Exactly 25 years ago today, Madonna celebrated her 28th birthday.  Among her birthday presents, she reached number 1 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart for the fourth time in her career as “Papa Don’t Preach” climbed to the top for the first week of a two-week run. 

It’s hard to call the song and/or its video Madonna’s most notable or memorable ones, as “Like A Virgin,” “Like A Prayer,” and “Justify My Love,” among others, would have possible claims to that distinction.  However, the treatment of the subject of teen pregnancy by the song and its video certainly puts “Papa Don’t Preach” in the discussion.  Where would “Papa Don’t Preach” rank for you among Madonna’s songs?

The latest single “Born This Way” from Lady Gaga has been reported to sound just like Madonna’s classic “Express Yourself”. Here is a mushy mash-up of both songs together. If you’ve heard Gaga’s song, you have to admit it really does sound like Madonna’s tune?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0PvggdjkKE

I was waiting for this mash-up and I finally found it! Madonna and Lady Gaga together on “Alejandro de la Isla Bonita”.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldziDEEqGZA

Tunesmate is compiling the top 10 Madonna songs. Is “Borderline” worthy? What are your top 10 Madonna tunes of all-time?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EiDmsaDT9Q

What do you get when you cross the Who with Madonna? Like A Virgin was Madonna’s big hit from 1984 and Baba O’Riley is the Who’s 1971 masterpiece. How do you like them together?

Madonna is going on forty years in the music business and she has constantly reinvented herself to maintain her popularity. However for over the last ten years her music style has remained the same, electronic dance music. In 2008 she released Hard Candy, a musical direction of hip-hop music, but it ushered her lowest selling album to date. However Madonna did score her thirty-seventh top-ten hit with “4 Minutes” which went to number three, breaking her tie with Elvis Presley for the most Top Ten hits on Hot 100 chart.

Has Lady Gaga now officially dethroned Madonna as queen of dance music? Can Madonna change her sound again and top the charts?

Continuing our Sen-tune game this week is Madonna. Once again, the object of the game is to take five song titles of the same artist and compose them into a sentence or what we like to a call a sen-tune.

Here’s my attempt at the first Madonna sentune:
Hung up 4 minutes frozen, live to tell everybody.