Madonna’s recent performance at Coachella highlighted the profound difference between Gen Z audiences and those who went before them. As her new single transports writer Jamie O’Connell back to his clubbing days, he wishes them the same freedon and bliss
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Petit, hardly five-foot-four, she danced, her head whipping from side to side, her loose blonde waves flipping around, her oversized fur coat falling from her shoulders, revealing pale purple lace and silk corsetry.
Pounding the floor of the festival, she punched to the beat; jumping, electric, wild, bringing something ritualistic, reviving the fading spirit of the world of nightclubs. This was Madonna at Coachella last month, a reminder of a wondrous freedom I worry we are at collective risk of losing.