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(Credits: Far Out \/ Cher \/ Warner Records)<\/p>\n
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Whenever an artist has broken the mould, they\u2019ve often broken a few noses along with it, because a natural byproduct of evolution is generally shock and awe. <\/p>\n
Be it Elvis\u2019 knee wobbling, making parents all over clutch their pearls, or Madonna<\/a>\u2018s 1990 Blond Ambition tour, which was so sexually charged that even the pope had to get involved. It\u2019s only now, with hindsight, that both of those artists and their methodology are heralded as groundbreaking. <\/p>\n Madonna\u2019s career has been particularly perennially at the edge. It\u2019s no coincidence that for the best part of four decades, she was one of the most talked about musicians in the world, constantly evolving with the times to mould her artistry and remain relevant. <\/p>\n It was, however, at the turn of the 1980s into the 1990s, where she was perhaps at her most innovatively controversial, thrusting pop music into the sort of sexual realms we\u2019re now accustomed to. Once again, it was almost as though she had a window to the future, understanding how sexual liberation would translate to pop music, but at the time, it was deemed classless and deeply offensive to the actual music. It was a tour that made the headlines, attracted criticism from the entertainment elite, and so anaesthetised Madonna to the sort of high-profile feuds she would be regularly subjected to. <\/p>\n Musical icon Joni Mitchell decided to drag the singer\u2019s name<\/a> through the mud and use it as a reference point for a larger comment. Arguing that the introduction of video and visual performance has dampened the purity of music, she used Madonna as a rather shocking example: \u201cSomeone like Madonna can be seen as a feminist hero because she\u2019s exploiting her own sexuality rather than being exploited by some man. That\u2019s an interesting idea, but what\u2019s the difference between her and a hard hooker, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n Quite the interesting take from Mitchell and one that would have undoubtedly stung the pop icon. But it was one of many stray bullets she had to defend, for Mitchell joined the likes of Elton John and Michael Jackson as members of the Madonna critique club. But a more shocking name to join the ranks, given her own penchant for esoteric creativity, was Cher<\/a>.<\/p>\n Despite having her own acute sense of what it takes to become an adaptable cultural icon, Cher was quick to label Madonna as merely talentless, saying, \u201cShe\u2019s unbelievably creative because she\u2019s not unbelievably talented, she\u2019s not beautiful, but she\u2019s rude.\u201d <\/p>\n Adding, \u201cSo this man said, \u2018How do you feel about her?\u2019 and I said, \u2018She\u2019s nice, she\u2019s creative, but she\u2019s rude.\u2019 I said a different word, but they bleeped me.\u201d<\/p>\n In comparison to some of the criticism thrown Madonna\u2019s way, being labelled rude and untalented is fairly tame. But as time has gone on, all that goddamn tension between the two musicians has somewhat dissipated, with a renewed sense of appreciation for their individual work overruling any animosity. In fact, in 2023, Cher finally conceded what so many have thought about Madonna, saying, \u201cThere\u2019s no one like her that had their ear to the ground and knew everything before anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Cher \/ Warner Records) Tue 30 September 2025 17:30, UK Whenever an artist has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1804,96,10868,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-178168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-cher","tag-entertainment","tag-madonna","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}