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Does anyone else remember the first time they saw Madonna?

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niftyfuss · 02/10/2025 08:33

I was just thinking back to this, I was 13 and at school and I remember watching the Like a Virgin video and being totally blown away by her, I felt like I'd never seen anything like her and was immediately obsessed with her. I also remember seeing Desperately Seeking Susan and loved it so much. She was such a massive influence on me.

Anyone else or remember the first time with someone else in the public eye.

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Dummydimmer · 02/10/2025 09:59

Aaargh, hated her, can't sing, can't dance, can't act. Complete idiot, the book was excruciatingly embarrassing.

SeaAndStars · 02/10/2025 09:55

Not the first time I saw Madonna, but I do remember going to a party in the 1990s and her book Sex was on the coffee table. A bit shocking and very glamorous.

Kerrisk · 02/10/2025 08:45

seashoreshellsky · 02/10/2025 08:40

me too ! exactly the same. i also remember vividly the first time i saw the Spice Girls. and hilariously Riverdance - that dancer Jean somebody - at the Eurovision it was first performed

DH and I were postgrads making dinner at PILs’ house, and were weak with laughing at Riverdance on his parents’ tiny portable, though probably mostly Michael Flatley’s horrible blouson sleeves and rat grin. (I liked Anúna and Jean Butler.) I’ve met MF a couple of times since, as he’s a friend of friends, and he’s fully as awful as he seems.

Lobelia123 · 02/10/2025 08:41

My first sighting was also the music video for Like A Virgin - with her dancing on the gondola in Venice - I hated it! Her fixation with the camera and her thin nasally voice were awful! But then I loved her later iterations - the 1950s True Blue era, the Confessions on a Dancefloor era, Speed of Light etc etc....but my favourites today are her early Into the Groove, Crazy for You, Live to Tell eras. I find her a bit cringeworthy in her current iteration to be honest - its just so try hard.

Kerrisk · 02/10/2025 08:41

I remember her on TotP with ‘Holiday’ and everyone talking about it at (primary) school next day. And several girls in my class trying to take Madonna as their confirmation names…

seashoreshellsky · 02/10/2025 08:40

me too ! exactly the same. i also remember vividly the first time i saw the Spice Girls. and hilariously Riverdance - that dancer Jean somebody - at the Eurovision it was first performed