I really like Madonna's songs after the trashy '80s ones. I find them well-crafted, and she used very skilled people both in the studio, in the mixing, and in the sampling. For this one, she asked ABBA for permission. ABBA only gives copyright permission to very few artists, maybe two or three! ABBA, who had great success especially in the UK and around the world, but not to my liking or interest. Perhaps only after 1980, post-Bob Marley, did non-Italian music really take off, with the exception of metal and heavy metal, which gained enormous recognition, including the music of Pink Floyd, Genesis, and the phenomenal Led Zeppelin and the pre-Led Zeppelin YardBirds, supergroups that I find unique ever, even noticed by Michelangelo Antonioni before they formed. And in blow-up, I think Madonna's initial sample was of "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme."
I really like how Madonna, the star, handled the years of her musical maturity.
She sold around 9 million copies, for what that's worth in the digital age. Now things will be even different. In Italy, it's rare for a non-Italian artist to have such a wide reach. Not many groups managed it, and rarely did singers, except for a few excellent stars.
Madonna's uniqueness is that, despite not possessing anything but subpar vocal qualities, she manages to create iconic songs with great intelligence and intuition. And iconic images: we'd have to go back to Marilyn Monroe to find evidence of this. There were tens of thousands of photos of her; I've seen maybe a few thousand. Madonna's use of post-trash imagery is, I'd say, perfect. I think she ranks fifth overall in sales of her musical creations.
To give an example, many artists in our country, even my favorites AC/DC, would have collapsed with minimal sales of 50,000 copies of songs sung by the super Bon Scott.
I've collected them all.
However, Led Zeppelin, compared to any other band, are perfect.
According to the experts, their best is Kashmir.
It's hard to say because I have eight other incredible ones of theirs.
Some of them can't be performed in concert, for example.
§ The choice of Hung Up is perfect: super
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05 Oct 2025, 4:31 pm
