As a female artist, being 40+ isn't ideal as people become less interested in women as they get older, usually because their sexuality increases. However their have been some exceptions such as Jennifer Lopez, Kylie Minogue and Madonna.
For men it is a lot easier to reform and come back into the music world because they tend to age better and most people care more about their music than their looks.
Madonna is a multi-album selling artist with many hits such as Papa Don't Preach (1986), Vogue (1990) and Like a Prayer (1989). Her image is very similar to that of Lady Gaga as she is constantly changing her image and some would argue that without Madonna, Lady Gaga might not have existed as she does today.
As an artist, Madonna started off being synthetic only selling single songs and as time went by she became a very mature and respected artist and put together many albums, therefore becoming organic.
Video analysis of Madonna "Like a Prayer":
In this music video there was a very strong and obvious narrative and involved performance, message, themes and intertextually. The video is very religious and this is derived from herself being brought up in a strict catholic family, which explains the burning crosses in the video.
It is one of the most controversial videos of all time because of it's political and social nature.
It told the story of a black Jesus statue coming to life in a church through the love of Madonna and how she sets him free from the bars. However along side this is a more modern story of how the sam black man gets arrested for a crime he did't commit, which is Madonna's way of fighting against racism and the white superiority. The performance is showed through the use of a fully black gospel choir singing to Madonna and seems to almost baptise her.
Ironically at the end the Black Jesus goes back into the bars while the modern day black man also gets put behind bars.
It is a very filmic video and even ends with big theatre curtains being drawn to emphasis that what the audience saw wasn't real and shouldn't be taken too seriously.
Despite being a very religious video, Madonna still had to sexually herself to the audience as the music industry demands it. For women, success in the music industry is very dependent on their looks and Madonna plays with that very well by not showing too much of herself, but just enough for men to take notice.
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