the time 2003 rolled around, proclaiming Madonna’s career over was as inevitable a piece of ” read more