We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (2001): "Madonna's was the most scrutinized female life of the 20th century—with the possible exceptions of Diana Spencer and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis"
"academic studies and college courses dealing with Madonna's work benefited from the aura of her celebrity through the mid-1990s" | Madonna's Drowned Worlds pag. 188, by Santiago Fouz-Hernández (Durham University verified profile)
Humanitarianism and Modern Culture (2010): longevity of her career, now spanning generations / global celebrity since 1985 / she has rarely been absent from appearance in the media environment and has thus become a more or less natural, or at least inevitable, component of modern culture. She is simply there...
Vice: she didn't set the template alone... but more than anyone else, Madonna created the rules of engagement now followed by everyone
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media (2012): Midway through the Clinton two-term presidency, many of the established features of celebrity coverage in the news remained the same, and Madonna was still embodying all of them.
Lucy O'Brien in She Bop II (2002): "Madonna has proved to be the most enduring of the modern pop divas"
The Decline Effect (2023): When we come to a celebrity like Madonna, the story is different. After three decades living in the public eye, Madonna is basically everywhere.
Guilbert: some journalists enjoy being particularly venomous when writing about Madonna, revealing more about themselves than anything else"
Karlene Faith (1997, pag 35): Madonna invites observers , but she has no control over how she will be read or written . Marilyn Monroe , who , like Madonna , invited the attention of the press but was often disappointed in the results , let it be known that she didn't appreciate being judged by them : ' I don't think I've ever met a writer I'd like as my judge
Settling the Pop Score (2017): Madonna's extraordinary celebrity status must be linked to her ability to grasp the rapidly changing technologies and styles of a multimedia industry and apply them creatively to her texts.
