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Around this time, a number of black and white nude photos of Madonna surfaced. They were published in both Penthouse and Playboy magazines. The photos were taken during the early 1980s when she posed for art photographers as a way to make money. Although the photos were potentially devastating to her career, she shrugged them off (her unfazed response - "So what?" - was immortalized on a Ciccone Youth record sleeve) and they only served to fuel her popularity.

At this point Madonna transformed her image, something that would become a trademark for years to come. She began to pale her face and highlight her beauty spot, replacing her punky bleached blonde hair with a glamorous platinum blonde look reminiscent of her hero Marilyn Monroe. This coincided with her performance in the film Who's That Girl, which was also a flop in the U.S. and a minor success in the rest of the world. Nevertheless, the soundtrack spawned three hits: the title track, "Causing A Commotion", and "The Look Of Love".

In 1987 Madonna embarked on the "Who's That Girl World Tour" and began her longtime association with backing vocalists and dancers Donna DeLory and Niki Haris. That year she also released an album of dance remixes of some of her earlier material entitled You Can Dance. It failed to sell as well as her previous efforts. She also appeared as Hortense in a film called Bloodhounds of Broadway, which was harshly dismissed by many reviewers. Critics began to peg Madonna as a thing of the past; her career seemed to be fading fast.

On September 14, 1989 she divorced husband Sean Penn, citing spousal abuse. Then, in 1989, Madonna once again changed her image. She traded in her closely shorn platinum coif for long, curly black hair and an almost wholesome look for her album Like a Prayer, viewed as a turning point in her career because of its frank subject matter and exploration of Madonna's private, emotional feelings and experiences, rather than simple "bubble gum" pop hooks and dance beats. Indeed, "Like a Prayer" is often cited by critics as the best album of her career, and was recently named one of the Top 10 Albums of All Time by an influential British music magazine. Returning once more to provocative religious imagery, the title track compared the experience of lovemaking to praying. The video for the song featured Madonna portraying an apparent streetwalker who witnesses a violent rape and murder. A black man (played by Leon) is falsely accused of the crime and is jailed. She goes into a church where a statue of St. Martin de Porres comes to life and passionately kisses her. This experience motivates her to identify the real perpetrator, and the falsely accused black man, who resembles the statue, is released. The video, which also featured burning crosses, was denounced by the Vatican for its "blasphemous" mixture of eroticism and Catholic symbolism, and sparked such controversy that Pepsi Cola, who had paid Madonna 5 million dollars for a commercial endorsement, pulled out of their contract, though Madonna kept her fee. As the single soared to number one around the world, Madonna thanked them for the publicity.

The album produced three further American top ten hits - "Express Yourself", "Cherish", and "Keep It Together" - although "Oh Father" only made the top twenty. A single and animated music video for the track "Dear Jessie" was released in Europe and became another top ten hit. The video for "Express Yourself" was the first of several to be directed by then-unknown film director David Fincher (Fight Club, Panic Room). It also featured a duet with singer Prince entitled "Love Song". Madonna wrote the song "Possesive Love" with Patrick Leonard during this period, and it was later recorded by Marilyn Martin on her debut album. Martin sang backing vocals on the Madonna song "Cherish".

The album was critically well-received and even earned Madonna some credibility as a rock musician: "Till Death Do Us Part" and "Act of Contrition" both featured confessional lyrics and guitar played by Madonna herself, a budding guitarist.

In 1990 she starred as Breathless Mahoney in Dick Tracy alongside Warren Beatty, whom she also briefly dated. She earned some good reviews for the role though critics pointed out that it continued her tradition of performing well when portraying characters quite similar to herself (in this case, a demanding and powerful vamp). I'm Breathless: Music From and Inspired By The Film 'Dick Tracy' spawned the huge hit "Vogue", which popularized a dance trend in which people in gay clubs struck poses like fashion models in magazines (such as Vogue, hence the term 'voguing'). Widely considered one of her best songs, its video, directed by then-unknown film director David Fincher (Fight Club, Panic Room), and was named the #2 video of all time by MTV, second only to Michael Jackson's "Thriller." There has been a misconception that "Vogue" was written, recorded for, and used in the movie, when in fact it was not (it was originally intended as a B-side, but was put on the album at the last minute because the song fit the album's concept). Curiously, the song was used in a television trailer promoting the film, which spawned this misconception. Another top ten single inspired by, but not used in, the film was "Hanky Panky". The album, however, did contain four songs that actually were in the film: "Sooner Or Later" (which won an Oscar for Best Original Song), "What Can You Lose?", "More" (the song that's actually heard at the end of the movie), and "Now I'm Following You" (a duet with co-star Warren Beatty but in a version different from what was heard in the film). "I'm Breathless" is one of actually three original soundtracks that were released around the time of the film. next Madonna page->

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