ARTIST

Madonna

If any musical artist of the 1980s could truly be called a phenomenon, it would have to be Madonna. Unlike Michael Jackson, Prince, and Bruce Springsteen--the other mega-platinum superstars of that decade--Madonna's star has never faded, and she's been constantly able to rebound, even following early '90s debacles like her co-starring role in Disney's Dick Tracy film.

She's not blessed with an incredible singing voice, nor has she ever written anything that actually transcends catchy pop fluff--but what she may lack in musical talent, she has more than compensated for via marketing and media manipulation (she a virtual genius in both fields) as well as pure blind ambition (it was appropriate that she dubbed her 1990 world tour the "Blonde Ambition"...
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