The critics have buried Madonna's career more times than she's changed her image. What they don't seem to get – and what her latest album, Music, makes clear – is that, thanks to an acute grasp of her own limitations, she is one of the greatest songwriter-producer-performers in recent history. (Madonna (entertainer))

The critics have buried Madonna's career more times than she's changed her image. What they don't seem to get – and what her latest album, Music, makes clear – is that, thanks to an acute grasp of her own limitations, she is one of the greatest songwriter-producer-performers in recent history.

Madonna (entertainer)

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