"Today, Madonna is a figure that stands on her own. An artist that fought for her individuality and won. She represents individuality, female strength, unapologetic sensuality. It was not like that always. At the beginning of her career she was trying on different looks, and in the early eighties she went trough a “Marilyn Monroe” phase."
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