I'm still amazed at how the entire stage transformed with every different act. It's impressive when it happens now in a concert, in 1990 it must have been nothing short of revolutionary.
Nobody should ever mention the wonderful Shoo-Bee-Doo is the same sentence as the horrifying Ain't No Big Deal.
Ain’t No Big Deal is fine? I wasn’t aware it was so loathed and it’s absolutely better than Shoo Bee Doo
3:40am here in Norway and I'm feeling kind of emotional, whacked an assortment of downtempo M album tracks on shuffle... fuck - these songs, this voice, this woman.
Ain't No Big Deal is harmless enough, but it's mind-boggling it was initially planned to be her first single. How could it be anything but Everybody? "Everybody, come on. Dance and sing!" What a manifesto!
Everybody is a cute girl standing next to the rest of her monumental 80s singles discography. There's a reason why it wasn't included on the Immaculate Collection.
She might as well have chucked I Know It on Celebration seeing as practically rest of that album is on it.
I'm going through a 1982-1987 Madonna phase right now. Watched Who's That Girl? again and I don't care what anyone says, I love that film. The songs bop; the film bops. I think Madonna's first album just gets better and better with time. I remember back in '84/'85, I thought her first album got overshadowed by Like a Virgin and the one-two-three punch of Into the Groove-Crazy for You-Gambler. And then True Blue. I'm glad Madonna/The First Album is being recognized for the masterpiece it is.
