Madonna Melt Down Promo | The Diva Series - a podcast by Keith a.k.a. K j A M

In 1983, I was a junior in high school and worked after school for an independent record store on the north side of town.  It was the year the music world gave birth to Madonna.  The cable company just added MTV to our channel lineup the year before, so it was the first chance I had to view this person who dared to call herself "Madonna."  It was also the Reagan era, a time when my father really saw his shoe business take off and dear ole mom and dad were jetting around the world discovering new places.  Consequently, they left their youngest child entrusted to mom's Mazda RX7 and the house when they were away.  It was a time when partying in Mexico didn't require a passport, and there was always an after-hours pool party at my place.  More importantly, it was a time of self-discovery, particularly after all the girls went home and the boys got naked in the pool.

Even though she had a top 20 hit with Holiday it wasn't until the subsequent releases of Borderline and Lucky Star that the world stood up and took notice.  There was definitely something special about this woman, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.  I graduated the following year and moved to Austin where I worked full-time for the Austin American Statesman as a copy clerk and part-time for Hastings Records at the mall.  Having already made a splash at the MTV awards with her now-infamous floor wriggling performance in a wedding dress, Madonna released her second album Like A Virgin to the disdain of critics.  Regardless, the world embraced her with so much enthusiasm, a whole legion of boys and girls not only dressed like her but wanted to be her.  The following year, I was lucky enough to get free tickets from my employer for the Virgin Tour and for that matter scored some tickets to Prince's Purple Rain Tour.  No one at work seemed to want them, so they fell in my lap.  Instead, everyone else went to see Bruce Springsteen.  Hmm, I really wanted to see Bruce, but the 2 for 1 deal was too sweet to pass up.  Lucky for me, because they were both spectacular shows that would lay down the path from fan to fanatic.

Springing forward several years later, I moved back home and started college and got myself a boyfriend.  I had just turned 21 (legal drinking age) which meant I could now get into the clubs legally.  At the time, Madonna's Express Yourself was riding high on the charts and certainly, the gay club back home played it all the time.  However, it wasn't until I went to Houston to visit some friends of my then-boyfriend that a whole new world opened up for me.  That first evening, we went clubbing at Rich's in downtown Houston.  I had never seen so much eye candy collected together in one venue all rubbing up against each other while dancing to Express Yourself and Donna Summer's This Time I Know It's For Real.  I didn't have a care in the world.  I was truly in heaven.  All misconceptions of what it meant to be gay were completely thrown out the door.  This was where I belonged and Madonna was right there, by my side.

From then on, Madonna and I were inseparable and the best of pals; we stayed in touch often.  When I was feeling down, she was just a CD or mixtape away.  No matter where I was or what I was doing, I would wait with bated breath for her next move, her next scandalous headlines or her next album with the subsequent remixes that followed.  I continue to wait for her to this very day.  After 25 years together, I still don't mind waiting.  No matter what you call her, Material Girl, The Queen of Pop, The Queen of Clubland, Businesswoman, Bitch or Whore, she is and always will be the one TRUE Madonna.  Happy Birthday. XOXOXO



Album : Madonna Melt Down Promo

Genre : House

Year : 2008

Total Time : 4:10:33:00



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