Keeping with the new pattern, a year ago, on October 2, 2009, it was Madonna's "Vogue". Great tune, cool video. But still, honestly, I wonder: why'd she have to go changing in the first place? I like her earliest stuff best.
Essays, notes, and fragments--personal, political, and philosophical--from the midst of things
Easily her best song of the first few albums. At least until Respect Yourself and Like a Prayer
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A former student of mine sent me a FB update, alerting me to the Flaming Lips's cover of the song. Blows me away, really. Rips the song out of its poppy, shake-away-the-nostalgia, early-80s girl-power mode, and turns it into a huge-yet-introspective, psychedelic, techno-goth anthem...and yet, leaving the emotional core of the lyrics intact. Pretty damn brilliant.
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