{"id":515859,"date":"2026-06-24T09:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515859\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:37:13","slug":"mel-ottenbergs-definitive-madonna-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515859\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Ottenberg&#8217;s Definitive Madonna Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-268682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mel5-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Madonna smoking a cigarette in a white pantsuit with the words &quot;INSIDE OF ME: Mel's Madonna Playlist&quot; over it.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview\u2019s destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. In recent weeks, we\u2019ve featured playlists from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/music\/petra-collins-drops-the-soundtrack-to-her-new-book-star\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Petra Collins<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/music\/i-never-kiss-and-tell-maria-isabel-made-us-a-spicy-playlist\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mar\u00eda Isabel<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/music\/zack-fox-made-us-a-playlist\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zack Fox<\/a>. This week, our inimitable Editor-in-Chief Mel Ottenberg grabbed the aux to give our readers a long overdue education in the ABCs of Madonna. In honor of the magazine\u2019s tenth cover featuring the Material Girl, Mel painstakingly curated almost five hours of essential Madonna listening, spanning the singer\u2019s legendary four-decade-plus career. The playlist features both #1 hits you\u2019re sure to recognize and deeper cuts that are about to become your new heavy-rotation faves. By the time you\u2019re done listening to the whole thing, who knows, your Queen of Pop standom might even come close to rivaling Mel\u2019s own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview\u2019s destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. In recent weeks,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,664,278,220181,220182],"class_list":["post-515859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-madonna","tag-music","tag-sound-advice","tag-summer-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515859","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=515859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}