Occasional Observations

She might be an old dame in the eternally young world of pop music, she might attract vicious comments from the critics, but I?m going to stand up and be counted: I still like (most) Madonna albums. OK, she hit the usual mid-life crisis rut but she's back, and Confessions on A Dancefloor is right up there at number four in my top 10.

Come ON, ABBA purists. Get over it. You can still listen to the original song that spawned yet another Madonna number one. The boys and girls at ABBA got some nice airplay and song-writing royalties, too.

And come on, you naysayers. So what if she's pushing 50? If she wasn?t mutton dressed as lamb, you'd rip into her for being an old dame. What's Madge supposed to do, dress like Shirley Bassey from her 49^th birthday?

And, let?s be honest - until the close-ups of her face, I couldn't believe how fit Madonna was looking. I fancied her in 1982, when I bought Borderline, then The First Album when it was still called Madonna - and Like A Virgin was, at the time, a landmark album for a teenager like me.

Ultimately with regard to Madonna albums, I don't really care who writes the songs, who composes or arranges them, as long as the end product sounds good. It's bubble-gum pop music and I like it that way. Talking of which ?

Labels: mp3, music, top10s

# posted by Nesjo : 22:07