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Veronica Louise Ciccone Research Paper

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Madonna Veronica Louise Ciccone, commonly referred to as the Queen of Pop, is one of the most influential female artists of her time. Her erotic and controversial beginnings created a look on feminism that was unheard of for her time. Pushing sexual boundaries, her iconic music changed the way Americans looked at female pop artists. Since the beginning of her career in the early 1980s, Madonna has created a culture that goes beyond just her style of music. Born in Bay City, Michigan, on August 16, 1958, Madonna Ciccone was the third of six children in a strictly Catholic household. Her father, Silvio, was the first of the family to go to college, earning a degree in engineering and her mother, Madonna, was an X-ray technician and a former dancer. When Madonna was only five years old, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Because she was pregnant with Madonna’s youngest sister, treatment had …show more content…

The controversy sparked when people watched her music video for this song because Madonna is seen kissing an African American saint and has religious stigmata and imagery. Because Madonna pushed the limits of that time period’s society, the Pepsi ad was immediately pulled from being played on air. Pepsi released a statement at the time saying, "When you've got an ad that confuses people or concerns people, it just makes sense that that ad goes away." (France, 2017, p. 2). There were plans for Pepsi to even sponsor her as she went on a worldwide tour; however, plans for this sponsorship were also canceled. There were, of course, people who loved Madonna and her persona; however, she had many people going against her and her style of music. In 1994, she visited David Letterman’s late-night show and used vulgar language multiple times. She hinted many sexual innuendos and at one point confronted David Letterman for always using her sex life as a topic of

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