material girl

I can't believe I found this recording. Near the end of summer Mag Ellis and I ended up checking out Sarah Slean in concert at the Myer Horowitz Theater. She performed an amazing rendition of Madonna's Material Girl, to which she mentioned, "wasn't the most elevated point in our collective consciousness." I was watching the Winnipeg version of this which had a giant preamble before the song, describing that era as one of the most striking periods of time where were filled with greed and how Madonna was able to capture that generation in song form. Regardless of whether or not you hate to love or love to hate Madonna, boy, what a performance it was:



Somewhere in that sea of voices lies mine.