Send us a text Today we are stepping straight into four decades of controversy, choreography, and calculated control. Madonna. Not just “the Queen of Pop,” but an artist who has treated her own life as a long, shape-shifting performance about power—who gets it, who’s allowed to keep it, and what happens when a woman refuses to sit down, shut up, or age politely. I’m George Bartley. Let’s begin. Madonna Louise Ciccone was born August 16, 1958, in Bay City, Michigan, and raised in the Detro...
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Send us a text Today we are stepping straight into four decades of controversy, choreography, and calculated control. Madonna. Not just “the Queen of Pop,” but an artist who has treated her own life as a long, shape-shifting performance about power—who gets it, who’s allowed to keep it, and what happens when a woman refuses to sit down, shut up, or age politely. I’m George Bartley. Let’s begin. Madonna Louise Ciccone was born August 16, 1958, in Bay City, Michigan, and raised in the Detro...
Send us a text If you grew up in a certain era, his name isn’t just a performer on a poster. It’s a weather system. A shift in air pressure. A bulletin from the fault line where art, politics, faith, doubt, youth, age, and trouble all collided. And at the end of this episode, I’m going to tell you about one night—one Bob Dylan concert—that coincided with the most frightening turn my own life had taken up to that point, and how, in a way, it nudged me toward paying attention to people many ot...
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Send us a text Today we are stepping straight into four decades of controversy, choreography, and calculated control. Madonna. Not just “the Queen of Pop,” but an artist who has treated her own life as a long, shape-shifting performance about power—who gets it, who’s allowed to keep it, and what happens when a woman refuses to sit down, shut up, or age politely. I’m George Bartley. Let’s begin. Madonna Louise Ciccone was born August 16, 1958, in Bay City, Michigan, and raised in the Detro...
