The CD has suffered damaged on the inner hub that does NOT affect playback. The CD has a few very minor scratch marks with a few very minor marks. It is in VG condition. Part of the CD face art is missing. The insert has a few very minor crease marks.
The interview is a phone interview with a British reporter around 1983. This took place while she was still working/involved with Jellybean Benitez.
"Deservingly known as the Queen of Pop, Madonna is an icon who changed the trajectory of popular music from the moment she made her debut in 1983. Over a career that has spanned the 20th and 21st centuries, Madonna ushered underground sounds into the mainstream, specializing in trends percolating in dance clubs. As she arrived at the dawn of the MTV era, she seized the possibilities of music videos, creating a series of sexy, stylish clips that earned her the reputation of a provocateur while also establishing the network as the bastion for hip culture in the 1980s. Madonna recorded many of the pop anthems that defined that decade -- "Like a Virgin," "Material Girl," "Live to Tell," "Papa Don't Preach," "Open Your Heart," "Like a Prayer," "Express Yourself" -- and in the process she created the archetype of a modern pop star: one whose music was inextricably tied with its visual representation, and one who was loathe to trade upon past glories. As Madonna entered her second decade of stardom, she continued to take even bigger artistic risks; she delved into modern R&B for 1994's Bedtime Stories and electronica for 1998's Ray of Light. During the 2000s and 2010s, Madonna continued to be driven by that restless artistic spirit, a move that helped put the entirety of her body of work into perspective, emphasizing the common threads and consistency that run throughout her music -- connections that were as evident on albums such as 2019's Madame X as they were on retrospectives like Finally Enough Love, a 2022 chronicle of her dance club hits." - Stephen Thomas Erlewine / All Music
