Something for the weekend. Don’t Cry for Me Argentina sung by the Queen of Mellow Karen Carpenter.
Bonus:
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina as sung by “Madonna”
https://youtu.be/KD_1Z8iUDho?si=XtLEGO-1GenbeE7s
I’ll cry for Argentina. In 1928, it qualified as a 1st world country by the standards of the day. It then embarked on a long odyssey of relative decline accompanied by unedifying political abuses from 1943 to 1983. It seems to be emerging from that. Meanwhile, occidental political classes have taken the Argentine experience as an instruction manual.
I recall that phase of Madonna. I think she exercised her best talent when she made Evita. Her physical transformation as Eva Peron was beautiful. I recall a Vogue article at the time and she was surprised and honoured she got the role (almost like she knew she didn’t deserve it). I was cheering her on hoping she might have finally have matured as a performer …and then old Madonna came back tacky as ever. And stayed.
She was amusing in Desperately Seeking Susan. I’ll take a pass on the rest of it.
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(Nowadays, she a manifestation of the perils of plastic surgery).
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I’m fond of girl singers, but I had to scrounge around in my head for an appealing one among Madonna’s rough contemporaries (b. 1952-1964). I eventually came up with a few, but only one (Mary-Chapin Carpenter) who had even one-tenth Madonna’s prominence. Madonna may have benefited from the period being a fallow one.