Madonna

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Madonna’s career began with a party-up proclamation: “Everybody, come on, dance and sing/Everybody, get up and do your thing,” she sings on “Everybody,” her 1982 debut single. Released four years after a young Madonna Louise Ciccone migrated from Detroit to New York City, “Everybody” became a club success—as did its follow-up, “Burning Up.” Still, it wasn’t until the release of Madonna’s self-titled 1983 debut album that it became clear a new dance-floor queen had arrived. <i>Madonna</i> is the album that changed pop—and pop culture—forever. In the spirit of “Everybody”—the track that closes this post-disco manifesto—<i>Madonna</i> is designed to “turn your troubles upside down.” There are no ballads or other change-up comedowns to be found on this nonstop party, which hit nightclubs and record-store shelves just a few years after the so-called death of disco. Instead, <i>Madonna</i> finds pop’s mother of reinvention giving dance music a whole new spin. She deftly mixes disco with R&B on tracks like “Think of Me,” “Physical Attraction,” and especially the smash hit “Borderline” (the first of dozens of Madonna songs to land in the Top 10). Like much of <i>Madonna</i>, those tunes were produced by Reggie Luca, who’d previously worked with female R&B singers like Stephanie Mills and Phyllis Hyman. .

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