DJ Spook » Tamperer http://www.djspook.com Club DJ in Manchester, UK Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:20:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Madonna Month Blog 15 http://www.djspook.com/2011/11/madonna-month-blog-15/ http://www.djspook.com/2011/11/madonna-month-blog-15/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:33:36 +0000 H Bradley http://www.djspook.com/?p=3345 Material Girl

“Material Girl” incorporated New Wave music and consists of synth arrangements with a robotic voice repeating the hook. The lyrics identify with materialism, with Madonna asking for a rich and affluent life, rather than romance and relationships. Contemporary and old critics have frequently noted “Material Girl” and “Like a Virgin” as the songs that made Madonna an icon. “Material Girl” was a commercial success, reaching the top-five in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Japan and United Kingdom. It reached the position two of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, becoming her third top-five single there.
The music video was a mimicry of Marilyn Monroe’s performance of the song “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” from the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The mimicked scenes are interspersed with scenes of a Hollywood director trying to win the heart of an actress, played by Madonna herself. Discovering that, contrary to her song, the young woman was not impressed by money and expensive gifts, he pretended to be penniless and succeeded in taking her out on a date. Scholars noted the symbology of the video and deduced it as a medium for promoting Madonna’s image. She has performed the song in four of her world tours, most of them being mimicry of the song and the video.
“Material Girl” has been covered by a number of artists, including Britney Spears, The Chipettes and Hilary Duff. It has appeared in films like Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). Madonna has often remarked that she regrets recording “Material Girl” as the name became a pseudonym for her in mainstream media. The song has been labelled an empowering influence for women, and was the subject of some debate.

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The Tamperer featuring Maya was an Italian-American dance music group consisting of Italian record producers Mario Fargetta and Alex Farolfi, and American singer Maya Days. Later, Giuliano Saglia and GianLuca Mensi would join the project. In 1998 they became famous for their debut single “Feel It”, a UK number one hit single taken from their album Fabulous. “Feel it” was written by the American team of Steve Gittelman and Jim Dyke and relied heavily on a sample of the Jacksons hit “Can You Feel It”.
The album spawned two more singles, “If You Buy This Record Your Life Will Be Better” (based on a sample from Madonna’s “Material Girl”), and the Italy-only release “Step Out”, which was later included as a B-side on their fourth and final single, “Hammer to the Heart” (based on a sample from Abba’s “Gimme Gimme Gimme”).
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