Madonna - 59 years: the secret of success of the Queen of the pop scene
'16.08.2017'
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Outrageous, stunning, sexy, unpredictable, charming - it's all about her, about the queen of the pop scene Madonna Louise Veronica Chicone.
Future star grew up in a poor family in Bay City, Michigan, and was the third child of six. From 5, she grew up without a mother who died of oncology after the birth of her sixth baby.
Two years after the death of his wife, Madonna’s father Silvio Anthony Ciccone married the maid Joan Gustafson. Stepmother raised children in a Protestant spirit of total savings. Hand-made semi-finished products and clothing.
In childhood and adolescence Madonna was subjected to constant abuse of older brothers, drug addicts.
“I was treated cruelly, but I did not allow my feet to be wiped on me and only emphasized my foreignness,” recalls Madonna.
All these elements that make up the future singer's childhood have left their mark on the work of Madonna, on her images and perception of the world around her. The rejection of the fact that God allowed such an early death of her mother, drugs in the family, a stepmother with very strict and harsh views.
Before 15, Madonna studied perfectly, was modest in her actions and appearance, for which her peers did not like her and were considered “a girl with greetings”.
But all her life she dreamed of shining on the stage: at school she attended a ballet studio and played in a drama club, and then entered the faculty of ballet training at the University of Michigan.
However, she soon decided that the practice was more important than learning, and went to New York. The ballet teacher persuaded the girl to build a career as a dancer, and Madonna left the university.
There she barely made ends meet, lived in poverty, worked in Dunkin 'Donuts and sold donuts.
“When I arrived in New York, everything was for the first time: when I flew on an airplane and even called a taxi, - everything was for the first time. And I came with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was my most courageous act in life. "
In New York, Madonna managed to survive the sexual abuse, loneliness and the first steps of her dizzying career.
In 1979, along with Dan Gilroy, pop diva created her first rock band called Breakfast Club. Madonna played drums and guitar, and also sang.
After that, in 1982, the girl created a group Emmy with drummer and former lover Stephen Bray. The creative tandem wrote and produced dance songs that were quite popular in New York nightclubs.
Madonna's demo tapes impressed DJ and producer Mark Kamins so much that he introduced the rising star to the founder. Sire Records By seymour stein
For the next year, Madonna recorded dance demo tapes with the help of Gotem Productions and distributed them. However, the cooperation with the company was short-lived, Madonna decided to start all over again.
In July, 1983, the debut album released Madonna. At first, it remains unnoticed, but within a year it reaches the 8-th place in the chart Billboard 200 and 6-th place of the British charts. Critics then prophesied a rising sunset for a rising star.
Second album Like a Virgin coming out in 1984 year. Criticism takes the disc cool: "Tolerance, nothing more."
In 1984, Madonna performs Like a Virgin at the first MTV awards ceremony Video Music Awards and, having lost a heel, he gets out of the situation as follows - he begins to lie on the stage and crawl on his knees in a wedding dress and become a cult belt with the inscription BOY TOY. This performance is shocking to the American television audience, and the song becomes one of the main wedding hits for many years.
In the summer of 1985, on her own birthday, Madonna marries actor Sean Penn. Marriage is accompanied by the invasion of journalists by helicopters during the utterance of marriage vows and the shooting of helicopters from a revolver performed by a drunken fiancé. In his diary, Andy Warhol, the wedding guest, describes this day as “the most exciting in life.”
In 1988, Madonna filed for divorce from Penn due to numerous beatings. In parallel, the singer writes the third and fourth album, which becomes a turning point in her career.
All her performances, videos, promo are accompanied by shocking scandals. The images of the singer on stage are shocking to the public. And the public does not have time to get used to her new hairstyle or style, as Madonna makes a new turn and completely changes the image.
“My show is a theatrical play inviting the audience on an emotional journey ... I’m not imposing my own ideas on how to live, I’m just describing my understanding of life to the audience, and let them evaluate everything themselves."
Music video Justify my love released in 1990 year, prohibit to be shown on television due to the presence of erotic scenes.
In 1992, Madonna establishes her own entertainment company - Maverickjoint venture with Time Warner. The deal provides for the singer's record royalties on a par with Michael Jackson.
In the same year, a photo album Sex. Sex contains the illustrated sexual fantasies of Madonna's alter-ego — a kind of “Mrs. Dita” talking to a psychoanalyst.
The book is framed in a metal cover and looks like an art object and - supposedly - like a manifesto. The press is organizing a multi-page funeral of Madonna's career, believing that she has gone too far.
Sex 1,5 sold millions of copies only in America and causes a flurry of negative reaction in the media and intimidated by AIDS society.
BOOK Sex touches upon the themes of masturbation and draws a clear parallel between sadomasochism, religious self-flagellation, and also contains an ironic attitude to taboo.
Even minorities turn out to be insulted: lesbians thought that the singer scoffs at their movement, depicting one of them, and called her “sex tourist.”
The topic of sex comes through almost everything Madonna has been doing since the beginning of her career. Her candid outfits, behavior in public, shows during concert tours. In the end, it became her trademark recognizable style.
All her outfits, no matter where the pop diva has gathered, on tour or for a regular dinner with friends, are a mixture of scandal and the latest fashion. Madonna combined the incompatible - strict blouses with short shorts, hippie jackets with strict trousers.
After each regular antics, critics were taken to say that such behavior is the limit, and society will not accept such. But the singer stubbornly went on, winning new awards, the love of the public and crowds of fans.
The main reason for the criticism was the transition of the singer’s stage image from the playful image of 80 to the side of defiant 1990 — 1994 sexuality. As a result of the diversity and polarity of evaluations of the singer’s society in universities in Europe and the USA, the so-called “Madonna phenomenon” began to be studied at the workshop on women in art as well as in the context of postmodernism, feminism and later modernism.
Looking at Madonna and her entire 59-year life, it seems that she is surrounded by some special dome that protects her from any attacks. No matter how tragic events occurred in her life, no matter what words the press and critics awarded her, this strong, resilient woman stubbornly goes on.
Her thirst for life and inexhaustible fantasy is what amazes anyone who is at least a little familiar with the work and life of Madonna. And these two factors are the secret of her youth and beauty.
On her 59 birthday, the singer gave an unusual performance for her close friends.
Fragments of the festive show star shared in her Instagram.
In one of the commercials, the birthday girl in a top hat and dress dances to a percussion battle. The video is fascinating.
It is easy to imagine that Madonna herself felt during the dance, because such rhythms help to enter into a trance state.
“Because life is a dance. And we are celebrating life, ”Madonna wrote in the comments.
