{"id":436553,"date":"2026-05-07T08:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436553\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:23:09","slug":"jamie-oconnell-from-coachella-to-my-kitchen-madonnas-i-feel-so-free-unlocked-a-lost-part-of-my-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436553\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie O\u2019Connell: From Coachella to my kitchen,\u00a0Madonna\u2019s &#8216;I Feel so Free&#8217; unlocked a lost part of my youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Madonna\u2019s 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\u2019Connell back to his clubbing days, he wishes them the same freedon and bliss\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Madonna's new track 'I Feel So Free' is nostalgic and euphoric\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/45e83939-8d24-4e32-bd90-a7d60af7409d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Madonna&#8217;s new track &#8216;I Feel So Free&#8217; is nostalgic and euphoric<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madonna\u2019s recent performance at Coachella highlighted the profound difference between Gen Z audiences and those who went before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,664,278],"class_list":["post-436553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-madonna","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}