Madonna Is Still Queen of the VMAs
She's defined (and redefined) the MTV awards show's standards for more than 40 years. With 11 nominations at this year's show, she still reigns supreme
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BREAKING — Rolling Stone Music notes that Madonna has shaped and reshaped what the MTV Video Music Awards mean for more than four decades, and this year's eleven nominations only extend that run. The piece treats her not as a legacy act but as a present-tense force, someone whose influence on the ceremony's standards is still accumulating rather than retiring. That framing is worth sitting with: an artist whose cultural relevance has outlasted the very medium that made her famous.
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Source: Rolling Stone Music, “Madonna Is Still Queen of the VMAs”. Read the original →
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