{"id":40690,"date":"2018-07-27T22:54:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T02:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=40690"},"modified":"2018-07-27T22:54:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T02:54:27","slug":"thirty-five-years-of-madonna-fandom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/thirty-five-years-of-madonna-fandom\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-Five Years of Madonna Fandom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 27, 1983 &#8212; 35 years ago today &#8212; Madonna&#8217;s self-titled debut album was released, and I became an instant fan.<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_40694\" style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/popfection.net\/2017\/07\/28\/self-titled-34-difficult-story-behind-madonnas-first-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40694\" class=\"wp-image-40694 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/madonna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/madonna.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/madonna-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/madonna-300x301.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/madonna-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to read Popfection&#8217;s 2017 &#8220;behind the scenes&#8221; story about the album.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have a big video about Madonna that I&#8217;ll post next month, but to celebrate the album anniversary, here&#8217;s a little teaser in which I talk about choosing a Madonna concert over my senior prom &#8212; and never missing a tour since then.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CYtb_oMD7P4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The really noticeable earring I am wearing in this clip isn&#8217;t one of my designs; it&#8217;s a 35-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/dick-clark-madonna-and-my-1980s-jewelry\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna earring<\/a>. You can see Madonna wearing the same earring in her 1983 &#8220;Borderline&#8221; video.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rSaC-YbSDpo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If I recall correctly, my best friend Kristi had the star earring from the &#8220;Lucky Star&#8221; video.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ThHz9wlBeLU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We probably had extensive negotiations about who would get to buy which style. Ah, high school. You couldn&#8217;t pay me enough to relive those years, but at least we had MTV and Madonna!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 27, 1983 &#8212; 35 years ago today &#8212; Madonna&#8217;s self-titled debut album was released, and I became an instant fan. I have a big video about Madonna that I&#8217;ll post next month, but to celebrate the album anniversary, here&#8217;s a little teaser in which I talk about choosing a Madonna concert over my&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/thirty-five-years-of-madonna-fandom\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642,726,60,1,719,54,42],"tags":[1608],"class_list":{"0":"post-40690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-80s-style","8":"category-art-entertainment","9":"category-earrings","10":"category-uncategorized","11":"category-jewelry","12":"category-madonna","13":"category-music","14":"tag-fandom","15":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40690"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40697,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40690\/revisions\/40697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}