Rodya24 said:

Q has been very Madonna positive for many years. One of the few.

Timmy84 said:

David Bowie. I think it would be fitting, seeing as M inducted David Bowie.

ehuffnsd said:

Interesting... David was one of her first musical idols if I'm not mistaken.

namepeace said:

Yeah, I was thinking the same. I love Madonna. And I think she's done a lot to revolutionize popular music (the music itself, but also the promotion and business of it, good or bad), and may have done the most, overall, to create a sort of paradigm shift, but she's hardly the only woman that belongs on that list.

ehuffnsd said:

Def wouldnt have been no Britney without Madonna (like that is a big statement but hell I said it..), and Rhianna talkin bout takin her crown


Music what has she changed? ..... I dont know. Ray of Light opened up a more spiritual side of music, but nobody ever bite off that sound. Is there really any female artist that changed music?

Maybe style and the female ARTIST..but not the music itself..she didnt create anything really new that no one else havent done already.

Prince aint even in that list...there would be no Pharrell, Timbaland, countelss other producers without the Mpls sound.

Timmy84 said:

David Bowie, Nancy Sintra, Motown and Sly and Family Stone ahve been cited by her as influences.

ehuffnsd said:

Yeah I remember reading a Madonna bio from back in the day and it stated that among the Motown artists Martha Reeves and Diane Ross were huge influences.

ehuffnsd said:

I think Rolling Stone Magazine has been good to her lately. At least their bio on Madonna is positive.

Prince isn't on that list...

...so...

...that list sucks balls...

Rodya24 said:

RS has been very good to her. Mick Jagger is the only person to appear on the cover more times than she has.

Moonbeam said:

The only move I know that Ferge has is peeing her pants. Sometimes the British music writers are morons!

VinnyM27 said:

and this one.....

CHIC0 said:

She's is sayin' "fuck, fuck, fuck"

Madonna is the worst thing that happened to Music...
[Edited 10/6/07 7:58am]

namepeace said:

I saw this and UK Magazine: Q, anyone on this Forum could come up with a better list, god their job is so easy...turn up write S*it go home

I'm pretty sure Rolling Stone would have picked the same woman.

For better or for worse,
Madonna is the most influential female artist

deal with it.

Martinelli said:

Yeah but music did she change music... did she create a sound? POP was already there, I think she created a new musical Video Art Form.

JoeTyler said:

looks like it doesn't it?

krayzie said:

You don't really mean that, do you? How is she the "worst thing that happened" to music?

Rodya24 said:

Nevermind him. As long as he keeps trying to convince the org that we should all give Justin Timberlake "credit" his irrational hatred of Madonna holds no sway.

wow, that list can't be in order

Lists, lists, lists. Its a pre-occupation of straight white male music journalists to want to list everything. Trying to put some order or heirachy to something that should never have order or heirachy applied to it just feels wrong to me.

I stopped reading Q many years ago because every month they had a different list or poll about something - and it inevitably just pandered to what was hot currently, and the predictable historic greats. Its an excuse for them to stop being proper journalists, and churn out page filling articles of no substance.

The fact that a magazine that has championed Prince (above MJ) for the last 20 years doesnt have the consideration to include him in this list, but will include some fucking pretentious no-mark cockney twat like Damon Albarn speaks volumes about this list. Utter garbage.

That said, nice article about Madonna, and sums her up quite well i feel. And yes I would say of the last 25 years she has changed music more than any other female. Women came before her, Aretha, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Tina Turner, but its arguable whether they changed the face of music as much as she. This isnt a list on talent or singing ability - its about impact, and you couldnt really ahve had a bigger impact than she.

LondonStyle said:

aside from music videos or hiphop there hasn't been anything new in music for over 30 years

i knew this had to come from some british journalist. as a black female music fan this list means nothing to me.

That list sux, but yay! Madonna

Martinelli said:

ehuffnsd said:

What about House/Dance/Trance/Rave/Jungle/Drum&Bass/Garage/Speed? That's new it's like the crossing of US 70's Disco with the 80's European Synth...and fallout DanceHall you must admit you see it all over from Kanye's Stronger to Madge's Ray of Light

LondonStyle said:

I just consider the dance subgenres as the offspring of Donna Summer's I Feel Love

ehuffnsd said:

Hey i'm no rolling stone..but Donna Summer is Disco not Dance yes she got a bit of synth going on in the track but...Dance is still 80's which makes it new like hiphop

forkupine said:

Hell no, Albarn does not! And where's Prince!!