Word: madonna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Question: how is the Harvard field hockey team like Madonna...
...want to let her labor the point that George Bush (she always refers to him in the third person) had once worked in the private sector, unlike a certain President from Arkansas. Letterman said, "I think she's pretty steamed at me." Who would have thought Barbara Bush and Madonna would ever have something in common...
...album was shaped by top-flight producers, including Babyface (who's worked with Toni Braxton and Madonna) and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (the masterminds of Janet Jackson's rise to megastardom). Every song on II is about love and is performed at mid-tempo; the whole enterprise could easily have become just another bland-as-the-Weather-Channel collection of precision- crafted pop songs. It didn't. Each of the Boyz has a robust, nimble voice -- "There's not a weak link in the bunch," says Jam -- and the group turns almost every song on II into a vocal...
...nuclear family. And where have women fit in? Often as the girlfriends about whom misogynistic lyrics could be written. Women have sung in girl groups (usually packaged by a male Svengali); they have served as the comely, tambourine-rapping vocalists in otherwise all-male bands; or, like Madonna, they have achieved success as sexy solo divas. But for most of rock's history, women have never been full, chord-crunching, songwriting partners with men in real rock groups. The guys form the Rolling Stones or Guns N' Roses and sing Under My Thumb and Back Off Bitch; the women become...
Indigo Girls aren't made-for-video babes. They are not about belly buttons or cleavage or appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman chewing cigars and swearing to get attention, as Madonna did in April. Although their CDs have sold consistently well -- their self-titled debut album went platinum -- both Girls harbor acid feelings about the image-conscious video age. "MTV has hurt music in one sense because people now judge a song by more than just the song," says Ray. But, she concedes, "in the sense of having another art form around -- video -- MTV is probably...